Martian Gardens for 8/02/2009

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for August 2, 2009
Extended edition 21:00--01:45

Part I

In Memoriam Merce Cunningham
(April 16, 1919--July 26, 2009)

SET ONE
Laurie Anderson: Cunningham Stories (At the age of twelve...)
A Chance Operation -- The John Cage Tribute #
Koch International Classics/1996
text: J. Cage; music: L. Anderson

John Cage/David Tudor: Story # 14
Indeterminacy -- New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music
Smithsonian/ Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)

Laurie Anderson:
a. Cunningham Stories (Merce Cunningham Phoned his Mother...)
b. Cunningham Stories (Every Morning...)
A Chance Operation -- The John Cage Tribute #
Koch International Classics/1996
text: J. Cage; music: L. Anderson

John Cage/David Tudor: Story # 50
Indeterminacy -- New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and
Electronic Music
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)

Laurie Anderson: Cunningham Stories (The Cunningham Company...)
A Chance Operation -- The John Cage Tribute
Koch International Classics/1996
text: J. Cage; music: L. Anderson

Sigur Ros: Di Do
Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
Geffen Records/2004
For the Merce Cunningham dance "Split Sides" (2003)

SET TWO
John Cage: Cartridge Music (excerpt)
Music for Merce Cunningham -- Five Stone Wind/Cartridge Music
Mode Records/1991
phonograph cartridges and amplified small objects: Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese, David Tudor; realization: D. Tudor, September 1988, Paris, for the dance "Changing Steps"

John Cage: Five Stone Wind (excerpt)
ibid.
amplified violin, live electronics, bamboo flute: T. Kosugi; clay pots, tapes: M. Pugliese;
live electronics: D. Tudor; recorded May, 1989, Washington D.C. for the dance
"Five Stone Wind" (1988)

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Four (3) (excerpt)
Mode Records/1995
violin and rainsticks: Ami Flammer; piano and rainsticks: Martine Joste; piano and rainsticks: Dominique Alchourroun; rainsticks: Jean Michaut; recorded at Radio France, Paris, January, 1994, for Merce Cunningham's dance "Beach Birds" (1991)

SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Rainforest
David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
Live electronics by D. Tudor and G. Mumma performed 7/30/1968 with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Teatro Novo, Rio di Janeiro

SINGLE PLAY
Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta: Short Waves 1985
Digital Music
Mode Records/1990
For Merce Cunningham's dance "Fabrications" (composed 1985, dance premiered in
Minneapolis, 2/21/1987)

SINGLE PLAY
Mark Applebaum: The Bible Without God (tracks 8 -13)
a. Keys, Strings, and Pencils
b. Circulation
c. Wristwatch: Geology
Innova Recordings/2006
Mousketier, live electronics: M. Applebaum, additional performers: Applebaum's Stanford John Cage seminar students, performed 3/12/05, White Plaza, Stanford University, with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in residence

Part II

SET THREE
Hsiao-Lan Wang: Star Gazer
Electroacoustic Works
Hsiao-Lan Wang/2005
flute: Cecilia Hamilton

Margaret Lancaster: Io (L.V. Vierk)
Io
New World Records/2009
electric guitar: Larry Polansky; marimba: Matthew Gold; flute: M. Lancaster;
recorded 2/06/09, 2nd Story Sound, NYC

Polly Moller: Io
Summerland
Silver Wheel Music/1999

SET FOUR
Drew Krause: Drain
Ding
Capstone Records/2007
McCormick Percussion Ensemble; conductor: Robert McCormick; recorded 03/07/02, University of South Florida, Tampa

Herbert Brun: Trio for flute, double bass, and percussion
Language, Message, Drummage
Electronic Music Foundation/Smith Publications/1998
flute: Thomas Howell; double bass: Jon Deak; percussion: Michael Udow

SET FIVE
Peter Gordon/Lawrence Weiner:
The Society Architect Ponders the Golden Gate Bridge
Mendi+Keith Obadike Present Crosstalk #
Bridge Records/2008
vocal soloists: Joan La Barbara and Jeffrey Reynolds, Choir of Orchester Generation Berlin, director: Christian Borries; live keyboards: Kevin Zoering; electronics: P. Gordon; libretto: L. Weiner, remixed from recordings made in Berlin, 2000

Christian Nicolay: Taking the Bridge
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
sound sourced from Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver, BC

SET SIX
Louis Dufort: Transit
Connexion
empreintes DIGITALes/2000

Carey Nutman: Harder Kulm
Resurrection?
MPS Music and Video/2009

SET SEVEN
Beltone Suicide: Untitled No. 415
If It Rattles, It's a Bomb
Gilded Throne/2009

