Martian Gardens for 04/01/2012

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for April 01, 2012

SET ONE
Earle Brown:
a. Three Pieces I-III
b. Perspectives
Music for Piano(s), 1951-1995
New Albion Records/1996
piano: David Arden

Johanna Beyer: Movement for Double Bass and Piano
Modern American Bass [various artists]
New World Records/2011
bass: Robert Black; piano: John McDonald

Johanna Beyer: Gebrauchs-Musik I-III
Crawford/Beyer
New Albion Records/2001
piano: Sarah Cahill

SET TWO
Harry Partch: November 15 -- Leaving Santa Barbara
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2012
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto

Harry Partch: selections from Water! Water!
a. Water Criers. Visitors from strange and foreign places:
The Singer from Spoleto, and an Alabama Mocking Bird -- Dear Old Alabama
b. Water Criers. The baseball game is called on account of rain!
c. Opening Epilogue. Ghosts, Undele, Oomph! (The Indian Ghosts dance
over Clarence's body and play on liquor bottles)
d. Do-lo-lo-lo -- doom! (Aldermen, Ladies, and Ghosts) Phoebus bids
farewell. The Indian Runners bring news. The final song and dance,
Gone, Man, Gone! (whole ensemble). With the descending moan of sirens
Phoebus plunges wildly into nothingness.
The Harry Partch Collection Volume 3
New World Records/1997
Water! Water! An Intermission with Prologues and Epilogues, Gate 5 Ensemble Cast and Instrumentalists conducted by John Garvey; recorded at the University of Illinois, 1962

SET THREE
Warren Burt: The Shape of the Voice I -- Milton Babbitt
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer music: Warren Burt

Kim Cascone: Edgeboundaries 123
Dust Theories
Cycling '74/2001
computer music: Kim Cascone

Pete Stollery: Back to Square One
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the Studio Circé of IMEB, Bourges, 2007; North East Scotland’s Festival of New Music Sound at the Mitchell Hall, University of Aberdeen, September 1, 2007

SET FOUR
Milton Babbitt: Phonemena for soprano and tape
Philomel
New World Records/1995
soprano: Lynne Webber

John Melby: for Milton
Milton Babbitt -- A Composers' Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer and soprano; coloratura soprano: Patricia Sonego

Lydia Kavina: In Whims of the Wind
Music from the Ether -- Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/1999
Theremin: Lydia Kavina; piano: Joshua Pierce; coloratura soprano: Elizabeth Parcells; recorded at John Ford Auditorium, Portland, Maine, June 22, 1997

SET FIVE
Joseph Cell and Jin Hi Kim: April One
No World (Trio) Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1992
voice: Shelley Hirsch; electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; reeds, Korean piri: Joseph Celli; recorded at Coyote Studios, Brooklyn, September 12, 1991

Eleanor Hovda:
a. Jo Ha Kyu
b. Ikima
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/
a. oboe: Lydia Van Cleve; b. shakuhachi: Eleanor Hovda

Luciano Berio:
a. Comma
b. Chanson pour Pierre Boulez
Sequenzas & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
a. e-flat clarinet: Carol Robinson; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville, France, September 2, 2005; b. cello: Rohan de Saram; recorded at Teldex Studio, Berlin, April 2, 2006

SET SIX
Carlo Serafini: Bicycles and Bowls
Possible Worlds -- Recent Xenharmonic Explorations [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2012

Douglas Geers: Polk Pond
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2007

Nicolas Bernier: Antithèse électronique
Travaux Mécaniques
empreintes DIGITALes/2012

Christian Banasik: Glass Cutter
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2007

R. Weis: Casserole & Singing Bowl
Excitable Audible
R. Weis/2011

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

PAS: Melancholy Drink Coaster
Pure Energy Output Sessions
Alrealon Musique/2012

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: excerpts from La légende d'Eer
Electronic Works I: La Legend D'Eer
Mode Records/2005
7-channel tape (1977-1978) remixed by Gerard Pape at GRM, Paris, 2004

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Martian Gardens for 03/25/2012

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for March 25, 2012

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros and Miya Masaoka: Afternoon (Hirusugi)
Accordion Koto
Deep Listening/2007
koto: Miya Masaoka; accordion: P. Oliveros; recorded in the Bard College Recording Studio

Earl Howard: Crupper
Granular Modality
New World Records/2012
koto: Miya Masaoka; synthesizer, processing: Earl Howard; recorded in concert at Roulette, New York City

