Martian Gardens for 09/25/2011

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Program for September 25, 2011

MODE RECORDS CONCERT SERIES AT THE STONE
September 16-30
Located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC

SET ONE
Earle Brown: From Folio -- December 1952
Selected Early Works (1952--1965)
New World Records/2006
piano, computer, electronics: Michael Daugherty

Luc Ferrari: Tautologos 1
Tautologos and Other Early Electronic Works
Electronic Music Foundation/2002

Margaret Leng Tan: Suite for Toy Piano (I-V) (J. Cage)
She Herself Alone -- The Art of the Toy Piano 2
Mode Records/2010
toy piano: M.L. Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January, 2010

John Cage: from Four Walls, Act II
a. Scene IX
b. Scene X
The Works for Piano 5
Mode Records/2003
piano: Haydée Schwartz; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, October, 1995

MATMOS at AMHERST COLLEGE
Friday, September 30, 2011, 7 pm box office
Buckley Recital Hall in the Arms Music Center
53 College St., Amherst, MA 01004

SET TWO
Matmos: Exciter Lamp and the Variable Band
Supreme Balloon
Matador Records/2008
synthesizer: Drew Daniel, M.C. Schmidt

So Percussion & Matmos: Aluminum
Treasure State
Cantaloupe Music/2010
sampling, sequencing, electronics, emergency blanket: Drew Daniel; singing rods, beer cans, treadplate, brushes, editing; M.C. Schmidt; beer cans: Joshua Quillen, Adam Sliwinsky; beer cans, vibraphone, sequencing: Jason Treuting; vibraphone: Eric Beach; beer cans, processing: Lawson White; engineering: Brett Allen; recorded at the David Smith Room, Studio C, Clinton Recording Studios

SET THREE
So Percussion: Steel Drums (S. Mackey)
It Is Time -- So Percussion/Steve Mackey
Cantaloupe Music/2011
percussion: Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting; recorded at Guilford Sound, Guilford, VT; Good Child Music, NYC, Princeton University

Steven Mackey: from Micro-Concerto
I. Chords and Fangled Drumset
II. Interlude no. 1, Vibes solo
Heavy Light
New World Records/2004
MOSAIC quartet; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton, December, 2003

Henry Brant: Labor Day, 1935, Florida Keys
Autumn Hurricanes
Innova Recordings/2006
musicians of Stetson University; chief conductor: H. Brant; recorded at Elizabeth Hall Auditorium, Stetson University, Deland, Florida, 4/28/86

SET FOUR
Elainie Lillios: Arturo
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the electroacoustic studios of the University of Birmingham, 1998; premiered at the Symposium on Music and Computers, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece, 10/23/98

Biosphere: The Things I Tell You
Substrata
All Saints/1997
recorded at Aurora Lydstudio, Tromsø, Norway

SET FIVE
Anla Courtis with Armpit: Pocket Gallows
The Torrid
Porter Records/2011
recorded in Buenos Aires, 2003

David First: Pipeline Witness Apologies to Dennis, Section One
Privacy Issues (droneworks 1996-2009)
XI Records/2010
trombone: Christopher McIntyre; computer, Yamaha PC 16000 MIDI Controller: D. First

Lisa Moore: With enthusiasm and a little violence (A. Gosfield)
Lightning Singers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano, sampling keyboard: L. Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT, Spring 2010

SINGLE PLAY
Tim Brady: from Three Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune
Scene 1. Montreal
a. prelude: Three Cities: You Must Remember (Pai-Chou-En)
b. Poem: To Pony, Aug. 31, 1935, and letter, Oct. 8, 1935 (N. Bethune
c. Poem: An Immigrant (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal)
d. Incantation 1, letter, Nov. 6, 1935 (N. Bethune)
e. Poem: Depression Suite (Dorothy Livesay, Montreal)
f. Letter: Oct. 8, 1935 (N. Bethune)
Three Cities in the Life of Dr. Norman Bethune
Ambiances Magnetiques/2006
baritone: Michael Donovan; Bradyworks, conductor: Pierre Simard; recorded at Studio 12, Radio-Canada, Montreal, 2005

