Martian Gardens for 08/07/2011

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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Program for August 07, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary DVD
Mode Records/2011
percussion: red fish blue fish, director: Steven Schick

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death
Part One
a. Refrain One
I. La Guitarra (The Guitar)
b. Refrain Two
II. Casida de Las Palomas Oscuras (Casida of the Dark Doves)
Part Two
c. Refrain Three
III. Canción de Jinete, 1860 (Song of the Rider, 1860)
d. Refrain Four
IV. Casida del Herido por el Agua (Casida of the Boy Wounded by Water)
Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death
Bridge Records/1991
Speculum Musicae -- baritone: Sanford Sylvan; electric guitar: David Starobin; electric contrabass: Donald Palma; electric piano and electric harpsichord: Aleck Karis; percussion: Daniel Druckman and Eric Charlston; texts: Federico García Lorca; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 6/17/90

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: The Angel of Death
Epigram and Evolution -- The Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Marilyn Nonken; technician: J.T. Rinker; The Slee Sinfonietta, conductor: Magnus Mårtensson; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY, Buffalo, 6/01/04 for the June in Buffalo Festival

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Ghost Words After Trees Fall
Ghost Words
Aucourant Records/2008
electronics: RST; commissioned by IMEB; composed in Bourges, 2007

SET ONE
F. Gerard Errante: Cherry Blossom and A Wrapped Thing (After Hokusai) (J. Shatin)
Delicate Balance
Aucourant Records/2010
clarinet: FGE; electronics: Judith Shatin

Russell Pinkston: Gerrymander
Third Practice -- Commissions and Premieres
New Music from the Third Practice Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music
at the University of Richmond
Centaur Records/2004
Bb clarinet: F. Gerard Errante; MAX/MSP: R. Pinkston; recorded at the Fine Arts Recording Studio, University of North Texas, 1/09/03

SET TWO
Lauzier/Martel/Myhr/Tétreault: Traitement Thermique
Disparition de l’usine éphémère
Actuellecd/2008
alto saxophone, bass clarinet, preparations: Phillippe Lauzier; viola de gamba, objects, preparations; acoustic guitar, objects, preparations: Kim Myhr; turntables: Martin Tétreault; recorded at Hotel2Tango, 7/23/08

Scott Smallwood: Sunkraft
Electrotherapy
Deep Listening/2004
antique electrotherapy machines: S. Smallwood

Diane Labrosse: Manual Coffee Mill
Music for Objects of the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd.com/2007
percolators; violin: Marie-Soleil Bélanger; flute, trumpet: Jean Derome; electric guitar: Bernhard Falaise; clarinet: Lori Freedman; accordion: D. Labrosse; viola: Jean Réne; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; musicians recorded at Studio 270 Montreal; percolators recorded at Studio Le 2e, Montreal

Stephen Vitiello: Circuit Tension
Bode Sound Project
Bode Archive -- Institute for Electric Arts/2006
Harald Bode electronic instruments: S. Vitiello, Andrew Deutsch, Peer Bode

Luc Ferrari:
a. Etudes aux accidents (1958)
b. Etudes sons tendus (1958)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

SET THREE
James Tenney: Phases (for Edgard Varèse)
Selected Works 1961-1969
New World Records/2003 (orig. Frog Peak Music/1992)
recorded at Bell Labs, 1963

Edgard Varèse: Intégrales
The Varèse Album
Wounded Bird/2007 (orig. Sony/1972)
The Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Robert Craft

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