Martian Gardens for July 29, 2012

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

Program for July 29, 2012

SET ONE
James Tenney:  Monody
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
clarinet: John Anderson; recorded in Amsterdam, 2007 

John Cage: from Freeman Etudes, Book Four
a. Etude 28
b. Etude 29
Freeman Etudes, Books 3 and 4
Mode Records/1994
violin: Irvine Arditti; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, September 1993 

Cornelius Dufallo: Prima Volta (John King)
Journaling
Innova Recordings/2012
violin, electronics: Cornelius Dufallo 

Victoria Jordanova: Sonatina No. 2
a. Parting
b. While Walking
Cosmogony 
ArpaViva Records/2012
amplified piano, electronics: Victoria Jordanova 

SET TWO
Victoria Jordanova: Beehive (from the Secret Life of Bees)
In a Landscape
ArpaViva Records/2007
electric harp: Victoria Jordanova 

Elaine Barkin: Aria for Harp
Open Space 29 -- Barkin, Czerner, Boretz
Open Space/2012
harp: Ursula Kawasnicka 

Arie Shapira: Jingle
Spring 2012 CD-R
Arie Shapria/2012
flute: Roy Amotz 

Yves Daoust: from Chorals ornés)
a. Mit Fried und Freud fahr' ich dahin
b. Es ist das Heil uns kommen her
Voix
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
organ: Régis Rousseau; electroacoustic music: Yves Daoust (source: J.S. Bach,  Orgelbüchlein), original poetry (readers/writers): Anouk Bereau, Jacinthe Dompierre, Matthieu Simard, Gaston Miron 

Charlie Morrow: Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves (excerpt)
Toot!
XI Records/2011
Camerata Trajectina; recorded at VPRO Hilversum, sound design: Charlie Morrow 

SET THREE
Ingrid Drese: Papillon, abîme, nuit
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
electroacoustic music: Ingrid Drese; realized at the composer's studio, Belgium, 1999, premiered at L’Espace du son - M&R XL Théâtre du Grand Midi, November 17, 1999

Sarah Peebles: Higurashi in Yamanishi
Insect Groove
Cycling '74/2002
computer music: Sarah Peebles

John Oliver: Just Interference
Time is Dust
Earsay Productions/2012
electroacoustic music: John Oliver

SET FOUR
Elizabeth Hoffman: Vim
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 31 [various artists]
Music from CARTAH -- Center for Advanced Research Technology
in the Arts and Humanities, University of Washington
Centaur Records/2001
computer music: Elizabeth Hoffman

Halim Beere: Ur
Measures of Change [various artists]
Electroacoustic Compositions (from) the Experimental Music
Studios of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
School of Music University of Illinois/2011
electroacoustic music: Halim Beere

SET FIVE
Steven Ricks: Haiku
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
Tibetan prayer bowls and tam tams: Dominic Donato; electronics: Steven Ricks

Jon Christopher Nelson: Other Terrains
Music from SEAMUS volume 9 [various artists]
SEAMUS/2000
percussion: John Colaruotolo, Thomas Dell'Omo, Rich Malloy, Christopher Vigneron; two-channel tape: J.C. Nelson; recorded at the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI), University of North Texas, Denton

SET SIX
Annea Lockwood: Jitterbug (2nd 1/2)
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
zither, psalter, rattle, rainstick, processing: David Behrman; electric guitar, processing: John King; percussion, tape: William Winant

Roger Reynolds: Primitive Music (from The Ivanov Suite)
Electroacoustic Music
New World Records/1993
source percussion: Steven Schick; electroacoustic music: Roger Reynolds

SET SEVEN
Roger Reynolds: Song (Sanctuary movement III)
Sanctuary (DVD)
Mode Records/2011
percussion: red fish blue fish, directed by Steven Schick; recorded at the National Art Gallery, Washington D.C., with live electronics, recorded in 2007, additional processing at the University of California San Diego, 2008-2009

Iannis Xenakis: Diamorphoses
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
electronic music: Iannis Xenakis; composed at GRM, Paris, 1957

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Burnell: Orange Juice
Deep Wireless 4--Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2007

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Martian Gardens for July 22, 2012

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for July 22, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Kenneth Gaburo: Lemon Drops
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios (1958--2008) [various artists]
University of Illinois School of Music/2008 

