Martian Gardens for 05/06/2012

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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Program for May 06, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Ethel: Sphere ('s) [J. Halle]
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
Ethel String Quartet -- violin: Cornelius Dufalo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson; recorded at BiCoastal Recordings, Ossing, New York, February 2011

SET ONE
Mary Ellen Childs: Welding
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
Ethel String Quartet; Sound Montage by Neverwas

R. Weis: Quantum Hayride
Mystery of the Egg
R. Weis/2012
sampler and sampling: R. Weis

Jon Hassell:
a. Chor Moiré
b. Courage
Dream Theory in Malaya
EG Records/1981
electronically filtered trumpet: Jon Hassell; drums: Brian Eno; bass: Michael Brook; recorded at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario

Alva Noto: Xerrox Soma
Xerrox Vol. 2
Raster-Norton/2009
electronic music: Alva Noto

SET TWO
Eric Moe: On the Tip of My Tongue
I. Two Part Contraption
II. Tim's Tune
III. Double Take
IV. What the Drums Say
IV. I. What the Drums Say (alternate take)
On the Tip of My Tongue
Centaur Records/1996
synthesizer: Eric Moe; clarinet: Tim Smith; recorded at Baby Monster Studios, October 1994

Krzysztof Wolek: Mobile Variations
Cultures électroniques 20 [various artists]
Prix Trivium et Magisterum 2007 -- IMEB series
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2007
electroacoustic music: Krzysztof Wolek; realized at the University of Chicago

SET THREE
Tom Lopez: Curvatures
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2003
Zeta String Quartet (2002 -- violins: Gillian Rivers and Amie Weiss, viola: Amy Cimini, cello: Sarah Biber), and electronics, recorded at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music

Zack Browning: Breakpoint Screamer
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the 
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
trumpets: Michael Ewald, Salvatore Percoco, Charles Saenz, James Zingara, Kevin Vos; computer processing: Zack Browning; commissioned for performance at the International Trumpet Guild 1994 Conference

Salvatore Martirano: SATBehind Demo
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 22
The Composer in the Computer Age -- V
A Salvatore Martirano Retrospective 1962-92
Centaur Records/1995
computers, digital keyboard: Salvatore Martirano

SET FOUR
Paul Koonce: Whitewash
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
electroacoustic music: Paul Koonce

Paul Koonce: The Flywheel Dream
Walkabout and Back
Mode Records/2000
electroacoustic music: Paul Koonce

SET FIVE
Adrian Moore: 3Pieces -- Piano
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio and premiered at Firth Hall, Sheffield, March 20, 2007

Mecha Fixes Clocks: Curvature dφ/ds of Takahashi’s Curves
Teoria dell’elasticità di Girolamo Papariello
Ambiances Magnetiques/2012 

Andrew Byrne: from Fata Morgana -- Mirages on the Horizon
a. Third Mirage
b. Fourth Mirage
White Bone Country
New World Records/2009
prepared piano: Stephen Gosling; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, 2006


SET SIX
Harry Partch: I'm going to start right off by giving you some sounds...
Enclosures 2 -- Historic Speech-Music Recordings
Innova Recordings/1995
voice: Harry Partch; recorded in Gualala, California, 1950, for introduction of the 78 rpm recording of  "Intrusions"

Harry Partch: Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegans Wake
a. Isobel
b. Annah the Allmaziful
Enclosures 2 -- Historic Speech-Music Recordings
Innova Recordings/1995
soprano: Lola Harding; flutes: Dorothy Holden, Hilmar Luckhardt; Kithara: Harry Partch; recorded in New York City, 1945


Harry Partch: August 11 -- SERA Camp, Ingot
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
voice: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto


Beth Anderson: Yes Sir Ree
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voice: Beth Anderson; percussion: Michael Blair


Meredith Monk: Candy Bullets and Moon
Beginnings 
Tzadik/2009
voice, bass guitar: Meredith Monk; drums, organ: Don Preston; recorded at Garrick's Theatre, New York City, July 1967

SET SEVEN
If, Bwana/Trio Scordatura: The Tempest, Fuggit
E (and sometimes why)
Pogus Productions/2012 
speaker: Michael Peters; voice: Lisa Barnard Kelly; text: Shakespeare, The Tempest, act I, scene II;  recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, June 2010;


Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing (excerpt)
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
synthesizer, electronics: Robert Ashley; voices: Mimi Johnson, Robert Ashley, completed 1979


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