Martian Gardens for 01/02/2011

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Program for January 2, 2011

SET ONE
Susan Botti: Listen, It's Snowing
Listen, It's Snowing
CRI/1998
piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; soprano: S. Botti; text: e.e. cummings;
recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 12/04/97

Arlene Zallman: Nightsongs
Se La Terra Che Aspetta
Bridge Records/2010
soprano: Karol Bennett; flute: Leone Buyse; clarinet: Michael Webster; texts: Wendell Berry, Joseph Freiherr von Echendorff; recorded at Duncan Hall, The Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, February, 2007

Tod Machover: Flora
Flora
Bridge Records/1990
voice samples: Karol Bennett; recorded at the MIT Media Lab, 1989

SET TWO
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes II
Kingdom Come
Nonesuch Records/2001
Kronos Quartet; fog horns recorded in San Francisco Bay; recorded at Skywalker Sound, August, 1996

Arvo Pärt: Movement III
Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles"
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic, conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, January, 2009

SET THREE
John Cage:
a. Our Spring Will Come
b. And the Earth Shall Bear Again
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at the Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, 2001-2002

Martin Bresnick: For the Sexes -- The Gates of Paradise (1 & 2)
The Essential Martin Bresnick [DVD supplement]
Cantaloupe Music/2006
piano and voice: Lisa Moore; text and images: William Blake; computer animation: Puppetsweat Theater

Steve Reich: Double Sextet, Movement I -- Fast
Double Sextet -- 2 x 5
Nonesuch Records/2010
Eighth Blackbird; recorded at WFMT Studio, Chicago, August 27-28, 2009

SET FOUR
Mark Applebaum:
a. Martian Anthropology 7
b. Martian Anthropology 8
c. Martian Anthropology 9
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings/2008
The Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band; recorded at Theater Artaud, San Francisco, March 31 & April 1, 2006

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: La Rage (Raging Rabies)
a. Renard Fou
b. Techno-Sexe: vol d'aeroport
c. Entrevue Avec le Proprio
d. Prendre le Contrôle de la Tour
e. Epilogue: pas d'avenir
La Rage
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
recorded at the Electroacoustic Music Studios at the University of Huddersfield, UK, 2004-2005

SET FIVE
Pierre Schaeffer: Cinq études de bruits (Five Studies of Noises)
a. Railroad Study
b. Whirligig Study
c. Study in Purple
d. Study in Black
e. Study in Pathos
L' Oeuvre Musicale
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
Musique Concrete recorded in France, 1948

César Bolaños: Intesidad y Altura
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2009
premiered in the hall of the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 11/21/64

SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp: Für Dich -- For You
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)#
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
electroacoustic recordings: H. Westerkamp; text: Rainer Maria Rilke "Liebes-Lied," translated by Norbert Ruebsaat; readers: Wendelin Bartley, Susan Benson, Anne Bourne, Loui Ettling, Peter Grant, Andra McCartney, Norbert Ruebsaat, R. Murray Schafer, Agnes Westerkamp, H. Westerkamp; realized at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, 2005

SINGLE PLAY
David Tudor: Rainforest (1968)
David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Teatro Novo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7/30/68

Gordon Mumma: Song Without Words (In Memoriam David Tudor)
ibid.
solo piano: G. Mumma

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/19/2010

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Program for December 19, 2010
Extended Edition

SINGLE PLAY
William S. Burroughs: The Junky's Christmas
Spare Ass Annie & Other Tales
Island Records/1993
narration, text: W.S. Burroughs; music: Michael Franti, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

SET ONE
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: Uncle Bernie's Farm
Absolutely Free
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1967)

Shelley Hirsch/Jon Rose/Chris Cutler:
After Hours/The Colour of BLOOD
The ReR Quarterly Vol. 4/No.2 #
ReR Megacorp/1997
voice: S. Hirsch; violin, keyboard, voice: J. Rose; electronics, percussion: C. Cutler; recorded at Radio Student, Ljublana, Slovenia, 11/15/93

Laurie Anderson: New York Social Life
Women in Electronic Music 1977 #
New World Records/2006
voice, telephone: L. Anderson; tambura: Scott Johnson

If, Bwana: DTTO Lisa
"Assemble.age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley

Shelley Hirsch: Blanche Dubois (Hirsch/Weinstein)
States
Tellus--Harvestworks/1997
text, vocals: S. Hirsch; keyboards, vocals: David Weinstein; recorded at Roulette, New York City

