Martian Gardens Episode 961
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 10-11, 2019
Contact Max Shea: martiangardens@gmail.com
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Scott Miller: Pure Pleasure
Tipping Point
New Focus Recordings/2015
(for percussion and electronics); snare drums: Patti Cudd (from Zeitgeist); electronics: Scott L. Miller; recorded at Wild Sound Recording Studio, Minneapolis, July 5-6, 2010; composition year: 2010; time: 5:00

Alvin Curran: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Waller/Brooks/Razaf)
Endangered Species
New World Records/2018
Yamaha Disklavier computerized piano: Alvin Curran; recorded at Studio Fonorecord, Avezzano, Italy, January, 2018; composers: Thomas “Fats” Waller, Andy Razaf; arr. Curran; composition year: 1929; time: 16:55

SET TWO
Jack Body: Intimate History No. 1 — Yono
Compendium International — Bourges 2005 [various artists]
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2005
sounds recorded in South Sumatra (1977-1978) and Jakarta (1994); narration and intonation: Yono  Soekarno, South Sumatra; composition year (completed): 2005; time: 13:35

Stanislav Kreitchi: Confession
Ansiana
Electroshock Records/2000
ANS synthesizer; Ovaloid keyboards: Stanislav Kreitchi; recorded in Moscow; time: 6:42

SINGLE PLAY
Lansing McLoskey: Seek Havens of Peace (Zealot Canticles IX)
Zealot Canticles — An Oratorio for Tolerance
Innova Recordings/2018
The Crossing choral ensemble, director: Donald Nally; texts, commentary: Wole Soyinka; recorded St. Peter’s Church in the Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsylvania, March 17-18, 2017; composition year: 2016; total selections time: 8:05

Hour 2

SET THREE
Lee Hyla:
a. Pre-Amnesia (1:43)
b. Mythic Birds of Saugerties (2:56)
Americans in Rome (various artists)
Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
alto sax, bass clarinet: Tim Smith; a. recorded at the Recital Hall at the Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, New York, May 17, 2005; b. recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 4, 2004; composition years: a. 1979, b. 1985; total selections time: 4:39

Mathew Rosenblum: Last Round (ostatnia runda)*
Lament/Witch’s Sabbath
New Focus Recordings/2018
(for amplified string quartet and six percussionists); FLUX Quartet (violins: Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris; viola: Max Mandel; cello: Felix Fan); Mantra Percussion (Al Cerulo, Michael McCurdy, Joe Bergen, Chris Graham, Mark Utley, Jude Traxler); recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, March 25, 2016, composition year: 2015; time: 16:13
*Dedicated to Lee Hyla

SET FOUR
Bill Alves: Tingklik Toccata
Imbal-Imbalan
Spectral Harmonies/2008
electronics: Bill Alves; Balinese tingklik: Linda Michelou; electronics and gong: Jean-Pierre Michelou; shakuhachi: Bill Shozan Schultz; recorded at Harvey Mudd College; composition year: 1996; time: 4:47

Ralph Samuelson: Three Songs of Shide (Bun-Ching, L.)
The Universal Flute
Innova Recordings/2016
shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; kugo harp: Tomoko Sugwara; recorded at EastSide Sound, New York City, 2015; composer: Bun-Ching Lam; composition year: 2014; time: 6:26

Frances White: Chōshi (trad.)
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; time: 4:56

Wayne Vitale & Brian Baumbusch: Selunding Out (Mikrokosma X)
Mikrokosma
New World Records/2017
(for Balinese gamelan); Santa Cruz Contemporary Gamelan, director: Brian Baumbusch; recorded at the University of California Santa Cruz, March 13, 2015; composition year: 2015; composer: Brian Baumbusch; time: 3:31

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Evryali
Works for Piano
Mode Records/2006
piano: Aki Takahashi; recorded at Pittsburgh Digital, Carnegie Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, March, 1998; composition year: 1973; time: 9:51

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Robert Normandeau: Puzzle
Puzzles DVD
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
(for 16-channel tape) electroacoustic music realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2003; premiered at Open Space, Victoria, British Columbia, October 9, 2003; time: 5:39

Philip Mantione: HFTwo
Depth of Field
Scattered Music/2012
Max/MSP HF “Headfuck” software: Philip Mantione; composition year: 2011; time: 5:52

Ellen Band: Railroad Gamelan
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2000
field audio recordings: Ellen Band, David Dunn; mix engineer: David Dunn, IML, Santa Fe, New Mexico; composition year: 1992; time: 9:39

SET SIX
Philip Corner: Metal Meditations with Listening Center
Gong+
Alga Marghen/2002
percussed objects, keyboards (Metal Meditations): Philip Corner, Brian Dallow, Daniel Goode, Carole Weber; microphoned resonance environment (Listening Center): Bill Fontana; recorded at The Kitchen, New York City, May 22, 1974; time: 29:02

Péter Eötvös: selections from Electrochronicle Sessions
a. June 5, 1974 (0:18)
b. June 6, 1974 (0:39)
c. June 22, 1974 (0:55)
d. June 12, 1974 (2:32)
Electrochronicles
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
stereo tape: Péter Eötvös, electric organ: Mesias Maiguashica; recorded live at WDR, Köln, 1974; total selections time: 4:35

— FIN —