Martian Gardens for December 7 & 10, 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
December 7, 2014

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webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
Webcast date: December 10, 2014
Host: Max Shea

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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

SET ONE
Warren Burt: Beijing Winter Scene
Poems of Rewi Alley
Sonic Gallery/2006
reader: John Britton; electronic musical setting: Warren Burt; texts: Rewi Alley; recorded at Move Records Studio, Melbourne Australia Asia Foundation, 2006; total excerpts time: 2:06

Brian Eno: My Squelchy Life
Nerve Net
Warner Bros./1992
guitar, synthesizer, voice: Brian Eno; percussion: Benmont Tench, Sugarfoot Moffett; bass: Romeo Williams; processed voice: Neill Catchpole; speaking voices: Guy Barber, Maria Eno, Helen May, John May, John Moorby, Penny Moorby, Anita Petal, Rupel Petel, Sunita Patel, Yagish Petel, Sophia Rawlings, Joyce Robinson, mix: Markus Draws; recorded in London, 1991; time: 4:02

SET TWO 
Triple Point: 
a. Quartetto Telematico #1 (3:34)
b. Quartetto Telematico #2 (3:05)
c. Quartetto Telematico #3 (3:41)
Phase/Transitions
Pogus Productions/2014
Triple Point (Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Nort): electronics, sound systems; recorded at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 10:20

Fred Frith & Danielle Palardy Roger: Sala Nera
Pas de Deux
Ambiances Magnetiques/2008
electric guitar, voice, processing: Fred Frith; drums, percussion, voice: Daniel Palardy Roger; recorded in Montreal, 2007; time: 7:32

Fred Frith and John Butcher: Be Again, Be Again
The Natural Order
Northern Spy Records/2014
saxophones: John Butcher; electric guitar: Fred Frith; recorded at Guerilla Recordings, Oakland, California; October 11, 2009; time: 5:28

SET THREE
Fred Frith: 
a. Spot (4:38)
b. True Love (2:56)
c. I want it to be over (3:01)
Prints
Snapshots, Postcards, Messages and Miniatures 1987-2001
ReR Megacorp/2003
instruments, sound effects, voice: Fred Frith; a. recorded July 2001; b. recorded at Noise, New York City, 1987, backing voicals: Sheena Dupuis; c. recorded January 1997; text: Bill Clinton interviewed about Monica Lewinsky, January 27, 2001, samples: Escher loop, broken glass; selections revised and remixed at Jankowski Studio, Esslingen, Germany, July 2001; total time: 10:35

The Residents: Atomic Shopping Carts
Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats/The Census Taker
East Side Digital/1991 (orig. Ralph Records LP 1984)
time: 2:06

The Residents: Ghost Child
Demons Dance Alone
East Side Digital/2002
time: 2:53

The Legendary Pink Dots: Peace Krime 2
Prayer for Aradia
Terminal Kaleidoscope/1996  
Peace Krime 2 originally released on Chemical Playschool 1 & 2 (Mirrordot cassette/1981); samples: Margaret Thatcher, "Crime is crime is crime," etc.; time: 2:39

The Legendary Pink Dots: 
a. True Love (3:21)
b. The Peculiar Fun Fair (0:32)
Any Day Now
Play It Again Sam/1988 (orig. LP/1987)
recorded at Studio Klaverland, The Netherlands, 1987; total time: 3:53

Paul Dolden: 
a. The Saddle Song (3:52)
b. Who has the dreamiest melodies? (3:11)
Who Has the World's Biggest Sound?
Starkland/2014
instruments, electroacoustics, processing: Paul Dolden; recorded at the composer's studio, Val-Morin, Québec, 2005-2008; total excerpts time: 6:03

SET FOUR
Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies, parts I-V
I. (1:12)
II. 1:18)
III. (1:20)
IV. (1:04)
V. (1:03)
Correct Music
Populist Records/2012
violin: Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh; recorded at the home of Dr. William Rutherford, Mount Washington, California; composition year: 1982: total excerpts time: 5:58

Martin Bresnick: Going Home -- Vysoke, My Jerusalem
Prayers Remain Forever
Starkland/2014
(for oboe and string trio); Double Entendre (oboe: Christa Robinson; violin: Caleb Burhans; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Brian Snow); recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University, composition year: 2010

