Martian Gardens for 11/02/2008

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PROGRAM FOR NOVEMBER 2,2008

FUND DRIVE WEEK--NO REGULAR SET LIST

Tom Waits: November
The Black Rider
Island/1993

NewBand: Daphne of the Dunes (H. Partch)
NewBand Plays Microtonal Works
Mode Records/1994

John Cage: Daughters of the Lonesome Isle
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Phillip Vandre

Robert Voisey: Hunger
Vox Novus E.P.
Vox Novus/2004

Robert Asheley: I Aged I Didn't Grow Up
Concrete--An Opera
Lovely Music, Ltd/2008
vocals: Jacqueline Humbert; Joan La Barbara, Thomas Buckner,
Sam Ashley; sound design: Tom Hamilton

Jacqueline Humbert: Profile
Chanteuse--Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
piano accompaniment, additional vocals: Lindsay Claire Rosenboom

Mike Silverton/Tom Hamilton/Al Margolis:
The Clouds, To Whom do They Belong?
Analoque Smoque
Pogus Productions/2003

Noah Creshevesky: Variations
Man & Superman
Centaur Records/1992

David Congo: MIDI Variations
Voyage
Capstone Records/2006

David First: Thought You Said Sherbet*
The Alternative Schubertiade #
CRI/1999
*based on the first nine measures of Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade

Gyorgy Ligeti: Musica Ricercata parts I-VII
I. Sostenuto-Misurato-Prestissimo
II. Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale
III. Allegro con spirito
IV. Tempo de Valse (poco vivace--a l'orgue de Barbarie)
V. Rubato Lamentoso
Edition 5--Mechanical Music
Sony/1997
barrel organ: Pierre Charial

Gordon Mumma: 11 Sushi Horizontals
1. For Jackson Mac Low
2. For Alexis at 22
3. For Agnes Martin
4. For James Klosty
5. For Jonathan at 12
6. Erdos number...for Paul Erdos
7. For Christopher at 15 (time flies like two arrows)
8. For Carolyn Brown
9. For Bun-Ching Lam
10. For Anatole Leikin
11. For Charles Shere
Music for Solo Piano (1960--2001)
New World Records/2008
piano: Daan Vanewalle

--fin--

Martian Gardens 10/26/2008

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PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER 26, 2008

SET 1
John Cage: What You Say (on Jasper Johns)
The Text Pieces I
Mode Records/1999

Alvin Curran/John Cage: Ice, Dew, Food, Crew, Ape
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
voice: J. Cage

SET 2
Noah Creshevsky: Intrada
Favororite Encores (Creshevsky/Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2008
voice: Chris Mann

Steve Mackey: 'Lude
Speak Like the People, Write Like the King
Bridge Records/2008
Brentano String Quartet

Kenneth Gaburo: String Quartet in One Movement
Five Works for Voices, Instruments, and Electronics
New World Records/2002
Walden String Quartet

SET 3
Random selections from the 60 x 60 series:
2003--
Tom Lopez: Moth
Stan Link: Cavatina from an Imaginary Opera
Eric Lyon: Molten Statues
2004--
Daniel Goode: V-I
Charles Norman Mason: Into the Woods
Eldad Tsabary: Decay Date 14 April 1966
2005--
Polly Moller: Cold Blood
Jonathan Stone: From Mr. Knight
Peter V. Swendsen: Field
2006--
Maggi Payne: 60x3
Rodney Oakes: Iberian Aria
Margaret Schedel: Whirlitzer
2007--
Chris Mann: Told You So
Rodney Waschka II: Reminded of Dickens
Monique Buzzarte: On the Outside Looking In...

SET 4
Eve Beglarian: Wolf Chaser
Lesbian American Composers
CRI/1997
violin/Inuit "wolf chaser" tool: Robin Lorentz
percussion/electronics: E. Beglarian

Tom Lopez: Dirge for Deja Vu
Frist Wave Music/2008

SET 5
Frances White: Centre Bridge
Centre Bridge--Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown

Paul Lansky: Quakerbridge
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992

SET 6
Joel Chadabe: Follow Me Softly
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 24
Centaur Records/1997
percussion: Jan Williams
Synclavier Digital Music System: J. Chadabe

Gary Lee Nelson: To the Edge
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37--
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
marimba: Deborah Sunya Moore

SINGLE PLAY
Little Bang Theory: Tumbleweed
Elementary
Acidsoxx Musicks/2008

Martian Gardens for 10/19/2008

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PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER 19/20, 2008 (extended broadcast 21:30-03:00)

SET 1
Michael Byron: Enchanting the Stars
Dreamers of Pearl
New World Records/2008
piano: Joseph Kubera

Harold Budd/Ruben Garcia/Daniel Lentz: Somos Tres
Music for 3 Pianos
All Saints--Caroline/1992

