Martian Gardens for 11/28/2010

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MARTIAN GARDENS
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Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for November 28, 2010

SET ONE
Roland Auzet: Convergence (Y. Taïra)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2008
marimba: R. Auzet; recorded at IRCAM, Théâtre de Chaville, La Muse en Circuit, France

John Luther Adams: Shimmer
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 2002-2003

SET TWO
Steven Ricks: Haiku
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
Tibetan prayer bowls, tam-tams: Dominic Donato; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 2006

Stuart Saunders Smith: Links No. 10 (Who are we? Where are we?)
The Links Series of Vibraphone Essays
New World Records/2009
vibraphone: Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Studio 508, University of Maryland Baltimore County, May, 2008

SET THREE
The New Music Consort: Double Music (J. Cage/L. Harrison)
Pulse -- The New Music Consort
New World Records/1990
percussion: Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman,Claire Heldrich, William Trigg; recorded at Studio A, BMG Studios, NYC

Noah Creshevsky: Brother Tom
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
vocal samples: Thomas Buckner

Mari Kimura: Bucknerian for voice, violin and computer
The World Below G and Beyond
Mutable Music/2010
violin: M. Kimura; vocal samples: Thomas Buckner; recorded at Harvestworks and Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY

SET FOUR
Amy Horvey: People Deserving Something (A. Horvey/J. Morton)
Catchment
Paved Arts/Amy Horvey/2010
trumpet: A. Horvey; organ: Jeff Morton; recorded at Paved Arts & New Media, Inc., Saskatoon

Al Margolis: Deck for Chair, Too
60 x 60 2006-2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

If, Bwana: Six Minus 6
"Assemble.Age!"
Mutable Music/2010
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; trombone: Monique Buzzarté

SET FIVE
David Behrman: My Father's Grocery Store
My Dear Siegfried
XI Records/2005
vocalists: T. Buckner, Eric Barsness, Maria Ludovici; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trumbone: Peter Zummo; keyboard and electronics: D. Behrman; engineering, special effects: Tom Hamilton; text: S.N. Behrman, "The Worcester Account"; recorded in New York City, 2003

Michael Gordon/David Lang/Julia Wolfe:
a. Panel Review
b. I Blame the Tenants
The Carbon Copy Building -- A Comic-Strip Opera
Cantaloupe Music/2006
text: Ben Katchor; music director: Martin Goldray; vocal (a): Tony Boutte, (b) Toby Twining ; electric guitar: John Benthal; percussion: David Cossin; woodwinds: Bohdan Hilash; keyboards: Martin Goldray

SET SIX
Hildegard Westerkamp: A Walk Through the City
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig.1996)
realized at the Sonic Research Studio of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 1981, text: Norbert Ruebsaat

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now -- Melody Sumner Carnahan
Frog Peak Music/1996
voice, percussion, synthesis, electronics, recording: J. La Barbara; bowed pianos: Gaylord Mowfrey; text: M.S. Carnahan, "One Pink Mask"

SET SEVEN
Anne LeBaron, Wadada Leo Smith, Peter van Bergen: An Even Loan
The NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music #
Innova Recordings/2010
harp: A. LeBaron; trumpet: W.L. Smith; woodwinds: P. van Bergen

John Cage: One-7 (1st 1/2)
a CAGE of saxophones volumes 3 & 4 -- Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2010
performed by Ulrich Krieger; recorded at the π Farm, Germany, 2004

--FIN--