Martian Gardens for 02/05/2012

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for February 5, 2012

Happy 75th birthday Philip Glass! (January 31, 2012)

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach
a. Knee 1
b. Knee 3
c. Knee 5
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch/1993
Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman; a. keyboard: M. Riesman; spoken texts: Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton; b. chorus; c. violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: M. Riesman; women's chorus; spoken text: Jasper McGruder, "Two Lovers"; direction: Robert Wilson; texts: Christopher Knowlton, Lucinda Childs, Samuel M. Johnson; recorded 1993

SET ONE
Philip Glass: Song #7 from Howl Part II
Hydrogen Jukebox
Nonesuch/1993
Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Martin Goldray; narrator: Allen Ginsberg; baritone: Nathaniel Watson; tenor saxophone: Richard Peck; text: A. Ginsberg; recorded at the Looking Glass Studios, New York City

John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
The Minimalists
Mode Records/2009
Orkest de Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; percussion: Tatiana Koleva; bass clarinet: Fie Schouten; clarinet: Dominique Zwartelé; arr. Anthony Fiumara; recorded at MCO Studios in Hilversum, The Netherlands, April 2009

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Cruising Speed (P. Lansky)
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; recorded in Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010

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

Bang on a Can All-Stars: For Madeline (M. Gordon)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2011
recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Seven
The Number Pieces 6
Mode Records/2012
Essential Music -- flute: Janet Axelrod; clarinet: Mark Lieb; violin: Greg Klitzis; viola: Tina Pelikan; cello: Ted Mook; piano: Judith Gordon; percussion: V.J. Gunhuk; directors: John Kennedy and Charles Wood; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 1993-1994

SET THREE
Jin Hi Kim: Dancing in the Deep Blue Sea
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
komungo: JHK; doxophone: Hans Reichel; accordion: Rudiger Carl; recorded in Germany, 1999

Sarah Peebles: Insect Groove
Insect Groove
Cycling '74/2002
electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; altered electric guitar, Boomerang, Whammy 2, processors; Max software, Sample Cell 1 & 2 editing; Unity DS-1 sampler, shō: S. Peebles

Roxanne Turcotte: Aurore boréale (from Attractions)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at Productions RTM 2003-2004; presented for François Doyon's "Attractions" installation at the Café of the Monument-National, Montréal, January 2005

SET FOUR
Adolfo Nuñez: Ja Epitafio a John Cage
Electroacoustic Music
Adolfo Nuñez/2004
premiered at Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, February 2003

John Melby: Two Stevens Songs
I. A Postcard from the Volcano
II. Domination of Black
International Electroacoustic Music [various artists]
CRI/1976
soprano: Phyllis Bryn-Julson; texts: Wallace Stevens; computer music realized at the Digital Computing Laboratory, University of Illinois and converted at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton

John Melby: Chor der Waisen
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 3 [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios and Computer Music Project at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Centaur Records/1989
composed in 1985 on IBM 4341 computer with MUSIC 360 language for digital sound synthesis

SET FIVE
Stuart Saunders Smith: Wind in the Channel
Wind in the Channel
O.O. Discs/1997
tenor recorder, voice, percussion: Julia Whybron

Eleanor Hovda: Boundaries (for four flutes and four double basses)
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2011
Janis Weller, Irene Pruzan, Holly Clemans, Susan Morrissey: flutes; Nancy Bjork, Michael Smith, Noel Chelberg, Greg Hippen: double basses; performed at Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, March 1989

James Correa: The Italo Calvino Cities I -- The Cities and the Memory
Portfolio
James Correa/2012
live electronics: J. Correa

SINGLE PLAY
Ingram Marshall: Postlude -- The Bay
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1991
synthesizers: I. Marshall

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