SET SIX
Annea Lockwood: Passau to Jochenstein
A Sound Map of The Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
sound sources: Passau -- Ilz (tributary) in the Triftsperre Felsendurchbruch (tunnel used by loggers) 11:50 am, 5/18/02; St Stephen Dam, 9:15 am, 5/20/02; Inn (tributary) 5/20/02; Rainer Moschak, teacher, Breitenberg, 5/17/02; Donaukraftwerk Jochenstein (Dam spillway, 11:55 am 5/20/02

Sylvia Smith: Pacific Sirens (R. Erickson)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records--Smith Publications/2008
timpani: S. Smith; bass flute: Lisa Cella; flute, alto flute: Carrie Rose; voice, bowed gongs, cymbals: Lee Hinkle; voices: Bonnie Lander, Megha Jacob, Lisette Abreu; tape of Pacific Ocean sounds: Pescadero Beach, California, 1969

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/18/2011

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Program for September 18, 2011

MODE RECORDS CONCERT SERIES AT THE STONE
September 16-30
Located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC

SET ONE
Terumi Nerushima: He resonates five toes
Why Record? Life in the Age of Digital Performance (various Artists)
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
koto: T. Narushima; recorded by Warren Burt, 2008

Chris Brown: Cremation Procession, Bali
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005
recorded in Bali by Chris Brown, 1/03/96

SET TWO
Harry Partch: Two Settings from Joyce's Finnegans Wake
a. Isobel
b. Annah the Allmaziful
Enclosure Two -- Harry Partch collection
Innova Recordings/1995
soprano: Lola Harding; flutes: Dorothy Holden, Hilmar Luckhardt; Kithara: H. Partch; texts: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake; recorded by Walter Gilson, 1945

Harry Partch: November 15 -- Leaving Santa Barbara (from Bitter Music)
ibid.
voice: Warren Burt; piano: Sheila Guymer; recorded at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation-Broadcast Music, Melbourne, 1/23/92

Anthony De Mare:
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (J. Cage)
b. Nowth Upon Nacht (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices (works by Meredith Monk and John Cage)
Koch/1992
piano, voice: A. De Mare; texts: James Joyce, "Finnegans Wake"

Otto Luening/Vladimir Ussachevsky: Incantation
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006(orig. CRI/1991)
tape music recorded at WKCR, Columbia University, 1953; engineer: Peter Mauzey

György Ligeti: Artikulation
Continuum/10 Stücke für Bläserquintett/Artikulation/Glissandi/2 Etüden/Volumina
Wergo/1988
recorded at the Electronic Music Studio of West German Radio, Cologne, 3/25/58

Ursula Mamlok: Sonar Trajectory
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 2
Bridge Records/2010
recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1966

Gordon Mumma: Song Without Words (in memoriam David Tudor)
David Tudor & Gordon Mumma
New World Records/2006
piano: G. Mumma

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

Chris Brown & Pauline Oliveros: Gravity Waves
Music in the Air
Deep Listening/2010
piano, electronics: C. Brown; accordion, Expanded Instrument System: P. Oliveros; recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08

SET FOUR
Henry Gwiazda: man-eating-chips-listening-to-a-violin
noTnoTesnoTrhyThms
Innova Recordings/2002
electronic cello: Jeffrey Krieger; sound effects, sampler: H. Gwiazda

Elsa Justel: Puntos, comas y refritos
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
8-track tape: E. Justel; realized in 2002 at the studio of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin; premiered in during a concert at the Akademie der Künste, 2003

SINGLE PLAY
Matthew Welch: Self/Non-Self and Luminosity in the Bardo
i. slow, delicate, softly tumultuous (harp solo)
ii. softly tumultuous, nervous, building tumult and texture (tutti)
iii. floating, flowing (tutti)
iv. luminosities
v. swelling, with breathing space, undulating
vi. escalating, nervousness, gaining tumult
vii. cadenza delicate, nervous, slow (harp solo)
Luminosity
Porter Records/2009
harp: Zeena Parkins; flute: Leah Paul; oboe: Christa Robinson; bass clarinet: Matt Bauder; bassoon: Katherine Young; violin: Jennifer Choi; viola: Leanne Darling; cello: Christopher Hoffmann; bass: Reuben Radding; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, December, 2008

