Martian Gardens Episode 977
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 2, 2019
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com 
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Noah Creshevsky: Sleeping Awake
Sleeping Awake
Open Space/2019
electroacoustic music; Noah Creshevsky; voice, text: Dorota Czerner (text inspired by the painting Dervisci Rotanti by Aldo Mondino); composition year: 2017; time: 4:36

Leonie Klein: Thunder (P. Eötvös)
Gathering Thunders
Wergo/2018
(for solo bass timpani); bass timpani: Leonie Klein; recorded at SWR Studio Kaiserslautern; May 2018; composer; Péter Eötvös; composition year: 1993; time: 5:44

Elliott Carter: selections from Eight Pieces for Four Timpani
a. Canon (3:03)
b. March (2:31)
c. Adagio (2:03)
d. Canaries (3:24)
The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Four
Bridge Records/2001
timpani: Jacob Druckman; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, January 2001; composition years: 1950, 1966; total selections time: 11:00

SET TWO
Max Giteck Duykers: Scatterloop
Folding Music
New World Records/2019
piano: Jeffrey Burleson; violin: Esther Noh; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, October 2018; composition year: 2016; time: 8:52

Florence Price: Dances in the Canebrakes
I. Nimble Feet (2:32)
II. Tropical Noon (3:37)
III. Silk Hat and Walking Cane (3:13)
Project W
Works by Diverse Women Composers
Çedille Records/2019
Chicago Sinfonietta, conductor: Mei-Ann Chen; recorded at Wentz Hall, Naperville, Illinois; September, 2017 – March, 2018; arr. William Grant Still; composition year: 1953; time: 11:40

SINGLE PLAY
David Gunn: The Conchoid of Nicomedes
The Third Highway
Kunaki/2019
Vermont Virtuosi (piano: Claire Black; clarinet: Karen Luttik; flute: Laurel Ann Maurer; bassoon: Julian Partridge); composition years: 2006, rev. 2016; time: 10:13

Hour 2

SET THREE
Dennis Báthory-Kitsz: Six New Musicky Bon Bons
MP3
(for piccolo, bass flute, chalumeau, clarinet, contrabass clarinet, bass trombone, violin, viola, double bass); digital synthesis, samples: DBK; recorded at the composer‘s studio, Northfield, Vermont; composition year: 2019; time: 4:31

Horatiu Radulescu: Immersed in the Wonder II
Works for Organ & for Cello
Mode Records/2019
cello: Catherine Marie Tunnell; trombone: Stanley Clark; recorded at Hardstudios, Switzerland, June 28, 2018; composition year: 1996; time: 8:39

Enjott Schneider: Pavane — Variations on a Dance by Luis de Milán
Colors of Saxophone
Wergo/2019
(for cor anglais and saxophone quartet); English horn: Dominik Wollenweber; Clair-Obscur Saxophone Quartet (tenor saxophone: Christoph Enzel; soprano saxophone: Jan Schulte-Bunert; alto saxophone: Maike Krullmanm; baritone saxophone: Kathi Wagner); recorded at Andreaskirche, Berlin, September 2018; composition year: 2016; time: 7:17

Frank Pahl & Klimperei: Dainties
Music for Deserts
In Poly Sons/2001
hand-cranked barrel piano: Frank Pahl; percussion: Christophe Petchanatz; percussion: Françoise Petchanatz; recorded at Studio CCAM, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy; time: 1:18

SET FOUR
The California EAR Unit: Dr. K — Sextett (K. Stockhausen)
Eponymous (various composers)
New Albion Records/1989
cello: Erika Duke; piano: Lorna Eder; percussion: Arthur Jarvinen, Amy Knoles; violin: Robin Lorentz; clarinet: James Rohrig; flute: Dorothy Stone: conductor: Rand Steiger; recorded in Los Angeles; composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen; composition year: 1969; time: 3:30

Kathleen Supové: Layerings 3 (EKM Clark)
The Debussy Effect (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2016
piano: Kathleen Supové; recorded at Western Connecticut State University, Danbury; composer: Eric Kenneth Malcolm Clark; composition year: 2013; time: 9:07

William Matthews: Aurora, A Waltz
Electronic Works (various composers)
CRI/1982
computer music realized at the University of Toronto; composition year: 1981; time: 6:43

SINGLE PLAY
Scott A. Wyatt: A Road Beyond
Music from SEAMUS Volume 17 (various artists)
SEAMUS/2008
(for trumpet, live processing, 8-channel electroacoustic performance); trumpet: Ronald Romm; composition year: 2007; time: 8:16

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Philip Mantione: Two Minutes
Containers
Scattered Music/2000
computer music (Max/MSP), vocoder (Sound Hack): Philip Mantione; time: 2:00

Darren Copeland: On Schedule
Perdu et retrouvé
empreintes DIGITALes/2004
electroacoustic music realized at the composer’s studio, Ontario, 2003, premiered at the Ambient Ping series, Club Nia, Toronto (performance on two computers: DreamState — Scott MacGregor Moore, Jamie Todd); composition year: 2003; time: 12:22

Lydia Kavina:  Music by Percy Grainger
a. Free Music No. 1 (for four theremins) (1:33)
b. Beatless Music (for six theremins) (0:33)
Spellbound! Music for Theremin
Mode Records/2008
theremins: Lydia Kavina; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, New York, July 10, 2000; composer: Percy Grainger; composition years: a. 1936, b. 1937; total time: 2:06

SINGLE PLAY
David First: Aw!/Drawline Spout/Holi Spank
Privacy Issues — Droneworks 1996 – 2009
XI Records/2004
Casio guitar, MIDI guitar controller, computer, Yamaha PC 1600 MIDI controller; composition year: 2003; time: 31:22

SET SIX
Thomas Licata: another…tuning
Electroacoustic Music VII (various artists)
Neuma Records/2006
electroacoustic music: Thomas Licata; recorded at the Hartwick College Recording and Electroacoustic Music Studio, Oneonta, New York; composition year: 2005; time: 5:56

David Mooney: A Little Noise Goes a Long Way
Facts About Air
Heavy Mental Music by David R. Mooney
Mooney/2009
electronic noise burst (0.2 sec.) and development: David Mooney; recorded at the composer’s studio, Pittsburgh; time: 5:48

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