SET ONE
Robert Carl: A Clean Sweep
From Japan
New World Records/2012
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown; fixed media: Robert Carl; recorded at Riverview Recording Studios, Gill, Massachusetts; June 26 and July 3, 2010

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

SINGLE PLAY
Anne La Berge: Brokenheart
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, text, flute, electronics: Anne La Berge; piano: Cor Fuhler; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, Summer 2009

SET TWO
Takehisa Kosugi: S.E. Wave/E.W. Song (excerpt)
Music for Merce (1952-2009)
New World Records/2010
violin, voice, live electronics: Takehisa Kosugi; recorded December 15, 1976, Tokyo, for the dance Squaregame,  the Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Victoria Jordanova: Genesis
Cosmogony 
ArpaViva/2012
piano, electronics: Victoria Jordanova

SET THREE
Iannis Xenakis: Okho
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
percussion -- red fish blue fish: Terry Longshore, Brett Reed, David Shively; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego

Marcelle Deschênes: Lux (excerpt)
Petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
electroacoustic music composed with Alain Thibault for a multimedia presentation by Renée Bourassa

SET FOUR
Stephen Dembski: for Toy Piano
Milton Babbitt -- A Composer's Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
toy piano: Ju-Ping Song

Stephen Dembski: Digit
Stephen Dembski
CRI/1989
clarinet with electronics: Laura Flax; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, May 21, 1984

Dorota Czerner: Fireflies
Open Space 29 -- Barkin, Cznerner, Boretz
Open Space/2012
voice, text: Dorota Czerner; electronic sound: Benjamin Boretz

Ellen Band: Closet Bird
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2001
field and audio recordings: Ellen Band

David Dunn: Tabula Angelorum Bonorum 49 (Segment 5)
Angels and Insects
Nonsequitur Foundation/1995
sounds and voice manipulations: David Dunn; modeled on the Enochian heptarchy by Edward Kelley

Dr. Ox: Zinc Finger
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM, Oslo, December 2006

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Le Renard et la Rose
Figures
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio in Montreal; premiered at the Banff Centre for the Arts, September 6, 1995

Anne LeBaron: Concerto for Active Frogs
Rana, Ritual, and Revelations
Mode Records/1992
tape collage of frogs of the U.S. and Mexico: Anne LeBaron; The New Music Consort; conductor: Anne Le Baron

SET SIX
John Luther Adams: In the Rain
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
tapes recorded by John Luther Adams; musique concrete composed at Adams' studio in Fairbanks, Alaska

Hideko Kawamoto: Summer Rain -- Dawn
Music from SEAMUS volume 11
SEAMUS/2002
electroacoustic music: Hideko Kawamoto

SINGLE PLAY
Hideko Kawamoto: Night Ascends from the Ear like a Butterfly
Sonic Circuits VII [various artists]
Innova Recordings/1999
electroacoustic music: Hideko Kawamoto

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Martian Gardens for July 15, 2012

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Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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Program for July 15, 2012

SET ONE
Ted Hearne: selections from Katrina Ballads
a. Anderson Cooper and Mary Landrieu
b. Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job
c. Interlude 2
Katrina Ballads
New Amsterdam Records/2010
a. soprano: Allison Semmes; baritone: Anthony Turner; b. tenor: Ted Hearne; a,b,c: The New Music Collective; recorded March 10-12, 2008 at Avatar Studios, Manhattan 

Curtis K. Hughes: selections from Say It Ain't So, Joe
a. Act 1, Interlude
b. Act 1, Scene 2 (Vice Presidential Debate--St. Louis) (excerpt)
c. Act 1, Scene 3 (I am the future of the Republican Party--August 28, 2008)
Say It Ain't So, Joe
Guerilla Opera/2011
a. Jennifer Ashe as Sarah Palin; Brian Church as Joe Biden; b. Aliana de la Guardia as Sarah Palin; a, b, c: Guerilla Opera; recorded at the Union Congregational Church, Hebron, NH, June 2-3, 2011 

SET TWO
Victoria Jordanova: Sonatina No. 1
a. Allegretto
b. Giacoso
c. Languido
d. Misterioso
Cosmogony 
ArpaViva Records/2012
piano: Victoria Jordanova 

