Martian Gardens for November 16 & 19, 2014

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
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Sundays live broadcast/webcast
9:00 p.m. -- 12:00 a.m. EST
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Amherst, Massachusetts
November 12, 2014

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webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: November 19, 2014
Host: Max Shea

online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SINGLE PLAY 
Robert Normandeau: Bédé
a. The Realm of Childhood
b. The Valley of Phantoms
c. In Search of the Voice
Tangram
empreintes DIGITALes/1994
electroacoustics: R. Normandeau; voice: Marie-Hélène Blain; produced at Normandeau's studio, Montreal, and GRM Paris, 1990; time: 2:56

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Jorge Antunes: Elegia Violeta para Monsenhor Romero
!No Se Mata La Justicia!
Sistrum/2003 (orig. LP/1981)
(for two female child soloists, children's choir, piano obliggato, and chamber orchestra); soloists: Hagit Shapira, Ruth Halifa; Children's Choir Kibbutz Hatzerim and the Conservatory of Music in Beer-Sheva; piano obliggato: Mariuga Lisbôa Antunes; The Israel Sinfonietta, conductor: Jorge Antunes; texts: Che Guevara, Vassili Vassilikos, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Psalms, Archbishop Romero; composition year: 1980; time: 21:08

SINGLE PLAY
Luigi Nono: Dialectical Counterpoint to the Mind
I. The Pleasant Modern Crime -- Malcolm
II. Masquerade of the Little Old Men -- Interlude of the Breath-Sellers
III. The Scatterbrains Sing a Madrigal  
IV. Uncle Sam Tells a Story
Como una ola de fuerza y luz/Sofferte Onde Serene/Cantrappunto dialettico alla mente
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
(for soprano, choir, and magnetic tape); soprano: Liliana Poli; voices: Cadigia Bove, Marisa Mazzoni, Elena Vicini, Umberto Troni; Coro de camera della RAI, Roma, director: Nino Antonelli; texts: I. Sonia Sanchez, II, III, Nanni Balestrini, IV. pamphlet from the Harlem Progressive Labor Club; recorded at Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A, Rome, Italy; composition year: 1968; time: 19:51

SET ONE
Françoise Berrière: Java Rosa (Printemps)
Le Saisons (GMEB 1972 -- IMEB 2002) (various artists)
IMEB/2003
electroacoustic music: Françoise Berrière; realized at Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges, 1972; time: 17:40

Daniel Leduc: from Le voyage d'hiver
a. Good Night (2:03)
b. The Weathervane (1:39)
c. Frozen Tears (0:34)
d. Numbness (1:05)
e.  The Linden Tree (1:18)
Le voyage d'hiver
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
electroacoustic music realized  the at the composer’s studio and in the studio of the Secteur électroacoustique of the Faculté de musique of Université de Montreal, 1995-1997; texts: Wilhelm Müller, "Die Winterreise," reciter: Erwin Potitt; total excerpts time: 6:30

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Wendy Carlos: Fall
Sonic Seasonings
East Side Digital/1998 (orig. Columbia LP/1972)
synthesizers, electronics, processing: Wendy Carlos; production: Rachel Elkind; composition year: 1972; time: 21:06

SET TWO
Roger Reynolds: Summer Island
The Paris Pieces
Neuma Records/1996
(for oboe and computer-generated tape); oboe: Jacqueline Leclair; recorded at Brooks Concert Hall, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 30, 1995; composition year: 1984; time: 11:28

Eleanor Hovda: Record of an Ocean Cliff
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
(for oboe and electric guitar); oboe: Libby Van Cleve; electric guitar: Jack Vees; recorded at St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, New York City, 1994; time: 9:04

SET THREE
John Cage: Music Walk
The Piano Works I
Mode Records/1995
piano, objects, radios: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts, March 1993; composition year: 1958; time: 10:53

David Tudor: Pepscillator
The Art of David Tudor 1963 - 1992 (boxed set)
New World Records/2013
(for live electronics); live electronics: David Tudor;  recorded at the Pepsi Pavillion, Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, 1970; time: 11:37

SET FOUR
Fred Frith and John Butcher: Faults of his Feet
The Natural Order
Northern Spy Records/2014
soprano and tenor saxophones: John Butcher; electric guitar: Fred Frith; Recorded at Guerrilla Recordings, Oakland, California, October 2009; time: 6:27

Quartet for the End of Space: Mercury Retrograde (P. Oliveros)
Quartet for the End of Space
Pogus Productions/2011
Expanded Instrument System delay lines and modulations, ViMic, sound geometries: Pauline Oliveros, QftEoS; recorded at RPI, Troy, New York, and the Deep Listening Institute, Kingston, New York, 2010

Pauline Oliveros: Primordial/Lift (Excerpt)*
Primordial/Lift
Deep Listening/2006
accordion, electronics, voice: Pauline Oliveros; electronics, toy piano: Andrew Deutsch; electric violin, ring modulator: Tony Conrad; cello, voice: Andrew Bourne; electric cello: Alexandria Gelencser; harmonium: David Grubbs; low frequency oscillator: David Olson; editing, mixing, mastering: Andrew Deutsch, Stephen Vitiello; recorded at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York, 1998; total excerpt time: 5:00

*TAINT Radio version only

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