Martian Gardens for February 8 & 11, 2015

MARTIAN GARDENS
 
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February 8, 2015

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webcast: Wednesdays 6:00 p.m. -- 9:00 p.m. EST
February 11, 2015
Host: Max Shea

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

SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Newman & Rick Cox: A Well Staring at the Sky
35 Whirlpools Below Sound
Cold Blue Music/2014
instruments, electronics, field recordings; Thomas Newman, Rick Cox; recorded at Deep Sleep and SnakeHouse Studios, Pacific Palisades, California; time: 3:20

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds:
a. It was because of evil that the Furies were born... (2:22) 
b. Process and Passion (22:14)
Complete Cello Works
Mode Records/2014
a. reader: Roger Reynolds; text: Aeschylus, "Song of the Furies";  recorded at the University of California San Diego Music Department Studios, September 2014;  b. (for violin, cello, and computer processed sound) cello: Alexis Descharmes, violin: Nicholas Maribel; electronics: Frédéric Voisin; recorded at the Auditorium of the Paris Conservatoire, November 15, 2013; composition year: 2002; total time: 24:36

SET ONE
Paul Panhuysen and The Galvanos:
a. Long Strings (4:09)
b. Humming (4:46)
Lost for Words
Table of the Elements/1999
long string instrument, electronics, processing: Paul Panhuysen; recorded at Het Apolluis, Eindoven, The Netherlands, 1997; total time: 8:55

In memory of Paul Panhuysen (August 21, 1934 - January 29, 2015) 

Ellen Fullman: Never Gets Out of Me
Through Glass Panes
Important Records/2011
long string instrument: Ellen Fullman; cello: Henna Chou, Theresa Wong; violin: Travis Weller; time: 10:26

SET TWO
Robert Normandeau: Kuppel
Dômes
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
electroacoustic music realized at the studios of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM, Germany) and in the composer’s studio in Montreal. 2005, 2006; premiered at trans_canada_release, ZKM_Kubus (Karlsruhe, Germany), December 9, 2006; revised at the composer's studio, Montreal, 2014; time: 17:49

Vertical Squirrels: This is Not (What this Is)
Time of the Sign
Ambiances Magnetiques/2014
guitars, percussion, synthesizer: Daniel Fischilin; piano, melodica: Ajay Heble; bass, baritone saxophone, pedal steel guitar, percussion; Lewis Melville; percussion: Ted Warren;  recorded in Ontario, Canada (Toronto, Guelph, Hamilton), June 2012; time: 3:59

SET THREE 
R. Weis: Parrot & Paperback, Part I
Parrot & Paperback
R. Weis/2015
musique concrete sourced from Congo the African Grey Parrot and a paperback book (about the Congo jungle) dropping on the floor; time: 3:14

Gen Ken Montgomery: Birds & Machines (Bird Suite)
Birds + Machines 1980 - 1989
Pogus Productions/2010
noises, electronics, processing: Gen Ken Montgomery; recorded in New York City, 1989; time: 8:05

Ron Nagorcka: Pied Butcherbird (from the Artamidae suite)
Atom Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
fretless electric guitar, mandolin: Larry Polansky; trombone; Joe Cook; flute, piccolo: Jennie McDonald; clarinet, bass clarinet: Karlin Love; MIDI keyboard, didgiridoo: Ron Nagorcka; conductor: Marta Mumford; composition year: 2012; time: 5:00

Sarah Peebles: Insect Groove
Insect Groove
Cycling '74/2002
electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; altered electric guitar, Boomerang, Whammy 2, processors; Max software, Sample Cell 1 & 2 editing; Unity DS-1 sampler, shō: S. Peebles; composition: 2002; time: 6:02

SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: Boone Bog (1st 1/2)
Reverberations -- Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 (boxed set)
Important Records/2014
realized at the Mills Tape Music Center, Mills College, Oakland, 1966-1967; excerpt time: 16:30

David Tudor: Rainforest (1968) (excerpt)
David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
live electronics performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Teatro Novo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 30, 1968; excerpt time: 5:00

 SINGLE PLAY
Robert Erickson: Pacific Sirens
Pacific Sirens
New World Records/2003
Cleveland Chamber Symphony, conductor: Edwin London, recorded at Waetjen Auditorium, Cleveland, April 8, 2001 (electronically treated tape recorded at Pescadero Beach, California, 1969); composition year: 1969; time: 14:00

SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Rituals Do Matter
Electroacoustic Music Volume VI (various artists)
Electroshock Records/2000
electroacoustic music: Carey Nutman; composition year: 1998; time: 11:15

Samuel Pellman: Perelandra (Venus)
Selected Planets
Innova Recordings/2003
computer music: Samuel Pellman; realized at the Studio for Contemporary Music, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York; time: 11:28

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