Martian Gardens for 01/23/2009

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 23, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Otto Luening: Moonflight
Pioneers of Electronic Music
New World Records/2006
created at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968

Henry Cowell: The Tides of Manaunaun
Piano Music
Smithsonian-Folkways/1993 (orig. 1963)
piano: H. Cowell

Philip Corner:
a. Short Piano Piece IV
b. Short Piano Piece IX
c. Short Piano Piece XIII
40 Years and One -- Philip Corner Plays the Piano
XI Records/2001
piano: P. Corner; recorded at IIWII studios, Weehawken, NJ, January, 1998

Gamelan Son Of Lion: Sad/Happy (D. Goode)
Sonogram
Innova Recordings/2009
clarinet: Daniel Goode

SET TWO
John Cage: Music Walk
The Works for Piano I
Mode Records/1995
piano, short radio, objects: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, Mass., March 1993

John Cage: Inlets (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
conch shells with water: Paeder Mercier, Mel Mercier, J. Cage
recorded at Roubaix, France, 10/27/1983; dance: Inlets (1977), Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET THREE
Christian Wolff: Or 4 People (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
piano, melodica: C. Wolff; live electronics, violin, harmonica: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded in New York, 7/23/1999; dance: Rune (1959), Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Christian Wolff: Snowdrop
Tilbury Pieces/Snowdrop
Mode Records/1999
violin, viola: Dimitrios Polisoidis; piano: Hildegard Kleeb; trombone: Roland Dahinden; recorded at Sender Freies, Berlin, May, 1996

SET FOUR
So Percussion & Matmos: Swamp
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010

So Percussion & Trollstilt: Matisse's Garden Lesson
Five (and-a-half)Gardens
Shhh Productions/2007
recorded at Princeton University

Chen Yi: Jing Marimba
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: Gordon Stout; recorded at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, 7/05/09

SET FIVE
Neil Rolnick: MONO Prelude
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
laptop, voice: N. Rolnick; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, February, 2010

Madelyn Byrne: Arrival
Sounding Out! (DVD extracts)
Everglade Records/2010

SINGLE PLAY
Joane Hétu: La Neige
a. Neige 1-2
b. Neige 5-3
c. Neige 4-2
d. Regarder la neige tomber
Récits de neige
Actuellecd/2010
performed by Ensemble SuperMusique, recorded at Théâtre La Chapelle, Montreal, 2008; texts: a: Dyane Raymond, b: Lise Hétu, c: Luc Proulx; d: Miranda Nienson

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Austin: Caritas
Source--Music of the Avant Garde (Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971)
Pogus Productions/2009
PDP-10 computer, Buchla Electronic Music System: L. Austin, realized 1969 for the Artificial Intelligence Project, Stanford University

SINGLE PLAY
Terry Riley: Negro Hall
Lisbon Concert
New Albion Records/1996
piano: T. Riley; recorded at the Festival dos Capuchos, Teatro São Luís, Lisbon, Portugal, 7/16/95

--FIN--

Hearne, Small, Rolnick

Another selection from Katrina Ballads by Ted Hearne. This one is called "Anderson Cooper." Like the rest of the texts from "Katrina Ballads," Hearne uses words straight from the media at the time of Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005.



This is another performance of Washington D.C. pianist Haskell Small of "Lullaby of War."



ETHEL performs Neil Rolnick's "Gene Pool" featured on his latest CD "Extended Family" (Innova Recordings)



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Martian Gardens for 01/16/2011

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 16, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
David Behrman: ...for nearly an hour... (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
voices: Valda Setterfeld, Carolyn Brown, Barbara Dilley Lloyd, Beverly Emmons, for the dance "Walkaround Time," recorded in Buffalo, 1968

SINGLE PLAY
David Baker: Through This Vale of Tears
I. Thou Dost Lay Me in the Dust of Death
II. If There Be Sorrow
III. My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
IV. Parades to Hell
V. Deliver My Soul
VI. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
VII. Now That He Is Safely Dead
VIDEMUS
New World Records/1992
tenor: William Brown; violins: Lynn Chang, Marylou Speaker Churchill, viola: Marcus Thompson; cello: Mark Churchill; piano, artist director: Vivian Taylor; recorded at The African American Meeting House, Boston, 1991; texts: I., III., V. Psalm 22; II. Mari Evans; IV. Solomon Edwards; VI. traditional; VII. Carl Hines
In memoriam Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, January 15, 1929 -- April 4, 1968