Christopher Bailey: Can't Sleep
Possible Worlds [various artists]
Spectropol Records/2011

SET TWO
Frank Denyer: Two Beacons
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
The Barton Workshop and guests, directors: Frank Denyer and James Fulkerson;
recorded Bethanieklooster, Amsterdam, and Darlington College of Arts, 2006

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

SET THREE
Philip Glass: Knee 2
Einstein on the Beach
Nonesuch Records/1993
The Philip Glass Ensemble and Chorus, conductor: Michael Riesman; recorded in 1993

Alvin Curran:
a. Harmony Circus
b. Corny Island (Ochs solo)
c. Dust Bowl
Electric Rags II
New Albion Records/1990
Rova Saxophone Quartet (baritone and alto: Jon Riskin; tenor and sopranino: Larry Ochs; alto and sopranino: Steve Adams; sorano: Bruce Ackley); electronics: Alvin Curran; Oberheim Xpander: Scot Gresham-Lancaster; recorded in San Francisco, 1989

Frank Garvey and DeusMachina:
a. Goodbye
b. Tweedledee-dee
House of the Deafman
Innova Recordings/2001
recorded for the OmniCircus, San Francisco

Lou Harrison: Rapunzel, Act VI
Rapunzel and Other Works
New Albion Records/1997
soprano: Patrice Maginnis; mezzo soprano: Lynne McMurtry; baritone: John Duykers; Ensemble Parallèle, conductor: Nicole Paeiement; recorded at the University of California Santa Cruz, June 1996
SET FOUR
Adrian Moore: Sustain
Contrechamps
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
realized at the composer's studio and premiered at the 20 Years of Musical Innovation at PACE Studio 1 of De Montfort University, Leicester, 3/01/10

John Bischoff: Decay Trace
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
computer music by John Bischoff recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland

SET FIVE
PAS: Electric Rain on Adams Bridge
Flanked by Women and Pumpkins
Alrealon Musique/2012

Blue Sausage Infant: Aphid's Lament
Manitou
Blue Sausage Infant/2012

John Shirley: Memoriam
Sonic Ninjutsu
Cycling '74/2004

David Buddin: Canticle III
Canticles for Electronic Music
ugEXPLODE Records/2012

SET SIX
Shelley Hirsch: In the Basement
Mendi + Keith Obadike present Crosstalk [various artists]
Bridge Records/2009

Shelley Hirsch: Dipped
O Little Town of East New York
Tzadik/1995

Christian Calon: Le rêve (The Dream)
Le projet Ulysse
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
voice of Penelope: Shelley Hirsch; guitar: René Lussier; electroacoustic music: C. Calon; text: C. Calon inspired by James Joyce; realized at the composer's studio in Montreal 1996-2001; additional recording in Paris, Marseille, Montreal, and Berlin; premiered at Werkstatt, Deutschlandradio Berlin, 12/04/98

Jerry Hunt:
a. String 5 -- Birds
b. String 6
Song Drapes
Tzadik/1999
electronic music: Jerry Hunt (1992); voice/text on Birds: Shelley Hirsch; recorded at Avatar, New York City, 1999

Noah Creshevsky: The Kindness of Strangers
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2011
voice and guitar: Gary Heidt; lap steel/banjo: Rich Gross; bass: Orin Buck; electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky

Shelley Hirsch: Blanche Dubois
States
Tellus-Harvestworks/1997
voice/improvised text: S. Hirsch; electronic music: David Weinstein; recorded at Roulette, New York City, 1987

Robert Ashley: The Angel of Loneliness
Dust -- An Opera
Lovely Music/2000
voice: Sam Ashley; chorus: Sam Ashley, Thomas Buckner, Tom Hamilton, Jacqueline Humbert, Joan La Barbara; "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Robert Ashley; text: Robert Ashley; electronic orchestration: Robert Ashley, "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Tom Hamilton; recorded at The Kitchen, New York City

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Blackburn: Scratch I-Ching
Ghostly Psalms
Innova Recordings/2012

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Martian Gardens for 03/18/2012

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Program for March 18, 2012

SINGLE PLAY
Tim Brady: Roche Noire (Chronique Irlandais) [René Lussier]
Imaginary Guitars
Justin Time/1995
electric guitar: Tim Brady; electric bass, tapes: René Lussier; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; tapes, soundscapes: Claude Beaugrand; commentary: Grace Adaline Bamford-Brady, Frank Patrick Brady; "When Irish Eyes are Smiling" sung by the Right Honorable Brian Mulroney; recorded at Studio 270, Outremont, Quebec, 1992

