Martian Gardens for 10/03/2010

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Program for October 3, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Florent Ghys: Coma Carus
Baroque Tardif--Soli
Cantaloupe Music/2009
pianino: F. Ghys

SET ONE
Robert Dick: Eyewitness
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
Flute Force; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 1998-2000

Frances White: Centre Bridge
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown: Loons (from Isle Royale Shakuhachi Duets)
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded by E. Brown, Brooklyn, 7/09/05

SET TWO
Patti Monson: High Art (M. Bresnick)
High Art
Albany Records/2003
piccolo: P. Monson; toy piano: Martin Bresnick

Martin Bresnick: The Bucket Rider
The Essential Martin Bresnick
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Bang On A Can; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 11/08/05

SET THREE
John Cage: Party Pieces (1-20) (J. Cage, H. Cowell, L. Harrison, V. Thomson)
The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at RBB/SFB, Berlin, 5/23/03

Lou Harrison: Isna's Song (from A Soedjiatmoko Set)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
Gamelan Pacifica, director: Jarrad Powell; Gamelan Pacifica Chorus, director: Jessika Kenney; text: The Rāmāyana, book VII, adapted by L. Harrison; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010

SET FOUR
Bob Gluck: Doina
Electric Songs--Live Performances 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
saz (bağlama), electronics: B. Gluck

Anne LeBaron: Submerged Cavern
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
shakuhachi: Kiku Day; koto: Konoko Nishi; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Mills College, Oakland, 2005

Ellen Fullman: Nocnoca Progression
Change of Direction
New Albion Records/1998
Elise Gould, Nigel Jacobs, E. Fullman: Long String Instrument

Fred Frith: Hit and Run
Accidental
RēR Megacorp/2001
recorded at Studio Jankowski, Stuttgart, 1995-1996

Roberto Musci/Chris Cutler/Jon Rose/Claudio Gabbiano: track 3
Steel Water Light
RēR Megacorp/2001
sampler: R. Musci; electrified percussion, processing: C. Cutler; tenor violin, processing: J. Rose; guitars: C. Gabbiani

Christopher Campbell: Sunface Streams Moonface
Sound the All-Clear
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Fur Seal Studio, Minneapolis

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
premiered at Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, BC, 10/09/03

Stéphane Roy: Ruptures (from Trois petites histoires concrètes)
Migrations
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
realized at Roy's studio, St. Louis, Missouri, 1998

Douglas Geers: Verbosity Ore
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

David First: Tell Tale 2.1
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
transistor radios: D. First

Simon Wickham-Smith: from Justkidding
d. The Machine Says It
b. Unsafeday
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Helen Kidd

David First: Happy Beatday
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
slide whistle: D. First

SET SIX
Holger Czukay: Boat-Woman Song (excerpt)
OHM--The Early Gurus of Electronic Music--1948-1980 #
Ellipsis Arts/2000
samples from Adam de la Halle; Vietnamese women singing folk song

Kraig Grady: Eve Without Apples
The Lab -- 20th Anniversary CD #
The Lab/2004
pump organ, prepared dulcimer: K. Grady, performed at The Lab, San Francisco, 1987

Eve Beglarian: Preciosilla
Overstepping
OODiscs/1998
flute: Margaret Lancaster; voice: E. Beglarian; text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at Noise Production, NYC

SET SEVEN
Robert Ashley: She Was A Visitor
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996
Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, conductor: Alvin Lucier; written in 1967 as part the electronic opera "That Morning Thing"

Alvin Lucier: Chambers
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
Chambers (1968) recorded at The Coffeehouse, Middletown, Connecticut, 2002

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/26/2010

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Program for September 26, 2010

SET ONE
Robert Ashley: Empire (excerpt)
Atalanta (Acts of God) Volume II
Lovely Music, Ltd./2010
voices: Jacqueline Humbert, R.Ashley; electronic orchestra: Tom Hamilton, R. Ashley; recorded in Rome, 1985

Debashis Sinha: Kailash
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010

Elsa Justel: Bastet
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at GRM, Paris, 1999

SET TWO
Alexander Tcherepnin: Shadow Play (from Five Concert Etudes, Op. 52)
Piano Works
CRI/2002 (orig. Sony/1991)
piano: Martha Braden; recorded at BMG Studios, NYC, 1999

Ivan Tcherepnin: The Army and the Chase (from Santur Live!)
Flores Musicales--Five Songs--Santur Live!
CRI/1995
Serge* modular electronics, santur: I. Tcherepnin
*Serge synthesizer named after its developer, Serge Tcherepnin, brother of Ivan.