SET FIVE
Coil: ANS (CD B, track 2 -- excerpt)
ANS
Threshold House (ltd. ed.)/2004
ANS Synthesizer: Jhonn Balance, Peter Christopherson, Ossian Brown, Thighpaulsandra; Moscow State University

Stanislav Kreitchi: Ruins in the Waste
Voices and Movement
Electroshock Records/2002
ANS synthesizer: S. Kreitchi; Moscow State University; mastered at Electroshock Records Studios, 2001

SET SIX
Richard Carrick: Moroccan Flow (Unfolding from Unity)
The Flow Cycle for Strings
New World Records/2011
cello: Alex Waterman

Jason Eckhardt: A Way [Tracing]
Undersong
Mode Records/2011
cello: Fred Sherry; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, NY, 1/11/11

SINGLE PLAY
Jin Hi Kim: Jupiter's Moons
Komungo
O.O. Discs/2001
electric komungo: JHK; Korean kagok singer: Kang Kwon Soon;
for Dong Dong Touching the Moons, commissioned by MassMoCA, premiered at The Kitchen,
NYC

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 09/11/2011

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Program for September 11, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Roland Auzet: Rebonds A & B (I. Xenakis)
a. Rebonds B
b. Revonds A
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, Paris

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros: St. George and the Dragon (excerpt)
St. George and the Dragon/In Memoriam Mr. Whitney
Mode Records/1991
accordion: P.Oliveros; recorded at the Pomfret Chapel, The Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut, 3/10/91

Frances White: Walk Through "Resonant Landscape" No. 2
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007

The above three pieces will be performed at the
Mode Records Concert Series at the Stone
September 16-30
Located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, NYC

SET TWO
Darren Copeland: They're Trying to Save Themselves
Lost and Found
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
commissioned by CBC Radio One for the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks; all sounds sourced from CNN immediately following the bombings of the World Trad Center towers, September 11, 2001; realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered on CBC Radio One, 9/11/02

Robert Normandeau: Chorus
a. Overture
b. Judaism
c. Christianity
d. Islam
e. War
f. Pain
g. Peace
Puzzles
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
dedicated to the victims of September 11, 2001; realized at the composer's studio, 2002, premiered on 7/13/02 during the Festival de musiques sacrées (Fribourg, Switzerland)

SINGLE PLAY
Alice Shields: Shenandoah --
Opening - Percussion - Senegalese Man - Percussion - Mennonite Woman - Percussion - Mixtec Indians - Percussion - Ukrainian Man - Percussion - Food - Percussion - Songs - Percussion - Ending
Shenandoah -- Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004
interviews recorded in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, 2001; percussion sampled from Indian and Middle Eastern instruments; created in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; commissioned by the School of Theatre and Dance of James Madison University for choreographer Mark Taylor; premiered at James Madison University, Harrison, Virginia, March 21-23, 2002

SET THREE
Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Alvin Curran: Endangered Species
Lost Marbles
Tzadik/2004
Disklavier, samples, synthesizers: A. Curran

Robert Scott Thompson: Illusion of Orderly Progress
Blue Day
Auccourant Records/2000

Polly Moller: Cold Blood
60 x 60 2004-2005 (various artists)
Vox Novus/2007
voice, text: P. Moller

Read Miller: The Blueprint of a Promise
The Complete 10 Inch Series from Cold Blue (various artists)
Cold Blue Music/2003
voice, text, electronics: R. Miller; recorded at College Street Studio, Redlands, California, 4/01/81

SINGLE PLAY
Yasunao Tone: Geography and Music
Music for Merce (various artists)
New World Records/2010
voices: John Cage, Takehisa Kosugi; piano: David Tudor; qin (guqin): Martin Kalve; Chinese text reader: Yoshiharu Suenobu; texts extracted from geography sections of ancient Chinese encyclopedias; recorded in Lueven, Belgium, 10/20/83 for the dance "Roadrunners" (1979), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

SET FOUR
John Eaton: Blind Man's Cry
First Performances -- The Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizer in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2009
soprano: Michiko Hirayama; text: Tristan Corbiere; Syn-Ket: J. Eaton; Jaye Williams: Moog synthesizer; tapes, mixing: Wilson Allen

