Martian Gardens for October 7, 2012

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Program for October 7, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Maya Beiser & Michael Harrison: Time Loops
Time Loops -- Music in Pure Intonation
Cantaloupe Music/2012
cello: Maya Beiser; piano: Michael Harrison; recorded at Dimenna Center, Cary Hall, New York City; composition year: 2012; time: 2:40

SET ONE
Morton Feldman: Intersection 
First Recordings -- 1950s
Mode Records/1999
magnetic tape: Morton Feldman; composition year: 1953; time: 3:26

James Tenney: Instrumental Responses (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
The Barton Workshop; computer program: James Tenney; recorded in Amsterdam, February 2007; composition year: 1964; time: 8:48

Kristin Norderval: Circadian Singing
Aural Histories (Post-ambient arias for voice and electronics)
Deep Listening Institute/2012 
voice, electronics: Kristin Norderval; composition year: 2011; time: 7:50

SINGLE PLAY
Mathew Rosenblum: Circadian Rhythms
a. Circadian Rhythms
b. Stargazing
c. Monuments
d. Circadian Rhythms (Part 2)
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
Deoro group (cello: David Eggar; percussion: Chuck Palmer; keyboards: Rob Frankenberry); recorded at Carriage House Studios, Stamford, Connecticut, February 21, 2011; composition year: 1989; time: 20:00

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965 (Echoes I)
Eco 1. Fantastico
Eco 2. Languidamente, quasi lontano ("Hauntingly")
Eco 3. Prestissimo 
Eco 4. Con bravura 
Eco 5. Dark, intense
Eco 6. Dark, intense
Eco 7. Dark, intense
Eco 8. Feroce, violento
Eco 9. Serenamente, quasi lontano ("Hauntingly")
Eco 10. Senza misura ("gently undulating")
Eco 11. Adagio; ("like a prayer")
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) (violin: David Bowlin; alto flute: Claire Chase; clarinet: Joshua Rubin; piano: Jacob Greenberg); recorded at the Performing Arts Center, Theater C, SUNY Purchase, September 6, 2006; composition year: 1966; time: 17:50

SET TWO
Lisa Moore: 
Machine-like, but with some groove (Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers, Part 3)
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
composer: Annie Gosfield; piano and sampling keyboard: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, Connecticut; May-June 2010; composition year: 2008; time: 8:30

Annie Gosfield: Phantom Shakedown
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
piano, electronics: Annie Gosfield; recorded at Oktaven Studios, Yonkers, New York; composition year: 2010; time: 8:13

James Mobberley: CAUTION TO THE WINDS
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 2 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1994
piano: Richard Cass; fixed Media: James Mobberley; recorded at the University of Missouri Kansas City; composition year: 1987; time: 5:31

SET THREE
Benjamin Broening: Trembling Air
Trembling Air
Bridge Records/2012
Eighth Blackbird ensemble; recorded at Camp Concert Hall, University of Richmond; October 11-12, 2008; composition year: 2009; time: 12:47

Dorothy Stone: None But The Lonely Flute
None But The Lonely Flute
New World Records/1994
composer: Milton Babbitt; flute: Dorothy Stone; composition year: 1991; time: 8:58

SET FOUR
Arthur Jarvinen: The Vulture's Garden
a. The Vulture's Garden
b. The War of the Time
c. The Last Dim Weird Battle of the West
d. Not with a Bang but a Whimper 
Edible Black Ink
O.O. Discs/1996
The California Ear Unit; recorded at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, June 1996; composition year: 1990; time: 16:00

Stephen Lucky Mosko: Native Songs and Dances (from Indigenous Music II)
Indigenous Music
O.O. Discs/1998
The California Ear Unit, conductor: Stephen Mosko; recorded at Mad Hatter Studios and the California Institute of the Arts; Autumn 1997; composition year: 1984; time: 7:16

SINGLE PLAY
R. Weis: Requiem for a Paperweight
Requiem for a Paperweight
R. Weis/1998
samples, sampler: R. Weis;  sound score for installation of photographs by Arthur Tress; premier: University Art Musuem, CSU, Long Beach, California, 1994; composition year: 1994; time: 18:50

SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformations
Empreintes Digitales/1996
environmental sounds recorded and processed by Hildegard Westerkamp in the desert of Northern Mexico, 1987; premiered at the Community Arts Council of Vancouver, British Columbia, June 1987; composition year: 1987: time: 10:55


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