Stefan Tcherepnin: Ouvretorture
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizer: Stefan Tcherepnin, recorded in NYC, 2004

Matmos: Les Folies Françoises (F. Couperin)
Supreme Balloon
Matador Records/2008

So Percussion and Matmos: Needles
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010
recorded at Snowghost, Whitefish, Montana, and The David Smith Room, Studio C, Clinton Recording Studio, NYC

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: Scenes from Cavafy
a. Gending Cavafy
b. Gending Bill/Lancaran Jody
c. Gending Ptolemy
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
voice: John Duykers; texts: Constantine P. Cavafy; Gamelan Pacifica Chorus and Orchestra, director: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010

SET THREE
Jody Diamond: In That Bright World
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta; voice: J. Diamond; text: "The Wayfaring Stranger" (trad.); recorded in Central Java, July, 2001

Miguel del Aguila: Tango to Dream (Salon Buenos Aires, movement II)
Salon Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio; recorded at the First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas, 2008

SET FOUR
Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2001; tape revised by S. Scodanibbio, 2001-2009

Stefano Scodanibbio: Humboldt
Six Duos
New Albion Records/2001
viola: Dov Scheindlin; contrabass: S. Scondanibbio; recorded at Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken, June, 2000

SET FIVE
Chaya Czernowin: The Memory of Water
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
saxophone, tubax: Rico Gubler; piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn: Peter Veale; live-electronics: EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR; recorded live at the Konzerthaus Berlin, 3/17/07, MaerzMusik Festival of Contemporary Music by Berliner Festspiele

Iannis Xenakis: Dämmerschein
Xenakis & Varèse
Mode Records/1997
Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Juan Pablo Izquierdo; recorded in Pittsburgh, April, 1996

SINGLE PLAY
Zack Browning: Thunder Roll
a. Night Attack
b. Day Attack
Venus Notorious
Innova Recordings/2010
piano: Jee-Ean Kim; percussion: Mark Eichenberger; percussion: James Press; timpani: Samuel Carroll; conductor: Mei-Fang Lin; recorded at the University of Illinois

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Gordon/Alarm Will Sound: Arles
Van Gogh
Cantaloupe Music/2007
Alarm Will Sound, conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded in New York City, 2006-2007

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/19/2010

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Program for September 19, 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Saunders Smith: Polka in Treblinka
At Sixty -- Selections
11 West Records/2008
Xylophone: Dale Speicher; snare drum and hi-hat: Chris Leonard; bass drum: Bill Sallak; recorded at Guzzetta Hall, University of Akron, March, 2008

SET ONE
Anthony Braxton: Composition No. 142
Ensemble (Victoriaville) 1988
Les Disques VICTO/1992
saxophones: A. Braxton; tenor saxophone: Evan Parker; vibraphone: Bobby Naughton; contrabass: Joëlle Léandre; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; trumpet: Paul Smoker; trombone: George Lewis; recorded live at the Sixth International Festival of Contemporary Music at Victoriaville, Québec, October 8, 1988

Anthony Braxton and Gerry Hemingway: Invention 8107PM (excerpt)
Old Dogs (2007)
Mode Records/Avant series/2010
saxophones: A. Braxton; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded at Wesleyan University, Daltry Room, 8/01/07

Stephen Haynes and Taylor Ho Bynum: Miscellaneous
The Double Trio -- Live at the Festival of New Trumpet Music
Engine Studios/2009
cornet: Taylor Ho Bynum; trumpet, cornet: Stephen Haynes; electric guitar: Alan Jaffe; electric guitar: Mayr Halvorson; drums: Warren Smith; drums: Tomas Fujiwara; recorded live at The Jazz Standard, NYC, 9/20/06

Anthony Braxton and Taylor Ho Bynum to perform at the University of Massachusetts Fine Arts Center, Bezanson Recital Hall, Tuesday, September 22, 8:00 p.m., as part of the season's Magic Triangle Jazz Series.

