Martian Gardens for March 17-18, 2013

MARTIAN GARDENS
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March 10, 2013

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March 11, 2013 Host: Max Shea
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PLAYLIST

SINGLE PLAY
 John Cage: Roaratorio -- An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
a. Part Two (16:14)
b. Part Four (3:13)
Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier; voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; texts: James Joyce; premiered at West German Radio, Cologne, October 22, 1979; composition year: 1979

SET ONE 
Tim Brady: Roche noire (Chronique Irlandaise) [R. Lussier)
Imaginary Guitars
Justin Time/1995
composer: René Lussier  electric guitar: Tim Brady; electric bass, tapes: René Lussier; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; tapes, soundscapes: Claude Beaugrand; commentary: Grace Adaline Bamford-Brady, Frank Patrick Brady; "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" sung by the Right Honorable Brian Mulroney; recorded at Studio 270, Outremont, Quebec, 1992; composition years: 1991-1992; time: 10:34

Arturo Parra: L'envers du temps [R. Normandeau]
Parr(A)cousmatique 
Empreintes Digitales/2003
composer: Robert Normandeau; guitar: Arturo Parra; acousmatic music: Robert Normandeau; premiered at Victoriaville, Quebec, May 15, 1998; time: 10:18

SET TWO
Tim Brady: selections from Atacama -- Symphonie No. 3
a. Movement 3: Funeral Descalzo (4:35)
b. Movement 4: Telegrama (5:24)
Atacama -- Symphonie No. 3
Atmaclassique/2012
electric guitar: Tim Brady; performed by Bradyworks with Vivavoce, conductor: Peter Schubert; texts: Elías Letelier-Ruz; recorded at the Concert Hall of the Conservatory of Music of Montreal, June 2012

Sonic Youth + I.C.P. + The Ex: VI
In The Fishtank -- 9
Konkurrent/2002
electric guitars: Lee Ranaldo, Terrie Ex, Thurston Moore; bass guitar: Luc Ex; percussion: William Winant; drums: Han Bennink, Steve Shelley; reeds: Ab Baars; trombone: Wolter Wierbos; recorded at E-Sound Studio in Weesp, Holland, June 2001; time: 3:02

David Starobin: Berceuse bas de gamme (Cheap Lullaby)
The $100 Guitar Project [various artists]
Bridge Records/2013
the $100 guitar: David Starobin; time: 3:15

Leo Ciesa: Beyond the Red
Coat of Arms
Soundyard/2013
solo drum kit: Leo Ciesa; time: 3:01

SET THREE
Christian Wolff: Rosas
a. No. 1 (1:31)
b. No. 2 (3:17)
c. No. 3 (1:22)
d. No. 4 (1:36)
e. No. 5 (3:25)
8 Duos
New World Records/2013
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky; piano: Frederic Rzewski; recorded at Robyn Schulkowsky's studio, Berlin, 2011-2012; composition year: 1990

Alarm Will Sound: selections from Canzonas Americanas (D. Bermel)
a. I. El Dude (5:44)
b. III. Montuno Blue (5:11)
Canzonas Americanas
Cantaloupe Music/2012
composer: Derek Bermel; Alarm Will Sound, conductor: Alan Pierson; composition year: 2010    

SET FOUR
Joane Hétu: 
a. Fragment Territoire (1:19)
b. Enthousiasme (4:31)
La Femme Territoire ou 21 Fragments d'Humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
voice, objects, melodica, conductor: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; accordion, voice: Alice Tougas-St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; percussion, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; text: Constantin Cavafy; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2011

John Schneider: Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales (H. Partch)
a. Study on Olympos' Pentatonic (1:14)
b. Study on Archytas' Enharmonie (2:28)
Just West Coast
Bridge Records/1993
composer: Harry Partch: Just Strings -- guitar: John Schneider; harp: Amy Shulman; recorded at Studio A, KPFK FM, Los Angeles, winter 1993; composition years: 1946-1950

PARTCH: Castor [excerpt] (H. Partch)
CD-R 2008
ensemble PARTCH, director: John Schneider; recorded live at Mills College, Oakland; composition year: 1952; excerpt time: 1:56

Lou Harrison: Gending Ptolemy (from Scenes from Cavafy)
Scenes from Cavafy
New World Records/2010
Gamelan Pacifica, director: Jarrad Powell voice: John Duykers; text: Constantin Cavafy; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010; composition years: 1979-1980; time: 6:14

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot!
XI Records/2011
ambient arctic sounds: Charlie Morrow; composition year: 1997; time: 3:28

David Barnes: Nocturne
Axiom
DavidBarnesMusic/2013
sampler (kalimbas, temple bells), violas, piano, tubulon, synthesizer; flutes: Matt Somolis; time: 5:51

Howard Skempton:
a. Starlight (1:22)
b. Music, when soft voices die (1:20)
Bolt from the Blue
Mode Records/2010
a. piano: Daniel Becker; b. EXAUDI choir, director: James Weeks; text: Percy Bysshe Shelley; recorded at St. Silas, Chalk Farm, London, September 26, 2007; composition years: a. 1996, b. 1992

SINGLE PLAY
Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi: Confetti Variations (T. Lopez)
Here (and there)
Innova Recordings/2013
piano: Jeri-Mae G. Astolfi; fixed media: Tom Lopez, realized at TIMARA Studios, Oberlin, Ohio, 2012; composition year: 2012; time: 18:09

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Lopez: Hollow Ground II (excerpt)
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 7 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1998
soprano: Larisa Montanaro; fixed media: Tom Lopez; realized at Studio III at the University of Texas, Austin, 1996; composition year: 1996; excerpt time: 3:45

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