SET ONE
John Cage: Roaratorio -- An Irish Circus on Finnegan's Wake (Part Two)
Roaratorio; Laughtears
Mode Records/2002
singer: Joe Heaney; Uillean pipes: Seamus Ennis; fiddle: Paddy Glackin;
flute: Matt Molloy; bodhran: Peadher Mercier, Mell Mercier; voice, 62-track tape: J. Cage; text: James Joyce; premiered 10/22/79, West German Radio, Cologne

Charlie Morrow: A Future Harvest -- Vocalise
Toot!
XI Records/2011
vocals: Pan Morigan; percussion: Glen Velez; recorded at WDR, Cologne

SET TWO
Alvin Curran/Malcolm Goldstein:
a. Program Introduction
b. From Center of Rainbow, Sounding
Maritime Rites
New World Records/2004
violin/violin composition: M. Goldstein; field recordings/sound composition: A. Curran; all sounds recorded in the state of Maine; lobstermen commentary: Phil Raynes and Clive Poole of Camden

Lou Harrison:
a. Prelude
b. Round Dance
Rhymes with Silver
New Albion Records/2000
cello: Jean Jeanrenaud; violin: David Abel; viola: Benjamin Simon; piano: Julie Steinberg; vibraphone and percussion: William Winant; recorded at Fantasy Records, Berkeley, June 2000

SET THREE
Philip Blackburn: Draw on, Sweet night
Ghostly Psalms
Innova Recordings/2012
brainwave-triggered vocal samples, EEG/EKG sensor connected to Max/MSP patch; recorded at Trinity College, Cambridge, 2010

Zoviet France: Marrch Dynamic
Shouting at the Ground
Red Rhino Records/1988
recorded in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, April 1987

Chris Watson: Starling Song
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch Records/1998
recorded on the Isle of Coll, Scotland, May 1995

Pete Stollery: Resound
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
sounds and interviews recorded in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, for the Gordon Soundscape project; realized in 2005, premiered on 11/08/08, Discoveries Series’ Concert 34, Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, Scotland

SET FOUR
Harry Partch: Harrington Ranch, June 24, 1935
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2011
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto; recorded at Second Story Studio, Venice, California, August 2010

"Blue" Gene Tyranny: Somewhere in Arizona
The Somewhere Songs/The Invention of Memory
Mutable Music/2008
baritone voice: Thomas Buckner; saxophone: Peter Gordon; environmental/electronic sounds: BGT; vocal recording/final mix: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn

SET FIVE
Lydia Kavina: Mixolydia (Jorge Antunes)
Music from the Ether -- Original Works for Theremin
Mode Records/1999
Theremin: L. Kavina; tape: J. Antunes; electronics realized at GRM, Paris, and GMEB, Bourges, 1995

Sarah Peebles: The Curse of Border Vacuums, part I
Insect Groove
Cycling '74/2002
computers (Max, Sample Cell, Unity DS-1 software): S. Peebles

James Mobberley: Study for Vox Inhumana
Music of James Mobberley
CD-R/2009
fixed media: J. Mobberley; recorded at the University of Missouri, Kansas City

SINGLE PLAY
Earl Howard: Bird 3
Granular Modality
New World Records/2012
synthesizer: Earl Howard; recorded in concert at Roulette, New York City, 3/19/06

--FIN--

Martian Gardens for 03/11/2012

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Host: Max Shea
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Program for March 11, 2012

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

Herbert Brün: Non Sequitur VI
Wayfaring Sounds
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
flute: Carolyn Ho; cello: Sarah Wiseman; piano: Ann Warde; harp: Shirley Blankenship; marimba: J.C. Kilbourne, Jeff Magby; percussion: David Madden, Ian Ding; conductor: Arun Chandra; recorded at the University of Illinois; written on SCATRE/MUSICOMP software; tape programmed on the D/A sound synthesis system

SET TWO
Roger Reynolds: Epigram and Evolution
Epigram and Evolution -- Complete Piano Works
Mode Records/2009
piano: Eric Huebner

Iannis Xenakis: Plektó
Ensemble Music 1
Mode Records/1996
ST-X Ensemble; conductor: Charles Zachary Bornstein; The Thread Waxing Space, New York City, 6/21/95