SET TWO
Bang On A Can and Don Byron: Basquiat
A Ballad for the Many
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Bang On A Can All-Stars -- bass: Robert Black, percussion: David Cossin, piano: Lisa Moore, electric guitars: Mark Stewart, cello: Wendy Sutter, clarinet/bass clarinet: Evan Ziporyn; clarinet, composition: Don Byron; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 2004-2006

Evan Ziporyn: Frog's Eye
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 5/24/04

SET THREE
Priscilla McLean: Night Images
The McLean Mix & The Golden Age of Electronic Music
CRI/1997
synthesizers, electronics: P. McLean; recorded at the McLean's home studio, 1973

Barton McLean: Demons of the Night
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
synthesizers, electronics: B. McLean; saxophone samples: Albert Regni; recorded at the Electronic Music Center, UT, Austin

Robert Scott Thompson: The Widening Gyre
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
electronics: R. S. Thompson; clarinet samples: F. Gerard Errante; recorded at the Resonance Observatory, Atlanta

SET FOUR
Aldo Clementi: Passacaglia
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; realized at Centro Tempo Reale, Florence, recorded at Labratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica -- Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, April 2005

Sorrel Hays: On the Wind
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
flutes: Andrew Bolowsky; recorded at Nola Studios, NYC, 2002

Sorrel Hays: Song for the Dying
Dreaming the World
New World Records/1996
baritone: Thomas Buckner; piano: Joseph Kubera; percussion: John Kennedy, Charles Wood, Maya Gunji, Eric Kivnick; text: Brian Swann's translation of Seminole song; recoded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC

SET FIVE
Annie Gosfield: Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds Back
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
sampler, electronics: A. Gosfield; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC, 1998

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

SET SIX
Cathy Berberian: A Flower (J. Cage)
magnifiCathy
Wergo/1988 (orig. 1971)
voice: C. Berberian; percussion: Bruno Canino

Sylvia Smith: Forever and Sunsmell (J. Cage)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christie Finn; Chinese tom-toms: Sylvia Smith; Chinese cymbal: Ayano Kataoka; text. e.e. cummings

John Cage and Joan La Barbara: Music for Two (by One)
Singing Through
New Albion Records/1990
voice: J. La Barbara; recorded at Skywalker Music, Lucas Valley, California, July, 1990

Margaret Leng Tan: Suite for Toy Piano (I-V) (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano
Mode Records/2010
toy piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Marc Tremblay: ...Ceci est un Message Enregistré...
Bruit-Graffiti
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
composed/recorded at Yves Daoust's studio, Montreal, 1994

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/12/2010

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Program for September 12, 2010

SET ONE
Meredith Monk: Urban March (Shadow)
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
piano, voice, arrangement: Anthony De Mare; recorded at Ralston Recital Hall, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, 11/02/08

Anthony De Mare: Paris (M. Monk)
Pianos and Voices
Koch Classics/1992

Anne LeBaron: Intermezzo
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
bass clarinet: Wolfgang Fuchs; violin: Ronit Kirchman; bass: Torsten Müller; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Polestar New Music Festival, Seattle, 2004

Larry Polansky: tooaytood(s)
a. tooaytood 1: ≤too
b. tooaytood 2: ≤too<-
c. tooaytood 3: 2
d. tooaytood 5: boo k (lullaby for anna)
e. tooaytood 6
f. tooaytood 7: iiviinii
g. tooaytood 9: loopitood
h. tooaytood 11: onceaii
The World's Longest Melody
New World Records/2010
ZWERM--electric guitar quartet: Toon Callier, Matthias Koole, Joannes Westendorp, Kobe Van Cauwenbergh; arr. T. Callier; recorded at Studio Champ d'Action, Antwerp, December, 2008

Thomas DeLio: as though
Thomas DeLio/James Dashow
Capstone Records/1997
percussion solo: Tom Goldstein; recorded at UMBC Studio, 1997

SET TWO
John Luther Adams: Triadic Iteration Lattices (for four air-raid sirens)
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati; November, 1998

John Luther Adams: Wail
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music
percussion (with air-raid siren): Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2002/2003)

J.C. Combs:
a. Cross Station
b. Dispatch
Safe Passage
Electroshock Records/2010
created for ImprovFriday