SET TWO
Linda Dusman: Magnificat 4 -- Ida Ida
Singing Out! [DVD] #
Everglade Records/2010
voice: L. Dusman, text: Gertrude Stein

Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II #
Capstone Records/2001
tape: L. Dusman; readers: Susan McCully, readers: Phil Maki; text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at W.I.N.C. Studio, West Newton, Massachusetts

SET THREE
Eric Chasalow
a. Fast Forward
b. Over the Edge
Over The Edge
New World Records/1993
(a) percussion: Amy Knoles, Arthur Jarvinen, tape: E. Chasalow (b) flute: Patricia Spencer, tape: E. Chasalow; realized at BEAM, Brandeis, University

Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: In The Land of Perfect Days
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
vocalizations: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

So Percussion:
a. Recitative (track 5)
b. Chorus (track 6)
Threads (Music by Paul Lansky)
Cantaloupe Music/2010
Eric Beach, Jason Treuting, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski: percussion; recorded at Avatar Studios, 2008

SET FOUR
Arvo Pärt: Movement I -- Con Sublimità
Symphony No. 4, "Los Angeles"
ECM Records/2010
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; recorded at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, January, 2009

Martin Bresnick: I. Semplice, Inesorabile (from Trio for piano, violin, and cello)
The Essential Martin Bresnick
Cantaloupe Music/2006
performed by the Jupiter Trio; recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University, 12/16/05

SINGLE PLAY
Giacinto Scelsi: Uaxuctum--The Legend of the Mayan City
(which they themselves destroyed for religious reasons) I-V
The Orchestral Works 2
Mode Records/2006
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Peter Rundel; Concentus Vocalis, director: Herbert Böck; recorded at the Festival 'Wien Modern,' Vienna Concert House 11/04/05

SET FIVE
Judith Shatin: Penelope's Song
Tower of the Eight Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electronics: J. Shatin; violin: Hasse Borup

Stuart Saunders Smith: Books of Flutes
Double Image
11 West Records/2005
flute: Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer

SET SIX
Alvin Curran: For MG
Lost Marbles
Tzadik Records/2004
piano, tape: A. Curran; recorded for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, 1992

Ingrid Drese: Papillon, abîme, nuit (Butterfly, Abyss, Night)
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized at Drese's studio, Belgium, 1999

SET SEVEN
Frances White: Like the Lily
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen Ting; double bass: Troy Rinker, Jr., electronics: F. White

Natasha Barrett: Sub Terra Cycle -- Sand Island
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
realized at Barrett's studio, Oslo, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Dimitri Voudouris: 1:ΘΦ4
ΑΛΘ=Φ/UVIVI/1:ΘΦ4/ΟΝΤΑ
Pogus Productions/2010

--FIN--

Barrett and Pärt

Oslo-based sound artist Natasha Barrett (b. 1972 Norwich, UK) performs section from her "Sub Terra Cycle" for German radio:



Performance from Arvo Pärt's Symphony No. 4 "Los Angeles"
(Mvt. III - Deciso) (Arvo Pärt, b. 1935 Estonia)



Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen - conductor

Royal Albert Hall
Friday 20 August 2010 - UK Premiere

Martian Gardens for 12/12/2010

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Program for December 12, 2010
Extended Edition

SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Luimen
The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Four
Bridge Records/2002
Speculum Musicae -- trumpet: Raymond Mase, trombone: Michael Powell, harp: June Han, mandolin: William Anderson, guitar: David Starobin, vibraphone: Pablo Rieppi, conductor: William Purvis; recorded at Mastersound, NYC September, 2000

In honor of Elliott Carter's 102nd Birthday, December 11th, 2010

Ursula Mamlok: String Quartet No. 1
I. With Intensity
II. Very Rhythmic
III. Still, as if suspended
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume One
Bridge Records/2009
Daedalus Quartet -- first violin: Kyu-Young Kim, second violin: Min-Young Kim, viola: Jessica Thompson, cello: Raman Ramakrishnan; recorded at the Performing Arts Center, Theater C, Purchase, NY, 10/09/07

SET TWO
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Most Holy Mother of God (A. Pärt)
Officium Novum
ECM Records/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold; baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; text: Akathist hymn (trad.); recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Austria, June, 2009

Kitty Brazelton: Bells and Words
Ecclesiastes -- A Modern Oratorio
Innova Recordings/2010
The Time Remaining Band, conductor: K. Brazelton; laptop, electronics, voice: K. Brazelton; text: Ecclesiastes 3:9-15; recorded at Dreamland, West Hurley, New York