Morton Feldman: Vertical Thoughts 5
Only -- Works for Voice and Instruments
New Albion Records/1996
soprano: Joan La Barbara; San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, director: Stephen L. Mosko; recorded in Los Angeles, 1995

SET THREE
Amnon Wolman: No Stopping Any Time
Dangerous Bend
Cycling '74/2001
Max/MSP programming: A. Wolman; marimba: Michael Burritt

Elainie Lillios: Backroads
a. Shoe Factory
b. Tree Tunnel
c. Elevator
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
electroacoustic music realized at the composer's studio, Bowling Green, Ohio; premiered at Rien à voir (12) concert series presented by Réseaux at Espace GO in Montréal, 3/13/02

SET FOUR
Alvin Lucier: Vespers (1st 1/2)
Vespers and Other Early Works
New World Records/2002
music for echolocation device, 1969

Philip Mantione: HFTwo
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
Max/MSP "Headfuck" software: P. Mantione

Dr. Ox: Motif of Myo1p
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM (Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and Art), Oslo; March 11 -- Happy Birthday to Natasha B.

SET FIVE
John Bischoff: Surface Effect
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
computer music: John Bischoff; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 2011
Joseph Celli: Spiral (K. Stockhausen)
Organic Oboe
O.O. Discs/1991 (orig. 1978)
oboe, English horn, electrified English horn, voice, kazoo, shortwave radio, various noisemakers: J. Celli

SET SIX
Robert Dow: White Water (Airflow)
Selected Works 2008
Robert Dow/2008
electroacoustic music: Robert Dow (University of Edinburgh)

Mark Alexander Bromwich: Ghosts
Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield and Newcastle [various artists]
MPS Music and Video/2000
electroacoustic music: Mark Alexander Bokowiec (née Bromwich)(University of Huddersfield, UK)

SET SEVEN
Harry Partch:
a. London, October 1934
b. By the Rivers of Babylon
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2011
narrator: John Schneider; adapted viola: Richard Valitutto

Harry Partch: Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales
a. Study on Olympos' Pentatonic
b. Study on Archytas' Enharmonic
Just West Coast
Bridge Records/1993
just guitar, adapted guitar: John Schneider; Celtic and concert harps: Amy Schulman

NewBand: Dark Brother (H. Partch)
Harry Partch/Dean Drummond
Innova Recordings/2001
bass-baritone: Robert Osborne, NewBand, text: Thomas Wolfe

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Dream
Just West Coast
Bridge Records/1993
guitar: John Schneider

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Martian Gardens for 03/04/2012

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Program for March 4, 2012

SET ONE
Harry Partch: December 7, 1935 -- Night. Four black walls
Bitter Music
Bridge Record/2011
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto; recorded at Second Story Studio, Venice, California, August 2010

John Cage: from Four Walls, Act One
a. Scene I
b. Scene II
c. Scene III
d. Scene VII (vocal interlude)
The Perilous Night/Four Walls
New Albion Records/1991
piano: Margaret Leng Tan; voice: Joan La Barbara; text: Jay Clayton; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 1990

SET TWO
Joan La Barbara: Shamansong [excerpt]
Shamansong
New World Records/1998
voice, percussion, computer, electronic keyboard, synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; tar and dunbek: Polly Tapia Ferber; gender: Kristina Melcher; cello: Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick; outdoor and indoor recordings made in New Mexico, 1991

Leo Küpper: Kamana
a. Chlong chlung
b. Tamaré
c. Huimi
d. Kôlingèlélong
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; sounds processed and recorded at Studio Recherches, Brussels

SET THREE
Annie Gosfield: Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds Back
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music [various artists]
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, 1998

Leslie Stuck: Go
Pas
Cycling '74/2003
Live performance for Patricia Corbett and Alexandra Stuck Corbett, choreographed by Elizabeth Corbett, Kamagawa Arts Festival, Yokohama, 1998

Alwin Nikolais: Blank on Blank (excerpt)
Electronic Dance Music
New World Records/1993
Synclavier: A. Nikolais, 1987

Noah Creshevsky: Rounded with a Sleep
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2012

David van Tieghem: Waiting for the Gizmo - no. 1
NYFA Collection -- 25 Years of New York New Music [various artists]
Innova Recordings/2010
Commissioned by STREB Lab for Action Mechanics (S.L.A.M.), Brooklyn

