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This month's show:
December 2006

HAFEZ MODIRZADEH
1 Introduction: Tom Bickley 1:35
2 Tunisia Buleria 4:56
3 Bemsha Alegria 5:15
4 remarks 5:30
5 Goodbye Solea 1:35
6 remarks 3:17
7 Sax solo (w/CD) 9:57
8 remarks 3:05
9 [Invitation]* 4:18
10 [Happy Birthday To You]* 4:06
11 remarks 2:41
12 [Lonely Woman]* 3:39
13 Q&A 8:05
14 Taranta 3:47
15 Outro: Tom Bickley 1:16

Hafez Modirzedeh - tenor saxophone
*w/Tim Volpicella - electric guitar

Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
October 11, 2006
Total time: 63:10
DAT recording and CD-R mastering by Michael Zelner/ZOKA

This month's Show
November 2006

duo B.

Set I:
Compositions and/or improvisations
1 intro: Tom Bickley 2:17
2 Like Pong 8:31
3 remarks 0:44
4 I'll Be RIght Here Waiting 5:44
5 remarks 0:30
6 Suite 9:04
7 Hot Rodd Flamez 4:30
8 remarks 0:32
9 Etendue 6:50
10 remarks 0:39

Set II:
Doublesided (a game for improvisers + audience) (2006)
11 remarks 8:41
12 Etude (1) 3:25
13 remarks 0:32
14 Etude (2) 3:00
15 remarks 3:39
16 Suite 5:28
17 remarks 4:36
18 ABACADA 3:49
19 outro 0:29

Lisa Mezzacappa contrabass
Jason Levis drums, percussion, marimba
Rob Ewing, prompter (Set II)

Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
September 13, 2006
Total time: 73:10
DAT recording and CD-R mastering by Michael Zelner/ZOKA

This month's Show
August 2006

JON RASKIN
Set 1:
1 Introduction: 3:09
Tom Bickley / Jon Raskin
Jaw Harps:
2 Hmong 3:14
3 Hungarian 2:22
4 Southern Indian 3:06
5 Hungarian 1:16
6 Hungarian 2:22
7 Norwegian 2:26
8 remarks 4:16
9 Ginko (Web graphic score) 10:46
10 remarks 1:38
11 Throat singing 1 (w/Faces video) 5:25
12 Throat singing 2 4:50

Set 2:
13 remarks 1:34
Music + One (alto sax):
14 Phillip Greenlief 3:10
15 Myles Boisen 4:13
16 Gino Robair 3:16
17 Liz Allbee 4:10
18 Postcards (graphic score) 3:21
19 Kandinsky Sage (graphic score) 3:47
20 Bari improv (w/Faces video) 5:10
21 Alto improv (w/Faces video) 6:07

Jon Raskin - jaw harps, voice, alto and baritone saxophones

Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
May 10, 2006
Total time: 79:49
DAT recording and CD-R mastering by Michael Zelner/ZOKA * mic@zoka.com

This month's Show
April 2006

BEAU CASEY: Full Moon Rising
1 Part 1 7:23 "Lunar Prelude"
2 Part 2 8:14 "Nocturne"
3 Part 3 11:27 "Drum Machine Adagio in B Major"
4 Part 4 9:56 "La Bella Aria"
5 Part 5 6:57 "Encore"

Beau Casey - electronics & video
with Margot Bevington-Casey - voice & movement

Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
April 12, 2006
Total time: 44:00

DAT recording and CD-R mastering by Jeff Crowell <taotempo@gmail.com>

This month's Show
March 2006

PHILIP GELB

1 Intro: Tom Bickley 3:01
2 Intro: Philip Gelb 2:07
3 Kyorei (Empty Bell) 10:43
4 Tamuke (Clasping Hands) 4:48
5 San'ya (Safe Passage) 8:55
6 remarks 3:53
7 Matthew's Garden 6:51
8 remarks 1:33
9 Dragon Lines (for Bob Kostka) 12:03
10 Outro: Tom Bickley 1:08

Philip Gelb - shakuhachi

Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
January 11, 2006
Total time: 55:08

DAT recording and C


This month's Show
January 2006

JEN BAKER
1 Introduction: Tom Bickley 1:59
2 Piece No. 1 3:14
3 remarks 0:54
4 Piece No. 2 (Gregorian Chant) 5:00
5 remarks 0:17
6 Piece No. 3 6:08
7 remarks 0:24
8 Piece No. 4 (recorded) 6:26
9 Piece No. 5 9:49
10 remarks 0:30
11 Piece No. 6 11:18

Jen Baker - trombone and didgeridoo

Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
December 14, 2005
Total time: 46:06