Lisa Moore: Reservoir (Donnacha Dennehy)
Stainless Staining
Cantaloupe Music/2012
piano: Lisa Moore 

SET THREE
Dorota Czerner: St. Andrew's Night
Open Space 29 -- Barkin-Czerner-Boretz
Open Space/2012
voice, text: Dorota Czerner; electronic sound: Benjamin Boretz 

Larry Polansky: B'rey'sheet (In the beginning...) Cantillation Study #1
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
voice: Jody Diamond; live computers: Phil Burk, Larry Polansky; recording engineer: Tom Erbe; recorded live at Mills College, Oakland, January 1990 

SET FOUR
John Cage: Living Room Music
a. To Begin
b. Story
c. Melody
d. End
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Production; recorded at the Ruth Ford House, Aurora, Illinois, June 29, 2011 

Jin Hi Kim: Dragon Bond Rite
Jin Hi Kim's Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
Asian drum group -- Korean janggo: Choi Jong-Sil; Japanese Ōtsuzumi: Shonosuke Okura; Indonesian kendang: I Gede Winartha Putu; Indian mizhavu: Unikrishina Nambiar 

Mark Applebaum: Asylum (Insight and Interjections)
Asylum
Innova Recordings/2006
ensemble xx. jahrhundert; conductor: Peter Burwik; percussion soloist: Berndt Thurner; recorded at the Vienna Modern Festival, Schömer-Haus; Klosterneuberg, Austria, November 14, 2004

SET FIVE
Christian Eloy: Ellipse
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005
electroacoustic music: Christian Eloy

Ingrid Drese: Paysage avec miroir
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio; premiered at L’Espace du son, M&R  Théâtre Marni, Brussels, October 17, 2007

SET SIX
R. Weis: Surrender Dorothy
Mystery of the Egg
R. Weis/1994
samples, sampler: R. Weis

Steve Moshier: Boy's Life -- Highway
Limestone Gates
Spectrapol/2012
electronic music: Steve Moshier

SET SEVEN
Annette Vande Gorne: Ce qu'a vu le ven d'Est (What the East Wind Saw)
Exils
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
electroacoustic music realized at Métamorphoses d'Orphée studio of Musique & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at Pianistici concert series, Cagliari, Sardinia, June 7, 2003 

Mark Trayle: Primitive Still Life (With Pairs)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 30 [various artists]
Music form the Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology,
California Institute of the Arts
Centaur Records/2000
real-time computer music: Mark Trayle; recorded at CEAIT, November 1998

SET EIGHT
Anne Le Berge: 800 Speakers
Speak
New World Records/2011
voice, flute, electronics: Anne Le Berge; recorded at Studio VOLSAP, Amsterdam, summer 2009

Luc Ferrari: Chansons 3 -- Le Seins
Chansons pour le Corps/Et si tout entière maintenant
Mode Records/1999
clarinets: Carol Mundinger, Sylvan Frydman; percussion: Christine Lagniel; piano: Michel Maurer; synthesizer: Michel Musseau; recorded at GRM, Olivier Messiaen Hall, Maison de Radio France, Paris, March 18, 1995

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Martian Gardens for Juy 8, 2012

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

Program for July 8, 2012

SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: La Sonnambula
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; clarinet: Sherman Friedland

George Crumb: Music of the Starry Night
Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos II), movement V
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 4
Bridge Records/2001
piano 1: Susan Grace; piano 2: Alice Rybak; percussion 1: John Kinzie; percussion 2: David Colson; recorded at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, August 2000

SET  TWO
David Congo: Prelude [Summer '95]
Voyage
Capstone Records/2006
electroacoustic music: David Congo 

Judith Shatin: selections from Three Summers Heat
a. It's midsummer and too hot to walk
b. Summer earth is windless. Heat still presses
c. Light clothes! Few clothes!
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29 [various artists]
Music from the Virginia Center for Computer Music
Centaur Records/1999
computer music: Judith Shatin; soprano: Susan Narucki; texts: Tzu Yeh 

Gerald Bennett: Winter 1980
Gerald Bennett
Mnemosyne Musique Media/2012
electroacoustic music, synthesis language: Gerald Bennett; texts: Friedrich Hölderlin ("Winter Poems"); composed at IRCAM, January 1980 