Anne LeBaron: Lagniappe -- Hourglass of Stars
1,2,4,3
Innova Recordings/2010
electronics: Earl Howard, amplified violin: Leroy Jenkins, amplified harp, live electronics: A. LeBaron; recorded at Joe's Pub, NYC, 2004

Alexander Knaifel: In Air Clear and Unseen (IACaU III)
Svete Tikhiy
ECM Records/2003
piano: Oleg Malov; Keller Quartet -- violin: András Keller, violin: János Pilz, viola: Zoltán Gál, cello: Judit Szabó; text: Fyodor Tyutchev

SET THREE
Roger Reynolds: last things, I think, to think about (excerpts)
a. text 8
b. Myrtle
c. Text 9
d. Illustration I
e. Text 10
f. Illustration II
g. Text 11
last things, I think, to think about
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
baritone: Philip Larson; text: John Ashbery; piano: Aleck Karis; music: R. Reynolds; recorded at Warren Studios, Department of Music, UC San Diego

Revolutionary Ensemble: Improvisation I
Beyond the Boundary of Time
Mutable Music/2008
violin: Leroy Jenkins, bass: Sirone, percussion, reeds, electronics: Jerome Cooper; recorded in concert, Warsaw, Poland, 5/25/05

Bob Gluck: Interlude
Electric Songs--Live Performances 2001-2003
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
saz, electronics, B. Gluck

Robert Ashley:
a. The Old Man Lives in Concrete
b. O Mesopotamia
Concrete
Lovely Music/2008
voices: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara; electronics, processing: Tom Hamilton

SET FOUR
Anna Rubin: Shards of Sappho
Sounding Out! #
Everglade Records/2010

Linda Montano: Portrait of Sappho
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
voice, electronics, piano, text: L. Montano; recorded in Austin, November, 1997

Eve Beglarian: My Heart is Trembling
60 x 60 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Eve Beglarian: Robin Redbreast
Tell The Birds
New World Records/2006
voice: Corey Dargel, piccolo: Margaret Lancaster; text: Stanley Kunitz; recorded at Brooklyn Recording, July, 2005

SET FIVE
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice
Transformation
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
cricket song and environmental sounds recorded in the "Zone of Silence" in the desert of Northern Mexico; completed at Westerkamp's Studio, Vancouver, BC, 1987

slub: Phone_Mr_Biskov
Why Record? Life in the Age of Digital Performance #
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 18, curated by Click Nilson
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
computers, electronics: Dave Griffiths, Alex McLean

Christian Marclay: His Master's Voice (excerpt)
Records
Atavistic Records/1997
recorded at The Kitchen, NYC, 1982

Dean Rosenthal: Life Is What Happens
recorded by D. Rosenthal, Florence, MA, 2010

Colin Newman: Blue Jay Way (G. Harrison)
provisionally entitled the singing fish/not to
4AD-Restless/1992 (orig. 1981-1982)

SET SIX
Margaret Leng Tan: An American in Buenos Aires (A Blues Tango)(T. Twining)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano, piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY, January, 2010

Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe: Cherry Cheesecake
The Carbon Copy Building -- A Comic-Strip Opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
text: Ben Katchor; music director: Martin Goldray; vocals: Toby Twining, Katie Geissinger ; electric guitar: John Benthal; percussion: David Cossin; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; keyboards: Martin Goldray

Phil Kline: Angels of Avenue A
Unsilent Night
Cantaloupe Music/2002
recorded by Bradford Reed, various locations in New York City, May 2001

Phil Kline: Wondrous Love (W. Walker)
John the Revelator -- A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
preformed by ETHEL and Lionheart; recorded at the Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August, 2007

Severed Heads: Wonder of All the World
Cuisine with Piscatorial
Nettwork-Volition/1991
recorded at dB Productions, Australia, 1988

SET SEVEN
Amy Horvey: This one and that one side by side
Catchment
Amy Horvey/2010
recorded at Paved Arts, Saskatoon

David Behrman: View Finder
Unforeseen Events
XI Records/1991
mutantrumpet: Ben Neill

Daniel Toussaint: La Chasse au Pougablunk Boumeu
Miniatures Concrètes #
empreintes DIGITALes/1999

SET EIGHT
Richard Maxfield: Bacchanale
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
narration, text: Edward Fields; violin: Fahrad Machkat, Robert Block: prepared violin: saxophone: Terry Jennings; underwater clarinet: Nicholas Roussakis; original music recorded at the Five Spot, Manhattan, circa 1962