SET THREE
John Cage: Cartridge Music/11 Instruments
a CAGE of saxophones -- The Works For Saxophones Volumes 3&4
Mode Records/2010
intersax -- soprano saxophone, artistic director: Ulrich Krieger, alto saxophone: Martin Losert, tenor saxophone: Tobias Rüger, baritone saxophone: Reimar Volker; guests -- violin: Burkhard Schlothauer; viola: Johannes Platz; cello: Ulrich Maiß; contrabass: Alexander Frangenheim; piano: Michael Iber; accordion: Gerhard Scherer; percussion: Andreas Peters; recorded at several locations, mastered at the π-Farm, 2004

Julia Wolfe: LAD, part 1 (for nine bagpipes)
Dark Full Ride -- Music in Multiples
Cantaloupe Music/2009
bagpipes: Matthew Welch; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC

SET FOUR
Javier Garavaglia: Arte Poética (I. Stanza)
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 #
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
text: Jorge Luis Borges; produced at ICEM, Folkwang Hochschule Essen

Gilles Gobeil: Le Miroir Triste
Trois Songes DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
realized at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, summer, 2007

SET FIVE
Milica Paranosic:
a. Venus Song
b. Bojano
Give To Grow
Electroshock Records/2010
text, voice (a): Roger Bonair-Agard

David Mahler: Only Music Can Save Me Now
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, November, 2009

SET SIX
Iannis Xenakis: Paille in the Wind
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
piano: Aki Takahashi; cello: Rohan de Saram; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, 10/27/07

Daniel Goode: Tuba Thrush
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
The Flexible Orchestra, conductor: Tara Simoncic; recorded at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, NYC, 10/16/09

SET SEVEN
Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Orillas Distantes/Distant Shores
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
texts: Federico Garcia Lorca from "Bodas de Sangre" (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK

Jocy De Oliveira: Women Dreams
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000
soprano: Gabriela di Geanx; actress: Marilena Bibas; clarinet: Paulo Passos; percussion: Paraguassú Abrahão; synthesizers, electronics, libretto: J. De Oliveira; recorded live at the Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, March, 1995

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/05/2010

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Program for September 05, 2010
(extended edition)

SET ONE
David Rosenboom: Section VII (impression)
How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed on the Pilgrims (1969-71)
New World Records/2009
piano in expended pelog tuning: David Rosenboom; pemade: I Nyoman Wenten; jegog, calung: William Winant; live performance CalArts 12/14/08

Christopher Campbell: Diamond Marimba
Sound the All-Clear
Innova Recordings/2010

Harry Partch: Ulysses at the Edge
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 1
New World Records/2004 (orig. CRI/1997)
Gate 5 Ensemble (Evanston, Illinois)-- voice, baritone saxophone: David Reid; alto saxophone: Dick Schleppe; bamboo marimba, cloud-chamber Bowls: Danlee Mitchell; diamond marimba, cloud-chamber bowls: H. Partch; recorded in Evanston, 1958

SET TWO
Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Pale Blue Dot
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: JHK; drums, percussion, voice: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, Mass., 8/18/09

Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Unknot
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
electric komungo: JHK; percussion: G. Hemingway; excerpt from Jin Hi Kim's Sanjo Ecstasy, premiered at the Sanjo Festival, Jeonju, South Korea

SET THREE
César Bolaños: Flexum
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded at the VIII Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 9/23/69

Beta-Collide: Yello (S. Vitiello)
Psst! Psst!
Innova Recordings/2010

Stephen Vitiello:
a. po clicks (S. Vitiello/P. Oliveros)
b. po clicks (ibid.)
Bright and Dusty Things
New Albion Records/2002
accordion: Pauline Oliveros; guitar: David Tronzo; recorded at Harvestworks, NYC

SET FOUR
John Cage: Fontana Mix
Electronic Music -- Cage/Berio/Mimaroglu #
Turnabout/1965
original construction for magnetic tape, prepared at Studio di Fonoglia of Italian Radio, Milan, 1958

John Cage: Fontana Mix
A CAGE of Saxophones -- The Works for Saxophone 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
version for saxophone pieces from Ulrich Krieger's A CAGE of Saxophones project; mixed July-October, 2004, at π-Farm

SET FIVE
Joel Chadabe: Follow Me Softly
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 24 #
The Composer in the Computer Age VII
Centaur Records/1997
Synclavier: J. Chadabe; percussion: Jan Williams; recorded at SUNY Buffalo, November, 1984