SET THREE
Michael Lowenstern: Rare Events (D. Weymouth)
Spasm--Works for Bass Clarinet
New World Records/1996
bass clarinet: Michael Lownstern 

Evan Ziporyn: Big Grenadilla
Big Grenadilla/Mumbai
Cantaloupe Music/2012
bass clarinet: Evan Ziporyn; Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, June 30, 2011 

SINGLE PLAY
Henry Brant: Nomads
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 2
Innova Recordings/2004
Oberlin Wind Ensemble and Bass Ensemble, conductor: Gene Young; guest conductor: Henry Brant; voice: Steve Fallon; saxophone: Dave Dimmock; drumset: Adam Rudolph; recorded at Finney Chapel, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Ohio, October 10, 1974 

SET FOUR
Cornelius Dufallo: Three High Places (J.L. Adams)
a. Above Sunset Pass
b. The Wind at McLaren Summit
c. Looking Toward Hope
Journaling
Innova Recordings/2012
violin, electronics: Cornelius Dufallo 

Chaya Czernowin: The Memory of Water
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
saxophone, tubax [recorded and live]; piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; electric and steel guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn: Peter Veale; live electronics: Experimentalstudio des SWR; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; recorded at the Konzerthaus, Berlin, March 17, 2007 

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Murmures
Palimpsestes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
realized at Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium, and at the composer's studio, Montreal, June 2007; premiered at 14th International Acousmatic Festival L’Espace du son at Théâtre Marni, Brussels, October 17, 2007 

Annea Lockwood: Dialogue -- Bottles & Jars
The Glass World
What Next? Recordings/1997 (orig. 1970)
glass objects: Annea Lockwood

Annea Lockwood: In Full Bloom (part 1)
Thousand Year Dreaming
Pogus Productions/2007
conch shell, trombone, didjeridu: Art Baron; oboe, English horn: Libby Van Cleve; didjeridu: Jon Gibson; voice: Annea Lockwood; clarinets: J.D. Parran; tam-tam, clapping sticks: Michael Pugliese; conch shell, frame drums, pod rattle, tam-tam: N. Scott Robinson; didjeridu, waterphone: John Snyder; tam-tam, stones: Charles Wood; trombone, didjeridu: Peter Zummo; commissioned by Essential Music, 1990 

SET SIX
Drew Krause: First of July
Ding
Capstone Records/2007
McCormick Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Robert McCormick; recorded at Springs Theatre, Tampa, April 1997 

Mel Powell: AmyAbilities
Settings
New World Records/2003
percussion: Amy Knoles; recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios, Burbank, California, December 2001 

David Tudor: Rainforest Version I (excerpt)
Rainforest
Mode Records/1998
live electronics performed by David Tudor and Takehisa Kosugi for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company,  New Delhi, India, 1990


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Martian Gardens for July 1, 2011

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

Program for July 1, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Apartment House 1776
Orchestral Works I
Mode Records/1994
New England Conservatory Philharmonia
Voices--
Protestant: Walter Buckingham
Native American: Darrell Dunn
African American: Semenya McCord
Sephardi: Chiam Parchi
New England Conservatory Orchestra, conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, 
New England Conservatory of Music, March, 1991

SET ONE
Trever Wishart: Fireworks (from Tongues of Fire)
MusicWorks 98
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
premiered at Synthese Festival, Bourges, France, 1994

Trevor Wishart: American Triptych
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
premiered at Groupe de Recherches Musicales' Cycle Acousmatique series, Salle Olivier Messiaen, Radio France, Paris,01/08/00 

Charles Norman Mason: Mirrors, Stones, and Cotton
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 6 [various artists]
SEAMUS/1997
electroacoustic music: C.N. Mason; guitar: Paul Bowman; realized at the Birmingham Southern College Electronic Music Studio, 1996

SET TWO
Laurie Anderson: Another Day in America
Homeland
Nonesuch-Elektra/2010
drums, percussion: Ben Witman, bass guitar: Skúli Sverrisson, viola: Eyvind Kang, background vocals: Antony Hegarty; vocals, percussion, violin: L. Anderson; recorded in New York City 

