Martian Gardens for 01/29/2012

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for January 29, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Virgil Thomson: Three Parisian Portraits
a. Poltergeist -- A Portrait of Hans Arp
b. Aria -- A Portrait of Germaine Hugnet
c. Swiss Waltz -- A Portrait of Sophia Tauber-Arp
Early and as Remembered
New Albion Records/1991
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Trackmaster Studios, Buffalo, January 1989

SINGLE PLAY
Tod Machover: Sparkler
...but not simpler...
Bridge Records/2011
Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Paul Mann; recorded at Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark, May 2009

SET ONE
John Cage: Five
The Number Pieces 6
Mode Records/2012
Essential Music -- blown bottles: Judith Gordon, Maya Gunji, John Kennedy, Eric Kivnick, Charles Wood; recorded at SUNY Purchase, May 1993

John Cage: Four⁶ (excerpt)
Music for Merce boxed set [various artists]
New World Records/2010
laptop: Paul DeMarinis; percussion, contact microphone, tape, live electronics, voice: Takehisa Kosugi; laptop: Jim O'Rourke; trombone: Stuart Dempster; recorded 4/04/98 for the dance "Rondo," The Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Morton Subotnick: 4 Butterflies -- Butterfly No. 1
Electronic Works Vol. 3
Mode Records/2011
for 4-track tape with two films (original mix 1973, new mix 2011)
SET THREE
James Correa: Spells
Portfolio
James Correa/2012
recorders: Luciane Cuervo; electronics: James Correa; recorded at Porto Alegre, Brazil

Eleanor Hovda: Borealis Music
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
Relâche Ensemble; recorded at Acoustical Concepts, Inc., Eddystone, Pennsylvania, 1991

SET FOUR
Philip Blackburn: Duluth Harbor Serenade
Ghostly Psalms
Innova Recordings/2012
sounds and instruments recorded at the DS Pride celebration, Bayfront Festival Park, Duluth, Minnesota, Labor Day Weekend 2011

The Legendary Pink Dots: Oasis Malade
9 Lives to Wonder
Soleilmoon Recordings/1995

Sarah Peebles: White Powder/The Spider
Insect Groove
Cycling '74 Music Label/2002
voice: David Toop; sounds: Sarah Peebles; composed by Toop/Peebles

David Toop: Blind Eel Priestess
The Black Chamber
Sub Rosa/2003

SET FIVE
Paul Rudy: Degrees of Separation (Grandchild of Tree)
Toys in the Attic
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33 -- Electroacoustic Music
from the UMKC iMPACT Center [various artists]
Centaur Records/2002
amplified cactus: Nathan Davis; digital effects, tape, engineering: Paul Rudy

Paul Rudy: Tikkun Olam
Possible Worlds [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2011
electronics: Paul Rudy

Philip Mantione: HFone
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
samples, MAX/Msp "Headfuck" software: P. Mantione

SET SIX
Jonty Harrison: Unsound Objects
Articles Indefinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
composed at the composer's studio and the Electroacoustic Music Studios of The University of Birmingham; premiered in Banff, Alberta, 9/07/95

Victoria Fenner: Folded and Broken
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Arts Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
sounds recorded at Hogs Back Falls, Rideau River, Ottawa

Dan Stearns: Walking Woods
Golden Town
Spectropol Records/2011

SET SEVEN
Jerry Hunt: Transphalba
Lattice
CRI/1979

Jin Hi Kim and Joseph Celli: Types of Asia
No World Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1990
changgo: JHK drums; English horn (without reeds): Joseph Celli

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Martian Gardens for 01/22/2012

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Program for January 22, 2012

With special guest: Craig Shepard
Also featuring: Dean Rosenthal, Jack Callahan, and Jeremy Starpoli

SINGLE PLAY
Trios with Christian Wolff: Track One
Trios
Pogus Productions/2004
voice, texts: Chris Mann, fretted and fretless electric guitars: Larry Polansky; recording, editing, processing: Tom Erbe; computer, electronics, recording: Douglas Repetto; piano, bass, percussion, melodics: C. Wolff; recorded in Hanover, NH, 1998