James Tenney: Instrumental Responses (with Ergodos II)
Melody, Ergodicity, and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
The Barton Workshop; recorded in Amsterdam, winter, 2007

Dimitri Voudoris: ΑΛΘ=Φ (excerpt)
ΑΛΘ=Φ/UVIVI/1:ΘΦ4/ΟΝΤΑ
Pogus Productions/2010
computer music for live performance

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/05/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
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Program for December 5, 2010

SET ONE
Ingrid Drese: Horloge à feu
a. Source(Intérieur/Points)
b. Danse 1
c. Ligne/Points
d. Point
e. Envol 1
f. Danse 2
g. Envol 2
h. Étirement/Extérieur
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
realized at GMEM, Marseille, and Métamorphoses d'Orphée, Ohain, Belgium

David First: The Softening Door (excerpt)
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
computer, Yamaha PC 1600 MIDI controller: D. First

SET TWO
Natasha Barrett: from Microclimates III-VI
a. Waterfall (Microclimate V)
b. Remote Gale (Microclimate VI)
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
environmental sound sources recorded in Western Norway

Alvin Curran: Canti Illuminati I (excerpt)
Solo Works -- The '70s
New World Records/2010
recorded in Rome, 1974

Daniel Koppelman: Quintuple Escapement (I-IV) (W. Kleinsasser)
Escapement
Everglade Records/2008
computer and MIDI controller: D. Koppelman; recorded at Ball State University's Center for Music Engineering Technology, Muncie, Indiana

SET THREE
Derek Bermel: Theme and Absurdities
Soul Garden -- Chamber Works
CRI/2002
clarinet: D. Bermel; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, 2001

Anthony De Mare: Fetch (D. Bermel)
Speak! The Speaking-Singing Pianist
Innova Recordings/2010
piano, voice: A. De Mare; text: Will Eno; recorded at Rolston Recital Hall, Banff Centre, Alberta, November, 2008

John Cage: Art and Overpopulation/Royanji (excerpt)
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
lecture delivered by John Cage at Stanford University, January, 1992; Royanji -- soprano: Isabelle Ganz; percussion: Michael Pugliese

SET FOUR
John Cage: Indeterminacy # 76
(concerning Henry Cowell's Oriental music class)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
voice, text, music: J. Cage; piano, electronics: David Tudor; recorded by Mel Kaiser

The New Music Consort: Pulse (H. Cowell)
Pulse
New World Records/1990
Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman, Michael Pugliese, Mark Rendon, William Trigg, Terri Weber: Percussion, conductor: Claire Heldrich; recorded at Studio A, BMG Studios, NYC

Carlos Chávez: Xochipilli, An Imaginary Aztec Music (I-III)
Complete Chamber Works, Volume 3
Cambria Music/2005
peformed by the Southwest Chamber Music and Tambuco Percussion Ensemble, director: Jeff von der Schmidt; recorded at Herbert Zipper Concert Hall, Colburn School of Performing Arts, Los Angeles, 10/24/04

Harry Partch: from Water! Water! -- An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues
a. We Really Love Each Other: In 43 Whines to the Octave (Alderman, Ladies' Auxiliary, Jazzmen, Witches)
b. Water Criers. The baseball game is called on account of Rain!
c. To Hell With the Game! Rain! Rain! The Highest Goodness is Like Water (Whole Ensemble)
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 3
New World Records/2004 (orig. 1997)
recorded at University of Illinois, 1962, performed by the Gate 5 Ensemble, directed by John Garvey

SET FIVE
Olivier Messiaen: Amen des étoiles, de la planète a l'anneau
(Amen of the Stars and the Ringed Planet)
Visions de l'Amen
Bridge Records/2010
piano I: Marilyn Nonken; piano II: Sarah Rothenberg; recorded at Strude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, Texas, May, 2009

Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Saturn's Ring
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
komungo, electric komungo: JHK; percussion: G. Hemingway; recorded in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, 8/18/09

Muhal Richard Abrams/Roscoe Mitchell: Non-Cognitive I
(from Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City)
Spectrum
Mutable Music/2010
baritone: Thomas Buckner; poem: Joseph Jarman; Janáček Philharmonic, conductor: Petr Kotik; recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Ostrava, Czech Republic

Petr Kotik: In completing what loving was needing
Many Many Women
Dog w/a Bone/2000
S.E.M. Ensemble, director: P. Kotik, text: Gertrude Stein; recorded at Vanguard Studio, 3/17/80

SET SIX
Phil Kline:
a. Northport
b. Gloria
John the Revelator -- A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
preformed by ETHEL and Lionheart; recorded at the Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August, 2007; a. text: John Cennick, 1743, music: R.R. Osbourne, 1850; b. trad.