Noah Creshevsky: et puis (excerpt 1)
Hyperrealism in Music -- Electroacoustic Music by Noah Creshevsky 1992-2005*
Noa Creshevsky/2005
*unreleased; full version of et puis released on the CD Who on Centaur Records

Carey Nutman: Land Below the Wind - part 6
Land Below the Wind
MPS Music & Video/2011

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Martian Gardens for 09/04/2011

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Program for September 04, 2011

SET ONE
Richard Carrick: In Flow
The Flow Cycle for Strings
New World Records2011
violin: Andrea Schultz

Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 9 (Duo Capriccioso)
The Music of Mario Davidovsky Volume 3
Bridge Records/2005
violin: Curtis Macomber; electronics; recorded at K.A.S. Music Sound, Astoria, NY

Todd Reynolds: End of Day
Outerborough
Innova Recordings/2011
viola: T. Reynolds

SET TWO
Maya Beiser: I Was There (K. Kahlor)
Provenance
Innova Recordings/2011
oud: Bassam Saba; cello: M. Beiser; percussion: Shane Shanahan, Jamey Haddad; recorded at Kilgore Studios, New York City

Mohammed Saleh Abd Al-Saheb Lelo/Haitham Hasan: Bead Konto
Music of Islam Volume 4--Music of the Arabian Peninsula (Doha, Qatar)
Celestial Harmonies/1997
oud: Mohammed Saleh; percussion: Haitham Hasan

SET THREE
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary DVD
Mode Records/2011
performed by Steven Schick and red fish blue fish; National Gallery of Arts, Washington D.C.

Michael Lipsey: King of Denmark (M. Feldman)
So Long, Thanks
Capstone Records/2008
percussion: M. Lipsey; recorded at David Cossin's apartment, New York City

SET FOUR
Harry Partch: End of Scene Three and all of Chorus Four --
from Revelation in the Courthouse Park, after the Bacchae of Euripides
Enclosure 5 -- Harry Partch anthology
Innova Recordings/1998
Gate 5 Ensemble, conductor John Garvey; performed for the Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois, 4/11/61

Jody Diamond: Hard Times (S. Foster)
In That Bright World -- Music for Javanese Gamelan
New World Records/2009
musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts; voice: J. Diamond; recorded at the ISI, Surakarta, July, 2001

SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: Land Below the Wind -- Parts 1 & 2
Land Below the Wind
MPS Music & Video/2011

Robert Scott Thompson: Waters of Cabeus (A)
Elemental
Aucourant Records/2010

SET SIX
Christine Groult: Vertiges
La Condition Captive
Trace Label/2007

Gerard Pape: Funeral Sentences
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
sopranos: Janet Pape, Armelle Orieux; percussion: Roland Auzet; conductor: Alain Bancquart; texts: Anglican Book of Common Prayer, Funeral Sentences (after Henry Purcell); unnamed Jewish poem

Jacques Tremblay: L'enigme anima
Chroniques d'une séduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2009

SINGLE PLAY
David Rosenboom: Central Section (excerpt)
Systems of Judgment
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 4
Centaur Records/1989
recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM), Mills College, completed in May, 1988

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 8/28/2011

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Program for August 28, 2011

SET ONE
Henry Brant: 1955. Eleven Hurricanes. Atlantic Coast
Autumn Hurricanes -- The Henry Brant Collection Volume 5
Innova Recordings/2006
musicians of Stetson University, chief conductor: H. Brant; recorded at
Elizabeth Hall Auditorium, Stetson University, Deland Florida, 4/26/86

Orlando Jacinto Garcia: Music for Berlin
Celestial Voices
O.O. Discs/1998
flutes: Robert Dick; piano: Anthony DeMare, recorded at the University
of Maryland Baltimore County
SET TWO
Giacinto Scelsi: Manto I, II, III
The Works for Viola
Mode Records/2011
viola, voice: Vincent Royer; recorded at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, 2008

Richard Carrick: Shadow Flow
The Flow Cycle for Strings
New World Records/2011
viola: Dov Scheindlin