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Shepard: Grottes de L'Orbe, le 22 Juillet, 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser Records/2011
clarinet: Katie Porter

LIVE IN STUDIO
Craig Shepard: St. Cergue
pocket trumpet: Craig Shepard

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Shepard: Vallorbe, le 23 Juillet, 2005
On Foot
Edition Wandelweiser Records/2011
flute: Antoine Beuger; clarinet: Jürg Frey; cello: Marcus Kaiser; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit

LIVE IN STUDIO
Jack Callahan: Table Canons from Substantia Absolute Infinita
trombones: Craig Shepard, Jeremy Starpoli

SINGLE PLAY
Jürg Frey: from Chorals and vague canons
a. Choral 1
b. Choral 2
c. Canon 2
d. Canon 7
performed by the Peckinpah Trio --
electric guitar: Beat Keller, Christian Kobi: Saxophone; Craig Shepard: Trombone;
recorded at Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, 4/15/11

LIVE IN STUDIO
Larry Polansky: Christian Music
trombones: Craig Shepard, Jeremy Starpoli; melodica: Jack Callahan; electric guitar: Dean Rosenthal

SINGLE PLAY
Dean Rosenthal: I Think So Too
MIDI-programmed chapel organ; recorded in concert at Wesleyan University, 9/23/11

SINGLE PLAY
Jack Callahan: Toward (excerpt)
clarinet: Jürg Frey; cello: Stefan Thut; percussion: Jack Callahan; recorded at Boiler, Aarau, Switzerland, 6/07/11 6/07/2011

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Polansky
a. Study: Anna, the long and the short of it (from Three Anna Studies)
b. 51 Melodies
Change
Frog Peak Music/2002
a. voice: Anna Diamond Polansky; computer: L. Polansky; realized at the Bregman Electronic Music Studio, Dartmouth College; b. rock band -- electric guitars: L. Polansky, Nick Didkovsky; electric bass: Greg Anderson; drums: Leo Ciesa

SINGLE PLAY
Eleanor Hovda:
a. Shenai Sky
b. Recordings of an Ocean Cliff
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
shenai, oboe: Libby Van Cleve; electric guitar: Jack Vees; recorded at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bower, New York City

SINGLE PLAY
Somei Satoh: Sanyou
Sun Moon
New Albion Records/1994
shakuhachi: Akikazu Nakamura; jyunana-gen (seventeen string koto): Masako Kawamura; recorded at the Joyce Theater, New York City, January 1993

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Martian Gardens for 01/15/2012

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Program for January 15, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Creshevsky: Novella
Hyperrealism
Mutable Music/2003

SET ONE
Bang On A Can All-Stars: Sunray (D. Lang)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2011
cello: Ashley Bathgate; bass: Robert Black; piano: Vicky Chow; percussion: David Cossin; guitar: Mark Stewart; reeds: Evan Ziporyn; recorded at James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010

Marco Oppedisano: Kickstart
Mechanical Uprising
OKS Recordings of North America/2010
guitars: M. Oppedisano

David Hahn: Charon Crosses the Styx
Your Time Is Up
David Hahn/2007
guitars: D. Hahn

SET TWO
Luciano Berio: O King
The Great Works for Voice
Mode Records/1995
Musician's Accord -- soprano: Christine Schadeberg; flute: Katherine Flanders Mukerji; clarinet: Sheldon Berkowitz; violin: Marshall Coid; cello: Ted Mook; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; conductor: Hayes Biggs; recorded at Sheppard Hall, City College of New York, 4/03/95

David Baker: Now That He is Safely Dead
Videmus -- Works by Anderson, Baker, Fox Wilson
New World Records/1992
Videmus chamber group; tenor: Willie Brown; director: Vivian Taylor; song from "Through This Vale of Tears" cycle; text: Carl Hines, "Now That He is Safely Dead"; recorded at the African American Meeting House, Boston, November 1991