Yves Daoust: from Chorals ornés
a. Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt
b. Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
Voix
empreintes DIGITales/2011
Chorals ornés -- a rereading of the 14 choral preludes from J.S. Bach's Orgelbüchlein (BWV 599-644) electroacoustic music, live mixing: Yves Daoust; organ: Régis Rousseau; texts: Anouk Bereau, Jacinthe Dompierre, Matthieu Simark, Gaston Miron; readers: Julie Daoust, Anouk Bereau, Philippe Martin, Vincent Graton, Linda Sorgini, Gaston Miron; realized at the composer's studio in Monteal; premiered at Remix de Classiques! at Église Saint-Nom-de-Jésus, Montreal, October 2, 2008; commissioned by Orgue et couleurs

SET THREE
Lisa Moore: Stainless Staining (Donnacha Dennehy)
Stainless Staining
Cantaloupe Music/2012
piano: Lisa Moore; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, Connecticut 

Lisa Moore: Brooklyn, October 5, 1941
Lightning Slingers and Dead Ringers
Cantaloupe Music/2011
piano prepared with two baseballs and a catcher's mitt: Lisa Moore, recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, Connecticut

Earle Brown: July 5 (from Summer Suite '95)
Music for Piano(s), 1951-1995
New Albion Records/1996
piano: David Arden; recorded at Knuth Hall, San Francisco State University, August 21, 1995

SET FOUR
Philip Glass: Prematurely Air-Conditioned Supermarket (from Trial 2/Prison)
Einstein on the Beach
Electra/Nonesuch/1993
The Philip Glass Ensemble and Chorus, conductor: Michael Riesman; spoken voice: Lucinda Childs; Sheryl Sutton; texts: L. Childs; Christopher Knowles

Quatuor Bozzini: America -- Before the War
Different Trains (Steve Reich)
actuellecd.com/2005
recorded in Salle Oscar Peterson, Montreal, June 2004

SET FIVE
Annea Lockwood: In Our Name
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
baritone: Thomas Buckner; text: Jumah al-Dossari, "Death Poem," cello: Ted Mook; tape: Annea Lockwood

Robert Normandeau: Palindrome
Palimpsestes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music: Robert Normandeau; accordion: Delphine Measroch; voices: Émilie Laforest, Gregory Llady; organ and the bells of the Bourges cathedral;  premiered at Festival Synthèse, Bourges, Cher, France, June 7, 2006 

SET SIX
Maggi Payne: Distant Thunder
Arctic Winds
Innova Recordings/2010
electroacoustic music: Maggi Payne; recorded at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, Oakland 

Quartet for the End of Space: Snow Drifts (Jonas Braasch)
Quartet for the End of Space
Pogus Productions/2011
electronics, sounds: Pauline Oliveros, Dough Van Nort, Francisco Lopez, Jonas Braasch; recorded in 2010 at the Arts Department of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) and the Deep Listening Institute (Kingston, New York)

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Martian Gardens for June 24, 2012

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

Program for June 24, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--01:00 June 17-18, 2012 

SET ONE
Tania León: Singin' Sepia (Five Songs on Poems by Rita Dove)
I. Wiring Home
II. Persephone Abducted
III. The Slave's Critique of Practical Reason
IV. In the Bulrush
V. Then Came Flowers
Singin' Sepia
Bridge Records/2008
Continuum ensemble -- soprano: Tony Arnold; clarinet: David Gresham; violin: Renée Jolles; piano for four hands: Joel Sachs, Cheryl Seltzer; text: Rita Dove; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 3, 2004 

George Cacioppo: Time on Time in Miracles
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
soprano: Janet Pape; Ensemble 2e2m, conductor: Paul Méfano; recorded at the Atrium Theater, Chaville, France 

SET TWO
John Luther Adams: Strange Birds Passing
Songbirdsongs
Mode Records/2012
flutes: New England Conservatory Contemporary Music Ensemble; director: John Heiss; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music; Boston, October 3, 2006 

Leo Kupper: Arbre-jeux de Rabelais
Le sixte livre dit électroacoustique de François Rabelais [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/1995
electroacoustic music, processing: Leo Kupper; reciter: René Zosso; text: François Rabelais; Recorded at IMEB, Bourges, for the Synthése 94 festival

Leo Kupper: Paroles sur Levres (Words on Lips)
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2011
bass baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; electronic music: Leo Kupper; recorded at the Studio de Recherches, Brussels

