Martian Gardens for 04/15/2012

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for April 15, 2012

SET ONE
Gavin Bryars: Titanic Lament
The Sinking of the Titanic (radio edits)
Point Music/1995

Barney Childs: London Rice Wine
A Music; That it Might Be...
New World Records/2002
flute with live electronics: Philip Rehfeldt

SET TWO
Frank Denyer: Woman, Viola and Crow
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted viola, voice, percussion sounds: Elisabeth Smalt; recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, March 20, 2006

If, Bwana/Trio Scordatura: Gilmore's Girls
E (and sometimes why)
Pogus Productions/2012
Trio Scordatura -- viola d'amore: Elisabeth Smalt; voice: Alfrun Schmid; keyboard/laptop: Bob Gilmore; voice: Lisa Bernard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté; keyboard: Al Margolis who is If, Bwana; recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, June 2010

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel, part one
Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns?
New Albion Records/1991
UC Berkeley Chorus, director: Philip Brett; viola: David Abel; celeste: Karen Rosemak; percussion: William Winant; recorded at Skywalker Sound, October 1990

Morton Feldman: For Franz Kline
Only -- Works for Voice and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
soprano: Joan La Barbara; violin: Roy Malan; cello: Stephen Harrison; French horn: Lawrence Ragent; piano: Marvin Tartak; chimes: William Winant, director: Stephen L. Mosko; recorded in Los Angeles, 1995

SET FOUR
Harry Partch: Near Lodi I cut the huge Tokays*
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto; recorded at Second Story Studio, Venice, California, Summer 2010
*Flame Tokay grape native to Lodi, California

Harry Partch:
a. While my Heart Keeps Beating Time
b. Yankee Doodle Birds
Enclosure Two --
Historic Speech-Music Recordings from the Harry Partch Archives
Innova Recordings/1995
a. voice: Philip Blackburn; piano: Liz Schmidt; b. voice: Harry Partch, from 1970 interview

John Luther Adams: Apple Blossom Round
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 2006 and 2008

Evan Ziporyn: Mumbai II
Big Grenadilla/Mumbai
Cantaloupe Music/2012
tabla: Sandeep Das; Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, May 29, 2011

R. Weis: Tubular March
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
sampling and sequencing: R. Weis

SET FIVE
Frances White: In the Library of Dreams
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
viola d'amore: David Cerutti; electronics: Frances White

Mathew Adkins: Silk to Steel
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2012
electroacoustic music: Mathew Adkins

SET SIX
Christian Bouchard: Impasto 46
Automacité
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music: Christian Bouchard; commissioned by Codes d’accès, realized at the composer's studio, premiered at Les machines à communiquer electroacoustic music concerts at La Chapelle, Montreal, April 29, 2006

Christian Bouchard: Brazil Wins (from Parcelles 2)
Fractures
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music: Christian Bouchard; commissioned by Réseaux des arts médiatiques; realized at the composer's studio, premiered at the Rien à voir (14) series, Réseaux at Espace GO, Montreal, October 18, 2003

SET SEVEN
Roderik De Man: Wait a Minute
Electrified Music
Electroshock Records/2004

Diego Garro: O Que a menina ouve
Cultures électroniques --
Prix Trivium et Magisterium 2005, IMEB series [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005

Kyle Bruckmann: Orgone Accelerator
On Procedural Grounds
New World Records/2012
oboe, English horn, electronics: Kyle Bruckmann; recorded in Oakland, California, 2011

PAS: Vacation Beat
Flanked by Women and Pumpkins
Alrealon Musique/2012

SINGLE PLAY
Elaine Barkin: Xtet -- Last Dance for Milton
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer music: Elaine Barkin

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