Lou Harrison: Threnody
Rhymes with Silver
New Albion Records/2000
cello: Joan Jeanrenaud; violin: David Abel; viola: Benjamin Simon; piano: Julie Steinberg; percussion, vibraphone: William Winant; recorded at Fantasy Recordings; Berkeley, June 2000

Ingram Marshall: Entrada (At the River)
Evensongs
New Albion Records/1996
amplified strings: The Maia Quartet; recorded at SUNY Purchase, February 1996

SET THREE
James Corrêa: When I drift into my thoughts
Plural (Miranda/Corrêa)
Fumproarte/2002
recorded at the composer's studio in Rochester, New York, 1999, using Eduardo Reck Miranda's Chaosynth software

Brian Eno: Julie with...
Before and After Science
EG/1987 (orig. 1977)

Brian Eno: Emerald and Stone
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Warp Records/2010

Ned Bouhalassa: from mOrpheus
a. Orpheus' First Dream
b. Orpheus Wakes Up
Gratte-cité
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
sounds recorded in Québec and Berlin, realized at the composer's studio in Montréal, premiered at Elektra, Usine C, Montréal, 11/15/03

SET FOUR
Philip Mantione: Depth of Field
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
based on field recordings of "hoot" owls, Riverside, California, 3:00 a.m. 11/21/11

Alvin Lucier: Vespers (excerpt)
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
recorded in 1969 with the Environ-Ears Recording System designed by Listening Incorporated, Arlington, Mass.

David Dunn: Chaos and the Emergent Mind of the Pond (edit)
Earth Ear Radio Volume 2 -- Winter 2002 [various artists]
EarthEar/2002

Gen Ken Montgomery: Bath Drain
Pondfloorsample
XI Records/2002

Rain Forest Pygmies: Honey-Gathering Song (field recording)
Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies of the North East Congo
Lyrichord/1992
recorded in the Ituri rainforest by Colin M. Turnbull, 1961

SET FIVE
Trevor Wishart: Red Bird -- A Political Prisoner's Dream IV (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
recorded at York University, 1970s

Morton Subotnick: Until Spring -- Revisited
Electronic Works Vol. 3
Mode Records/2011
live electronics: M. Subotnick; live electronics, glass harp: Miguel Frasconi; recorded live at Recombinant Media Labs, San Francisco, 4/06/07; original composition: 1975

Maggi Payne: Glassy Metals
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010

SET SIX
Bun-Ching Lam: ...Like Water (1st 1/2)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
violin: Jeanne-Marie Conquer; piano: Dimitri Vassilakis; percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg, Germany

Tod Machover: ...but not simpler...
...but not simpler...
Bridge Records/2011
iO Quartet; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 12/23/09

SINGLE PLAY
Bun-Ching Lam: ...Like Water (further excerpt)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
violin: Jeanne-Marie Conquer; piano: Dimitri Vassilakis; percussion: Gilles Durot; recorded at the Völkerkunde Museum, Heidelberg, Germany

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 01/08/2012

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Program for January 8, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Deep Listening Band: Invocation
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
DLB; voice: Julie Lyon Balliet; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, New York, 1993-1994

SET ONE
Charles Dodge: Folia
Music for Computers, Electronic Sound and Players
CRI/1974
ensemble conducted by Jacques-Louis Monod

Charles Dodge: Violin Variations I-IV
A Retrospective (1977-2009)
New World Records/2010
violin: Baird Dodge

SET TWO
Little Bang Theory: Toy Suite #5
Toy Suites and Themes
Tranmogrification/2011
toys, whistling, voice: F. Pahl; toys, voice: Terri Sarris; toys, drums, voice: Doug Shimmin

Ge Gan-Ru: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong
Lost Style
New Albion Records/2006
voice, toy orchestra: Margaret Leng Tan; text: Lu You; recorded at Classic Sound, New York City, 8/10/06

SET THREE
Philip Mantione: Social Immune System
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
based on field recordings at an Occupy LA Protest, 10/15/11; premiered at Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona

