Martian Gardens for 08/01/2010

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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 21:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
online playlists: Martian Gardens blog
email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for August 1, 2010

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

David Mahler: Deep Water
Only Music Can Save Me Now
New World Records/2010
piano: Nurit Tilles; voice: D. Mahler; recorded at the Academy of Arts And Letters; November, 2009

Olivier Messiaen: Amen du Jugement
Visions de l'Amen
Bridge Records/2010
pianos: Marilyn Nonken, Sarah Rothenberg; recorded at Stude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, May, 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Symphony [Myths]
a. Futami ga ura
b. Intermezzo
c. Symplegades ("The Clashing of Rocks")
Whispers Out orf Time [Works for Orchestra]
Mode Records/2010
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra; conductor: Kotaro Sato; recorded Suntory Hall, Tokyo, 10/25/90

SINGLE PLAY
KIVA: Two Poems of the Absurd & Two Poems on the Absurd (excerpt)
KIVA
Pogus Productions/2010
DX7, voice, electronics: Keith Humble; percussion, voice, electronics: Jean-Charles François; trombone, violin, voice, electronics: John Silber; violin: Mary Oliver; computer vocoder: Eric Lyon

SET TWO
Volti: O the Flesh Is Hot But the Heart Is Cold (E. Moe)
Turn the Page
Innova Recordings/2010
Volti, director: Robert Geary; text: Matthea Harvey, "Baked Alaska, A Theory of"

Charles Wuorinen: Sanctus (from Mass -- for the restoration of St. Luke in the Fields)
Genesis
Albany Records/2004
The New York Virtuoso Singers; violin: Curtis Macomber; trombones: James E. Pugh, Joseph Alessi; bass trombone: David Taylor; organ: Harold Chaney; conductor: C. Wuorinen; recorded at St. George's Episcopal Church, NYC, April, 1995

Mary Jane Leach: O Magna Vasti Creta
Ariadne's Lament
New World Records/1998
New York Treble Singers; conductor: Virginia Davidson; Cassatt String Quartet; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC

SET THREE
Peter Gach: Northern Flight (M. Byrne)
Fresh Piano
Innova Recordings/2010

Madelyn Byrne: Winter
Lesbian American Composers #
CRI/1998
electronic samples -- crotales: Lisa Frisari, voice: Malin Serner; realized at Columbia University's Computer Music Studio, 1997

SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown & Pauline Oliveros: Noctilucent Clouds (excerpt)
Music In the Air
Deep Listening/2010
piano, live computer signal processing (SuperCollider): C. Brown; accordion, conch, percussion, EIS (Expanded Instrument System); recorded in Berkeley, 9/12/08

SET FOUR
Bill Alves: The Question Mark's Black Ink
The Terrain of Possibilities -- Computer Music by Bill Alves
Electronic Music Foundation/1997
piano: Vicki Ray; percussion: Mark Nicolay; electronic tape: B. Alves

Arthur Jarvinen: Edible Black Ink
Edible Black Ink & The California Ear Unit
O.O. Discs/1996
electric guitar: Peter Zaferes; recorded at TRAX, Hollywood, May, 1991

J.K. Randall: through Lapland
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba -- 24 New Concert Pieces #
Bridge Records/2009
recorded at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Appleton, Wisconsin, summer 2009

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: III. Postlude (with Jim Randall in mind)
String Quartet
Open Space/2008
The DAFO Quartet; recorded at the studios of the Polish National Radio and Television, Warsaw, September, 2007

SINGLE PLAY
Jacques Tremblay: La Petite Camille (from Empathies entropiques)
Chroniques d'une séduction
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
realized at J. Tremblay's studio, Montreal, 1998-2001

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