Martian Gardens for 03/04/2012

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

Program for March 4, 2012

SET ONE
Harry Partch: December 7, 1935 -- Night. Four black walls
Bitter Music
Bridge Record/2011
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto; recorded at Second Story Studio, Venice, California, August 2010

John Cage: from Four Walls, Act One
a. Scene I
b. Scene II
c. Scene III
d. Scene VII (vocal interlude)
The Perilous Night/Four Walls
New Albion Records/1991
piano: Margaret Leng Tan; voice: Joan La Barbara; text: Jay Clayton; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 1990

SET TWO
Joan La Barbara: Shamansong [excerpt]
Shamansong
New World Records/1998
voice, percussion, computer, electronic keyboard, synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; tar and dunbek: Polly Tapia Ferber; gender: Kristina Melcher; cello: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick; outdoor and indoor recordings made in New Mexico, 1991

Leo Küpper: Kamana
a. Chlong chlung
b. Tamaré
c. Huimi
d. Kôlingèlélong
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; sounds processed and recorded at Studio Recherches, Brussels

SET THREE
Annie Gosfield: Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds Back
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music [various artists]
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, 1998

Leslie Stuck: Go
Pas
Cycling '74/2003
Live performance for Patricia Corbett and Alexandra Stuck Corbett, choreographed by Elizabeth Corbett, Kamagawa Arts Festival, Yokohama, 1998

Alwin Nikolais: Blank on Blank (excerpt)
Electronic Dance Music
New World Records/1993
Synclavier: A. Nikolais, 1987

Noah Creshevsky: Rounded with a Sleep
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2012

David van Tieghem: Waiting for the Gizmo - no. 1
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music [various artists]
Innova Recordings/2010
Commissioned by STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (S.L.A.M.), Brooklyn

Amoebazoid: G's Last Day
Zackung
Cycling '74/2007

SET FOUR
Nicola Cisternino: Xöömij
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum [various artists]
Mode Records/2001
bass baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; CCMIX: N. Cisternino

Pete Stollery: Peel
Un Son Peut en Cacher un Autre
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham and Northern College, Aberdeen; premiered at the Midlands Arts Center, Birmingham, 4/05/97

SINGLE PLAY
John Melby: Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Computer
Concerti
Albany Records/2009
piano: Winston Choi; recorded at Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University, 1/31/08

SET FIVE
John Cage: Thirteen (1st 1/3)
The Number Pieces 6
Mode Records/2012
Essential Music, directors: John Kennedy and Charles Wood; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 1993-1994

Tim Brady: Two Chords Less Than a Blues
Unison Rituals
Ambiances Magnétiques/2004
saxophones: André Leroux; piano: Lisa Godwin; percussion: Philip Hornsey; recorded at Concordia University's Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Montreal, May 2001

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: Continents of City and Love
Awakening at the Inn of the Birds
Cold Blue Music/2003
piano: Sarah Cahill, Joseph Kubera; synthesizer: Kathleen Supové; contrabass: Greg August; FLUX Quartet; recorded at Sear Sound, New York City, December 2002

SINGLE PLAY
Brian Eno: Hazard
The Drop
All Saints/1997

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