Brian Eno & David Byrne:
a. Help Me Somebody
b. Come with Us
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Nonesuch/2006 (orig. 1981)
instruments, objects, samples: Byrne/Eno with(a.) congas, metals: Steve Scales; drums: John Cooksey; recorded 1979-1980 at various locations

Musci-Venosta: The Snout in the Dark
A Noise, A Sound
ReR Megacorp/1992
treated voice, percussion, gamelan, kanun, nadaswaram, clarinet, kalimba, musical tube, Japanese market field recordings: Giovanni Venosta, Roberto Musci; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, 1991-1992

SET FOUR
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Goma Arábica
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recorded in 1995 at University of Edinburgh Electroacoustic Music Studios; orchestra: The Contemporary Music Group, conductor: Steve Davismoon

Mother Tongue: The Voice and The Ear
Touch.Sampler
Touch/1997
Mother Tongue: Andrew McKenzie, Dorothea Franck, Z'ev; recorded at Suitcase Studios, London, 1987

Sarah Peebles: 10 Below
Deep Wireless 6 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009

Arthur Gottschalk: Phase 59
60 x 60 2006-2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008

Sarah Peebles: Lift
Deep Wireless 5 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Chris Watson: Lemon-Rumped Tinkerbird
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch/1998
recorded in the Cameroon rain forest, June, 1997

Hsiao-Lan Wang: A Golden Leaf Drifts Downstream
Electroacoustic Works
Hsiao-Lan Wang/2003
for two tinkliks (Indonesian xylophones), and computer

SET FIVE
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape # 1
The Percussion Works I
Mode Records/2011
for two variable-speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano, and cymbal; performed by Joey Van Hassel; recorded at Robert J Werner Concert Hall, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, 6/12/08

Alexei Borisov: My Voices
Polished Surface of a Table
Electroshock Records/2004

Øystein Kapperud: Leland Wrapped in Plastic
The Wire Tapper 26 [various artists]
The Wire magazine/2011

Chris Watson: Adult Cheetah
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch/1998
recorded in Pamuzinda, Zimbabwe, June, 1994

Annea Lockwood: Tiger Balm
Source -- Music of the Avant Garde [various artists]
Pogus Productions/2009
realized at Tangent Studio, London and the Electronic Music Studio, University of London, Goldsmith College; original release: Source Record No. 6; Source Records journal Vol. 5, No. 1, 1971

SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Dempster: Standing Waves 78/87
In The Great Abbey Of Clement VI
New Albion Records/1987
trombone, tape playback: S. Dempster; recorded at Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, California, 5/21/78

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 01/01/2012

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Program for January 1, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Godfrey Winham: NP (Two Pieces for Computer-Synthesized Sound)
a. NP I
b. NP II
Computer Works [various artists]
CRI/1978
realized at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory at Princeton University, 1972

SET ONE
Hideko Kawamoto: Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly
Sonic Circuits VII [various artists]
Innova Recordings/1999

Morton Subotnick: Butterfly No. 3
Until Spring: Revisited; 4 Butterflies
Mode Records/2011
composition for 4-Channel tape (original mix 1973; new mix 2011)

Morton Subotnick: And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
New World Records/1997
The Amernet String Quartet; double bass: Bleda Elibal; MIDI keyboard: James Tocco; computer program: M. Subotnick; recorded at Corbett Studios, Cincinnati

SET TWO
James Corrêa: Danças & Intermezzi
a. Meta-Funk
b. Mirror of Sand
c. Winter Dance
d. Mirror of Granite
e. Circle of Fire
Plural [Corrêa/Miranda]
Fumproarte/2002
piano: Catarina Domenici; electronics: J.Corrêa; recorded at PUC Auditorium, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002

Ricardo Dal Farra: ...Due Giorni Dopo
Travels of the Spider -- Electroacoustic Music from Argentina [various artists]
Pogus Productions/1998
composed and produced at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of Padova's University, Italy, 1988; premiered at Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 1988