DAT recording and CD mastering by Michael Zelner/ZOKA

This month's Show
December 2005

VIV CORRINGHAM
1 Introduction: Tom Bickley 2:27
2 Introduction: Viv Corringham 4:40
3 A Walk By The River Lea (London) 8:59
4 remarks 2:12
5 A Walk In Konya (Turkey) 11:14
6 remarks 3:54
7 They's Lovely Memories: Cobh Shadow-walk (Ireland) 6:56
8 remarks 5:28
9 A Walk In Cobh (Ireland) 16:04
10 remarks 2:55
11 Improvisation (with San Francisco sounds) 7:04

Viv Corringham - voice, electronics, and field recordings
Total time: 71:59
Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
November 9, 2005

DAT recording and CD mastering by Michael Zelner/ZOKA

This month's Show
October 2005

GINO ROBAIR
I, Norton - A lecture/demonstration

CD1 79:05
1 Intro: Tom Bickley 2:22
2 Introduction (live excerpt) 5:52
3 Gino 1:24
4 Proclamation (recorded excerpt) 3:33
5 Gino 14:33
6 Proclamation code (live excerpt) 1:36
7 Gino 3:39
8 Chorale (live excerpt) 0:15
9 Gino 3:23
10 Introduction (recorded excerpt) 3:02
11 Gino 1:49
12 At The Theater (recorded excerpt) 3:57
13 Gino 1:38
14 Mad Scene (recorded excerpt) 3:36
15 Gino 3:49
16 Quartet - B2 (live excerpt) 2:01
17 Gino 6:25
18 My Dear Miss Wakeman (live excerpt) 3:04
19 Gino 1:38
20 My Dear Miss Wakeman (live excerpt) 3:35
21 Gino 5:44
22 Fraudulent Decrees (live excerpt) 1:59

CD2 6:39
1 Gino 0:31
2 Conducted quintet (live) 5:24
3 outro 0:43

Total time: 1:25:40

Tom Duff as Norton I - voice and banjo
Aurora Josephson as Minnie Wakeman - voice
Matt Ingalls - clarinet
Tom Bickley - recorders
Aki Shinomiya - visuals
Gino Robair - conductor

Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
September 14, 2005
DAT recording and CD mastering by Michael Zelner/ZOKA

This Month's show:
August 2005

7th Annual Midsummer Music Festival
Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
July 16, 2005

CD1: Eight Fractured Folk Songs (58:45)
1. Intro: Tom Bickley (1:30)
2. All The Pretty Little Horses (5:33)
3. intro (4:00)
4. Black Is The Color (5:09)
5. intro (0:48)
6. All My Trials (4:15)
7. intro (1:23)
8. John Reilly (7:05)
9. intro (1:25)
10. Plaisir D'Amour (6:38)
11. intro (1:44)
12. Olvad A H´o (5:39)
13. intro (1:21)
14. House Of The Rising Sun (4:09)
15. intro (2:05)
16. Salangadou (5:50)

Joseph Zitt - voice
Katherine Setar - electric piano

DAT recording and CD-R mastering by Michael Zelner/ZOKA * mic@zoka.com

This month's show:
May 2005

Meridian Music: Composers in Performance

DARREN JOHNSTON

1 Introduction: Tom Bickley 1:38
2 Piece No. 1 34:08
3 Piece No. 2 8:02
4 Piece No. 3 11:24
5 Outro: Tom Bickley 1:27

Darren Johnston - trumpet and electronics

Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
April 13, 2005
Total time: 56:43

DAT recording and CD-R mastering by Michael Zelner

This month's show:
April 2005

Meridian Music: Composers in Performance

TOM BICKLEY & JENNIFER WILSEY

1 Introduction: Anne Brodzky 1:05
2 Gong Process 12:54
3 Isabella & Afterwards 9:19
4 remarks: Tom Bickley 2:32
5 Cycle Signal 5:38
6 Repeat Rinse Repeat 25:55
7 Paths Between Parallel Roads 3:31
8 encore 1:03

All works composed by Jennifer Wilsey/Tom Bickley, except for Track 3 (anon. 14th c.)
Tom Bickley - recorders, electronics
Jennifer Wilsey - percussion

Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
March 9, 2005
Total time: 62:02

DAT recording by Suki O'Kane * CD-R mastering by Michael Zelner

This month's show:
March 2005

Meridian Music: Composers in Performance

ESP with India Cooke

1 Introduction: Tom Bickley 1:40
2 Piece 1 10:50
3 Piece 2 20:53
4 Piece 3 16:59
5 Piece 4 8:58
6 Announcements: Tom Bickley 1:26
7 Piece 5 8:55

ESP:
India Cooke - violin, percussion
Kimara Dixon - electric bass, Fender Rhodes electric piano
Kele Nitoto - percussion

Meridian Music: Composers In Performance
Recorded live at the Meridian Gallery, San Francisco CA
February 9, 2005
Total time: 69:46

Recording engineer for all performances unless otherwise noted:
Michael Zelner michaelz@zoka.com

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