Martian Gardens Episode 934
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 10, 2018
Contact Max Shea: martiangardens@gmail.com
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Iannis Xenakis: Psappha
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California San Diego; composition year: 1976; time: 13:59

Baljinder Sekhon: Sun
Places & Times
Innova Recordings/2018
percussion: Line Upon Line Percussion (Adam Bedell, Cullen Faulk, Sean Hamilton); recorded at Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, June 2016; composition year: 2011; time: 9:30

SET TWO
Rapoon: Bells Temple Ask
Cultural Forgeries
Alrealon/2014
instruments: Robin Storey; time: 5:00

Carmen Braden: Reputation
Deep Wireless 9 (various artists) (MP3)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2013
temple bells, gongs, electronics, environmental sounds: Carmen Braden; time: 7:46

Fong Naam ensemble: The Chinese Doctor’s Puzzle
Ancient-Contemporary Music from Thailand
Celestial Harmonies/1995
Thai instruments: Fong Naam, conductor: Bruce Gaston; recorded at Rachamongkol Auditorium, Bangkok; total time: 10:57

SINGLE PLAY
Sascia Pellegrini: Alchemical Studies III (C. Pepples)
Sascia Pellegrini Plays Music by Boretz, Pepples, and Pellegrini
Open Space/2017
piano, vibraphone, processing: Sascia Pellegrini; composer: Craig Pepples; composition year: 2014; time: 4:28

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Lentz: River of 1,000 Streams
River of 1,000 Streams E.P.
Cold Blue Music/2017
piano: Vicky Chow; recorded at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, February-April, 2017; composition year: 2016; time: 28:33

SET THREE
Richard Festinger: Lento (from Tryptich)
Music of Richard Festinger
Bridge Records/2008
flute: Tara Helen O’Connor; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, January 26, 2001; composition year: 1979; time: 5:22

Pierre-Yves Artaud: Goldbach’s Conjecture (S. Korde)
Contemporary Flute Music
Neuma Records/1992
(for C-flute and tape); flute: Pierre-Yves Artaud; recorded at the Paris Conservatory; January 1991; composition year: 1986; time: 14:40

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: Try
60 x 60 — 2004 (various artists)
Capstone Records/2004
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 2003; time: 1:00

Daniel Eichenbaum: Car Accident
60 x 60 — 2004 (various artists)
Capstone Records/2004
electronics, samples: Daniel Eichenbaum; composition year: 2003; time: 1:00

Carey Nutman: Two Kotos
Sang et Lumière
MPS Music & Video/2009
electroacoustic music: Carey Nutman; composition year: 2009; time: 1:22

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
James Tenney: Voice(s)
Harmonium
New World Records/2018
(for ensemble and multiple tape delay system); Scordatura Ensemble (voice: Alfred Schmid; viola: Elizabeth Smalt; keyboards: Bob Gilmore; recorder: Sarah Jeffrey; clarinet: Carlos Gálvez-Taroncher; trombone: James Fulkerson; cello: Scott McLaughlin); recorded at Scordatura Studio, Amsterdam, January 6, 2012, composition year: 1984; time: 24:11

SET FIVE
Frank Denyer: Tentative Thoughts, Silenced Voices
Silenced Voices
Mode Records/2008
muted violin, voice: Marieke Keser; muted viola, voice: Elisabeth Smalt; Indan santur: Jose Garcia Rodrigues; percussion: Tobias Liebezeit, Juan Martinez Cortés; voice with whistling tube: Christopher Best; voice with six reeds: Trevor Wiggins; voice with eunuch flute: Patrick Ozzard-Low; off-stage trumpet: Gertjan Loot; recorded at Persingen, the Netherlands 3/02/06 and Darlington College of Arts, July 4, 2006; composition years: 2002-2003; time: 16:13

Meredith Monk:
a. Eon (2:55)
b. Duet with Shifting Ground (5:21)
On Behalf of Nature
ECM/2016
a. vibraphone, marimba: John Hollenbeck; contrabass clarinet, contra alto clarinet, B-flat clarinet: Bohdan Hilash; French horn, keyboard: Allison Sniffin; b. voices: Katie Geissinger, Bruce Rameker, Meredith Monk, Allison Sniffin, Sidney Chen, Ellen Fisher; violin: Allison Sniffin; bass clarinet, b-flat clarinet; seljefloyte (willow flute): Bohdan Hilash; vibraphone, marimba: John Hollenbeck; harp; harp: Laura Sherman; recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, June 2015; total time: 8:16

SET SIX
Guy Klucevsek: Moose Mouth Mirror
Towering on the Verge of Normalcy
Starkland/2016
violin: Todd Reynolds; accordion: Guy Klucevsek; recorded at Jack Kilgore Sound and Recording, New York City, spring 2015; time: 3:41

Elliott Sharp: Ninety-Nine Ninety-Nine
The $100 Guitar Project (various artists)
Bridge Records/2013
the $100 guitar: Elliott Sharp; composition year: 2010; time: 3:15

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