Martian Gardens for 03/11/2012

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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 11, 2012

SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: La Sonnambula
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
electronic music: Noah Creshevsky; clarinet: Sherman Friedland

Herbert Brün: Non Sequitur VI
Wayfaring Sounds
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
flute: Carolyn Ho; cello: Sarah Wiseman; piano: Ann Warde; harp: Shirley Blankenship; marimba: J.C. Kilbourne, Jeff Magby; percussion: David Madden, Ian Ding; conductor: Arun Chandra; recorded at the University of Illinois; written on SCATRE/MUSICOMP software; tape programmed on the D/A sound synthesis system

SET TWO
Roger Reynolds: Epigram and Evolution
Epigram and Evolution -- Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Eric Huebner

Iannis Xenakis: Plektó
Ensemble Music 1
Mode Records/1996
ST-X Ensemble; conductor: Charles Zachary Bornstein; The Thread Waxing Space, New York City, 6/21/95

Morton Feldman: Vertical Thoughts 5
Only -- Works for Voice and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
soprano: Joan La Barbara; San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, director: Stephen L. Mosko; recorded in Los Angeles, 1995

SET THREE
Amnon Wolman: No Stopping Any Time
Dangerous Bend
Cycling '74/2001
Max/MSP programming: A. Wolman; marimba: Michael Burritt

Elainie Lillios: Backroads
a. Shoe Factory
b. Tree Tunnel
c. Elevator
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Bowling Green, Ohio; premiered at Rien à voir (12) concert series presented by Réseaux at Espace GO in Montréal, 3/13/02

SET FOUR
Alvin Lucier: Vespers (1st 1/2)
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
music for echolocation device, 1969

Philip Mantione: HFTwo
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
Max/MSP "Headfuck" software: P. Mantione

Dr. Ox: Motif of Myo1p
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM (Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and Art), Oslo; March 11 -- Happy Birthday to Natasha B.

SET FIVE
John Bischoff: Surface Effect
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
computer music: John Bischoff; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 2011
Joseph Celli: Spiral (K. Stockhausen)
Organic Oboe
O.O. Discs/1991 (orig. 1978)
oboe, English horn, electrified English horn, voice, kazoo, shortwave radio, various noisemakers: J. Celli

SET SIX
Robert Dow: White Water (Airflow)
Selected Works 2008
Robert Dow/2008
electroacoustic music: Robert Dow (University of Edinburgh)

Mark Alexander Bromwich: Ghosts
Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield and Newcastle [various artists]
MPS Music and Video/2000
electroacoustic music: Mark Alexander Bokowiec (née Bromwich)(University of Huddersfield, UK)

SET SEVEN
Harry Partch:
a. London, October 1934
b. By the Rivers of Babylon
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2011
narrator: John Schneider; adapted viola: Richard Valitutto

Harry Partch: Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales
a. Study on Olympos' Pentatonic
b. Study on Archytas' Enharmonic
Just West Coast
Bridge Records/1993
just guitar, adapted guitar: John Schneider; Celtic and concert harps: Amy Schulman

NewBand: Dark Brother (H. Partch)
Harry Partch/Dean Drummond
Innova Recordings/2001
bass-baritone: Robert Osborne, NewBand, text: Thomas Wolfe

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Dream
Just West Coast
Bridge Records/1993
guitar: John Schneider

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