Madjid Tahriri: Tombak
Deep Wireless 7 - Radio Art Compilation #
New Adventures In Sound Art/2010

SINGLE PLAY
Barton McLean: Rainforest Images II
Soundworlds
Innova Recordings/2010
soprano recorder, clariflute, keyboards: B. McLean; voice, violin: Priscilla McLean; voice, audio processing with Expanded Instrument system: Panaiotis; sampled recordings of birds of the Peruvian Amazon and Australian rainforests

SET SIX
Aldo Clementi: Fantasia su roBErto FABbriCiAni
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
flutes: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; tape realized by Mauro Graziani at CSC dell'Università di Padova, Italy; recorded at Laboratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettonica -- Fondazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venezia, Italy, April, 2005

Henry Brant: Ghosts and Gargoyles VI, VII, VIII, IX
Music for Massed Flutes
New World Records/2006
The New York Flute Club, soloist and conductor: Robert Aitken; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 4/06/05

SET SEVEN
Burkina Electric: Bana
Paspanga
Cantaloupe Music/2010
voice: Maï Lingani; guitar, background vocals: Wende K. Blass; electronics, drums: Lukas Ligeti; electronics: Pyrolator; dance, background vocals: Zoko Zoko, "Vicky" Idrissa Kafando; recorded at Atatak-Studio, Düsseldorf

Raoul Björkenheim/Lukas Ligeti: Ghostedwall
Shadowglow
TUM Records/2003
guitars: R. Björkenheim, percussion: L. Ligeti, recorded at Orange Music Sound Studios, West Orange, NJ, June, 2003

Santieri Selvaggi (ensemble): I Fought the Law (D. Lang)
AC/DC
Cantaloupe Music/2005
recorded at Mondial Sound, Milan, November, 1998

Marco Oppedisano: Kickstart
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars, electronics: M. Oppedisano; voice samples: Kimberly Fiedelman

SET EIGHT
Alvin Lucier/Nick Hennies:
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (Glockenspiel)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Quiet Design/2010
glockenspiel: N. Hennies, recorded at UT, Austin

Alvin Lucier:
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (Glockenspiel)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
glockenspiel: William Winant; recorded at Radio City Music Hall, 1983-1984

SINGLE PLAY
Arie Shapira: The Unnamable
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004
electroacoustics; voice: Eran Tzur; text: Samuel Beckett

SINGLE PLAY
Rajmil Fischman: Targilim Be'ivrit Shimushit (Drills in Practical Hebrew)
...a 'wonderful' world...
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
electroacoustics; voice: Eti Ben-Zaken; text: Dan Pagis; performed at Haifa University, Metula Poetry Festival, 2003

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 08/29/2010

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Program for August 29, 2010
(extended edition)

SET ONE
Errollyn Wallen: Remember, Marimba
Intermediate Masterworks of Marimba
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: Thomas Burritt; recorded at Lawrence University Conservatory, Appleton, Wis., Summer, 2009

Carrie Rose: Family Portraits--Embden Pond (Stuart Saunders Smith)
Books of Flutes
11 West Records/2008
vibraphones: Sylvia Smith, Ayano Kataoka; alto flute: C. Rose

SET TWO
John Cage: Fontana Mix/Sextet for Low Woodwinds
A Cage of Saxophones -- Music for Saxophones 3 & 4
Mode Records/2010
Intersax: bass flute, contrabass flute: Klaus Schöpp; bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet: Andreas Schmucker, bass saxophone, contrabass saxophone, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at RBB, Berlin, June, 2004

Alvin Curran: Coastline (S. Lacy)
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
soprano saxophone: Steve Lacy; 1985 tape--East Coast U.S. foghorns, U.S. Coast Guard personnel in Maine and Maryland

SINGLE PLAY
Chaya Czernowin: Maim zarim maim Gnuvim (strange water stolen water)
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
soloists--saxophone, tubax (recorded and live): Rico Gubler; piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn: Peter Veale; Konzerthausorchester Berlin; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; live electronics: EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO des SWR; recorded at Konzerthaus Berlin, 3/17/07

SET THREE
Tina Davidson: Bleached Thread, Sister Thread
I Hear the Mermaids Singing
New World Records/1996
Mendelssohn String Quartet; recorded at Baby Monster, NYC