SET 2
Arthur Levering: Twenty Ways Upon the Bells
School of Velocity
CRI/1999
Dinosaur Annex Music Enemble, conductor: Scott Wheeler

Arthur Levering: Echoi
a. Movement 1
b. Movement 2
c. Movement 3
Still Raining, Still Dreaming
New World Records/2008
violin: Nicholas Kitchen; piano: Donald Berman


SET 3
Robert Voisey: Deep Longings
Once there Was...Troy
Vox Novus/2004
Rishon String Quartet

Robert Xavier Rodriguez: Les Niais Amoureux
a. Larghetto Amoroso
b. Allegro Cantabile
c. Larghissimo Tranquillo
Voces Americanas
CRI/1998
Voices of Change Ensemble

SET 4
Noah Creshevsky: Jacob's Ladder (Dedicated to Marco Oppedisano)
Hyperrealism
Mutable Music/2003

Marco Oppedisano: Imaginary Portal
The Ominous Corner
OKS Recordings of North America/2008

Nick Didkovsky: Flykiller
New York Guitars #
CRI/1995

John Cage: Totem Ancestor
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philipp Vandre

SET 5
Joan La Barbara: October Music--Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003

Tom Hamilton: 42nd St./Times Square
Off-Hour Wait State--Some Music About the Subway
O.O. Discs/1996
voice: Thomas Buckner; trombone: Peter Zummo; percussion: Jonathan Haas

Mark Applebaum: Theme In Search of Variations III
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings2008
Beta Collide

SET 6
Tom Lopez: The Death of the Moth
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37--
Music from the Oberlin Coservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
The Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, conductor: Tim Weiss

Michael Vogt: Tombeau
Argonautika
ReR Megacorp/2004

SET 7
James Tenney: String Complement (With Erogodos II)
Molody, Ergodicity, and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
The Barton Workshop

Jerry Hunt: Transform (Stream): Monopole
Ground: Five Mechanic Convention Streams
O.O. Discs/1992

SET 8
Paul Reller: Carcass
Bang On A Can Vol.3
CRI/1994

Tim Hodgkinson: Vers Kongsu II
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
bass clarinet: Vinny Golia; percussion: Gustavo Aguilar,
clarintet solo: T. Hodgkinson; Hyperion Ensemble, conductor: Iancu Dumitrescu

Roland Auzet: Omega (I. Xenakis)
Percussion(s)
Mode Records/2007

SET 9
The League of Automatic Music Composers: Martian Folk Music
TLOAMC 1978-1983
New World Records/2007

The Hub: Hot Pig
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008

John Bischoff/Chris Brown/Tom Erbe/Maggi Payne: CCM Flotsam (tracks 16,17,18)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994

Chris Brown:
a. Cremation Procession, Bali
b. Cremation Flame, Bali
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005

SINGLE PLAY
Felix Werder: Banker
The Tempest
Pogus Productions/2007
piano: Dennis Henning; percussion: John Seal; guitar;
Jochen Schubert; synthesizers: Keith Humble/F. Werder;
realization: Peter Mumme

SINGLE PLAY
Stephane Roy: Masques et Parades
a. Exultation
b. Burlesque
c. Noir Silence
Migrations
empreintes DIGITALes/2003

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Fog Index
Acousma
Electronic Music Foundation/2001

SET 10
Jeff Greinke: Moving Through Fog
Cities in Fog
Projekt: Archive/1997

Paul Schutze: The Black Lake
The Driftworks Boxed Set
Big Cat Records/1997

Robert Scott Thompson: Submerged
Frontier
Mirage--Oasis/1998

SINGLE PLAY
Brian Eno: Events in Dense Fog
Music for Films I
EG/1978

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 10/12/2008

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PROGRAM FOR OCTOBER 12, 2008

SET 1
Mark Applebaum:
a. Martian Anthropology 1
b. Martian Anthropology 2
Martian Anthropology
Innova Recordings2004
Stanford Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Jindong Cai
M. Applebaum: Mouseketier sound-sculpture,live electronics

Mark Applebaum:
a. Martian Anthropology 7
b. Martian Anthropology 8
c. Martian Anthropology 9
Sock Monkey
Innova Recordings2008
Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-Acoustic Band

SET 2
Meredith Monk:
a. Sweep 1
b. Disequelibrium
Impermanence
ECM New Series/2008
paddle drums(a.); bicycle wheel (b.): John Hollenbeck; voices (b.):
Theo Bleckman, Katie Geissinger, Allison Sniffin, Sylvie Jensen,
Ellen Fisher, M. Monk

George Crumb: Dream Sequence (Images II)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
The International Contemporary Ensemble


SET 3
Iannis Xenakis: Orient-Occident
Electronic Music
Electronic Music Foundation/1997

