Martian Gardens for 5/13/2012

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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 May 13, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--02:10 May 13-14, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Ethel: Early That Summer (J. Wolfe)
Heavy
Innova Recordings/2012
Ethel String Quartet -- violin: Cornelius Dufalo, Mary Rowell; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson; recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ, February 2011

SET ONE
Vivian Adelberg Rudow: With Love
Vivian Adelberg Rudow/2004
cello cases (prepared tape), electronics, samples: V.A. Rudow; cello: Paula Skolnick-Virizlay

Roxanne Turcotte: Méres et Monde (Mothers of the World)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized in 2003 at the composer’s studio (Productions RTM), and premiered on June 10, 2003 during Synthèse, the 33rd Bourges International Electronic Music and Creation Festival (France)

SET TWO
Beth Anderson: Torero Piece
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voices: Beth and Marjorie Anderson

Laurie Anderson: O Superman (for Massenet)
Big Science
Warner Bros/1982
voice, Vocoder, electronics: Laurie Anderson; Farfisa organ, Casio: Roma Baran; flute, saxophone: Perry Hoberman

Charles Dodge: We Are Reading the Story of Our Lives
Synthesized Voices
CRI/1976
from "The Story of Our Lives" (1973-74) realized at Columbia University Center for Computing Activities and Nevis Laboratories, Columbia University, 1974

SET THREE
Jill Summers: Apricot Wensleydale
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
voice, text, music: Jill Summers

Susan Stone: Ruby's Story
The Time is Now (Fiction by Melody Sumner Carnahan)
[various artists]
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, music: Susan Stone; text: M.S. Carnahan (Burning Books publishing)

Robert Ashley: Ingrid
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
from "Au Pair," voices, text: Jacqueline Humbert, Robert Ashley; electronic music: Robert Ashley, Tom Hamilton

SET FOUR
John Rahn: The New Mother (excerpts)
a. Overture
b. Not Bad Enough
JKR Pass 3 -- Music for Jim Randall's 75th Birthday by his friends
[various artists]
Open Space Magazine/2007
electronic music:  John Rahn

Pauline Oliveros: Big Mother is Watching (excerpt)
Electronic Works 1965-66
Paradigm Discs/1997
electronic music: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the San Francisco Tape Music Center, 1966

Diane Labrosse: Unisson Duet
Musicworks 100 [various artists]
Musicworks Magazine/2008
sampling: Diane Labrosse, treatments: Michel F. Côté

SET FIVE
Arie Shapira: Euridice's Travels
Spring 2012 CD-R
Arie Shapira/2012
Ensemble Meitar with processed tenor and female voices; text: Bat-Sheva Shapira

Noah Creshevsky: Lisa Barnard Redux
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
voice: Lisa Barnard-Kelly; electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky

Meredith Monk:
a. Cry #1
b. Cry #2
Volcano Songs
ECM Records/1997
a. from "Volcano Songs: Duets" (1993), voices: Meredith Monk, Katie Gessinger; b. from "Volcano Songs: Solos" (1994), voice: Meredith Monk; recorded at Clinton Studios, New York City, July 1995

SET SIX
Ralf Nuhn: Staccato Death/Life
Cultures électroniques -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2005
electroacoustic music: Ralf Nuhn

Scott A. Wyatt: Night Visitors
Music from SEAMUS Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2003 
electroacoustic music: Scott Wyatt 

Priscilla McLean: Night Images
The McLean Mix & The Golden Age of Electronic Music
[Barton McLean/Priscilla McLean]
CRI/1997
synthesizers: Priscilla McLean

Herbert Brün: U-TURN-TO
SAWDUST Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
computer music: Herbert Brün 

SET SEVEN
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 1
Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
music for two variable speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano and cymbal; performed by Joey Van Hassel

Iannis Xenakis: Morsima-Amorsima
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
Callithumpian Consort; conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, June 11, 2008

John Luther Adams: Notquitespringdawn
Songbird Songs
Mode Records/2012
Callithumpian Consort; conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, October 3, 2006

SET EIGHT
Pierre Schaeffer: L'oiseau RAI
L'oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
performed on the antenna of Radio Paris IV, May 6, 1951

Pete Stollery: Scénes, rendez-vous
Scénes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
sounds recorded along the Parisian racecourse of Claude Lelouch's C’était un rendez-vous (1976), realized in June, 2006, premiered at Reid Concert Hall, University of Edinburgh, October 28, 2006

SET NINE 
Gerald Bennett: Im Eismeer
Gerald Bennett
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2008
electroacoustic music: Gerald Bennet

Ivan Elezovic: Do You Remember?
Wavefields [various artists]
Experimental Music Studios University of Illinois/2005
electroacoustic music: Ivan Elezovic 

Meredith Monk: Memory Song
Do You Be
ECM New Series/1987
voices: Meredith Monk, Andrea Goodman, Naaz Hosseini; keyboards: Nurit Tilles, Wayne Hankin; violin: Naaz Hosseini

SET TEN 
Alvin Curran:
a. Z Train
b. Little Him -- Lo Main
c. For Giacinto
Electric Rags II
New Albion Records/1990
electronics: Alvin Curran; synthesizer: Scot Gresham-Lancaster; Rova Saxophone Quartet (baritone and alto: John Rashkin; tenor and sopranino: Larry Ochs; alto and soprano: Steve Adams; soprano: Bruce Ackley); recorded live at Life on the Water, San Francisco, 1989

Kyle Bruchmann: On Procedural Grounds
On Procedural Grounds
New World Records/2012
Wrack ensemble (oboe: Kyle Bruchmann; viola: Jen Clare Paulson; bass clarinet: Jason Stein; contrabass: Anton Hatwich; percussion: Timothy Daisy), Rova Saxophone Quartet; live electronics: Gino Robair, Tim Perkis; recorded at Guerrilla Audio, Oakland, October 3, 2010

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