Richard Pinhas: A Piece for Duncan
Rizhosphere/Live, Paris, 1982
Cuneiform Records/1994

Forrest Fang: Tiger Balm
Gongland
Projekt Records/2001

Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde
Pogus Productions/2008
Recorded 1970 at Tangent Studio, London, and the electronic music studio at Goldsmith College, originally released on Source Records in 1971

SINGLE PLAY
Janek Schaefer: All Bombing is Terrorism
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon #
Innova Recordings/2006

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Martian Gardens for 7/26/2009

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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PROGRAM FOR JULY 26, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: Section IX (links) [a.k.a., Piano Etude I)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims
New World Records/2009
marimba: William Winant; kendang: I Nyoman Wenten; piano, computer: DR;
recorded live at CalArts, 12/14/08

SET ONE
David Rosenboom: Initial State
Systems of Judgment -- CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 4
Centaur Records/1989
recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, 1987-1988

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Memory/Vision, part 2
Memory/Vision
ECM Records/2003
Evan Parker- soprano saxophone, tapes and samples; Philipp Wachsmann- violin, electronics; Agustí Fernandez- piano, prepared piano; Barry Guy- double-bass; Paul Lytton- percussion, electronics; Lawrence Casserley- signal processing instrument; Joel Ryan- computer, sound-processing;Walter Prati- electronics, sound-processing; Marco Vecchi- sound processing, electronics; recorded live at Norges Musikkhogskole, Oslo, October, 2002

SET TWO
Giacinto Scelsi: Dharana
Works for Double Bass
Mode Records/2008
double bass: Robert Black; cello: Felix Fan; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC, 10/10/04

Iannis Xenakis: Ergma
Complete String Quartets
Mode Records/2009
The JACK Quartet; recorded at WDR Funkhaus,Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Koln, November, 2008

SET THREE
Gloria Coates: Indian Rounds --
(Symphony no. 8 "Indian Sounds," mvt. 3)
Indian Sounds
New World Records/2002
Musica-viva-ensemble; conductor: Jurgen Wirmann; voices and stones: Kathleen Eberlein,
Rose Bihler Shah; recorded live by Bavarian radio at the Munich Philharmonic, Gasteig, 2/27/92

Stephen Lucky Mosko: II Native Songs and Dances (from Indigenous Music II)
Indigenous Music
O.O. Discs/1998
The California Ear Unit: piano soloist: Vicki Ray; flute: Dorothy Stone; oboe: Stuart Horn; clarinet: Gary Ginstling: violin: Robin Lorentz; cello, voice: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick; percussion: Amy Knoles, Arthur Jarvinen, M.B. Gordy III, keyboard, piano: V. Ray, Lorna Eder; conductor: S. Mosko; Recorded at Mad Hatter Studios and CalArts, fall 1997

Codona: Again and Again, Again
The Codona Trilogy
ECM Records/2008
trumpet, melodica: Don Cherry; bird sounds: Nana Vasconcelos; sitar: Collin Walcott;
Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany, May 1980

SET FOUR
Denis Smalley: Pentes
Sources/Scenes
empreintes DIGITALes/2000

Sam Pluta: Jonty's Acousmatic Tube Ride
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

Jonty Harrison: Hot Air (excerpt)
A Storm of Drones #
Asphodel/1996

Natasha Barrett: Microclimate III: Glacial Loop
MusicWorks 99 #
MusicWorks Magazine/2007

SET FIVE
Thomas Buckner: Rainforest/Brazil (He Was Not Disappointed) (J. Gibson)
Full Spectrum Voice
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
wooden flute: Jon Gibson; synthesizer: "Blue" Gene Tyranny; piano: Joseph Kubera; percussion: Michael Pugliese; text: JoAnne Akalaitis, J. Gibson, Charles Darwin; rainforest sounds provided by the Cornell University Laboratory of Orinthology

Henry Brant: Rainforest, part 3: Rain
Rainforest -- The Henry Brant Collection Vol. 6
Innova Recordings/2007
Aspen Music Festival; conductors: Amy Snyder,
H. Brant; text: Abd al-Hayy Moore; recorded: 7/30/89

SET SIX
Stuart Saunders Smith: Each Moment an Ending
Breath--The Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith
Smith Publications/2004
Percussive Rotterdam; recorded at Studio 508, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Marisol Jimenez: Guijarros-Humaredas
541 Volume 3 -- Music from Stanford
Innova Recordings/2007
percussion: Christopher Froh, Loren Mach, Florian Conzetti; conductor: Christopher Jones