Ingram Marshall: Cortez
Ikon--and Other Early Works
New World Records/2000
voice/text: Snee McCaig

SET 4
If, Bwana: Xyloxings
Favororite Encores (Creshevsky/Margolis)
Pogus Productions/2008
voice: Lisa Barnard

Eric Chasalow: Crossing Boundaries
Left To His Own Devices
New World Records/2003

SET 5
Random selections from the 60 x 60 series:
David Hahn: Goo Mee
James Hegerty: MHLR4
Mike Swinchoski: Alternative Song
Balie Todd: De and Reconstruction
Alphonse Izzo: Ground
Annea Lockwood: The Danube at Batina, Croatia, Underwater, 2003
Stephen Ricks: A Glimpse Beyond Zero
Straiph Wilson: Skp A Beat
Heike Schmidt: morningsong
arita Bolles: Hallelujah
Jay Batzner: Bad Villager
voxnovus.com/2003-2007

SET 6
Morton Subotnick: Gestures--It Begins With Colors
The Electronic Works I
Mode Records/2001
voice: Joan La Barbara/Text: Melody Sumner Carnahan

Joan La Barbara: A Different Train
The Time is Now #
Frog Peak Music/1996
text: Melody Sumner Carnahan

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: Trembling
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol.14 #
Centaur Records/1993
voice: Joan La Barbara; violin: Robert Davidovici; piano: Adam Wodnicki; "ghost" electronics: Larry Austin

Martian Gardens for 9/28/2008

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PROGRAM FOR SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

SINGLE PLAY
Mauricio Kagel: Variete (1-5)
a. Con Moto
b. Grave
c. Giusto
d. Largo
e. Presto
Mauricio Kagel 4--Variete
Discques Montaigne/1992
Ensemble Modern, conductor: M. Kagel
Recorded in Berlin, 1/92

SET 1
Frank Denyer: Two Beacons
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
The Barton Workshop & Co., directors: F. Denyer, James Fulkerson

Morton Feldman: The Straits of Magellan
Indeterminate Music
Mode Records/2001
The Turfan Ensemble; directors: Phillipp Vandre, Thaddeus Watson

SET 2
Henry Brant: Inside Track
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2008
solo piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; soprano: Barbara Hannigan;
with two percussionists, string septet, woodwind quartet, and
"street band"; conductors: H. Brant,Robert Aitken;
recorded Toronto 9/09/90

Meri von KleinSmid: Monorail
60 x 60 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Greg Carr: Soul Train Rodeo
Technological Retreat Mixes Vol. 1
Innova Recordings/2003

SET 3
Ann Southam: In Retrospect
MusicWorks 101
MusicWorks Magazine/2008
piano: Eve Egoyan

Gordon Mumma: Graftings
a. Scion
b. Recitative
c. Scion
d. Scion
e. Grafting & Slipwaltz
f. Scion
Music for Solo Piano (1960--2001)
New World Records/2008
piano: Daan Vandewalle

SET 4
Gordon Mumma: Cirqualz
Electronic Music of Theatre and Public Activity
New World Records/2005

Noah Creshevsky: Great Performances
Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky 1971--1992
EM Records/2004

Noah Creshevsky: Favorite Encores
Favorite Encoures (Creshevsky/If, Bwana)
Pogus Productions/2008

SET 5
Jon Hassell/Brian Eno: Chemistry
Fourth World Vol. 1--Possible Musics
E.G--Jem Records/1980
trumpet: J. Hassell; bass: Percy Jones; ghatam:
Nana Vasconcelos, Ayibe Dieng

Brad Garton: Approximate Rhythms
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 5 #
Centaur Records/1990

Mark Applebaum: Garden of Memory
The Bible Without God
Innova Recordings/2005

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Austin: The Nth Realization*
Octo Mixes
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
*Octophonic computer remix of John Cage's "Williams Mix"

--fin--

Martian Gardens for 9/21/2008

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PROGRAM FOR SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

SET 1
Cosmologic: Mr. Hubbard's Shock Installation
Syntaxis
Circumvention Music/2003

Cosmologic: 17th and Capp (Revisited)
Trummerflora--Rubble 1
Circumvention Music/2004

Michael Lipsey: Rezo
So Long, Thanks...
Capstone Records/2007

SET 2
Pauline Oliveros/Miya Masaoka: Daybreak (Akegarasu--Sound of a Crow)
Accordion/Koto
Deep Listening/2008

Maybe Monday: Beyond the Hard Darkness
Saturn's Finger
Buzz Records/1999
featuring Miya Masaoka, koto