SET THREE
Annea Lockwood: Jitterbug (1st 1/2)
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
zither, psalter, rattle, rainstick, processing: David Behrman; electric guitar, viola, processing: John King; percussion, tape: William Winant

Yves Daoust: Le temps fixé
Voix
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio in Montreal, premiered at Rien à voir (15) concert series, February 14, 2004, Espace GO in Montréal

SET FOUR
Jinok Cho: CoCo III
Measures of Change [various artists]
EMS School of Music University of Illinois/2011

Annette Vande Gorne: Crise (Folie de Vincent)
Exils
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
VCS3 syntheesizer: Annette Vande Gorne; realized Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques and Recherches in Ohain, 1983, for Philippe Maranne's play "Sulpher Sun,"  premiered at Stalker, Brussels, January 13, 1984

John Oliver: Give Us Peace
Time is Dust
Earsay Productions/2012
electroacoustic music: John Oliver; commissioned by CBC Radio One to commemorate the first anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001

Icebreaker: Deep Blue Day
Apollo
Music composed by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Roger Eno
Cantaloupe Music/2012
Icebreaker group, director: James Poke; steel pedal guitar: BJ Cole; recorded at the Brighton International Festival, Brighton Dome, May 2010

SET FIVE
Marcelle Deschênes: Die Dyer
Cultures electroniques -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005

James Fei: Klangumwandler Solo
Bode Sound Project [various artists]
Institute for Electronic Arts/2006
Bode 735 Frequency Shifter: James Fei

Hugh Le Caine: The Burning Deck (Without Words)
Compositions and Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999

Mecha Fixes Clocks: Linear-elastic beams will not pass through the centroid
Teoria dell'elasticita di Girolamo Papariello
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
Mecha Fixes Clocks group, directed by Michel F. Côté, recored at Studio 270, Montreal, January 11, 2010

SET SIX
Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer
New Electronic Music from Leaders of the Avant-Garde [various artists]
Columbia Records/1968
realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center

Hubert S. Howe: Clusters
Milton Babbitt -- A Composer's Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer music: Hubert S. Howe

SET SEVEN
Charles Dodge: Changes (excerpt)
Computer Music [various artists]
Nonesuch/1974

Larry Polansky: Four-Voice Canon #23a (for Charles Dodge)
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios 50th Anniversary [various artists]
EMS School of Music University of Illinois/2008

Larry Polansky: Four-Voice Canon #18 -- Trio Canon for Christian Wolff
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
fretless electric guitar: Larry Polansky; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; percussion: Nathan Davis; recorded and mixed June-August 2002, Brittrax, Dartmouth College, and in Los Angeles 

Christian Wolff: Exercise 14b
10 Excercises
New World Records/2006
percussion: Robyn Schulkowsky, Christian Wolff; recorded in Umbria, Italy, September 2005

SET EIGHT
Luc Ferrari: Madame de Shanghai
Visages 2 - Après presque rien - Madame de Shanghai
Mode Records/2011
Scottish Flute Trio with tape realized at Ateliers UPIC/CCMIX (tape: Brigitte Robindoré and voice of Madame de Shanghai: Li Pi Ting; field recordings from the Asian commercial center of Paris (Avenue d'Ivry), featuring samples of Orson Welles from the film "The Lady of Shanghai" (1947) 

Christine Groult: Thème D' Ubu
La condition captive
Trace Label/2007 
electroacoustic music: Christine Groult; music for a production of Ubu Unbound (Alfred Jarry)

SINGLE PLAY
The Hub: Crybaby (Mark Trayle)
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
Live in Seattle, May 29, 1992

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Martian Gardens for June 17, 2012

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for June 17, 2012
Extended Edition 21:00--01:00 June 17-18, 2012 

SINGLE PLAY
Arie Shapira: Off Piano
Recital of 8 Piano Compostions
Arie Shapira/2012
piano and voice: Jelena Dimovska; recorded at BKA Berlin, September 6, 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Francis Dhomont: Brief and Den Vater (Letter to His Father)
Etudes pour Kafka
empreintes DIGTALes/2009
text: Franz Kafka ("Letter to His Father," written in November 1919); narration: Martin Engler; processed voice: Hans Tutschku; realized at the composer's studio, Avignon, France, and premiered on February 12, 2005, at the trans_canada festival in the ZKM_Kubus of the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM) 