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Addendum July 27, 2009:

RIP Merce Cunningham (April 16, 1919 -- July 26, 2009)

Martian Gardens for 7/19/2009

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Host: Max Shea
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PROGRAM FOR JULY 19, 2009

SET ONE
Joshua Fineberg: Veils
Empreintes, Veils, and Shards
Mode Records/2009
piano: Dominique My

Ursula Mamlok: 2000 Notes
I. Gruff
II. (quarter note + sixteenth note) = 72+
III. (quarter note = 48)
IV. (eighth note = 100
Music of Ursula Mamlok Vol.1
Bridge Records/2009
piano: Garrick Ohlsson

SET TWO
George Crumb: Nocturnal (Quest, part V)
Quest
Bridge Records/1996
guitar: David Starobin; soprano saxophone: Donald Sinta; harp:
Karen Lindquist; contrabass: Donald Palma; percussion: Daniel Druckman,
Erik Charlston; conductor: William Purvis; recorded at the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, 3/19/95; (quote: "Amazing Grace")

George Crumb: Lonesome Road (The Winds of Destiny, song III)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol.13 --American Songbooks II & IV
Bridge Records/1996
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001; conductor: James Freeman;
recorded at Swarthmore College, November, 2005

George Crumb: Wanderer-Fantasy
(Makrokosmos II: Music for a Summer Evening, part 2)
Black Angels; Makrokosmos III
Mode Records/2006
pianos: Luz Manriquez, Walter Morales; percussion: Nena Lorenz,
Brian Spurgeon, Michel Passaris, Mark Shope; voice, whistles:
Andres Cladera, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded at
Carnegie Mellon School of Music, Fall 2002

George Crumb: Ghost-Nocturne: for the Druids of Stonehenge (Night-Spell II),
(Makrokosmos II, Part Two, song 1)
Makrokosmos I & II
Mode Records/2006
piano: Margaret Leng Tan; whistler: Alex Nowitz; recorded at Lang
Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July, 2003

SET THREE
Frank Garvey & Deus Machina: Nada
House of the Deafman
Innova Recordings/2001
recorded for The Omnicircus

Luigi Nono: Epitaffio no. 3 -- Memento: Romance de la Guardia Civil Espanola
Como Una Ola de Fuerza y Luz
Berlin Classics/1994
Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig; Rundfunkchor Leipzig; soprano/speaker:
Roswitha Trexler; text: F.G. Lorca; conductor: Horst Neumann; recorded January, 1977

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Polansky: Simple Actions/Rules of Compossibility
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
voice/text: Chris Mann; live computers: L. Polansky

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: In Other Words (Portrait of John Cage)
The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971--1992
EM Records/2004

R. Luke Dubois: Just for the Purpose of Playing Around
Go-Go-Go--Music from the Computer Music Center, Columbia University #
The Computer Music Center/2000
featuring The Freight Elevator Quartet

Laurie Spiegel: Three Sonic Spaces, part II
Unseen Worlds
Scarlet Records/1991

SET FIVE
Drew Krause: Airline
Powder
Innova Recordings/2007
alto saxophone: Taimur Sullivan

Roger Kleier: Hyperplane
The Night Has Many Hours
Innova Recordings/2007

Scott Smallwood: Chest & Chair
Desert Winds
Deep Listening/2002
recorded at the Great Salt Lake

Thomas DiMuzio: 4 Poles
ReR USA Sampler #
ReR USA/2004

SET SIX
Helene Prevost: The Voice in the Bag
Montreal Sound Matter #
Pogus Productions/2006

Sarah Peebles: 10 Below
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Philip Mantione: Frankencircuit
It's Alive! Philip Mantione in Santa Fe
philipmantione.com/2009

Gen Ken Montgomery: The Aquarium Fishtank Symphony (excerpt)
Pondfloorsample
XI Records/2002
recorded live at 1708 Gallery, Richmond, 10/23/99

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MG Youtube supplement: Big Donut

David Hahn stated it was his goal to be the Pee-Wee Herman of composers. Last summer, Rob Voisey introduced me to Hahn's piece "Big Donut." I was very taken with the vignette behind this etude of toddler tantrums, and Hahn's re-creation of what he overhead in a Seattle coffee shop early one morning:

DAVID HAHN: BIG DONUT


Since we broadcast "Big Donut" as part of Martian Garden's semi-annual 60 x 60 radio special on July 20, 2008, I decreed July 20 "Big Donut Day." The second annual "Big Donut Day" is now a few days away!

