Martian Gardens Episode 922
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 18, 2018
Contact Max Shea: martiangardens@gmail.com
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Morton Feldman: For John Cage (excerpt)
For John Cage
Bridge Records/2017
violin: Erik Carlson; piano: Aleck Karis; recorded at Conrad Prebys Music Center, University of California San Diego, August 23-24, 2017; composition year: 1982; excerpt time: 11:00

John Cage: selections from Freeman Etudes, Book Three
a. Etude 19 (3:08)
b. Etude 20 (3:05)
c. Etude 21 (3:13)
Freeman Etudes, Books 3 and 4
Mode Records/1994
violin: Irvine Arditti; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, September 1993; composition years: 1977-1980; total selections time: 9:26

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds: Mistral
Three Circuitous Paths to the Music of Roger Reynolds
Neuma Records/2002
June in Buffalo Festival Ensemble, conductor: Jesse Levine; recorded live at June in Buffalo; composition year: 1985; time: 19:47

SINGLE PLAY
Keeril Makan: Letting Time Circle Through Us (excerpt)
Letting Time Circle Through Us
New World Records/2017
Either/Or (percussion: Russell Greenberg; cimbelom: David Shipley; acoustic guitar: Dan Lippel; piano: Taka Kigawa; violin: Jennifer Choi; cello: John Papham; recorded at Kresage Auditorium, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts; December 2014; excerpt time: 12:00

Hour 2

SET TWO
Pascale Trudel: Flamingo!
eContact! Femmes en électroacoustique 1 (various artists) [MP3]
Journal of the CEC (Canadian Electroacoustic Community)
CEC/1998
electroacoustic sound collage sourced from the sounds of animals/environments in zoos and wildlife parks; composition year: 1996; time: 3:00

Jonty Harrison: Going/Places (tracks 18 & 19)
a. Pipes and Drums — music recorded in Morocco, Switzerland, Mexico, an Thailand (2:29)
b. Train sounds recorded in the UK and the Channel Tunnel (1:42)
Voyages
empreintes DIGITALes/2015
electroacoustic music on 32-track tape; premiered at hcmf// 2015: 16. Jonty Harrison, Phipps Concert Hall, University of Huddersfield, UK, November 25, 2015; total selections time: 4:10

Allen Strange: Phoenix and Harlequin (excerpt)
Ghost Tracks
IMG Media/2006
computer music: Allen Strange; composition year: 2006; excerpt time: 2:03

Kenneth Gaburo: Lemon Drops
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
harmonic tone generator: Kenneth Gaburo; recorded at the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios; composition year: 1965; time: 2:51

Robert Erickson: Roddy
Electroacoustic Music VII (various artsits)
Neuma Records/2006
electroacoustic music on tape: Robert Erickson (sound source: objects percussed with rods); composition year: 1966; time: 6:58

SET THREE
Iain Armstrong: Annapurna Pastoral — One Hundred Springs
a. Opening
b. Ascent
c. One Hundred Springs
d. Turning the Wheel of Dharma
e. Closing
Deep Wireless 9 — Radio Arts Compilation (various artists) [MP3)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2013
(field recordings and electroacoustic processing); field recordings were made in the Annapurna region, Nepal 2007 by Iain Armstrong; composition year: 2007; time: 14:35

David Parsons: Gurla Mandhata
Parikrama
Celestial Harmonies/2000
sitar, electronics, field recordings (Buddhist chants): David Parsons; time: 7:00

Andrew Hulme: Buddhist Prayer Ceremony, Bangkok
Solar — A Music Travelogue (various artists)
Soleilmoon/1997
field recordings: Andrew Hulme; time: 3:43

SINGLE PLAY
Pauline Oliveros: Primordial/Lift (Excerpt)
Primordial/Lift
Deep Listening/2006
accordion, electronics, voice: Pauline Oliveros; electronics, toy piano: Andrew Deutsch; electric violin, ring modulator: Tony Conrad; cello, voice: Andrew Bourne; electric cello: Alexandria Gelencser; harmonium: David Grubbs; low frequency oscillator: David Olson; editing, mixing, mastering: Andrew Deutsch, Stephen Vitiello; recorded at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York, 1998; total excerpt time: 5:00

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Arseny Avraamov: Symphony of Factory Sirens [MP3]
Baku — Symphony Of Sirens (various artists)
Sound Experiments In The Russian Avant-Garde
ReR Megacorp/2008
a military-industrial performance composed and coordinated by Arseny Avramov in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution, Baku, Azerbaijan, October 1922; sounds include navy ship sirens and whistles, bus and car horns, factory sirens, cannons, foghorns of the Soviet flotilla (Caspian Sea), artillery guns, machine guns, hydro-airplanes, whistle “main” designed for the performance; bands and choir performing anthems (The Internationale, Warszawiankam, La Marseillaise); this is a reconstruction of the original event — details; time: 28:12

SET FOUR
John Luther Adams: Triadic Iteration Lattices
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
(for 4 air-raid sirens) Percussion Group Cincinnati;  recorded at the Patricia Corbett Theater, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, November 1998; composition year: 1997; time: 8:22

John Luther Adams: Hour of the Owls
Canticles of the Holy Wind
Cantaloupe Music/2017
performed by The Crossing chamber choir, conductor: Donald Nally; percussion: Amy Garapic; recorded at St. Peter’s In The Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsylvania, September 15, 2013; composition year: 2013; time: 5:51

Edison Denisov: The Singing of the Birds
Electroacoustic Music Volume IV (various artists)
Archive Tapes Synthesizer ANS 1964-1971
Electroshock Records/1999
(for the ANS photoelectronic synthesizer); composition year: 1969; time: 5:05

Gen Ken Montgomery: Birds & Machines (Machine Suite)
Birds + Machines 1980 – 1989
Pogus Productions/2010
noises, electronics, processing: Gen Ken Montgomery; recorded in New York City, 1989; time: 8:04

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