John Cage: Excerpt from Voiceless Essay
Ghosts and Monsters
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music --
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/Leonardo Music Journal/1998
vocalizations derived from a recitation of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" (1849), Henry David Thoreau; composition for for four computer-generated tapes, first performance 11/21/86, San Francisco, with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (dance: Points in Space); first broadcast BBC2, 7/18/87

SET THREE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Robotapithecos
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recorded at Tempo Reale Centre, Italy

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay: Rapports bruit/signal (éclats d’égalité)
Quelques Reflets
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at at the Studio 116C of Ina-GRM, Paris, and the composer's studio, Huddersfield, UK, 2009; premiered at the Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France, 12/06/09

John Bischoff: Override
The Lab 20th Anniversary CD [various artists]
The Lab/2004

Leo Kupper: Sabratrana (from Rezas Populares Do Brasil)
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/1999
mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; bass: Eduardo Janho-Abumrad; electronics: Leo Kupper; recorded in Brussels

SET FOUR
Richard Lainhart: Staring at the Moon
Ten Thousand Shades of Blue
XI Records/2001
bowed and struck vibraphone; interactive computer music system; recorded at SUNY Albany Electronic Music Studio and O-Town Media

In memory of Richard Lainhart, February 14, 1953 -- December 30, 2011

Paul Dresher: Chorale Times Two (from Concerto for Violin & Electro-Acoustic Band)
Cage Machine
New Albion Records/2004
violin soloist: David Abel; Electro-Acoustic Band -- keyboard: Phil Aaberg; bassoon: Paul Hanson; electric guitar: Paul Dresher; mallet percussion: Amy Knoles; recorded at the Dresher Ensemble studios, September 1999

SET FIVE
Meehan/Perkins Duo: Observations (T. Perich)
Travel Diary
Bridge Records/2011
percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; 1-bit microchip music program: Tristan Perich; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010

Sō Percussion: Drumming, Part Three (S. Reich)
Steve Reich -- Drumming
Cantaloupe Music/2005
recorded at the Hit Factory and Sony Music Studios, New York City, November 2004

SET SIX
Chaya Czernowin: Ina
Afatsim -- Chamber Music
Mode Records/1999
flute soloist and prerecorded flutes: John Fonville; recorded at the University of California, San Diego

Pauline Oliveros/Stuart Dempster/Panaiotis: Nike
Deep Listening
New Albion Records/1989
conch shell, mouthpiece whistling, trombone, voice: Dempster; conch shell, metal pieces, voice: Oliveros; metal pieces, pipes, voice: Panaiotis; recorded in Fort Worden Cistern, Port Townsend, Washington, 1988

SET SEVEN
Frank Pahl: The Ice House
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011

Jin Hi Kim: No World Improvisations
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
komungo: Jin Hi Kim; Senegalese djambey: Mor Thiam; Australian didgeridoo: Adam Plack; double reed, mukhaveena: Joseph Celli; performed at American Music Week, Bonn, Germany

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/18/2011

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Program for December 18, 2011

SET ONE
Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music [Randall/Vercoe/Dodge]
Nonesuch/1974
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Barry Vercoe: Synapse for Viola and Computer
Computer Works [Winham/Vercoe/Hoffman/Gressel]
CRI/1978
viola: Marcus Thompson; realized at the M.I.T. Experimental Electronic Music Studio

Frances White: A veil barely seen
Centre Bridge -- Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
viola: Liuh-Wen; electroacoustics: F. White

SET TWO
Charles Dodge: Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
New Albion Records/1992
tenor: Enrico Caruso (sourced from Ruggerio Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci," aria: "Vesti la Giuba"); piano: Alan Feinberg

ZNR: Seynette
Barricade 3
ReR Megacorp/1994 (orig. 1977)
synthesizer, voice: Hector Zazou; piano: Joseph Racaille; violin: Gilly Bell; bass clarinet: Patrick Portella; flute: David Rueff; tenor saxophone: Andre Jaume; recorded at Gilly Bell's studio, Ventabren (Bouches-du-Rhône), France, January 1976

