Martian Gardens for 02/12/2012

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for February 12, 2012

SET ONE
Sylvia Smith: A Flower (John Cage)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: S. Smith

Morton Feldman: Only
Only -- Works for Voice and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
voice: Joan La Barbara; text: Rainer Maria Rilke

Morton Feldman: Voice, Violin and Piano
Only -- Works for Voice and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
voice: Joan La Barbara; piano: Ralph Grierson; violin: Roy Malan

Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (excerpt)
Piano and String Quartet
Bridge Records/2011
piano: Vicki Ray; Eclipse Quartet; recorded at Firehouse Recording Studio, Pasadena, 2/08/11

Morton Feldman: Four Songs to e.e. cummings
a. !blac
b. air
c. (sitting in a tree-)
d. moan
Voices and Instruments
Mode Records/2002
The Barton Workshop -- soprano: Claron McFadden; piano: Frank Denyer; cello: John Addison; texts: e.e. cummings; recorded in the Netherlands 1998-2000

Earle Brown: Music for Violin, Cello and Piano
Selected Works 1952-1965
New World Records/2006
violin: Matthew Raimondi; cello: David Soyer; piano: David Tudor

SET TWO
Bang on a Can All-Stars: from Four Player Piano Studies -- Study 2a
(Conlon Nancarrow; arranged for BoaCA-S by Evan Ziporyn)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2011
recorded at the James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio at New York University, 2010; guitar portion recorded at Omni Parker House, Boston

Freight Elevator Quartet: Mediate
State of the Union 2001 [various artists]
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

Drew Krause: Drain
Ding
Capstone Records/2007
McCormick Percussion Ensemble with computer-generated sounds, conductor: Robert McCormick; recorded at the University of South Florida, Tampa, 3/07/02

SET THREE
Luigi Nono: …sofferte onde serene… […suffering quiet waves…]
Como una ola de fuerza y luz
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
piano with prerecorded piano sounds: Maurizio Pollini; recorded at Rai S.p.A. (Italian state radio), Rome, 1977

…sofferte onde serene… is among the Nono pieces scheduled for the Luigi Nono Concert Series in New York City, February 26-28, 2012

JB Floyd: Waves -- The Ebb and Flow
Another Time and Place
Mutable Music/2011
Yamaha Disklavier: JB Floyd

SINGLE PLAY
Eduarda Reck Miranda: Requiem Per Una Veu Perduda
[Requiem for a Lost Voice in Catalan]
a. Kyrie
b. Gloria
c. Sanctus Benedictus
d. Agnus Dei
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
for computer and voice; mezzo-soprano: Simone Sahyouni; recorded at The University of Glasgow Electronic Music Studio, 1997

SET FOUR
Natasha Barrett: Sub Terra Cycle -- Sub Terra
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
electroacoustic work for installation recorded at the composer's studio, Oslo, premiered during the Nurrmusic Festival, Stavanger, Norway, 9/04/08

Kim Cascone:
a. The Bourbaki Conjecture
b. The Gamma Reader
Works 2000-2003 CD-R
Kim Cascone/2003
recorded with Csound, 1997

SET FIVE
Salvatore Martirano: Electronic Dance No. 1
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22 [various artists]
The Composer in the Computer Age V:
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective 1962-92
Centaur Records/1995
recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1962

Raul Lafuret Pereyra: Song for Cave
Anillo en Abril
Goethe Institute of Córdoba/2003
electroacoustic music recorded in Córdoba, Argentina, 2001

Jonty Harrison: Hot Air (excerpt)
Articles Indefinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
recorded at Salle Olivier Messiaen — Maison de Radio France, 5/22/95
This excerpt is from the compilation "A Storm of Drones," (Asphodel/1996), now out of print.

Ellen Band/David Lee Myers: Ualen Lagoon (part 3)
Two Ships
Pogus Productions/2005

Artemiy Artemiev & Karda Estra: Equilibrium
Equilibrium
Electroshock Records/2002
recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, 2001

SET SIX
Kronos Quartet: Adagio (Samuel Barber)
Released/Unreleased 1985-1995
Nonesuch Records/1995
recorded at Methuen Memorial Music Hall, Methuen Massachusetts, 1987

Somei Satoh: Toward the Night
Toward the Night
New Albion Records/1993
Endless String Ensemble, conductor: Toshiyuki Uzuka; recorded in Yamato City, Japan, 3/31/92

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