Amoebazoid: G's Last Day
Zackung
Cycling '74/2007

SET FOUR
Nicola Cisternino: Xöömij
CCMIX Paris -- Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum [various artists]
Mode Records/2001
bass baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; CCMIX: N. Cisternino

Pete Stollery: Peel
Un Son Peut en Cacher un Autre
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham and Northern College, Aberdeen; premiered at the Midlands Arts Center, Birmingham, 4/05/97

SINGLE PLAY
John Melby: Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Computer
Concerti
Albany Records/2009
piano: Winston Choi; recorded at Bryan Recital Hall, Bowling Green State University, 1/31/08

SET FIVE
John Cage: Thirteen (1st 1/3)
The Number Pieces 6
Mode Records/2012
Essential Music, directors: John Kennedy and Charles Wood; recorded at SUNY Purchase, 1993-1994

Tim Brady: Two Chords Less Than a Blues
Unison Rituals
Ambiances Magnétiques/2004
saxophones: André Leroux; piano: Lisa Godwin; percussion: Philip Hornsey; recorded at Concordia University's Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Montreal, May 2001

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: Continents of City and Love
Awakening at the Inn of the Birds
Cold Blue Music/2003
piano: Sarah Cahill, Joseph Kubera; synthesizer: Kathleen Supové; contrabass: Greg August; FLUX Quartet; recorded at Sear Sound, New York City, December 2002

SINGLE PLAY
Brian Eno: Hazard
The Drop
All Saints/1997

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Martian Gardens for 02/26/2012

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Program for February 26, 2012

SET ONE
Harry Partch: July 25 -- Blue Ox Lodge, Seattle, Washington
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2011
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto; recorded at Second Story Studios, Venice, California, 2010

Harry Partch:
a. Letter from Hobo Pablo
b. Three Intrusions--
i. The Rose (Ella Young)
ii. The Crane (Tsurayaki)
iii. The Waterfall (Ella Young)
John Schneider/Just Guitars
Bridge Records/2003
a. intoning voice, adapted guitar I: John Schneider; kithara: Rebekah Raff; b. voice, adapted guitar II: John Schneider; diamond marimba: Gene Sterling; recorded in Los Angeles, 1997

SET TWO
Lou Harrison: Varied Trio
I. Gending
II. Bowl Bells
III. Elegy
IV. Rondeau in Honor of Fragonard
V. Dance
La Koro Sutro
New Albion Records/1988
violin: David Abel; piano: Julie Steinberg; percussion: William Winant; recorded at Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley, November 1987

Bang on a Can All-Stars: Angkat (Evan Ziporyn)
Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Cantaloupe Music/2011
from "Music from Shadowbang"
recorded at the James L. Dolan Music Recording Studio, New York University, 2010

SET THREE
Noah Creshevsky: Tomomi Adachi Redux II
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2012
Synchronism for vibraphone and playback; voice: Tomomi Adachi

Noah Creshevsky: Free Speech
To Know and Not to Know
Tzadik/2006
based on vocal samples derived from "Any Questions" by Chris Mann; clarinet samples: Al Margolis; trombone samples: Monique Buzzarte

James Mobberley: Strap on your Lobster (from Icarus Wept)
Music of James Mobberley
CD-R/2009
trumpet: Keith Benjamin; fixed media: J. Mobberley

SET FOUR
Dr. Ox: GFP-Fusion
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM (Norwegian Center for Technology in Music), Oslo

Gerard Pape: Movements III & IV (from Ascension au Purgatoire)
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
percussion: Roland Auzet; Stochos computer program programming: Sinan Bokesoy; CCMIX assistant: Stefan Tiedje; recorded live in Paris at the Rencontres Festival of CCMIX

John Cage/David Tudor/Takehisa Kosugi: Five Stone Wind (excerpt)
Music for Merce Cunningham
Mode Records/1991
live electronics: D. Tudor; amplifed violin, live electronics, bamboo flute: T. Kosugi; clay pots, tapes: Michael Pugliese; recorded in Washington, D.C., 1989

Natasha Barrett: In the Rain (from Three Fictions -- Northern Mix)
Isotasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
realized at the Charybde Studio of the International Institute of Electroacuostic Music at Bourges, premiered at the Synthèse experimental music festival, Bourges, 2000, remixed at the composer's studio, 2000

SET FIVE
Leo Küpper: Paroles sur Langue
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
bass baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; electronics, processing; recorded at the Studio de Recherches, Brussels