Iva Bittová/Bang On A Can: Samota (Loneliness)
Elida
Cantaloupe Music/2005
piano: Lisa Moore; voice: I. Bittová; text: Richard Müller; recorded at Systems Two Studio, Brooklyn, December, 2004

SINGLE PLAY
Martin Bresnick: String Quartet #2, "Bucephalus"
I. Bucephalus
II. Around To The Sun
III. Alexandrine
IV. At Jhelum
V. The New Advocate
The Essential Martin Bresnick
Cantaloupe Music/2010
Flux Quartet; recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 5/16/05

SET FOUR
Mary Jane Leach: Night Blossoms
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
Kiitos -- soprano: Eileen Clark; mezzo-soprano: Karen Goldfeder; tenor: Gregory Davidson; baritone: Jared Stamm; text: Yofu (translated by Lucien Stryk) recorded live at Church of the Ascension, NYC

Eve Beglarian: We Two
ibid.
vocals, guitars: E. Beglarian, Corey Dargel; additional guitars: Cristian Amigo; text: Walt Whitman

David Lang:
a. Press Release
b. I'm Still Shaking
Music from the Film (Untitled)
Cantaloupe Music/2009

Eve Beglarian: My Heart is Trembling
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007
electronics, voice: E. Beglarian; text: Charles Wesley
Anne LeBaron: Rippling with Leroy
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
violin: Leroy Jenkins; harp: A. LeBaron; recorded at Disney Hall, CalArts, Valencia, CA, 2002

Leroy Jenkins' Driftwood: To Run
The Art of Improvisation
Mutable Music/2005
pipa: Min Xiao-Fen; piano: Denman Maroney; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; violin: L. Jenkins; recorded live at AACM Concert, Chicago, 10/08/04

SET FIVE
Anthony Braxton/Gerry Hemingway: Invention 8107AM (excerpt)
Old Dogs (2007)
Mode Records--Avant series/2010
saxophones: A. Braxton; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded at the Daltry Room, Wesleyan University, 08/01/07

Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Rain Dance
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungos: J.H. Kim; drums, percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, MA, 08/18/09

Samul nori: P'u Sal
Record of Changes
CMP Records/1990
changgo, choong ching, chorus: Kim Duk Soo; k'kwaengwari, changgo, ching, vocal: Lee Kwang Soo; ching, buk, changgo, chorus: Choi Jong Sil; ching, bara, changgo, chorus: Kang Min Seok; recorded at Power Station, NYC, February, 1988

SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: Und so weiter, Parts 1-3
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
piano: Gérard Frémy; realized in 1966

SET SIX
Karlheinz Stockhausen: from Mantra
a. Takt 324-444
b. Takt 445-487
Mantra
Wergo/1995
pianos: Andreas Grau, Götz Schumacher; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk/Aufnehem, October, 1993

Monique Jean: 13'13 pour voix défigurée
L'adieu au S.O.S.
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
realized at PRIM Studios,PRIM Media Arts Centre, Montreal, 1997; processed voices: Sylvo Archambault, Emmanuel Madan, Pascale Malaterre, Marie-France Marcotte, Alain Pelletier; text: Hélène Cixous,"Beethoven a jamais ou I'existence de Dieu"

SET SEVEN
Gordon Mumma: Music from the Venezia Space Theatre
Studio Retrospect
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
recorded at the 27th Venezia Biennale performances of Teatro dello Spacio, at Teatro La Fenice opera house, the ONCE group ensemble, directed by Milton Cohen, September, 1964

Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV): SpaceCraft (excerpt)
MEV 40
New World Records/2008
performers -- Allen Bryant, Alvin Curran, Carol Plantamura, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum, Ivan Vandor: various electronic/acoustic instruments, voices, and objects; recorded at Academie der Künste, Berlin, 10/05/67

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 08/22/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
Amherst, Mass. 01003
wmua.org
live webcast

MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

This program is dedicated in loving memory of my sister,
Naomi H. Shea
(April 26, 1968 -- August 12, 2010)
Daughter - Sister - Wife - Mother - Friend - Artist
Her untimely and unexpected passing has left stony emptiness
in the hearts of her family, loved ones, and colleagues.
We pray she is at peace.