SET FIVE
Lou Harrison: The Only Jealousy of Emer
a. Music for the unfolding of the cloth (1:47)
b. Eithne Inguba (1:31)
c. Emer's Story (1:09)
d. The Evil of Bricriu (1:57)
e. Emer's Incarnation (0:53)
f. The Woman of the Sidhe (2:29)
g. Music for the unfolding of the cloth (1:47)
Works 1939-2000
Mode Records/2003
flute, alto flute: Leta Miller; cello: Karen Andrie; bass: Stan Poplin; tack piano: Jodi Gandolfi; celesta: Michael McGushin; conductor: Nicole Paiement; recorded at the recital hall of the University of California, Santa Cruz;  2001; composition year: 1949 (music for W.B. Yeats' play); total time: 11:33

Harry Partch: Ring Around the Moon -- A Dance for Here and Now
a. Phase One: Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!) (2:48)
b. Phase Two: One, two, three, four -- X,Y, Zee (2:12)
c. Phase Three: Shake hands now, boys,  and at the sound of the bell come out fighting! (2:55)
d. Phase Four: Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoit toity...(Look out! He's Got a gun!) (1:26)
[Movement II from Plectra and Percussion Dances -- Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater]
Plectra and Percussion Dances
An Evening of Dance Theater
Bridge Records/2014
PARTCH ensemble (ingredients may include -- diamond marimba, Eroica, cymbal: Erin Barnes; voice: Paul Berkoids; kithara: Alison Bjorkedahl; canon, surrogate kiethara, Eroica: Matt Cook; cloud chamber bowls, chromelodeon: David Johnson; saxophone: Ulrich Krieger; percussion: Yumi Lee; canon: Tom Peters; guitars, canons: John Schneider; adapted viola: Derek Stein; bowls, bass marimba, Eroica, fight bell: Nick Terry; bass marimba, voice: T.J. Roy; guitar, canons: Alex Wand); recorded at Disney Hall/Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, June 9, 2013; composition years: 1949-1950; total time: 9:20

Harry Partch: Comments by Harry Partch
a. I am Harry Partch (0:24)
b. Life is too precious to spend it with important people (1:29)
c. You are charged with being guilty. Are you drunk or not drunk? (1:07)
Enclosures 2
Historic Speech Recordings from the Harry Partch Archives
Innova Recordings/1995
speaker: Harry Partch; a. recorded in Gualala, California, 1950; b. excerpt from an interview, recorded May 30, 1970; c. Introduction to Plectra and Percussion Dances, recorded at KPFA, Berkeley, November 19, 1953; total time: 3:00 

SET SIX
Takayuki Rai: Sparkle
IMEB Opus 30 - 1984 -- 1999, Volume 2 (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2003
(electroacoustic music); bass clarinet: Harry Sparnaay; realized at GMEB/IMEB, Bourges, France, 1988; time: 10:07 

Kaija Saariaho:NoaNoa
Electro Acoustic Music III (various artists)
Neuma Records/1990
(electroacoustic music); flute: Camilla Hoitenga; composition year: 1991; time: 10:39

SET SEVEN
Pauline Oliveros: Duo for Accordeon and Bandoneon with Possible Mynah Bird Obbligato
Music from the Tudorfest
San Francisco Tape Music Center 196
New World Records/2014
accordion: Pauline Oliveros; bandoneon: David Tudor; with Ahmed the mynah bird; recorded April 6, 1964, at the San Francisco Tape Music Center; composition years: 1963-1964; time: 16:45

Jeffrey Zeigler: Babel (The Confusion of Tongues) (J. Zorn)
Something of Life
Innova Recordings/2014 
composer: John Zorn; cello: Jeffrey Zeigler; recorded at Studio G, Brooklyn, April 1-2, 2014; composition year: 2013; time: 4:51

SET EIGHT
Ron Nagorcka: Collurcincla Harmonica
Atomic Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
composition Ron Nagorcka; fretless electric guitar: Larry Polansky; electronic keyboards: Hans Meijer; grey shrike thrush song recorded by Ron Nagorcka, Tasmania, composition year: 1998; time: 4:06

Warren Burt: Portrait of John Chalmers
Harmonic Colour Fields (1996-97)
Pogus Productions/2003
microtonal computer music: Warren Burt; time: 10:25


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