Martian Gardens for August 12, 2012

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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for August 12, 2012

SET ONE
Charles Amirkhanian: Dog of Stravinsky
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voices: Dashiell Hammett, Belgian sheep hound; recorded in Oakland, October 7, 1979 

Laurie Anderson: For Electronic Dogs
You're the Guy I Want to Spend My Money With
East Side Digital/1993 (orig. Giorno Poetry Systems/1981)
violin, electronics: Laurie Anderson; drums: Wharton Tiers 

SET TWO 
Laurie Anderson: The Geographic North Pole
The Ugly One with the Jewels
Warner Bros./1995
vocals, electronics: Laurie Anderson; recorded at Sadler's Wells, UK 

Audrey Churgin: Arctic Sun Arctic Wind
Deep Wireless 2 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
voice, recordings: Audrey Churgin; drum dance and song: Rosalie Pissuk and son 

John Cage: excerpt from Voiceless Essay
Ghosts and Monsters [various artists]
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music 
Leonardo Music Journal CD series, Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
for four computer-generated tapes with 18 computer-generated mesostics; source text: Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience," recorded for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Herbst Theater, San Francisco, November 21, 1986 

Lydia Kavina: Voice of Theremin (V. Komarov)
Music from the Ether
Original Works for Theremin 
Mode Records/1996
Theremin and tape: Lydia Kavina 

SET THREE
Annea Lockwood: In Our Name
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
baritone: Thomas Buckner; prerecorded voices: Bill Hart and Bruce Odland; cello: Theodore Mook; tape: Annea Lockwood; poems of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay:  "Death Poem," Jumah Al-Dossari (Bahrain), "The Truth," Emad Abdullah Hassan (Yemen), "Is it true," "Osama Abu Kabir (Jordan); didjeridu sample: Stuart Dempster, "Didjerilayover." 

Victoria Jordanova: Outer Circles (parts 1 and 2)
Outer Circles
Innova Recordings/2004
sound collage inspired by the 9-11 Commemorative Net  

SET FOUR
Beth Anderson: Ode
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
electronic tape: Beth Anderson; Auctioneer: Spec Edwards, recorded at the Mt. Sterling tobacco warehouses, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, December 1972; realized and mixed at Queen's College electronic music studio, Wesleyan University electronic music studio, and ZBS Media; completed in 1975; dedicated to the composer's father, an auctioneer and friend of Spec Edwards 

Phillip Kent Bimstein: Garland Hirschi's Cows
a. A little bit about my cows
b. Pasturale 
c. Moovement
Garland Hirschi's Cows
Starkland/1996
sampler: PBK; cows and Garland Hirschi's narration recorded at Springdale, Utah, 1990 

SET FIVE
Richard Karpen: Life Studies #5
Solo/Tutti
Centaur Records/2004
computer-realized sounds: Richard Karpen, including a sample of J.S. Bach's "Art of the Fugue," composed in Seattle, Washington, and Bourges, France, 1996 

Steven Ricks: 
a. Percept Can Improv
b. Play the DC Metro 1
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
computer-realized sounds: Steven Ricks; improvised and recorded by Steven Ricks, 2009-2011 

R. Weis: These Buttons are Trash
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
samples and samplers: R. Weis 

SET SIX
Iannis Xenakis: Akanthos
Ensemble Music 1
Mode Records/1996
ST-X -- Ensemble Xenakis USA; conductor: Charles Zachary Bornstein; recorded at the Thread Waxing Space, New York City, June 21, 1995 

Ulrich Suesse: Les Vusions [sic.]
Le sixte livre dit électroacoustique de François Rabelais
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
electroacoustic music: Ulrich Suesse; IMEB, Bourges 

SET SEVEN
Alvin Curran: Romulus and Remus make a ruckus
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
electronic music: Alvin Curran; remix of sound installation for projections by Kristin Jones, University of Rome, 2003 

Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
processed found sounds: Robert Carl 

SINGLE PLAY
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: For Ever Now Soon an End
Quelques Reflets (Some Reflections)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music: P.A. Tremblay; realized in 2010 at the composer's studio, Huddersfield, U.K., and at the Elektronisches Studios of the Fachgebiet Audiokommunikation of the Technische Universität Berlin; premiered at Das Elektronische Studio der TU Berlin concert, January 21, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Deep Listening Band: CCCC (Cistern Chapel Chance Chants)
The Ready-Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1991
brass didjeridu, trombone, voice: Stuart Dempster; voice: Thomasa Eckert; accordion: Pauline Oliveros; voice: Panaiotis: voice; recorded at the Cistern Chapel -- the Ft. Worden Cistern, Olympic Peninsula, Washington; February 1990

A sad goodbye and a big thank you to New Albion Records (1983--2012).
New Albion Records shuttered its retail operations after releasing a steady stream of contemporary classical and experimental music recordings since the 1980s.  New Albion's roster of artists and composers such as the Deep Listening Band, Lou Harrison, Ingram Marshall, Morton Feldman, and Somei Satoh was a seminal influence in the formative period of Martian Gardens 15 years ago and shall remain a staple of my programming as long as Martian Gardens continues its run here on WMUA.

With honor and gratitude to New Albion founder and proprietor Foster Reed -- Thank you very much,

Max Shea

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