Martian Gardens for February 17-18, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
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Amherst, Massachusetts
February 17, 2013

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February 18, 2013 Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PLAYLIST

SET ONE
Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Summer Phantoms -- Nocturne
Here (And There)
Innova Recordings/2013
composer/fixed media: Brian Belet; piano: Jeri-Mae Astolfi; recorded at Left Edge Studio, Campbell, California, summer 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 11:06

Kristi McGarity: So many days to be here
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 12 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2003
electroacoustic music: Kristi McGarity; composition year: 2002; time: 10:20

SET TWO
Frances White: The Ocean Inside
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
Eighth Blackbird (alto flute: Tim Munro; clarinet: Michael J. Maccaferri; violin: Matt Albert; cello: Nicholas Photinos; piano: Lisa Kaplan; percussion: Matthew Duvall), with electronics; composition year: 2007; time: 14:35

Heather O'Donnell: The missing nail at the river
Responses to Ives
Mode Records/2009
composer: Walter Zimmermann; piano, toy piano: Heather O'Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, January 2008; composition year: 2006; time: 5:50

SET THREE
Leo Kupper: Paroles sur Langue*
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
bass-baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; electronic processing: Leo Kupper; recorded at Studio de Recherches, Brussels; composition year: 2006; time: 8:06
* intended for last week's program, but ran out of time

Morton Subotnick: Until Spring (Beginning) (Side One)
Electronic Works Volume. 2
Mode Records/2004
synthesizer, four-channel tape recorded in 1975; remastered by Morton Subotnick; time: 15:01

SET FOUR
Robyn Schulkowsky:
a. Armadillo Part II (5:05)
b. Armadillo Part III (5:29)
Armadillo
New World Records/2012
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; drums: Fredy Studer; drums: Joey Baron; recorded in Poggiolo, Italy, and Zürich, Switzerland, 2006-2009; composition years: 1990-2007

Joey Baron: Unleashing the Dobermans
Raised Pleasure Dot
New World Records/1994
drums: Joey Baron; tenor saxophone: Ellery Eskelin; trombone: Steve Swell; recorded at Sear Sound, New York City, February 1993; time: 2:14

Laurie Anderson:
a. Muddy River (3:02)
b. In Our Sleep (2:31)
Bright Red/Tight Rope
Warner Bros./1994
vocals, keyboards: Laurie Anderson, drums: Joey Baron; backing vocals: Phil Ballou (a); surdo bass drum, tambourine: Cyro Baptista (b.); keyboards, drum treatments: Brian Eno (b.), guitar: Gerry Leonard (b.), vocals, guitar: Lou Reed (b.); recorded at the Lobby, New York City

SET FIVE
The $100 Guitar Project, selections:
a. Ken Field: Sonic Wrubble (1:51)
b. Nick Didkovsky: Feeble Little Weakling (0:18)
c. Mark Stewart: Hum! Scratch!! Rub!!! (2:56)
d. Taylor Levine: Fish Eye (2:15)
e. Nick Didkovsky: A Fire in God's Path (0:40)
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013

Joseph Byrd: Prelude to "The Mystery Cheese-Ball"
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
balloons: members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble; recorded at Mission Sound, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 2012; composition year: 1961; time: 3:41

Judy Dunaway: Champaign in Mexico City -- Fragment Set #1
Balloon Music
CRI/1998
balloons: Judy Dunaway; electronics: Dan Evans Farkas; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, composition year: 1997; time: 5:13

Steven Ricks: Ossifying (Keeping us from)
Ricksmusic CD-R (2013)
time: 3:15

Mary Ellen Childs: Dessication
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2013
clarinets: Pat O'Keefe; violin: Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ultan; percussion: Peter O'Gorman; recorded at WildSound Studio, Minneapolis, 2011; composition year: 2011; time: 1:48

SET SIX
NON/Boyd Rice: Seven Sermons to the Dead
Back to Mono
Mute Records/2012
music by NON; text: Carl Jung; recorded live in New York City, 2009; time: 3:25

Test Dept: More of Everything
Materia Prima
Invisible/2001
recorded live in Europe, 1986-1988, specifics unspecified; time: 6:57

Endless Pie: Galileo Uses Propaganda
Endless Pie
pfMENTUM/2012
trumpet, flugelhorn, voice, electronics: Jeff Kaiser; prepared piano: Phil Skaller; recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego, November 2010; time: 6:07

Damon Holzborn: If we're all going to get it
Trummerflora -- Rubble 1 (Trummerflora Collective)
Accretions/2004
sound collage: Damon Holzborn; time: 3:30

SINGLE PLAY
Charles Dodge: The Waves
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
New Albion Records/1992
soprano: Joan La Barbara;  text: Virginia Woolf; computer synthesis: Charles Dodge, John Stautner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; composition year: ?; time: 12:42


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