Martian Gardens Episode 931
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 10, 2018
Contact Max Shea: martiangardens@gmail.com
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for the Piano
I. Presto, Molto Moderato, Presto, Scherzando (5:24)
II. Largo, Moderato, Molto Moderato (11:15)
Complete Solo Works for Piano
Bridge Records/2017
piano: Andrew Cooperstock; recorded at Grusin Recital Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder, August 2015; composition years: 1938; published 1979; total time: 16:39

SET ONE
Michael Vincent Waller: Lines
Trajectories
Recital Records/2017
piano: R. Andrew Lee; cello: Seth Parker Woods; recorded at White Hall, University of Missouri Kansas City, August 11-12, 2016; composition year: 2016; time: 9:39

“Blue” Gene Tyranny: Song No. 1 “Rest” from The Driver’s Son, Take One
Take Your Time
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
piano: BGT; recorded by Tom Hamilton at Systems 2, Brooklyn, composition years: 1992, 2002; time: 8:22

Francis Poulenc: Badinage
Music for Piano (1918-1959)
Bridge Records/2015
piano: Aleck Karis; recorded at the Sommer Center, Concordia College, Bronxville, New York; December 19-21, 2014; composition year: 1934; time: 1:53

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Allison Cameron: Runa
Raw Sangudo
XI Records/1995
Sound Pressure (bassoon: Shannon Peet; baritone saxophone: David Mott; electric violin: Adele Armin; percussion: Trevor Tureski; piano: Casey Sokol; electric piano: Bruno Degazio); recorded at The Music Gallery, Toronto, May 1993; composition year: 1990; time: 16:42

Hour 2

SET TWO
Drew Krause: Drain
Ding
Capstone Records/2007
(for percussion ensemble and computer-generated sound); The McCormick Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Robert McCormick; recorded in concert at the University of South Florida, Tampa, March 2, 2002; composition year: 2001; time: 13:57

Baljinder Sekhon: Refuge
Places & Times
Innova Recordings/2018
The McCormick Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Robert McCormick; recorded at Springs Theatre, Tampa, Florida, November 2014; composition year: 2013; time: 8:50

SET THREE
Philip Krumm: Music for Clocks
Music from The ONCE Festival 1961-1966 [various artists]
New World Records/2003
flute: Anne Speer; snipes: Kenneth Snipes; oboe: John Morgan; clarinet: Richard Reynolds; French horns: Kay Maves; violin: Lana Lou Nail; violin: Michael von Biel; double bass: Bertram Turetzky; prepared piano: Philip Krumm; conductor: Donald Scavarda; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 17, 1963; composition year: 1962; time: 10:24

Richard Maxfield: Bacchanale
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
narration, text: Edward Fields; violin: Fahrad Machkat, Robert Block: prepared violin: saxophone: Terry Jennings; underwater clarinet: Nicholas Roussakis; original music recorded at the Five Spot, Manhattan, circa 1962; composition year: 1963; time: 8:14

Timothy Ernest Johnson: Electric Meditation
Wavefields (various artists)
Recently Completed Compositions by graduate composers at the Experimental
Music Studios of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
EMS U. of IL/2005
electroacoustic music: Timothy Ernest Johnson; composition year: 2004; time: 5:26

SINGLE PLAY
Tod Dackstader: Whisper Smooth
From the Archives
Starkland/2016
electronic music: Tod Dockstader; time: 2:05

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Chas Smith: Twilight of the Dreamboats
Twilight of the Dreamboats E.P.
Cold Blue Music/2015
metal sound sculptures, steel guitars (design, performance): Chas Smith; recorded at TDS Studios, Reseda, California, 2014; mixed at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, 2015; time: 24:58

SET FOUR
Ulrich Krieger: Azrael II
[urban dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for solo cello, chamber ensemble, electronics); Ensemble Experimente, conductor: Gerhart Scherer; electronics: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at Kleiner Sendesaal, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), Berlin, 2003; composition year: 2000; time: 15:05

Gerard Pape: Harmonies of Time and Timbre (excerpt)
Harmonies
Mode Records/2015
(for flute, four violins, four cellos, and 8-channel tape); flute: Erik Drescher; C.L.S.I. String Ensemble; violins, cellos: Olga Krashenko; MAX/MSP programming: Stefan Tiedje; pre-recorded sound transformations: Gerard Pape; recorded at Ackerstadt Palast, Berlin, August 22-25; 2013; composition years: 2010-2012; excerpt: 15:00 (20:00 — 35:00 of 60:42)

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