Martian Gardens Episode 921
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 11, 2018
Contact Max Shea: martiangardens@gmail.com
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Greg Dixon: Diskonacht
Deep Wireless 9 — Radio Arts Compilation (various artists) [MP3]
New Adventures in Sound Art/2013
sound samples, processing: Greg Dixon; composition year: 2011; time: 4:31

Dmitri Tymoczko:  I Cannot Follow
a. Structures of Loss (3:58)
b. Respite (5:06)
c. I Cannot Follow (6:50)
Rube Goldberg Variations
Bridge Records/2017
Flexible Music (saxophone: Timothy Ruedeman; guitar: Daniel Lippel; percussion: Haruka Fujii; piano: Yegor Shevtsov); recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University; composition year: 2014; time: 15:54

SET TWO
Third Coast Percussion: Reflections on the Nature of Water V & VI (J. Druckman)
V. Profound (4:35)
VI. Relentless (2:15)
Paddle to the Sea
Çedille/2017
marimba (V): Robert Dillon; marimba (VI): Sean Connors; recorded at Electrical Audio, Chicago, December 2016; composer: Jacob Druckman; composition year: 1986; total selections time: 6:51

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; composition year: 1993; time: 4:40

Anneliese Weibel: C.I.R.C.A.
New Music Series 4 (various artists)
Neuma Records/2002
Paul Hoffman/Tom Goldstein Duo (piano: Hoffman; percussion: Goldstein); recorded at the University of New Mexico; composition year: 1999; time: 9:12

Earle Brown: Four Systems
Earle Brown: Selected Works 1952- 1965
New World Records/2006
piano, computer, electronics: Michael Daugherty; composition year: 1954; time: 3:36

SINGLE PLAY
Sarah Maria Sun: Wenn die Landschaft aufhört (B. Lang)
Modern Lied (various composers)
Mode Records/2017
soprano: Sarah Maria Sun; piano: Jan Philip Schulze; recorded at Studio 2, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, February 2016; composer: Bernhard Lang; text: Dieter Sperl; composition year: 2015; time: 5:30

Hour 2

SET THREE
Morton Feldman: Rothko Chapel, part one
Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns?
New Albion Records/1991
UC Berkeley Chorus, director: Philip Brett; viola: David Abel; celeste: Karen Rosemak; percussion: William Winant; recorded at Skywalker Sound, October 1990; composition year: 1971; time: 9:07

Haskell Small: The Rothko Room — Journeys in Silence (excerpt)
The Rothko Room — Journeys in Silence
MSR Classics/2014
piano: Haskell Small; recorded at the Westmoreland United Church of Christ, Bethesda, Maryland, composition year: 2013; excerpt time: 11:25

SET FOUR
Vincent Persichetti: Sonata No. 7, Op. 40
I. Moderato (2:41)
II. Andante (1:27)
III. Vivo (1:47)
Complete Piano Sonatas
New World Records/2008
piano: Geoffrey Burleson; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, 2005–2007; composition year: 1950; total time: 5:55

Laurie Spiegel: Patchwork
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012 (orig. Philo/1980)
computer (GROOVE system), programming: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, 1974-76; time: 9:44

Matthew Burtner: Spectral for 0
The Art of the Virtual Rhythmicon (various artists)
Innova Recordings/2007
electronic sounds generated by the Cowell/Theremin/Didkovsky Rhythmicon; and the composer’s algorithmic noise generator; composition year: 2007; time: 4:42

SET FIVE
Antonio Russek: Nextalgia
Obra Reunida
CMMAS/2015
electroacoustic music: Antonio Russek; composition year: 1993; time: 2:11

Annea Lockwood:  Breathing Machine
The Glass World
¿What Next? Recordings/1997 (original Tangent LP 1970)
glass objects played by Annea Lockwood from The Glass World concert series 1966-1973; total excerpts time: 2:35

Bernd Klug: Proof of Extraordinary Abilities
Cold Commodities
Innova Recordings/2014
double bass, feedback, satellite dish soundings: Bernd Klug; recorded at East 19th Street, Brooklyn, September 2013; time: 2:06

Hour 3

SET SIX
Morton Subotnick: Trembling
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 14 (various artists)
The Virtuoso in the Computer Age IV
Centaur Records/1993
voice: Joan La Barbara; violin: Robert Davidovici; piano: Adam Wodnicki; “ghost” electronics: Larry Austin; recorded at Dallas Sound Lab, February 1993; composition year: 1983; time: 17:38

Warren Burt: The Slowly Gathering Soliloquy
Cellular Etudes 2012-2013
Scarlet Aardvark Records/2013
computers, samplers, samples: Warren Burt; time: 5:05

SET SEVEN
Milford Graves: Transcendence
Grand Unification
Tzadik/1998
drums, percussion: Milford Graves; recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, October 11, 1997; time: 3:48

Bang On A Can All-Stars: Nocturnal (R. Lussier)
More Field Recordings (various composers)
Cantaloupe Music/2017
clarinet: Ken Thomson; electric guitar: Mark Stewart; percussion: David Cossin; piano: Vicky Chow; cello: Ashley Bathgate; double bass: Robert Black; composer: René Lussier; composition year: ?; time: 6:34

Gilles Gobeil & René Lussier:  La nuit la plus longue
Le Contrat
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electronics, noises, voices, processing: Gilles Gobeil; guitars, percussion, electronics: René Lussier; recorded at the composers’ studios and Studio 30, Société Radio-Canada, Montreal, 1996-2003; time: 11:54

SINGLE PLAY
Ross Feller: Sfumato
X/Winds
Innova Recordings/2017
(for violin, bass clarinet, and electroacoustic sound); members of the Ensemble Luna Nova (violin: Helen Kim; bass clarinet: Ted Gurch); recorded at Tiedke Concert Hall, Winter Park, Florida; composition year: 2006; time: 9:17

— FIN —