Martian Gardens for 10/02/2011

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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Program for October 2, 2011

SET ONE
Sō Percussion: Marimba (S. Mackey)
It Is Time
Cantaloupe Music/2011

Martin Bresnick:
a. Farándula simple
b. Farándula de charlatanes -- No saben el camino
Caprichos Enfáticos
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano: Lisa Moore; percussion: Sō Percussion; recorded at Sprague Memorial Hall, Yale University School of Music, New Haven, CT, 4/02/09

Roger Reynolds: imAge/piano
Epigram and Evolution -- The Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Yuji Takahashi

SINGLE PLAY
Chou Wen-Chung: Twilight Colors
I. A Thread of Light (Contrapunctus Variabilis V)
II. Colors of Dawn (C.V. VI)
III. In the Mist (C.V. VII)
IV. Mountain Peaks Rising (C.V. VIII)
V. Coda: Their silhouettes neither parallel nor contrary (C.V. IX)
Clouds
Mode Records/2011
Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded at Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, 9/17/08

SINGLE PLAY
Bun-Ching Lam: Omi Hakkei
I. Night Rain at Karasaki
II. Awazu on a Fine Breezy Day
III. Wild Geese Descending in Katata
IV. Autumn Moon at Ishiyama
V. The Evening Glow of Seta Bridge
VI. Sails Returning to Yabase
VII. The First Snow of Mt. Hira
VIII. The Evening Bell of Mii Temple
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
flute: Angelika Bender; Dizi, xiao: Wolfgang Wendel; viola: Mariette Leners; erhu: Zhang Zhengfang; zheng: Xu Fengxia; harp: Isabelle Courret; conductor: BCL; recordded at the Portheim Palace of Heidelberg, German, 10/26/09

SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown: Gangsa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
The William Winant Percussion Group -- flat-gongs: Jordan Glenn, Krystof Golinski, Shayna Dunkelman, David Douglas; conductor: W. Winant; live computer processing: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July, 2010

SET TWO
The Hub: Falling Edge
Boundary Layer
Tzadik Records/2008
composers: Chris Brown, Mark Trayle; recorded live in concert at The Lab, San Francisco, 8/03/86

Mark Trayle: _28 (track 5)
Goldstripe
Creative Sources Recordings/2008
laptop, electronics: M. Trayle

Bischoff/Brown/Erbe/Payne: CCM Flotsam #12-21
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 (various artists)
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994
produced by the Staff of CCM, Mills College, Oakland, 1993

Maggi Payne: Flaptics (M. Trayle)
The Extended Flute
CRI/1999

SET THREE
Elaine Lillios: Backroads
a. Shoe Factory
b. Tree Tunnel
c. Elevator
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered at Espace GO, Montreal, 9/13/02

Herbert Brün: More Dust
SAWDUST -- Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
composed on SAWDUST computer program, 1977; pieces published by Smith Publications

SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: October Music -- Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument--Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
multiple voices on multi-track tape; visual Arts Fellowship commission premiere: October, 1980, at The American Center for Students and Artists, Paris

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: It's Easy (Joan La Barbara and Chorus)
Dust -- An Opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
electronic orchestration: Tom Hamilton, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, R. Ashley

SINGLE PLAY
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: The Intermediary (excerpt)
The Intermediary
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008 (orig. 1982)
piano, electronics: BGT; computer: Joel Ryan

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