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Martian Gardens Episode 1050
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 13, 2021
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Hour 1
SET ONE
Susie Ibarra: Sunbird
Talking Gong
New Focus Recordings/2021 (for download)
flute, piccolo, bass flute: Claire Chase; recorded at Studley Hall, SUNY New Paltz and Spillway Studios, summer 2020; time: 7:00
Matthew Burtner: That which is bodiless is reflected in bodies
MICE World Tour
Econsono/2009
soprano saxophone: Matthew Burtner; drum kit: Brandon Van Loucks; MICE (Mobile Interactive Computer Music Ensemble); recorded in Cape Town, South Africa, 2009; composition year: 2004; time: 10:52
Codona: Hey Da Ba Doom
The Codona Trilogy
ECM/2009
composer: Collin Walcott; performed by Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos, and Collin Walcott; recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany, September 1982; time: 7:11
SET TWO
Peter Zummo and Tom Hamilton: Today’s Beat Thing Tomorrow
Slybersonic Tromosome
Tom Hamilton’s Bandcamp/2021 (orig. Penumbra Music/1999)
trombone, valve trombone, didjeridu, irrigation hose, mouthpiece extender, superfunnel, beat thing (sic.): Peter Zummo; synthesizer, electronics, beat thing (sic.); time: 10:06
David Behrman: View Finder
Unforeseen Events/Refractive Light
XI Records/1991
mutantrumpet: Ben Neill; electronics, processing: David Behrman; digital recordings: Tom Hamilton; mastered at Foothill Digital Productions, New Rochelle, New York; time: 7:09
SINGLE PLAY
R. Weis: East Village Suite
East Village Suite
The best of 1980s manipulated cassette tape, turntable, and TV
R. Weis/2013
(composition for sound collage) sound collage: R. Weis; recorded in New York City, early 1980s; excerpt time: 12:38
Hour 2
SET THREE
Annette Vande Gorne: selections from Hiver
a. Jeux de pas sur la neige (Footsteps on the Snow) (2:15)
b. Jeux monotones (Monotonous Games) (3:58)
c. Jeux de grains au coin du feu (Games of Grains by the Fire) (4:30)
Haikus
empreintes DIGITALes/2020
(for 16-channel fixed media); realized at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain, Belgium; premiered at the Hors-les-murs: Haïkusmatique concert, Ars Musica Festival, Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris; total selections time: 9:27
Artemiy Artemiev: A Polar Night
Cold
Electroshock Records/1995
electronics: Artemiy Artemiev, recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, December, 1994; time: 7:15
Triple Point: Condensed Matter
Phase/Transitions
Pogus Productions/2014
Triple Point (Pauline Oliveros, Doug Van Nort, Jonas Braasch): electronics, instruments, sound systems; recorded at EMPAC, Troy, New York, August 2012; time: 8:04
SET FOUR
John White: Fluter’s Tango
Electric Music
Music composed and performed in London, 1980 — 1995
ANTS Records/2021
cassettes restored and remastered by Andrea Rocca at Baby Microbe Studios, London, 2019-2020; time: 8:49
John Bischoff: Audio Combine
Audio Combine
New World Records/2012
electronics, computers: John Bischoff; recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, California; composition year: 2009; time: 12:53
SINGLE PLAY
Thomas DeLio: qu,m
ElectroAcoustic Music VII (various artists)
Neuma Records/2006
electronics: Thomas DeLio; composition year: 2000; time: 2:15
Hour 3
SET FIVE
Benjamin Boretz: Looking
Open Space 44 — Pepples/Pellegrini/Takahashi/Boretz
Open Space/2021
electronics: Benjamin Boretz; composition year: 2017; time: 12:24
Henri Pousseur: Litanie du miel vespéral
Works for Flute
Mode Records/2019
bass flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2014; composition year: 1984; time: 8:55
SET SIX
John McDonald: Something Bold to Start With (3:09)
At All Device
David Holtzman Plays Music of John McDonald
Bridge Records/2020
piano: David Holtzman; recorded at Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University, 2017; composition year: 2014; time: 3:09
Stefan Wolpe: The Good Spirit of a Right Cause
Compositions for Piano 1920-1952
Bridge Records/2002
piano: David Holtzman; recorded at Sonic Temple, Roslindale, Massachusetts, 2000; composition year: 1942; time: 3:00
Mara Gibson: Secret Sky
Prisma 4 (various artists)
Navona Records/2020
Athens Philharmonia Orchestra; conductor: Michalis Economou; recorded at the Artemis Concert Hall, Athens, December 2019; composition year: 2017; total time: 8:04
SET SEVEN
String Orchestra of Brooklyn: High Windows (C. Cerrone)
Afterimage (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2020
Argus Quartet, The String Orchestra of Brooklyn, conductor: Eli Spindel; composer: Christopher Cerrone; composition year: 12:54
Jennifer Koh: Largo (from Sonata No. 3 in C Major (J.S. Bach)
Bach & Beyond (various composers)
Çedille Records/2019
violin: Jennifer Koh; recorded at the Concert Hall of the Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, September 8-9, 2019; composer: J.S. Bach (BWV 1001–1006); selection time: 3:29
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