Martian Gardens for 10/09/2011

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for October 9, 2011

SET ONE
Ursula Mamlok: Panta Rhei (Time in Flux)
I. Agitato
II. Vivace Misterioso
III. Molto Tranquillo
IV. Allegro Energio
V. Distant
Volume 3
Brdige Records/2011
violin: Susanne Zapf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt; piano: Heather O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Cologne, Germany, 11/26/10

Heather O'Donnell: The Missing Nail at the River (W. Zimmermann)
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: H. O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany, April 2007

Margaret Leng Tan: Put My Little Shoes Away (trad; G. Crumb)
She Herself Alone--The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
voice, toy piano, toy percussion (quartet): M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, January 2010

George Crumb: Ghost-Nocturne -- for the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II)
Makrokosmos I & II
Mode Records/2004
amplified piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July 2003

George Crumb: Threnody I -- Night of the Electric Insects (Virgo)[Tutti]
Complete Crumb Edition Volume Seven
Unto the Hills/Black Angels
Brdige Records/2003
The Miró Quartet; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, October 2002

SET TWO
Chris Brown: Stupa
Iconicities -- 3 Pieces for Percussion and Live Electronics
New World Records/2011
vibraphone: William Winant; piano, computer: C. Brown; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, July 2011

Larry Polansky: Canon #1
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
marimba: William Winant; recorded and processed at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland, 1983/89

SET THREE
Larry Polansky: Canon #18 -- Trio Canon for Christian Wolff
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
fretless electric guitar: L. Polansky; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; percussion: Nathan Davis; recorded and processed at Brittrax, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, and Los Angeles, summer 2002

Christian Wolff: Exercise 18
10 Exercises
New World Records/2006
electric guitar, percussion: Larry Polansky; piano, percussion: Frederic Rzewski; percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; soprano saxophone, percussion: Chiyoko Szlavnics; recorded at the Poggiolo Farm, Pozzuolo, Umbria, Italy, September 2005

Trios, featuring Christian Wolff: Track Two
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, texts: Chris Mann; electric guitars: Larry Polansky; computer, electronics, recording: Douglas Repetto; recording, processing: Tom Erbe; piano, bass, percussion, melodica: C. Wolff; recorded in Hanover, NH, January and April 1998

Chris Brown: Talking Drum (track 13)
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005
percussion: William Winant, Donald Robinson; bass: Lisle Ellis; keyboards, synthesizers: C. Brown; Robert Kauker, synthesizers: Nick Peck, Scot Graham-Lancaster; recorded at Beanbender's, Berkeley, 3/20/96

Lou Harrison: Fugue
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group -- flexatone, claves, maracas: W. Winant; metallophone, box, cowebells: Daniel Kennedy; meditation bells, brake drums, washtub: avid Rosenthal; bell-coils, bass drum, gongs, suspended Turkish cymbal, triangles: Todd Manley; recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, August 1993

SET FOUR
Laurie Spiegel: Crying Tone
Obsolete Systems
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
Electrocomp 200 modular analog synthesizer: L. Spiegel

Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Weeping Rocker
I Didn't Want to Say Goodbye
V.A.R./2004
electronics: V.A.R

Elizabeth McNutt: Twittering Machine (A. May)
Pipe Wrench--Flute + Computer
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: E. McNutt; computer program: Andrew May; recorded at SUNY Buffalo

Lawrence Moss: Flutepaths
New Paths
Innova Recordings/2011
flute: Sarah Eckman McIver; electronics: L. Moss; recorded at Dekelboum Concert Hall, College Park, MD

SET FIVE
David Mooney: Olbum's Furniture
Facts About Air
D.M./2009

Philip Mantione: Fabrics
Compilation for Max
P.M./2011

PGR: 13
A Hole of Unknown Depth
Silent Records/1995

SET SIX
Elainie Lillios: Stumbling Dance
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studios of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Finalist Concert of the III Concurso International de Música Electroacustica de São Paulo at Teatro Laura Abrahão, Brazil, 10/29/99

Jonty Harrison: Free Fall (from ReCycle)
Environs
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at the composer's studio, Birmingham, UK; Elektronisches Studio of the Musik-Akademie, Basel, Switzerland; processed at Studio Métamorphoses d’Orphée of Musiques & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at L’Espace du son — M&R, Théâtre Marni, Brussels, Belgium, 10/20/06

SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Buckner and Tom Hamilton: Segment C
Jump the Circle, Jump the Line
Mutable Music/2001
voice: T. Buckner; improvised electronics: T. Hamilton; recorded live for EMF at Engine 27, NYC, 12/01/00

--FIN--