Sunday, November 18, 2012

Martian Gardens for November 18, 2012

Program for November 18, 2012

SINGLE PLAY

Guy Klucevsek: Diet Polka 
Polka from the Fringe 
Starkland/2012 (orig. 1992)
composer: Daniel Goode; accordion: Guy Klucevsek; cello: Erik Friedlander; violin: Mary Rowell; recorded at Baby Monster studio, New York City, 1991; composition year: 1987; time: 3:38

SET ONE
Chaya Czernowin: First Orchestral Entrance (Shu Hai in an Orchestral Setting)
Shu Hai Practices Javelin
voice: Ute Wasserman (live/recorded); Basel Sinfonietta; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; live electronics: Experimental Studio of Heinrich Strobel Stiftung; SWR, director: André Richard; recorded live at the Dampfcentrale, Bern, Switzerland at the Biennale Bern 2001; composition years: 2000/2001; time: 4:57

Sarah Peebles: Listen to the Sound of the Sun Sinking into the Lake
Insect Groove
computers, sampling: Sarah Peebles; electric guitar: Nilan Perera; shō: Kō Ishikawa; time: 6:54
Larry Austin: Max Mathews Episode
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 15 [various artists]
The Virtuoso in the Computer Age -- V
Music for the Mathews/Boie Radio Drum and Radio Baton
interview: Larry Austin and Max Mathews; from Transmission Two: The Great Excursion concert on KPFA FM, Berkeley, February 26, 1990; UC Chamber Chorus, conductor: Philip Brett; keyboards: Chris Brown; celletto: Chris Chafe; percussion and Radio Drum: William Winant;  computer systems: Larry Austin, Jay Kadis, Randall Packer, Todd Winkler; composition year: 1989; time: 11:06
SET TWO
Laurie Spiegel: Drums
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/20102 (orig. LP Philo/1980)
electronic instruments: Laurie Spiegel, Max Mathews; realized at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, 1975; time: 707
Guem: Poursuite
Le Serpent (Percussions boxed-set sampler)
percussion: Arnaud Frank-Fort, Bernard Marx, Fernando Diez, Yannick Sontag; recorded at Studio Fremontel, Paris, 1983; time: 6:25
Big Black: Afro-Cuban Lullaby
Ethnic Fusion
Mutable Music/2001 (org. LP 1750 Arch/1982)
tumbas, bongos: Big Black; guitar: Anthony Wheaton; recorded at 1750 Arch Studios, Berkeley, 1981-82; time: 7:21 
SET THREE
Maggi Payne: Apparent Horizon
Arctic Winds
outer space manned craft and satellite  transmissions, short wave radio signals, environmental sounds, processing: Maggi Payne; composition year: 1996; time: 11:52
Anne La Berge: Away
Speak
voice, text, flute, electronics: Anne La Berge; recorded at Studio VOLSAP and Studio 150, Amsterdam, 2009; composition year: 2008; time: 11:36
SET FOUR
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument -- Early Works
voice, Buchla synthesizer: JLB; premiered at Metamusik Festival, Berlin, October 22, 1978; composition year: 1978; time: 13:18
Tildy Bayar: Three Readings --
a. one past of "past is part of..." (Elaine Barkin)
b. "she cannot be a conversation...." (Jill Borner)
c. "an essay urging movements" (Penelope Hyde)
ee2 -- A Sound Album by Elaine Barkin [various artists]
voice, 4-track tape collage: Tildy Bayer; composition year: 1988; time: 8:00 

SINGLE PLAY
Brian Eno: Lux (excerpt)
Lux
sounds, instruments: Brian Eno; additional instruments -- Moog Guitar: Leo Abrahams; violins, violas: Neil Catchpole; composition year: 2012; excerpt time: 10:00

SET FIVE
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: She Wore Red Shoes
Detours
synthesizer, piano: BGT; recorded at the Chapel of Chimes, Oakland, February 20, 2005; time: 11:27

Michael Jon Fink: Prelude to Alone
Cold Blue Two [various artists]
clarinet: Brian Walsh; trombones: Alex Iles; electric guitar: MJF; recorded at Architecture, Los Angeles, September 2010 and January 2011; composition year: 2010; time: 3:17

Benjamin Broening: Traces (ii)
Trembling Air
ensemble Eighth Blackbird; recorded at Camp Concert Hall, University of Richmond, October 2008; composition year: 2010; time: 5:18

SET SIX
Mathew Rosenblum: Under the Rainbow
Circadian Rhythms
flute, alto flute, piccolo: Lindsey Goodman, with accompanying samples and sound effects (Wizard of Oz, Bugs Bunny and others) by Mathew Rosenblum; recorded at Tuff Sound Recordings, Pittsburgh, October 3, 2009; composition year: 2003; time: 13:35

Alwin Nikolais: Pierrot -- Dance 3
Electronic Dance Music
CRI/1993
synthesizers, sound effects: Alwin Nikolais; composition year: 1986; time: 2:53

James Mobberley: selections from Icarus Wept --
a. Movement II. Intermezzoid #1 -- Getting Waxed
b. Movement IV. Intermezzoid #2 -- Somebody Else's Face
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 6 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1997
trumpet: Keith Benjamin, with accompanying samples and sound effects by James Mobberley; composition year: 1996; selections time: 3:30
Greg Anderson: Weeping Like a Bathtub
Transforms -- The Nerve Events Project [various artists]
tape collage, samples, and sound effects: Greg Anderson; time: 5:10
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