Hervé Zénouda: Reflets Fauves
Demain, dès l'aube...
Trace Label/2002
electric guitar: Thomas Petit; piano, percussion, electronics: H. Zénouda; recorded at Sudio de la Rotonde, Châtenay-Malabry, France

Arie Shapira: Ex Machina
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2004
guitar: Ruben Serussi; electronic tape: Arie Shapira; recorded in Israel

SET THREE
Elainie Lillios: Listening Beyond...
Entre espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Electroacoustic Studio of the Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, 2007; premiered at the High Voltage concert in the Recital Hall at Louisiana State University, 12/03/07

Sarah Peebles: Nocturnal Premonitions
Music from Nature [various artists]
Terra Nova/1997

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme,
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
composed and recored at the Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music Studio, France, 2001

SET FOUR
James Corrêa: O jardim dos caminhos que se bifurcam
Plural [Corrêa & Miranda]
Fumproarte/2002
classical guitar, electronics: J. Corrêa; recorded at the Dreher Studio, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002

Adolfo Núñez: Jurel
Electroacoustic Music CD-R
Adolfo Núñez/2004
musique concrete sourced from flamenco performances; recorded at the studio of Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges, France, 1993

Alfredo Lagos/Giovanni Venosta/Massimo Mariani: Estudio sobre el ritmo
Metamorphoses
ReR Megacorp/1999
Spanish guitar: A. Lagos; treatments, engineering: G. Venosta, M. Mariani; recorded at FX Studio, Milan, July 1997

SET FIVE
Marco Capelli and Sintax Error: Selections from
In the Shadow of No Towers
a. The Flag
b. Maus 1
c. Maus 2
In the Shadow of No Towers DVD
Mode Records/2011
narrator: John Turturro; storyboard: Art Spiegelman; recorded at Musicisti Associati, Naples, 2008 and Harvestworks, New York City, 2011

Heiner Goebbels: Selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 2: Gertrude Stein texts
a. Just Like That
b. On the Road
c. And We Said Goodbye
d. On the Radio
e. Different Nations
f. Out Where the West Begins*/Train Travelling
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten [Landscape with Distant Relatives]
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; SWR Baden-Baden
*music and lyrics: Arthur Chapman (1917)

Little Bang Theory: Dmitri Rides Again
Toy Suites and Themes
Transmogrification/2011
toys, whistling: F. Pahl; toys, voice: Terri Sarris; toys, drums: Dough Shimmin

Tom Waits: Russian Dance
The Black Rider
Island Records/1993
Emax strings: Tom Waits; cello: Matt Brubeck; viola: Linda Deluca; bass: Bill Douglas; boots: Kathleen Brennan, Clive Butters, Tom Waits, Francis Thumm, Joe Marquez; recorded at Prairie Sun Recording Studios, Cotati, California

Tom Waits: Poor Little Lamb
Orphans -- Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
Anti-/2006
performed by Tom Waits (voice, accordion); originally appearing in the 1987 motion picture "Ironweed"

Frank Pahl: The Mid-Century Modern Waltz
Music for Architecture
Transmogrification/2011
upright Vose piano, various noise-making objects: F. Pahl

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: Return -- A Triumph of Reason, part I
a. Beginning of the Universe
b. Earth, the beginning of our solar system
c. Descending Dance
d. Chord dance: Dance of Destruction
e. 12 b.c.
f. Comet
g. Giotto
h. 1862--Halley
i. CODA--return
j. D Major
The Key to Songs
New Albion Records/1986
Yamaha Computer Assisted Music Systems: M. Subotnick; recorded at the Enterprise, Burbank, California

SINGLE PLAY
Trevor Wishart: Anticredos (excerpt)
Red Bird/Anticredos
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
performed by Songcircle, director: Gregory Rose; recorded in the Music Center, University of East Anglia, Norwich, March/April, 1982

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 12/11/2011

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Program for December 11, 2011

