Martian Gardens for 10/23/2011

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for October 23, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky:
a. Once
b. Jubilate
To Know and Not to Know
Tzadik/2007
a. soprano: Martha Cluver; b. soprano: Beth Griffith, vocal samples: Thomas Buckner

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Voice and Instruments
Orchestra
Mode Records/2011
soprano: Martha Cluver; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at Great Hall, Haus es Rundfunks, Berlin, November 2010

SET ONE
Craig Shepard: Crêt de la Neuve, le 20 juillet 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser/2011
melodica: Christian Wolff

Sarah Peebles: Blue Moon Spirit
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
shō: Kō Ishikawa; recorded at Studio 246, Tokyo, 4/04/95

Philip Mantione: Valuri
Compilation for Max
P.M./2006
computer music for the installation "Wet Sounds" by Joel Cahen

Charles Wuorinen: ♩=60 (mvt. I. Concerto for Amplified Violin and Orchestra)
The Golden Dance
Albany Records/2004
violin: Paul Zukofsky; Radio-Sinfonie-Orchestra Frankfurt, conductor: Eliahu Inbal; recorded for Hessischer Rundfunk, February 1975

SET TWO
Denis Smalley: Pentes
Sources/scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustics; Northumbrian pipes: uncredited; realized at Ina-GRM, Paris, 1974; premiered at Auditorium 104 — Maison de Radio France, 3/20/75

Roxanne Turcotte:
a. Bourdons enjoués [Cheerful drones]
b. Delirium
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
a. electroacoustics; bagpipes, Breton bombard: Michael Dubeau; realized at the composer's studio; premiered at Festival Synthèse, Bourges, Cher, France, June 2004; b. electroacoustics, realized at the composer's studio; Électro-chocs 4: Travaux électroniques féminins, Salle multimédia — Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, 3/20/11

SET THREE
Ursula Mamlok: Five Capriccios
I. ♪=100
II. ♪=112
III. ♪=92
IV. ♩=104
V. ♪=54
Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
oboe: Heinz Holliger; piano: Anton Kernjak; recorded at Radiostudio, Zurich, Switzerland, 2/12/11

Lydia Kavina:
a. Free Music No. 1 (P. Grainger, for four theremins, 1936)
b. Free Music No. 2 (P. Grainger, for six theremins, 1937)
c. Beatless Music (P. Grainger, for six theremins, 1937
Spellbound! Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
theremins: L. Kavina; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, 7/10/00

Otto Luening: Fantasy in Space
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
created at the home of Henry Cowell, Woodstock, NY, 1952

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Track 2 (Suite from "No Exit")
Film Music
New World Records/1990
musique concrète from the film of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit," directed by Orson Welles, 1962; produced by the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Ernö Király: The Sky (Nebo)
Phoenix -- The Music of Ernö Király (Király Ernö)
ReR Megacorp/1995
voice: uncredited; tape: K. Ernö; text: Stevan Raickovic; recorded in Hungary, 1961

Ivan Tcherepnin: High in the Woods (from Flores Musicales)
Flores Musicales/Five Songs/Santur Live!
CRI/1995 (orig. 1982)
oboe: Peggy Pearson; violin: Wilma Smith; psaltery, organ, electronics: I. Tcherepnin; recorded at the Harvard Electronic Music Studio, fall 1981

SET FOUR
J. C. Combs: Trinity 666 - The Last Train to Hell
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
created by J.C. Combs for ImprovFriday

White Noise: The Black Mass -- An Electric Storm in Hell
An Electric Storm
Island Records/1968
electronics: Delia Derbyshire, Brian Hodgson, David Vorhaus; percussion: Paul Lytton; vocals: John Whitman, Annie Bird, Val Shaw; recorded at Kaleidophon Studio, Camden Town, 1968

Barton McLean: Demons of the Night
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizers, computers: B. McLean; saxophone "horror licks": Albert Regini

SET FIVE
Ingram Marshall: Holy Ghosts
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2002
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve; live digital delay processing: I. Marshall

Eleanor Hovda: Glacier Track
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
oboe d'amore: Libby Van Cleve; electric bass: Jack Vees; designed for performance in St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, NYC, acoustics replicated using the Soundfield SPS 422 Studio Microphone System and Lexicon Nuverb Processor, engineer: Arthur Bloom

SINGLE PLAY
Bun Ching-Lam: Lü (Journey)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkundemuseum, Heidelberg, Germany

--FIN--