SET ONE
Frances White: The Book of Roses and Memory
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
viola: Luh-Wen Ting; narrator: Thomas Buckner; text: James Pritchett

Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe: Opening Slide Lecture
The Carbon Copy Building -- A comic-strip opera
Cantaloupe Muisc/2006
text and drawings: Ben Katchor; performed by Bang On A Can, music director: Martin Goldray; recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, August 2000

SET TWO
Jack Body: Intimate History No. 1 -- Yono
Compendium International -- Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005
sounds recorded in South Sumatra (1977-1978) and Jakarta (1994); narration and intonation: Yono of South Sumatra

Indonesian drummers: Matam (Doleful Procession)
Music of Islam Volume 15 [various artists]
Muslim Music of Indonesia Aceh and West Sumatra
Celestial Harmonies/1997
Matam (Ali Mahatam) rhythm played by tasa and dol drummers marching in a Tabuik ceremony; recorded in Pariaman, Kabupaten Padang-Pariaman, West Sumatra, 1982

R. Weis: Lullaby
Excitable Audible
R.Weis/2012
samplers, sampling: Robert Weis

SET THREE
Alvin Curran/John Cage:
a. Introduction
b. Ice, Dew, Food, Crew, Ape
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
voice, words: John Cage mixed with the diaphone horn of the Nantucket II Lightship and the interior of the broken horn of the Edgartown Lighthouse, Martha's Vineyard

John Cage: from 19 Questions
a. 23 Seconds on John Cage
b. 9 Seconds on Indeterminacy
c. 11 Seconds on Einstein
From Zero (DVD)
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
voice, stopwatch: John Cage; director: Frank Scheffer

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 5 (1952)
The Works for Percussion 1
Mode Records/2011
for 42 recordings and magnetic tape (First Version: using period jazz records); realized by Michael Barnhart

John Cage/David Tudor: from Indeterminacy
a. Indeterminacy 39 (concerning Indian spice boxes)
b. Indeterminacy 65 (concerning fresh fruit)
c. Indeterminacy 45 (concerning Schoenberg's piano student)
Indeterminacy
Smithsonian Folkways/1992 (orig. 1959)
stories and reader: John Cage; music: David Tudor

John Cage: Trio
a. Allegro
b. March
c. Waltz
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
Third Coast Percussion; recorded at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, June 2011

SINGLE PLAY
Annea Lockwood: Thirst
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
narrator: Simone Fattal; soprano: Kristin Nordeval; 4-channel tape: Anea Lockwood (sources: rush hour at Grand Central Station, medieval manuscript leaves at Pierpont Morgan Library; gongs, piano resonances,  Baschet sound sculptures at Yale, Balkan love song "Jutros m je ruza procvetala," performed by Gypsy singing trio in Hungary, Lebanese sculptor Simone Fattal, recorded at her family home in Damascus)

SET FOUR
Herbert Brün: Sentences Now Open Wide (SNOW)
Wayfaring Sounds
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
The Performers' Workshop Ensemble; voices: Pamela Richman, Susan Parenti, David Friedman; text: Herbert Brün; tape: HB; recorded in 1984 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

David Jaggard: Mary and Ann
Sonic Circuits VIII [various artists]
Innova Recordings/2000
musique concrete, narration: David Jaggard; text: Samuel Beckett, "Watt"; recorded at the Sonology Institute, Ultrecht, Netherlands

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Jeu de langues
Palimpsestes
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
realized at the composer's studio, premiered at the Musica Viva 2009 festival of the Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal; September 19, 2009

Françoise Doherty: Windowsill
Deep Wireless 5 -- Radio Art Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008

Stan Link: [-(snow)]
In Amber
Albany Records/2006

Steve Fisk: Lying in Texas
Over and Thru the Night
K Records/1993

Mort Garson and The Blobs: Son of Blob
Electronic Toys 2 [various artists]
Normal Records/2000

SINGLE PLAY
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: Help,  I'm a Rock (Suite in Three Movements)
a. Okay to Tap Dance
b. In Memoriam Edgar Varese 
c. It Can't Happen Here
Freak Out!
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1965)

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: Return of the Son of Monster Magnet
(Unfinished Ballet in two Tableaux)
a. Ritual Dance of the Child-Killer
b. Nullis Pretii (No Commercial Potential)
Freak Out!
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. 1965)


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