Martian Gardens for 03/25/2012

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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for March 25, 2012

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros and Miya Masaoka: Afternoon (Hirusugi)
Accordion Koto
Deep Listening/2007
koto: Miya Masaoka; accordion: P. Oliveros; recorded in the Bard College Recording Studio

Earl Howard: Crupper
Granular Modality
New World Records/2012
koto: Miya Masaoka; synthesizer, processing: Earl Howard; recorded in concert at Roulette, New York City

Christopher Bailey: Can't Sleep
Possible Worlds [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2011

SET TWO
Frank Denyer: Two Beacons
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
The Barton Workshop and guests, directors: Frank Denyer and James Fulkerson;
recorded Bethanieklooster, Amsterdam, and Darlington College of Arts, 2006

George Cacioppo: Time on Time in Miracles
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
Ensemble 2e2m; soprano: Janet Pape; conductor: Paul Méfano; recorded at the Atrium Theater, Chaville, France

SET THREE
Philip Glass: Knee 2
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch Records/1993
The Philip Glass Ensemble and Chorus, conductor: Michael Riesman; recorded in 1993

Alvin Curran:
a. Harmony Circus
b. Corny Island (Ochs solo)
c. Dust Bowl
Electric Rags II
New Albion Records/1990
Rova Saxophone Quartet (baritone and alto: Jon Riskin; tenor and sopranino: Larry Ochs; alto and sopranino: Steve Adams; sorano: Bruce Ackley); electronics: Alvin Curran; Oberheim Xpander: Scot Gresham-Lancaster; recorded in San Francisco, 1989

Frank Garvey and DeusMachina:
a. Goodbye
b. Tweedledee-dee
House of the Deafman
Innova Recordings/2001
recorded for the OmniCircus, San Francisco

Lou Harrison: Rapunzel, Act VI
Rapunzel and Other Works
New Albion Records/1997
soprano: Patrice Maginnis; mezzo soprano: Lynne McMurtry; baritone: John Duykers; Ensemble Parallèle, conductor: Nicole Paeiement; recorded at the University of California Santa Cruz, June 1996
SET FOUR
Adrian Moore: Sustain
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio and premiered at the 20 Years of Musical Innovation at PACE Studio 1 of De Montfort University, Leicester, 3/01/10

John Bischoff: Decay Trace
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
computer music by John Bischoff recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland

SET FIVE
PAS: Electric Rain on Adams Bridge
Flanked by Women and Pumpkins
Alrealon Musique/2012

Blue Sausage Infant: Aphid's Lament
Manitou
Blue Sausage Infant/2012

John Shirley: Memoriam
Sonic Ninjutsu
Cycling '74/2004

David Buddin: Canticle III
Canticles for Electronic Music
ugEXPLODE Records/2012

SET SIX
Shelley Hirsch: In the Basement
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009

Shelley Hirsch: Dipped
O Little Town of East New York
Tzadik/1995

Christian Calon: Le rêve (The Dream)
Le projet Ulysse
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
voice of Penelope: Shelley Hirsch; guitar: René Lussier; electroacoustic music: C. Calon; text: C. Calon inspired by James Joyce; realized at the composer's studio in Montreal 1996-2001; additional recording in Paris, Marseille, Montreal, and Berlin; premiered at Werkstatt, Deutschlandradio Berlin, 12/04/98

Jerry Hunt:
a. String 5 -- Birds
b. String 6
Song Drapes
Tzadik/1999
electronic music: Jerry Hunt (1992); voice/text on Birds: Shelley Hirsch; recorded at Avatar, New York City, 1999

Noah Creshevsky: The Kindness of Strangers
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
voice and guitar: Gary Heidt; lap steel/banjo: Rich Gross; bass: Orin Buck; electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky

Shelley Hirsch: Blanche Dubois
States
Tellus-Harvestworks/1997
voice/improvised text: S. Hirsch; electronic music: David Weinstein; recorded at Roulette, New York City, 1987

Robert Ashley: The Angel of Loneliness
Dust -- An Opera
Lovely Music/2000
voice: Sam Ashley; chorus: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Tom Hamilton, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara; "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Robert Ashley; text: Robert Ashley; electronic orchestration: Robert Ashley, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Tom Hamilton; recorded at The Kitchen, New York City

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Blackburn: Scratch I-Ching
Ghostly Psalms
Innova Recordings/2012

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