SET THREE
Benjamin Broening: Third Nocturne
Recombinant Nocturnes
Innova Recordings/2011
pianos: Daniel Koppelman; electronics; recorded at Camp Concert Hall,
Modlin Center for the Arts, University of Richmond, May, 2010

Robert Scott Thompson:
a. Origin
b. Lattice
Blue Day
Aucourant Records/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Less Than Two
Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
pianos: Jean-Charles François, Delores Stevens; percussion: Daniel Dunbar,
Daryl Pratt (orig. Lovely Music, Ltd./1984)

SET FOUR
Meredith Monk: Respite
Songs of Ascension
ECM Records/2011
voices: Meredith Monk, Bruce Rameker, Ching Gonzalez, Allison Sniffin;
shruti boxes: Ellen Fisher, Bohdan Hilash, John Hollenbeck, B. Rameker,
C. Gonzalez, Katie Geisinger, A. Sniffin; violins: Todd Reynolds, Courtney
Orlando; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; recorded at the Academy
of Arts and Letters, NYC, November 2009

Hervé Zénouda: Les êtres indécis
Demain, dès l'aube
Trace Label/2002
alto saxophone: Cathy Heyden; electric guitar: Thomas Pettit; percussion:
Hervé Zénouda

Jon Hassell: Dream Theory
Dream Theory in Malaya
EG/1981
electronically filtered trumpet: J. Hassell; drums: Brian Eno; bass:
Michael Brook; recorded at Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario

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

SINGLE PLAY
Sarah Boothroyd: All in Time
Deep Wireless 8 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011

SINGLE PLAY
Quatuor Bozzini: 2nd Movement
a. Pulsations
b. 38 Pièces
c. Shiatsu
d. Mélopées d'ADN
Quatuor Bozzini-Actuellecd/2011
recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 12/15/07

SINGLE PLAY
Tom Hamilton: Bonampak
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
ARP 2500 synthesizer: T. Hamilton; percussion: Rich O'Donnell; wind instruments: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1975

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Martian Gardens for 08/14/2011

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Program for August 14, 2011

SET ONE
Roger Reynolds: Sanctuary (excerpt)
Sanctuary
Mode Records/2011
performed by Steven Schick and red fish blue fish; National Gallery of Arts, Washington D.C.

Gordon Mumma: Meanwhile, A Twopiece
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966
New World Records/2003
piano, percussion: Robert Ashley; French horn, percussion: G. Mumma; magnetic tape; recorded at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2/10/62

SET TWO
Evidence: Burden
Iris
Deep Listening/2007

Daniel Menche: Coughing Angel
Screaming Caress
Side Effects/1997

Anla Courtis and Daniel Menche: Harmful Rainstorm
The Torrid (Anla Courtis, et al.)
Porter Records/2011
rainstorm recording, live mix: D. Menche; harmonica sound sources: A. Courtis; recorded in Portland, Oregon, 2008

Anla Courtis: Invisible Clown Sonata
Tape Works
Pogus Productions/2006
Minimoog: A. Courtis

SET THREE
The Legendary Pink Dots: Femme Mirage
Asylum
Play It Again Sam/1985

Jenny Q Chai: Serenity (C. Ives)
New York Love Songs
Arpaviva Foundation, Inc./2010
amplified piano, voice: JQ Chai; text: J.G. Whittier

Charles Ives: August
The Light That Is Felt -- Songs of Charles Ives
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; piano: Donald Berman; text: Folgore da San Gimignano, translation by Dante Gabriel Rosetti;

Hervé Zénouda: Jour de colère
Vies Secondes
Trace Label/1999
violin: Alain Petit; MIDI tuba: Pierre Pouget; MIDI programming: H. Zénouda; recorded at Le Cult Du Cargo studio, Paris

Paolo Angeli:
a. La Mulina (Parlando)
b. La Mulina de Pepa
ReR Megacorp/2005
recorded in Italy, 2002-2004

A Touch of the Sun: Geese
Not Necessarily "English" Music (various artists)
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
guitar: Peter Cusack; clarinet: Simon Mayo; recorded in London, c. 1974