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965
a. Eco 1. Fantastico
b. Eco 2. Languidamente, quasi lontano ("Hauntingly")
c. Eco 3. Prestissimo
d. Eco 4. Con bravura
e. Eco 5. Dark, Intense
f. Eco 6. Dark, Intense
g. Eco 7. Dark, Intense
h. Eco 8. Forece, violento
i. Eco 9. Serenamente, quasi lontano ("Hauntingly")
j. Eco 10. Senza musura ("gently undulating")
k. Eco 11. Adagio; ("Like a Prayer")
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
The International Contemporary Ensemble;
text: Federico Garcia Lorca

SET 3
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
Voice is the Original Instrument
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
text: Emmett Williams

Larry Austin: La Barbara--The Music
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 13
Centaur Records/1993
from "La Barbara: The Name, The Sounds, The Music--
voice: L. Austin; soprano: J. La Barbara

SET 4
Lydia Kavina: Exercise 28 (C. Wolff)
Spellbound! Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
Ensemble Sospeso

Christian Wolff:
a. Exercise 8
b. Exercise 11
Ten Exercises
New World Records/2006
piano: Frederic Rzewski; vibraphone: Robyn Schulkowsky; electric
guitar: Larry Polansky; soprano saxophone: Chiyoko Szlavnics;
melodica: C. Wolff; recorded 9/2005, Umbria, Italy

SINGLE PLAY
Mauricio Kagel: Phonophonie
Transcion II/Phonophonie
Mode Records/2005
bass: Nicholas Isherwood; tapes, sound direction:
Stefano Bassanese; offstage voice: Tim Greacon;
prerecorded percussion: Dimitri Fiorin; prerecorded voices:
Piera Acone, Elena Barbalich, Daniel Del Giudice; Xavier Tabet,
N. Isherwood; recorded in Venice and Paris 1999--2001

In Memoriam Mauricio Kagel, December 24, 1931--September 18, 2008

Martian Gardens for 9/14/2008

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PROGRAM FOR SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

SET 1
Meredith Monk: Last Song
Impermanence
ECM Records/2008

Meredith Monk: Memory Song
Do You Be
ECM Records/1987
voices: Andrea Goodman, Naaz Hosseini, M. Monk
keyboards: Wayne Hankin, Nurit Tilles

Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms--The Nerve Events Project #
Cuneiform Records/1993

Arie Shapira: Saxo Quartet & Playback
Arie Shapira/2008
Israeli Saxo Quartet

SET 2
Noah Creshevsky: Mari Kimura Redux
Favorite Encores (Noa Creshevsky/If, Bwana)
Pogus Productions/2008
violin samples: Mari Kimura

Mari Kimura: Submarine (R. Rowe)
Polytopia--Music for Violin & Electronics
Bridge Records/2007

Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60--2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim

Rodney Waschka II: Xuan Men (Dark Gate)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 16 #
Centaur Records/1994
violin: Bruce Berg

SET 3
David Starobin: Two Practical Cats (H. Searle)
a. Macavity--The Mystery Cat
b. Growltiger's Last Stand
Music With Guitar, Volume 4
Bridge Records/1990
narrator: Patrick Mason; flute/piccolo: Susan Palma;
cello: Timothy Eddy; guitar: D. Starobin; texts: T.S. Eliot

Harry Partch: Ring Around the Moon--
A Dance Fantasm for Here and Now*
a. Phase One--Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!)
b. Phase Two--One, Two, Three Four--X,Y,Zee
c. Phase Three--Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the
bell come out fighting!
d. Phase Four--Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoity toity, hotsy totsy,
acey ducey, hoochey koochey (Look out! He's got a gun!)
The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1
New World Records/2004 (orig. CRI 1997)
*from Plectra and Percussion Dances-Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater
Gate 5 Ensemble; recorded 1953 Sausalito, California

SINGLE PLAY
Lou Harrison: Ditone Set
a. Usul
b. Plaint
c. Variations on Walter von der Voglweide's 'Song of Palestine'
d. Estampie
Por Gitaro
Mode Records/2008
guitars: John Schneider

SET 4
"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere Inside the Red Circle
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner; "Leading a Double Life"
performed by The Ned Sublette Group

Little Bang Theory: AutoZither no.1
Elementary
Acidsoxx Musicks/2008

Jennifer Griffith: Calling G.B.
60 x 60--2006/2007 #
Vox Novus/2008

George Brunner: Art in Heaven
The Electroacoustic Music Ensemble Brooklyn College 1999
The Electro-Acoustic Ensemble/1999/2008
voices: Bruce MacIntyre, Jerald Miller, Safiya Ama Samms,
Joshua Samms, G. Brunner; texts: Pater Noster, Psalm 23,
11th Century Solemn Easter Mass

Robert Voisey: Lullaby
ibid.
voice: Joyce Tannian

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Dow: Burnt Umber
Selected Works
Robert Dow/2008