Martian Gardens for August 26, 2012

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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Program for August 26, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Icebreaker: An Ending (Ascent) I
Apollo
Music composed by Brian Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
In memory of Neil Armstrong

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: In Memoriam
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky

SET ONE
Robert Carl: Warm Waxing Wail
Works for Piano
Centaur Records/1995
piano and voice: Anthony De Mare;  recorded at Millard Auditorium, The Hartt School, West Hartford, Connecticut; June 1994

David Mahler: Deep Water
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; voice, text: David Mahler; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009

Sylvia Smith: Two songs by John Cage --
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
b. Nowth Upon Nacht
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christine Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"

SET TWO
John Cage: 36 Mesostics re and not re Marcel Duchamp
Litany for the Whale
Harmonia Mundi/2002
voice (with electronics): Paul Hillier

John Cage: from Series re Morris Graves
a. Page 11
b. Page 12
John Cage performs Cage -- The Text Pieces I: The Artistic Pieces
Mode Records/1999
recorded at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. for John Cage's watercolors exhibition, April 19, 1990

John Cage: Three, part F
The Number Pieces 4
Mode Records/2009
recorders: Trio Dolce; recorded at Maria Minor Church, Ultrecht, The Netherlands; February 1, 1998

SET THREE
John Cage: In the Name of the Holocaust*
The Works for Piano 8 -- Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at German radio, Frankfurt, 2002
* Title this 1942 composition is a pun on "In the name of the Holy Ghost" and taken from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1939)

Victoria Jordanova: Sonatina No. 3
a. Dogged
b. Nagging
c. Vacilating
Cosmogony
Arpaviva/2012
amplified piano: Victoria Jordanova

Victoria Jordanova: Requiem
Requiem for Bosnia
CRI/1994
harp, broken piano: Victoria Jordanova

SET FOUR
Francis Dhomont: Lettre de Sarajevo
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music: Francis Dhomont;  realized in the Syter studio at Ina-GRM (Paris, France) and in the composer’s studio in 1995-96 and premiered on 22 February 1996 as part of the Festival Présences of Radio France in the Salle Olivier Messiaen of the Maison de Radio France (Paris, France)

Marcelle Deschênes:
selections from Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles (Naissance des roches molles)
[Moll, a Lilliputian opera for six soft pebbles (Birth of the Soft Rocks)]
a. Zig and Puce
b. Dry insects -- Yawning one's head off
c. Variable star
d. Bittuber insects: drinking the sea with a straw
petits Big Bangs
mixed media, multimedia, and acousmatic music 1976-2002 retrospective
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music: Marcelle Deschênes; clarinets: Pierre Langevin; trombones: Réjean Marois; percussion and toys: René Joly, Raynald Lévesque, Robert Pelletier, Robert Leroux, realized in 1976 in the studio of the Université Laval (Québec City) and premiered on March 18, 1976 at McGill University’s Pollack Hall in Montréal by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ)

SET FIVE
Walter Zimmermann: Ursache und Vorwitz
Schatten der Ideen
Mode Records/2003
performed by the Ensemble Recherche (with electronic tape); recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, May 1998

George Crumb: Palmpsest (from Other Worldly Resonances)
Complete Crumb Editions, Vol. 11
Bridge Records/2008
pianos: Susan Grace and Alison Rybak; recorded at Packard Recital Hall, Colorado Springs, March 17, 2006

SET SIX
David Dunn: The Sound of Light in Trees (excerpt)
The Sound of Light in Trees
Earth Ear/2006
interior recordings of bark beetles in Pinyon pine trees, New Mexico, David Dunn: bioacoustic recordings 

Tod Dockstader/David Lee Myers: Pterygota
Pond
ReR Megacorp/2005
amphibian sound recordings and electronics: Tod Dockstader, David Lee Myers

Steven Ricks: Can Cup Pipe
Available Resonances
Comprovise Records/2012
found objects, microphone, computer: Steven Ricks

SET SEVEN
Robert Carl: Collapsible Mandala (excerpt)
From Japan
New World Records/2012
recordings for electronic installation recorded throughout Japan, 2007

Tom Hamilton: Modhera
Pieces for Kohn/Formal and Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
keyboards, synthesizer, custom electronics: Tom Hamilton; drums, percussion, bells, cymbals: Rich O'Donnell; flute, clarinet: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1975

If, Bwana: Flute Thang
33Birdswent
Pogus Productions/1995
vocals: Ellen Christi; soprano sax: Brian Charles; sampled flute, electronics, tape: Al Margolis

SINGLE PLAY
Icebreaker: An Ending (Ascent) II
Apollo
Music composed by Brian Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
In memory of Neil Armstrong
 
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