Martian Gardens for 04/01/2012

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

Program for April 01, 2012

SET ONE
Earle Brown:
a. Three Pieces I-III
b. Perspectives
Music for Piano(s), 1951-1995
New Albion Records/1996
piano: David Arden

Johanna Beyer: Movement for Double Bass and Piano
Modern American Bass [various artists]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; piano: John McDonald

Johanna Beyer: Gebrauchs-Musik I-III
Crawford/Beyer
New Albion Records/2001
piano: Sarah Cahill

SET TWO
Harry Partch: November 15 -- Leaving Santa Barbara
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto

Harry Partch: selections from Water! Water!
a. Water Criers. Visitors from strange and foreign places:
The Singer from Spoleto, and an Alabama Mocking Bird -- Dear Old Alabama
b. Water Criers. The baseball game is called on account of rain!
c. Opening Epilogue. Ghosts, Undele, Oomph! (The Indian Ghosts dance
over Clarence's body and play on liquor bottles)
d. Do-lo-lo-lo -- doom! (Aldermen, Ladies, and Ghosts) Phoebus bids
farewell. The Indian Runners bring news. The final song and dance,
Gone, Man, Gone! (whole ensemble). With the descending moan of sirens
Phoebus plunges wildly into nothingness.
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
New World Records/1997
Water! Water! An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues, Gate 5 Ensemble Cast and Instrumentalists conducted by John Garvey; recorded at the University of Illinois, 1962

SET THREE
Warren Burt: The Shape of the Voice I -- Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer music: Warren Burt

Kim Cascone: Edgeboundaries 123
Dust Theories
Cycling '74/2001
computer music: Kim Cascone

Pete Stollery: Back to Square One
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Studio Circé of IMEB, Bourges, 2007; North East Scotland’s Festival of New Music Sound at the Mitchell Hall, University of Aberdeen, September 1, 2007

SET FOUR
Milton Babbitt: Phonemena for soprano and tape
Philomel
New World Records/1995
soprano: Lynne Webber

John Melby: for Milton
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer and soprano; coloratura soprano: Patricia Sonego

Lydia Kavina: In Whims of the Wind
Music from the Ether -- Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/1999
Theremin: Lydia Kavina; piano: Joshua Pierce; coloratura soprano: Elizabeth Parcells; recorded at John Ford Auditorium, Portland, Maine, June 22, 1997

SET FIVE
Joseph Cell and Jin Hi Kim: April One
No World (Trio) Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1992
voice: Shelley Hirsch; electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; reeds, Korean piri: Joseph Celli; recorded at Coyote Studios, Brooklyn, September 12, 1991

Eleanor Hovda:
a. Jo Ha Kyu
b. Ikima
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/
a. oboe: Lydia Van Cleve; b. shakuhachi: Eleanor Hovda

Luciano Berio:
a. Comma
b. Chanson pour Pierre Boulez
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
a. e-flat clarinet: Carol Robinson; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville, France, September 2, 2005; b. cello: Rohan de Saram; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, April 2, 2006

SET SIX
Carlo Serafini: Bicycles and Bowls
Possible Worlds -- Recent Xenharmonic Explorations [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2012

Douglas Geers: Polk Pond
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2007

Nicolas Bernier: Antithèse électronique
Travaux Mécaniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012

Christian Banasik: Glass Cutter
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2007

R. Weis: Casserole & Singing Bowl
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2011

Annea Lockwood: Dialogue -- Bottles & Jars
The Glass World
¿What Next? Recordings/1997 (orig. 1970)

PAS: Melancholy Drink Coaster
Pure Energy Output Sessions
Alrealon Musique/2012

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: excerpts from La légende d'Eer
Electronic Works I: La Legend D'Eer
Mode Records/2005
7-channel tape (1977-1978) remixed by Gerard Pape at GRM, Paris, 2004

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