Martian Gardens for 06/06/2010

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Amherst, Mass. 01003
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MARTIAN GARDENS
Sundays 19:00--24:00 EDT
Host: Max Shea
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email: maxtshea@gmail.com

Program for June 6, 2010

SET ONE
Frank Denyer: Woman, Viola, and Crow
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted viola, voice, percussion sounds: Elizabeth Smalt; recorded at Robert Bosch Geluid, Amsterdam, 3/20/06

James Tenney: Koan
Postal Pieces
New World Records/2004
viola: Elizabeth Smalt; recorded in the Netherlands, 20003

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: Invisible "Seeds" for James Tenney
Music of Nights Without Moon or Pearl
Cold Blue Music/2000
CalArts New Century Players; conductor: David Rosenboom; recorded at Dizzy Gillespie Recordings Studio, California Institute of the Arts, 2000

SINGLE PLAY
Antanas Jasenka: Out Off Čiurlionis
Point/Circle
Electroshock Records/2010
Chordos String Quartet; live electronics: A. Jasenka, Antanas Kučinskas; recorded at Lithuanian Composer Sound Studio, Vilnius

SET TWO
Reena Katz: Can You Say Haa?
Deep Wireless 7 -- Radio Arts Compilation #
New Adventures in Sound Art/2010

Arie Shapira: Resurrection, Part I
Ensemble Meitar, conductor: Karin Ben-Yossef; rock vocals: Eran Tzur

SET THREE
Olivier Messiaen: Amen du Désir
Visions de l'Amen
Bridge Records/2010
piano I: Marilyn Nonken; piano II: Sarah Rothenberg; recorded at Stude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, May, 2009

Salvatore Martirano: Cocktail Music
O, O, O, O, That Shakespherian Rag
New World Records/1998
piano: Marilyn Nonken

Giacinto Scelsi:
a. Brilliante
b. Pesante
The Piano Works 2
Mode Records/2005
piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, 8/27/03

SET FOUR
Gen Ken Montgomery: Birds & Machines (Bird Suite)
Birds + Machines -- 1980-1989
Pogus Productions/2010
recorded in New York City, 1989

Ellen Band: Closet Bird (excerpt)
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2000

Chris Watson:
a. Red Rumped Tinkerbird
b. Lemon Rumped Tinkerbird
c. Insect, hidden in the leaf litter
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch Records/1998
a, b, c -- field recordings from the Cameroon rain forest, 1996-1997

Tom Lopez: Moth
60 x 60 -- 2003 #
Vox Novus/2004

Piotr Szewezyk: Cosmic Insects
60 x 60 -- 2004/2005 #
Vox Novus/2007

Julian Cartwright: Grasshopper
ibid.

SET FIVE
Madeleine Shapiro: Petals (K. Saariaho)
Electricity -- Works for Cello and Electronics
Albany Records/2004

Alex Shapiro: Deep
Notes from the Kelp
Innova Recordings/2007
contrabassoon: Leslie Lashinsky; percussion: Dan Morris; electronics: A. Shapiro; recorded in Los Angeles, 2004-2006

SINGLE PLAY
Tim Brady: Escapement
Unison Rituals
Actuellecd/2004
Bradyworks ensemble -- electric guitar: T. Brady, saxophones: André Leroux, cello: Isabelle Bozzini; perucssion: D'Arcy Phillip Gray; recorded at Concordia University's Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Montreal, December 2001

--FIN--