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Ptoccata II
Petrophonics
Cuneiform Records/2000
additional musicians -- percussion: Terry Donahue, Ken Winokur; turntable: Pacey Foster; recorded at Sounds Interesting, Middleborough, Mass., 1999/2000

SET FOUR
Jason Eckhardt: 16
Undersong
Mode Records/2011
amplified flute: Claire Chase; International Contemporary Ensemble, conductor: Steven Schick; recorded at Sweeney Auditorium, Smith College, 3/19/08

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

SET FIVE
F. Gerard Errante: Water Crossing (A. Shapiro)
Delicate Balance
Aucourant Records/2010
clarinet: F. G. Errante; electronics

Alex Shapiro: Bioplasm
Notes from the Kelp
Innova Recordings/2007
The Los Angeles Flute Quartet; recorded at Citrus City Studios, Glendora, CA, March 2004

SET SIX
Maggi Payne: System Test (Fire and Ice)
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010

Marcelle Deschênes: Indigo
a. Peur apprivoisée (Tamed Fear)
b. Trame de tension (Weft of Tension)
Petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2007

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur
a. Opening
b. Dance
The Electronic Works I
Mode Records/2001
Buchla synthesizer: M. Subotnick, 1978

--FIN--

The Ghost of Esperanto Volume 03

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THE GHOST OF ESPERANTO, VOLUME 03
Music from the archives of Esperanto
broadcast Sunday evenings 1995--2000 on WMUA
For automated station programming
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Recorded August 13, 2011

SET ONE
Single Cell Orchestra: Knock Out Drops (200 Proof Mix)
Single Cell Orchestra
Asphodel/1996

Orbital: The Box (1 & 2)
In Sides
FFRR-London Records/1996

SET TWO
Robert Black: Radio Sonata (J. Sellars)
State of the Bass
O.O. Discs/1994

Severed Heads: Snow
Gigapus
Volition/1994

Spoonfed Hybrid: Boys in Zinc
Spoonfed Hybrid
4AD/1994

Peter Lazonby: Humble Servant
Your Humble Servant
Braniak/1995

SET THREE
Leif Brush: Terrain Instruments Are Activated
The Aerial (various artists)
Nonsequitur/1994

Amorphous Androgynous: Fat Cat
Tales of Ephidrina
Astralwerks/1993

Bionaut: Astral Unraveler
Au Naturel
Tiny Bubbles Music/1996

SET FOUR
The Higher Intelligence Agency: Fleagle
Freefloater
Waveform/1996

Vidna Obmana: Challenging Boundaries
Assemblage Volume Two (various artists)
Extreme Records/1996

Muslimgauze: Beit Nuba
Citadel
Extreme Records/1994

SET FIVE
The Legendary Pink Dots: Stitching Time
Shadow Weaver
Play It Again Sam/1992

Gong:
a. Magick Mother Invocation
b. Master Builder
You
Decal/1991 (orig. Virgin/1974)

The Legendary Pink Dots: Oasis Malade
9 Lives to Wonder
Play It Again Sam/1994

Bill Nelson: Memory Babe
After the Satellite Sings
Gyroscope/1996

SET SIX
Alquimia & Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma: Foundations (Basamentos)
Dead Tongues (Lenguas Muertas)
Cuneiform Records/1996

Dead Can Dance: Dedicacé Outò
Spirit Chaser
4AD/1996

Hungry Ghost: Cloud Sculptors
Sugar Skulls
Tone Casualties/1995

This Mortal Coil: At First And Then
Filigree & Shadow
4AD/1986

Muslimgauze: Caste the First Stone
Salaam Alekum, Bastard
Staalplaat/1995

SET SEVEN
Richard Pinhas: Marie et Virginie Comp (Live)
Un Rêve Sans Conséquence Spéciale
Cuneiform/1995 (orig. 1978)

Steve Tibbetts:
a. Interlude
b. Alvin Goes to Tibet
Steve Tibbetts
Cuneiform/1995 (orig. 1977)

Ken Field: Takuskanskan
Subterranea
O.O. Discs/1996

SINGLE PLAY
Jeffrey Krieger: themythofAcceptance (H. Gwiazda)
Night Chains
CRI/1995

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