Program for August 22, 2010
(extended edition)

SET ONE
Ezra Sims: AEDM in mem
a. Singing quietly
b. Fleet and lyric
c. Gently
d. Moderately
e. Plangent
Musing and Reminiscence
New World Records/2010
cello: Ted Mook; recorded in Pelham, New York, 6/05/09

Hexagon Ensemble: Ockeghem Variations (J. Shatin)
a. Lustrous
b. Ringing
c. Electric
d. Floating
e. Resounding
The Dutch Connection
Et'Cetera/2010
Hexagon Ensemble; recorded at the Dutch Reformed Church, Renswoude, September, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Zeitgeist: In Bone-Colored Light (J. Kitzke)
In Bone-Colored Light
Innova Recordings/2010
Zeitgeist ensemble; recorded at Wild Sound Recording Studio, Minneapolis, 2008/2009

SET TWO
Margaret Leng Tan: The Animist Child (J. Kitzke)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, percussed toy piano lid, voice: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, January , 2010

Eric Chasalow: Dream Songs I-V
Left to His Own Devices
New World Records/2003
tenor (tape): William Hite; texts: John Berryman; Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded in Rome, Italy, February, 2001

SET THREE
Evan Ziporyn: War Chant
Frog's Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 5/24/04

Mario Davidovsky: Flashbacks
Flashbacks
Bridge Records/2000
The New York New Music Ensemble, conductor: Jeffrey Milarsky

SET FOUR
John Luther Adams: Burst
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2002/2003

John Luther Adams: ...dust into dust...
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
Percussion Group Cincinnati; recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati, November, 1998

SET FIVE
Sō Percussion:
a. Prelude (1) (P. Lansky)
b. Recitative (1) (P. Lansky)
Paul Lansky: Threads
Cantaloupe Music/2010
Sō Percussion; recorded at Avatar Studios, 2008

Paul Lansky: Alphanumeric Song
Alphabet Book
Bridge Records/2002
electronics: P. Lansky; readers: Hannah McKay, P. Lansky

Noah Creshevsky: Born Again
Hyperrealism -- Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Mutable Music/2003

Larry Polansky: #13 DIY Canon (Java 2)
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
tape (source: Java Shop restaurant, Midtown Manhattan); realized by Daniel Goode; recorded in NYC and Hanover, NH, March, 2002

SET SIX
Daniel Goode: Reed Squeak and After Image
Clarinet Songs
XI Records/1993

Alvin Lucier: Letters
Wind Shadows
New World Records/2005
The Barton Workshop -- clarinet: John Anderson, violin: Marieke Keser, cello: Judith van Swaay, piano: Frank Denyer; recorded at the Bethanienklooster, Amsterdam, 6/12/03

Christian Wolff: Kegama
(Re): Making Music
Mode Records/2004
The Barton Workshop -- violin: Marieke Kesler, clarinets: John Anderson, cello: Alex Geller, piano: Frank Denyer, percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in The Netherlands, 1999

Eno, Moebius, Roedelus: Broken Head
After the Heat
Caroline Records/1996 (orig. Sky Records/1977)
voice,lyrics: Brian Eno; recorded at Conny Plank's Studio, Cologne

SET SEVEN
Laurie Anderson: Only An Expert
Homeland
Nonesuch Records/2010
keyboards: Rob Burger; viola: Eyvind Kang; guitar: Lou Reed; drums: Omar Hakim; keyboards: Peter Scherer; keyboards: Kieran Hebden; vocals, percussion, keyboards: L. Anderson

Alvin Curran: Animal Behavior
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 #
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994

SET EIGHT
The Hub: Hot Potato
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008

Seattle Phonographers Union: Hollow Earth Radio -- September 8, 2008
Seattle Phonographers Union
Mimeomeme/2010
recorded live for Hollow Earth Radio, Seattle

James Mobberley: Aspenglow
Music of James Mobberley
CD-R compiled 2009
featuring the ASPEN system (Automated SPeech Exchange Network)

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage/Lejarin Hiller: HPSCHD (excerpts)
HPSCHD
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
for 7 harpsichord solos and 51 compuer-generated tapes; realized by Joel Chadabe; harpsichord solos: Bob Dodge, William Blakeney, recorded at the Foundation for Baroque Music, Inc., Greenfield Center, NY, 2000

--FIN--