Ingram Marshall: Low Dutch(from Harmonic Delays)
Kingdom Come
Nonesuch Records/2001
Theatre of Voices, directed by Paul Hillier; music: Bay Psalm Book of 1698, text: Psalm 23; recorded at the United Church, Warren Village, Vermont, October, 2000

Philip Glass/Robert Wilson: Knee 4
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch Records/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman

SINGLE PLAY
Luciano Berio: Naturale
Voci
ECM Records/2002
viola: Kim Kashkashian; Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, conductor: Dennis Russell Davies; recorded at Teldec Studio, Berlin, May, 2000

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 11/28/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
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Program for November 28, 2010

SET ONE
Roland Auzet: Convergence (Y. Taïra)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
marimba: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, France

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

SET TWO
Steven Ricks: Haiku
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
Tibetan prayer bowls, tam-tams: Dominic Donato; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 2006

Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 10 (Who are we? Where are we?)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Studio 508, University of Maryland Baltimore County, May, 2008

SET THREE
The New Music Consort: Double Music (J. Cage/L. Harrison)
Pulse -- The New Music Consort
New World Records/1990
percussion: Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman,Claire Heldrich, William Trigg; recorded at Studio A, BMG Studios, NYC

Noah Creshevsky: Brother Tom
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
vocal samples: Thomas Buckner

Mari Kimura: Bucknerian for voice, violin and computer
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
violin: M. Kimura; vocal samples: Thomas Buckner; recorded at Harvestworks and Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY

SET FOUR
Amy Horvey: People Deserving Something (A. Horvey/J. Morton)
Catchment
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A. Horvey; organ: Jeff Morton; recorded at Paved Arts & New Media, Inc., Saskatoon

Al Margolis: Deck for Chair, Too
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

If, Bwana: Six Minus 6
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté

SET FIVE
David Behrman: My Father's Grocery Store
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
vocalists: T. Buckner, Eric Barsness, Maria Ludovici; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trumbone: Peter Zummo; keyboard and electronics: D. Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton; text: S.N. Behrman, "The Worcester Account"; recorded in New York City, 2003

Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe:
a. Panel Review
b. I Blame the Tenants
The Carbon Copy Building -- A Comic-Strip Opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
text: Ben Katchor; music director: Martin Goldray; vocal (a): Tony Boutte, (b) Toby Twining ; electric guitar: John Benthal; percussion: David Cossin; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; keyboards: Martin Goldray

SET SIX
Hildegard Westerkamp: A Walk Through the City
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig.1996)
realized at the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 1981, text: Norbert Ruebsaat

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now -- Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, percussion, synthesis, electronics, recording: J. La Barbara; bowed pianos: Gaylord Mowfrey; text: M.S. Carnahan, "One Pink Mask"

SET SEVEN
Anne LeBaron, Wadada Leo Smith, Peter van Bergen: An Even Loan
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
harp: A. LeBaron; trumpet: W.L. Smith; woodwinds: P. van Bergen

John Cage: One-7 (1st 1/2)
a CAGE of saxophones volumes 3 & 4 -- Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2010
performed by Ulrich Krieger; recorded at the π Farm, Germany, 2004

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 11/21/2010

WMUA FM 91.1
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Program for November 21, 2010

SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come
Nonesuch Records/2001
The American Composers Orchestra, conductor: Paul Lustig Dunkel; recorded at SUNY Purchase Concert Hall, The Performing Arts Center, recorded April, 2000

Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Svjete tihij (Byzantine Chant)
Officium Novum
ECM New Series/2010
The Hilliard Ensemble -- countertenor: David James, tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, tenor: Steven Harrold, baritone: Gordon Jones; saxophones: J. Garbarek; conductor: Peter Laenger; recorded at St. Gerold's Provost, Vorarlberg, Austria, June, 2009

SET TWO
Lou Harrison: Belle's Bull (from Concerto for Piano with Javanese Gamelan)
Scenes from Cavafy -- Music for Gamelan
New World Records/2010
piano: Adrienne Varner; Gamelan Pacifica, Cornish College of Arts, director: Jarrad Powell; recorded at London Bridge Studio, Seattle, 2009-2010

