Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Martian Gardens Episode 868 (December 8-9, 2016)

Host: Max Shea 
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PLAYLIST 

Hour I

SET ONE
Roger Kleier: We Speak of Deep Night
Deep Night, Deep Autumn
Starkland Records/2001
electric guitars, processing: Roger Kleier; recorded at Harvestworks/PASS Studios, Master Element Studios, December 1998; composition year: 1998; time: 8:36

Annie Gosfield: The Harmony of the Body-Machine
Lost Signals and Drifting Satellites
Tzadik/2004
cello: Joan Jeanrenaud; electronics: Annie Gosfield; recorded at Different Fur Recording, San Francisco, December, 2003; composition year: 2003; time: 13:14

SET TWO
Alvin Lucier: Counting People
from Three Translations of the Works of Maurizio Mochetti
Two Circles
Mode Records/2016
(for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano); Alter Ego -- flute: Manuel Zurria; clarinet: Paolo Ravaglia; violin: Aldo Campagnari; cello: Francesco Dillon; piano: Oscar Pizzo); recorded at Studio Acusticum, Piteå, Sweden, composition year: 2008; time: 3:54

Alvin Lucier: Fideliotrio
Wind Shadows
New World Records/2005
members of the Barton Workshop (viola: Mariecke Keser; cello: Judith Van Swaay; piano: Frank Denyer); recorded at the Bethanienklooster, Amsterdam, June 12, 2003; composition year: 1987; time: 12:03

SET THREE
Frank Denyer: Out of the Shattered Shadows I
Faint Traces -- Chamber Works 1973-2001
Mode Records/2005
members of the Barton Workshop -- flutes: Jos Zwaanenburg; spinet & harmonium: Catherine Laws; banjo: Alan Thomas; percussion: Damien Harron; recorded at Dartington Hall, UK, July 7, 2000; composition year: 1996; time: 13:43

Morton Feldman: Projection V
Composing by Numbers -- The Graphic Scores 1950-1967
Mode Records/2005
The Barton Workshop, conductor: James Fulkerson; recorded at the Hilversum Conservatorium, Hilversum, The Netherlands; composition year: 1951; time: 2:27

Hour II

SET FOUR
Lisa Bielawa: Wait
The Lay of Love
Innova Recordings/2015
piano: Evelyne Luest; drone: Adam Abeshouse; voice: Lisa Bielawa; text: Aleksandr Pushkin (Eugene Onegin), recorded at the Recital Hall, SUNY Purchase, 2007; composition year: 2002; time: 7:31

Somei Satoh: Kisetsu
From the Depth of Silence
Mode Records/2004
baritone: Thomas Buckner; The Janáček Philharmonic, conductor: Petr Kotik; recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic, May 16, 2002; composition year: 1999; time: 14:22

SET FIVE
David Starobin: Variations on a theme by Carl Nielsen, "Underlige Aftenlufte" (W. Bland)
New Music with Guitar, Volume 10 (various composers)
Bridge Records/2016
guitar: David Starobin; piano: Vassily Primakov; recorded at Carl Nielsen Concert Hall, Odense, Denmark, December 2011; composer: William Bland; composition year: 2010; time: 15:02

James Moore & Andie Springer: Look Like (J. Moore)
Gertrudes (various composers)
New World Records/2015
resonator guitar: James Moore; violin: Andie Springer; recorded at Future-Past Studios, 2015, composition year: 2014; time: 3:02

SET SIX
Andrew Cyrille Quartet: Kaddish
The Declaration of Musical Independence
ECM Records/2016
guitar: Bill Frisell; recorded at Brooklyn Recordings, July 2014; composer: Bill Frisell; time: 5:10

Tim Brady: Chromatics, Harmonics, Recidivist Thirds, and Pulsing Fifths
Playing Guitar -- Symphony #1, Movement 5.1
Playing Guitar: Symphony #1
Ambiances Magnetiques/2004
solo guitar: Tim Brady; recorded at Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University, Montreal, June 2, 2003; time: 5:57

Hour III

SET SEVEN
Philip Mantione: Dusk
Drainage Music
Scattered Music/2004
music for Drainage (interactive mechanical art installation; sound: Philip Mantione; video: Alysse Stephanian); composition year: 2004; time: 8:58

Ensemble SuerMusique: Tempest (J. Rea)
Jeux de pistes
Ambiances Magnetiques/2016
Ensemble SuperMusique, director: Joane Hétu; recorded at the Amphithéâtre du Gesù, Montreal, April 8, 2016; composer: John Rea; composition year: 1969; time: 11:53

SET EIGHT
Natasha Barrett: Glacial Loop (Microclimates III)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
field recordings from Briksdal glacier, Stryn, Norway; April 2007; time: 5:48

Jonty Harrison: Going/Places (Parts 6-8)
a. Subterranean glacial activities, Sólheimajökull glacier; resonating radio cables, Snæfellsnes peninsula, Iceland (2:09) 
b. Sounds from the Kuranda Scenic Railway, Queensland, Australia (3:23) 
c. Geothermal pools, Seltún, Iceland, and Rotorua, New Zealand (2:07) 
Voyages
empreintes DIGITALes/2015
electroacoustic music on 32-track tape; premiered at hcmf// 2015: 16. Jonty Harrison, Phipps Concert Hall, University of Huddersfield, UK, November 25, 2015; total selections time: 7:49

Annea Lockwood: Fridingen to Ulm
A Sound Map of The Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
field recordings: Annea Lockwood (Fridingen, sheep shearing, May 1, 2002; Beuron, May 2, 2002; Ulm, Blau tributary, May 4, 2002; Münster bells, May 5, 2002); time: 7:20

SET NINE
Tod Dockstader: Two Fragments from Apocalypse
a. First Fragment (3:05)
b. Second Fragment (3:00)
Apocalypse
Starkland/1993
musique concrète (sound sources: spring, switch arcs, metal plate, electrical generator, bell-tree, piano, voice): Tod Dockstader; composition year: 1961; total time: 6:05

Delia Derbyshire: Science and Health
BBC Radiophonic Workshop -- A Retrospective (various artists)
The Grey Area -- BBC Music/2008
electronic music: Delia Derbyshire; composition year: 1964; time: 0:55

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