MG Youtube supplement: Cage: Living Room Music

This is the Oberlin Percussion Group performing "Living Room Music," which varies quite a bit from the Ars Nova version broadcast on July 12. This will give some idea of the theatrical spectacle involved:

MG Youtube supplement -- A Stuart Saundrs Smith piece

This is Notebook performed by Amie Watson, a Masters percussionist at McGill University, Montreal.

Martian Gardens for 7/12/2009

WMUA FM 91.1
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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

PROGRAM FOR JULY 12, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Phanta Rei
Chamber Works of Ursula Mamlok
CRI/2002
violin: Benjamin Hudson; cello: Chris Finkel; piano: Aleck Karis

SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Concertino
I. Energetic
II. Joyful
III. Elegy
IV. Playful
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Vol. 1
Bridge Records/2009
Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Scott Yoo; recorded 11/21-22/08, Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark

SET ONE
Christian Wolff: I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman, Volume 2 -- Chamber Works
Mode Records/1998
The Barton Workshop, conductor: James Fulkerson; voice: Judith Van Swaay; text: Susan Griffin

John Cage: Living Room Music
I. To Begin
II. Story
III. Melody
IV. End
The Choral Works I
Mode Records/1998
Ars Nova; conductor: Tamas Veto; percussion: Gert Sorensen; text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at Energy Field Studo, August, 1997

Stuart Saunders Smith: from By Language Embellished
a. Prologue
b. Scene I
c. Scene IV
c. Epilogue
Music/Theater -- New Dimensions (DeLio/Smith)
Centaur Records/2000
voice/percussion: Kristen Loree; director: John Bartlit

SET TWO
Margaret Lancaster: Atmos (J. La Barbara)
Io
New World Records/2009
C, alto, bass, Native American flutes, piccolo:
M. Lancaster; recorded 12/16/08 at 2nd Story Sound, NYC

Joshua Fineberg: The Texture of Time
Empreintes, Veils, and Shards
Mode Records/2009
flute: Patrice Bocquillon; computer music designer: Stefan Tiedje; recorded at Studio John Cage, Paris, 6/30/07

SET THREE
Eric Lyon: Sacred Amnesia
Ex Cathedra
Centaur Records/2004

Noah Creshevsky: Born Again
Hyperrealism
Mutable Music/2003

SET FOUR
David Hahn: Goo Mee
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Capstone Records--Vox Novus/2004

Sarah Boothroyd: Lack of Proper Words
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Sarah Boothroyd: Some Sort of Dark Force
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006

Norbert Herber: Trak News Agency
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Capstone Records--Vox Novus/2004
voice samples: William S. Burroughs

David Gans: Pat Bucancer
State of the Union 2001 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
voice samples: Pat Buchanan

David Hahn: Brainwash
Your Time is Up
davidhahnonline.com/2008

William S. Burroughs: Just Say No to Drug Hysteria
The Best of William S. Burroughs
Giorno Poetry Systems/2001

Cabaret Voltaire: If the Shadows Could March (1974)
The Voice of America
Mute Records/1990 (orig. 1980)

Carey Nutman: Angula Beta
Resurrection
MPS Music & Video/2008

SET FIVE
Philip Mantione:
a. Larghetto - Excerpt 1
b. Larghetto - Excerpt 2
It's Alive! Philip Mantione in Santa Fe
philipmantione.com/2009

Stephen Moore: Bell, Wind, Fuse
To Build a Field
Deep Listening Foundation/2009
Created for the dance "The Charlottes" by Jennifer Mesch

AMM: What is there in uselessness to cause you distres?
AMMMusic 1966
ReR Megacorp/1989 (orig. 1966)

Frank Zappa: What ever happened to all the fun in the world?
Sheik Yerbouti
Rykodisc/1995 (orig. 1979)

The Hafler Trio: The Limitations of Silence
"Bang!" - An Open Letter
The Grey Area of Soleilmoon/1992 (orig. 1984)

If, Bwana:
a. Fish Tales from the Bible
b. A Condensed History of Religion
Radio Slaves
Monochrome Vision/2007

SET SIX
Drew Krause: Solar Music
Powder
Innova Recordings2007

Steve Roach/Vir Unis: Solar Tribe
Body Electric
Projekt Records/1998

Forrest Fang/Carl Weingarten: Solar Rain
Invisibility
The Foundry/2006

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