Ezra Sims: Flight
The Microtonal Music of Ezra Sims
CRI/1993
flute: Hanneke Provily; electronic tape: E. Sims; recorded at Studio van Schuppen, Veenendaal, NL, 6/10/90

Esther Lamneck & Roberto Fabbriciani: Winds of the Heart (parts 10,11)
Winds of the Heart
Innova Recordings/2010
tárogató: E. Lamneck; hyperbass flute: R. Fabbriciani; recorded at Studio Montevarchi, Arezzo, Italy, 2008

John Cage: Sculptures Musicale VI
a CAGE of saxophones, vols. 3 & 4 - Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2010
intersax, director: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at the π Farm, Germany, 6/24/04

SET THREE
Ingrid Drese: Amaryllis
a. Verticalité — horizontalité — densité
b. Émergence — complémentarité — suspendu
c. Balancement
d. Vide — strette
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
composed in the Métamorphoses d'Orphée studio, Ohain, Belgium

Stefano Scodanibbio: Oltracuidansa (excerpt)
Oltracuidansa for contrabass & 8 channel tape
Mode Records/2010
contrabass: S. Scodanibbio; recorded at CCMIX, Paris, 2000-2009

SET FOUR
David Felder: November Sky
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute, piccolo, alto flute, bass flute: Rachel Rudich; electronic tape: D. Felder; recorded at University of California, San Diego

John Melby: Concerto No. 1 for Flute and Computer-Synthesized Tape (excerpt)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 10 #
The Virtuosos in the Computer Age I
Centaur Records/1991
flute: Rachel Rudich; electronic tape: J. Melby; recorded at the Experimental Music Studios, University of Illinois

SET FIVE
Coil: Disco Hospital
Love's Secret Domain
Wax Trax-Threshold House/1991

Coil/Derek Jarman: Impatient Youths of the Sun...(edit)*
Blue -- A Film by Derek Jarman
Elektra-Nonsuch/1994
music: Coil, Simon Fisher Turner; narration (edited): D. Jarman; recorded at Brian Eno's Wilderness Studio; Suffolk, UK; *aka. "Disco Hospital"

Dean Rosenthal: Do it!(The Dialectic of the Mode of Utterance)
Dean Rosenthal/2010
sound sources: Van McCoy, "The Hustle," Steve Reich: "The Desert Music, Mvt.1"

Steve Reich: The Desert Music I (Fast)
Theillim/The Desert Music
Cantaloupe Music/2002
Alarm Will Sound and Ossia, conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded at the Kresege Recordings Studios, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, May, 2001; text: William Carlos Williams

Alarm Will Sound: Logon Rock Witch (R. James)
Acoustica -- Aphex Twin performed by Alarm Will Sound
Cantaloupe Music/2005
Alarm Will Sound; conductor: Alan Pierson; recorded at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2005

Bruce Haack: Epilogue
Farad -- The Electric Voice
Stone's Throw Records/2010
original release: "Haackula" (1978)

SET SIX
If, Bwana: Cicada #1 -- EHG Version
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté; Nord modular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; flute: Jacqueline Martelle; computer: Al Margolis; sourced from a performance at the Emily Harvey Gallery, NYC, 9/18/08

Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A Political Prisoner's Dream (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
composed at the York University Electronic Music Studio, May, 1973-May, 1977

Trevor Wishart: Facets (from "Two Women")
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
voice/text source: Princess Diana commenting on press photographers

Severed Heads: Harold and Cindy Hospital
Come Visit The Big Bigot (With Dead Eyes Opened e.p.)
Nettwerk-Volition/1987 (orig. 1985/1984)
recorded at Terse Tapes, Sydney, Australia, 1984-1985

Kassen: Ill at ease at home?
Why Record? -- Life in the age of digital performance*
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
remasterd by Tom Erbe at University of California San Diego, Department of Music, La Jolla
*Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 18: Curated by Click Nilson

Simon Wickham-Smith: Unsafeday (from "Justkidding")
Multiple Tongues
Electroshock Records/2010
voice: Helen Kidd; mastered at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, February, 2010

SET SEVEN
Noah Creshevsky: Hoodlum Priest
Hyperrealism -- Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Mutable Music/2003
voice samples: Thomas Buckner

Noah Creshevsky: Breathless
Who -- Electoacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky
Centaur Records/2000
Dedicated to Ruth Anderson and Annea Lockwood

Annea Lockwood & Ruth Anderson: World Rhythms (1997 Version) (excerpt)
Sinopah
XI Records/1998

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