O+A: Mass MoCA -- Harmonic Bridge
Music Works 97 [various artists]
MusicWorks Magazine/2007
installation by Sam Auigner and Bruce Odland (1998)on the Route 2 overpass, North Adams, Massachusetts

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot!
XI Records/2011
recorded in Morrow's interactive arctic sound storeroom created for curator Stephan Andreae's "Arktis-Antarktis," at Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany

SET SIX
Noto: Crystal.s2
Microscopic Sound [various artists]
Caipirinha/1999
oscillators, tone generators: Carsten Nicolai (aka. Alvo Noto)

John Bischoff: Sidewalk Chatter
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
crackle box, computer processing: John Bischoff; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland

PGR: Cage
The Morning Book of Serpents
Silent Records/1995
electronics: Kim Cascone; recorded at the American Industrial Center, San Francisco, 1991

SET SEVEN
Maggi Payne: Resonant Places
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 17 [various artists]
Music from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College
Centaur Records/1994

Leslie Stuck: Soothing the Enemy
Pas
Cycling '74/2003
recorded for Alonzo King's Lines Contemporary Ballet, San Francisco

Richard Maxfield: Pastoral Symphony
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
originally from Maxfield's "Electronic Music" LP, Odyssey/1969

Mel Powell: Second Electronic Setting
Music for Electronic and Older Instruments [various artists]
CRI/1968

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Martian Gardens for 02/19/2012

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Program for February 19, 2012

SET ONE
Harry Partch: Wimbledon, London, March 1935
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2011
narrator: John Schneider; recorded at Second Story Studios, Venice, California, 2010

Harry Partch: selections from King Oedipus
a. Creon scene
b. Jocasta scene
Enclosure Five
Innova Recordings/1998
recorded at Lisser Hall, Mills College, Oakland, March 14-16, 1952; director: H. Partch; based on W.B. Yeats' translation of Sophocles' Oedipus the King

SET TWO
Giacinto Scelsi: from Three Latin Prayers
a. Ave Maria
b. Alleluja
Natura Renovatur
ECM Records/2006
cello: Frances-Marie Uitti; recorded at Himmelfahrtskirche, München, June 2005

Giacinto Scelsi: Three Latin Prayers
a. Ave Maria
b. Pater Noster
c. Alleluja
Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2002
clarinet: Carol Robinson; recorded in Chatillon, France

Giacinto Scelsi: Hô I-IV
Incantations
New Albion Records/2005
voice: Marianne Schuppe; recorded at Kirche Tüllingen, December 2004

SET THREE
Noah Creshevsky: Lisa Barnard Redux
Rounded with a Sleep
Pogus Productions/2012
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley

Al Margolis: Issue
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
voice: Lisa Barnard Kelley; electronics, processing: Al Margolis

SET FOUR
Leo Kupper: Aviformes
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
soprano: Barbara Zanichelli; recorded at Studios Recherches, Brussels

Dr. Ox: Axial Budding
Dr. Ox
Cycling '74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NoTAM (Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and Art), Oslo

SET FIVE
John Bischoff: Local Color
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
recorded in Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, 2010-2011

John Bischoff: Quarter Turn (excerpt)
Earth Music - Ten Years of Meridian Music: Composers in Performance
Innova Recordings/2010
recorded at The Music Room, Meridian Art Gallery, San Francisco

The Hub: Hub x 6
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2006
The Hub computer networking group: John Bischoff, Chris Brown, Time Perkis, Mark Trayle, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster; recorded Albany, California, 1986

SET SIX
James Correa: Colors and Sounds Reply to One Another
Portfolio
James Correa/2011
piano: Catarina Leite Domenici; electronics: J. Correa; recorded in Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2006

Morton Subotnick: Butterfly No. 2
Electronic Works Vol. 3
Mode Records/2011
4-channel tape, original mix 1973, new mix 2010

Elsa Justel: Du libe tu?
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
realized at the composer's studio in Paris; premiered in 1996 during the Tombeau de Pierre Schaeffer concert at the Synthèse Festival in Bourges

SINGLE PLAY
Kim Cascone: ResidueBondage (DJ4'33" anagram mix)
Dust Theories
Cycling '74/2001
Max/MSP patch, Digital Performer 3.0: DJ4'33"

James Tenney: Analog #1 (Noise Study)
Selected Works 1961-1969
New World Records/2003

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