Martian Gardens for October 28, 2012

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for October 28, 2012

FUND DRIVE WEEK -- NO REGULAR SET LIST

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UMass Percussion Ensemble: Ionisation
UMass Amherst Music Ensembles
UMass Dept. of Music & Dance/2011
composer: Edgard Varese; faculty coach: Ayano Kataoka; guest conductor: Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr.

Alvin Curran/Leo Smith: World Music
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
fog horns and maritime sound recordings of the U.S. East Coast: Alvin Curran; trumpet, seal horn: Wadada Leo Smith; mixed in Rome, 1985; composition year: 1985; time: 13:00

Wadada Leo Smith/Louis Moholo-Moholo: Jackson Pollock -- Action
Ancestors
TUM Records/2012
trumpet, percussion: Wadada Leo Smith; drums, percussion: Louis Moholo-Moholo; recorded at Master Recording, Esopo, Finland, February 6, 2011; time: 9:16

Morton Feldman: from Music for Jackson Pollock
a. Music for Jackson Pollock
b. Signature 
c. Jackson Pollock Speaks
d. Pollock Paints
First Recordings -- 1950s
Mode Records/1999
cellos: Helmut Menzler; Michael Sterling (from the Turfan Ensemble); recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk Studio I, Frankfurt, 1996-98; voice of Jackson Pollock excerpted from the Jackson Pollock film by Hans Namuth, 1951; composition years: 1950-1951; time: 6:00

Morton Feldman: For Philip Guston (disc b, trak 3)
For Philip Guston
Bridge Records/1997
flutes: Dorothy Stone; percussion: Arthur Jarvinen; piano/celeste: Gloria Cheng Cochran (from the California EAR Unit); recorded at Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego; composition year: 1987; time: 31:28

Barbara Monk Feldman: In theSmall Time of a Desert Flower
The Northern Shore
Mode Records/2012
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at Crowell Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, August 14, 2002; composition year: 2000; time: 27:00

Benjamin  Boretz: Lament for Sarah (April 3, 1990)
Open Space 29 (Barkin/Czerner/Boretz)
Open Space/2012
piano: Benjamin Boretz; in memory of Sarah Vaughan; composition year: 1990; time: 13:43

J.K. Randall: 
a. BAB-O (B. Boretz)
b. Slitherest (1st Gathering, part 1)
A Garland of C-Sound
Open Space/2004
computer, C-Sound software: J.K. Randall; recorded at Taplin Hall, Princeton, April 17, 2004; time: 9:00

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co: All Set
Like a Duck to Water
Cuneiform Records/2001
synthesizers: David Borden, Judy Borsher, Steve Drews; recorded at Celebration Sound, Ithaca,  New York; composition years: 1973-74; time: 7:26

David Borden: For Laurie Spiegel
Places, Times & People
Cuneiform Records/1994
synthesizers: David Borden; recorded in Ithaca, New York; time: 6:00

Laurie Spiegel: Patchwork
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012 (orig. Philo/1980)
computer, programming: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, 1974-76; time: 9:44

Robert Normandeau: Palindrome
Palimpsestes
Empreintes Digitales/2012
electroacoustic music: Robert Normandeau: commissioned by IMEB, realized at the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges, Elektronisches Studios of the Technische Universität Berlin, and the composer's studio, Montreal, 2005-06; premiered at Festival Synthès, Bourges, Cher, France, June 7, 2006; revised in 2007

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