HAPPY 103rd BIRTHDAY, ELLIOTT CARTER! DECEMBER 11, 1908

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Tintinnabulation
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Frank Epstein; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, 2/12/09

SET ONE
Elliott Carter: Sound Fields
Music of Elliott Carter Volume Eight
Bridge Records/2010
BBC Symphony Orchestra; conductor: Oliver Knussen; recorded at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh, England, 6/20/09

Elliott Carter: Quintet for Piano and Strings
Quintets and Voices
Mode Records/2003
The Arditti Quartet; piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Recital Hall, SUNY Purchase, 12/07/98

SET TWO
John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
New Albion Records/1994
prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 1993

Ingram Marshall: Introduction
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1991
piano, synthesizer: I. Marshall

Philip Glass: Metamorphosis Two
Solo Piano
CBS/1989
piano: P. Glass

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: La Koro Sutro
a. Kunsonoro kaj Gloro
b. Strofo 1
c. Strofo 2
d. Strofo 3
e. Strofo 4
f. Strofo 5
g. Strofo 6
h. Strofo 7
i. Mantro kaj Konsonoro
New Albion Records/1988
The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of the University of California at Berkeley, director: Philip Brett; text: the Heart Sūtra; harp: Karen Gottlieb; organ: Agnes Sauerbeck; American Gamelan -- Don R. Baker, Scott Evans, Gino Robari Forlin, Todd Manley, Peter Thielen; director: William Winant; gamelan builder: William Colvig; technician: Ron Engel; recorded at Hertz Hall, University of California, Berkeley, November 7-8, 1987

SET THREE
Heiner Goebbels: selections from
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten, Part 1: Gertrude Stein texts
a. The Sirens
b. In the 19th Century
c. Well Anyway
d. Did It Really Happen?
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten
ECM Records/2007
voice: David Bennent; baritone: Georg Nigl; Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: G. Stein, "Wars I Have Seen," 1945; recorded live at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Paris, October, 2004; director: H. Goebbels; tonmeister: Max Federhofer, SWR Baden-Baden

John Young: selections from Ricordiamo Forlì
a. In Piazza Saffi
b. Interlude I
c. Bitter Storm
d. Ancient Tear
Lieu-temps
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
narrator: Franco Bianchini; text (Ancient Tear): Giosuè Carducci, "Pianto Antico." "Ricordiamo Forlì" was realized in 2005 in the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Centre at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and premiered on Radio New Zealand’s ConcertFM program, 7/25/06.

SET FOUR
Charles Amirkhanian: Church Car, Version 2
Mental Radio
CRI/1985
voices: C. Amirkhanian, Anthony J. Gnazzo; recorded at California State University, Hayward, 1980

Pamela Z: 50 (for Charles Amirkhanian)
A Delay is Better
Starkland Records/2004
voice: Pamela Z

Daniel Lentz: You Can't See the Forest...Music
Cold Blue [various artists]
Cold Blue Music/2002 (orig. 1984)
for three speaker-drinkers, three malleted wine glasses, and red wine, cascading echo system; performers: D. Lentz, Garry Eister, Stan Carey

Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (Matthews/Ping/Klucevsek)
Play Nice
O.O. Dics/1999
voice: Jon Smith; gopichan: Eve Beglarian; text: adapted from a Chinese tea package: arr. Eve Beglarian recorded at Baby Monster, New York City

Meredith Monk:
a. Northern Lights 1
b. Northern Lights 2
Facing North
ECM Records/1992
voice, piano, organ, pitch pipe: M. Monk; voice, pitch pipe: Robert Een; recorded at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, April 1992

SET FIVE
James Tenney: Beast
Modern American Bass [various artists]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; recorded at Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts; August 2006

James Tenney: Percussion Response (with Ergodos I)
Melody, Ergodicity and Inderterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in Amsterdam, February 2007

SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion
Postal Pieces
New World Records/2004
percussion: Tobias Liebezeit; recorded in the Netherlands, 2003

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