SINGLE PLAY
Ted Hearne: from Katrina Ballads
a. Prologue: Keeping its Head Above Water
b. When we awoke it was to that familiar phrase: New Orleans dodged a bullet
c. Hardy Jackson 8.30.05
d. Interlude 1
e. Dennis Hastert
Katrinia Ballads
New Amsterdam Records/2010
a. mezzo-soprano: Abby Fischer; text: Eric Berger, The Houston Chronicle (12.01.01); b. horn: Nathan Koci; title: Pamela Davidson-Ehlers, American Federation of Government Employees; c. baritone: Anthony Turner; text: Hardy Jackson, resident of Biloxi, ABC Television; e. tenor: Isaiah Robinson; text: Dennis E. Hastert (R-IL), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; recorded with 16-member chorus and ensemble in March, 2008, Avatar Studios, Manhattan

SET ONE
Amy Horvey: Quattro pezzi per tromba sola (G. Scelsi)
Interview
Actuellecd/2009
trumpet: A. Horvey; recorded at St. Philip's Church and Studio 270, Montreal, August, 2009

Giacinto Scelsi: from Suite no. 5: Il Circo
I. Deciso
II. "quarter note" = 120
III. Grazioso
IV. "quarter note" = 108
V. Spigliato
The Piano Works 4
Mode Records/2010
piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Neil Rolnick: Extended Family
a. The Gene Pool
b. Siblings
c. Cousins & Uncles & Aunts
d. Loss
e. The Gathering
Extended Family
Innova Recordings/2011
ETHEL string quartet; recorded at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, February, 2010

SET TWO
Stuart Saunders Smith: Family Portraits
a. Sylvia
b. Ivy
c. Earle
Crux
O.O. Discs/1992
piano: Thomas Moore

John Cage:
a. Totem Ancestor
b. Ad Lib
c. Jazz Study
d. Music for Marcel Duchamp
The Works for Piano 4
Mode Records/2002
pianos: Margaret Leng Tan

SINGLE PLAY
Toshi Ichiyanagi: Activities for Orchestra
Music for Merce boxed-set
New World Records/2010
viola: David Behrman; piano, voice, percussion: John Cage; horns, live electronics: Gordon Mumma; piano, live electronics: David Tudor; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; percussion: Max Neuhaus; for the dance "Scramble" (1967), recorded on tour, May, 1968

SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: Visages V (Parts 1-3)
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 01/09/2011

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EST
Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 9, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Giacinto Scelsi: Hispania (Trypyque pour Piano)
I. Mosso, con spirito
II. Moderato
III. Mosso
The Piano Works 4
Mode Records/2010
piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Haskell Small: Lullaby of War
I. War is Kind
II. No
III. Recitative VIII (excerpts)
IV. Naming Souls
V. Look Down, Fair Moon
VI. Guernica Pantoum
Lullaby of War/Renoir's Feast/3 Etudes in Sound
Naxos/2011
piano: Soheil Nasseri; narrator: Martin Rayner; texts: I. Stephen Crane; II. Joy Harjo; III. Yvan Goll; IV. Uri Zvi Greenberg; V. Walt Whitman; VI. Paula Tatarunis

SINGLE PLAY
Toca Loca: Bring Them Home! (F. Rzewski)
Shed
Henceforth Records/2010
piano: Simon Docking; percussion: Ajyun Huang; percussion: Fernando Rocha; piano, conductor: Gregory Oh; recorded at Walter Hall, University of Toronto

SET ONE
Gidon Kremer: Eight Hymns (In Memoriam Andrei Tarkovsky) (S. Kovacs Tickmayer)
a. Calmo
b. Tranquilo
c. Pesante
d. Sereno
e. Molto Tranquilo
f. Dolce
g. Molto Semplice
Hymns and Prayers
ECM Records/2010
violin: Gidon Kremer; piano: Khatia Buniatishvili; vibraphone: Andrei Pushkarev; Kremerata Baltica orchestra, conductor: Roman Kofman; recoreded at Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus, Lockenhaus, July, 2008

Anthony De Mare: Statue of Liberty (L. Anderson)
Speak! The Speaking-Singing Pianist
Innova Recordings/2010
Recorded at Rolston Recital Hall, Banff, November, 2008

SET TWO
Nicolas Bernier: Writing Machine
Trans_Canada (ZKM/Karlsruhe)(DVD Extract) #
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
voice: André Garant; commissioned by Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

Robert Dick & Thomas Buckner: Certain Gravities
Flutes & Voices
Mutable Music/2010
voice: T. Buckner; flutes: R. Dick; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems Two, Brooklyn, 6/18/09

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Curran: The Works (excerpt)
Solo Works: The '70s
New World Records/2010
recorded in Rome, circa 1974

SINGLE PLAY
Sylvia Smith: Mureau (J. Cage)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe
Smith Publications/2008
voices: S. Smith; text: Henry David Thoreau's Journal, arranged by I Ching chance operations by John Cage

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 01/02/2011

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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

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