Martian Gardens for 04/29/2012

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for April 29, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Echoes of Time and the River
Four Processionals for Orchestra (Echoes II)
I. Frozen Time
II. Remembrance of Time
III. Collapse of Time
IV. Last Echoes of Time
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 6
Bridge Records/2003
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Thomas Conlin; recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw, Poland, August 2002

SET ONE
John Luther Adams: Clusters on a Quadrilateral Grid 3
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati; November 1998

John Luther Adams: Wood Thrush
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 2006-2008

Kui Dong: Flying Apples
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 8 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1999
computer music: Kui Dong; recorded at CCRMA, Stanford University

SET TWO
Kui Dong: Crossing -- Movement II
Pangu's Song
New World Records/2004
computer music: Kui Dong; recorded at CCRMA, Stanford University, October 21, 2000

Karen Tanaka: Water and Stone
Invisible Curve (Chen Yi/K. Tanaka)
New World Records/2008
The Azure Ensemble, conductor: Gerald Steichen; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 16, 2008

SET THREE
Karen Tanaka: Metallic Cristal
Percussion (s) [Roland Auzet]
Mode Records/2008
electronic music with percussion; percussion performed by Roland Auzet; recorded at IRCAM La Muse en Circuit, Atelier en Bel Air

Kwok-ping John Chen: Ring Shades
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 1 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1993
two-channel tape with percussion; percussion: Heung-Wing Lung

SET FOUR
Yves Daoust: Objets Trouvés
Compendium International -- Bourges 2002 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2012
commissioned by the IMEB, recorded at Bourges' Studio Charybde, November 2002

Nicolas Bernier:
Travaux Mécaniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012 
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio 2010-2011; premiered at Concierto de música electroacústica, Auditorio Noel Werthein — Instituto de Tecnología ORT, Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 7, 2011; speech sampled: "Bodies upon gears," Mario Savio, Berkeley, December 2, 1964

SET FIVE
Mara Helmuth: Where is My Voice?
Experimental Music Studios (1958-2008) [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios
University of Illinois School of Music/2008
electroacoustic music: Mara Helmuth; poet/speaker: Steve Sunderland

David Behrman: Statement Against the War
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
speaker: Thomas Buckner; text: Siegfried Sassoon; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo; keyboards, electronics: David Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton

Christian Calon: Au travers du livre + Deuxième voyage 
Le Projet Ulysse
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
recorded/revised in Montreal 1996-2001; premiere: Werkstatt, Deutschlandradio Berlin, December 4, 1998
 
Heiner Goebbels:
a. Je ne voyage plus
b. Freight Train
Landscape with Distant Relatives
ECM New Series/2007
voice: David Bennett; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern with Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; a. text: Henri Michaux; b. traditional; recorded at Le Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers; Paris, October 2004

SINGLE PLAY
Frances White: Chōshi
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson 

Patrick Lenfant: Khem
Compendium International --Bourges 2006 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2006
electroacoustic music: Patrick Lenfant


R. Weis: Shimmer
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2012
samples and sampler: R. Weis

SINGLE PLAY
David Mooney: Screws in their Shoes
Rhythmiconic Sections
Arizona University Recordings/2005 
computer music: David Mooney

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