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Martian Gardens Episode 1106
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 15-16, 2022
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
NakedEye Ensemble: Punching the Clock (R. Woolf)
Storylines Crossing (various composers)
Starkland/2018
(for chamber ensemble and pre-recorded media); NakedEye Ensemble; recorded at Kinsey Audio, Lancaster, PA, and Right Coast Recording, Columbia, PA; composer: Randall Woolf; composition year: 2015; time: 13:58

Randall Woolf: Shakedown
Rock Steady
Composers Recordings, Inc./1998
New Millennium Ensemble and Meridian Arts Ensemble, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at the Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, Harrison, New York, November 1997; composition year: 1990; time: 10:11

SET TWO
Sophie Delafontaine: Tout ça à cause de Junon (All because of Juno)
Accord ouvert
empreintes DIGITALes/2019
electroacoustic music in stereo medium; text: Ovid; realized at the composer’s studio, Brussels, 2013; premiered at the Concert de clôture “Mondialité” of the Journées nationales de l’électroacoustique 2013, Auditorium Henri Dutilleux, Amiens, France, December 4, 2013; time: 9:52

Javier Garavaglia: Arte Poética (I. Stanza)
Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Volume 1 (various artists)
Electronic Music Foundation/2002
electroacoustic music: Javier Garavaglia; text: Jorge Luis Borges; produced at ICEM, Folkwang Hochschule Essen; composition year: 1995; time: 8:16

SINGLE PLAY
Jose Mataloni:
a. Adivinanza 3 (3:14)
b. Calidoscopio (5:02)
Magical Realism of Sound
Mataloni/2003
electroacoustic music: Jose Mataloni; recorded in Cordoba, Argentina; total selections time: 8:16

Hour 2

SET THREE
Elliott Sharp: Cryptid Fragments (excerpt)
NYFA Collection — 25 Years of New York New Music (various artists)
Innova Recordings; 2010
cello: Margaret Parkins; violin: Sara Parkins; computer processing: Elliott Sharp; recorded at the Knitting Factory, New York City, 1992; composition year: 1991; time: 3:16
see also: Cryptid Fragments (Extreme Records/1992)

Craig Pepples: Midnight
Open Space 51 (Hicks/Pepples)
Open Space/2022
synthesizers: Craig Pepples; software design: David Hicks; composition year: 1991; time: 2:33

David Hicks: Influx/Phreakish
JKR Pass 3 (various artists)
Music for Jim Randall’s 75th birthday by his friends
Open Space/2007
piano, software: David Hicks; composition year: 2005; time: 13:28

SET FOUR
Harry Partch: Pollux (from Castor & Pollux)
a. Leda and the Swan (Insemination) (1:50)
b. Conception (1:51)
c. Incubation (1:52)
d. Chorus of Delivery from the Egg (2:00) 7:39
Plectra and Percussion Dances
Bridge Records/2014
PARTCH ensemble, director: John Schneider; Partch instruments: Kithara, Surrogate Kithara, Low Bass Marimba, Harmonic Canon, Cloud Chamber Bowls, Diamond Marimba, High Bass Marimba; recorded at Disney Hall, Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, June 9, 2013; composition year: 1952; total time: 7:39

Hsiao-Lan Wang: A Golden Leaf Drifts Downstream
Electroacoustic Works
Hsiao-Lan Wang/2003
for two tinkliks (Indonesian xylophones), and computer; time: 3:37

PAN Project: Gutgeori
PAN Project
Neuma Records/2021
piri: Gamin; shakuhachi: Ned Rothenberg; erhu: Ying-Chieh Wang; guqin: Jeff Roberts; janggu: Woonjung Sim; Pan Project recorded at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 2019; studioLOG, Seoul, South Korea, June 10, 2021; engineering: Jacob’s Well, West Lebanon, New Hampshire, littlelife music, New York City; time: 6:11

SET FIVE
Collage Project: Hardboiled Donut
Off Brand
New Focus Recordings/2020
electric guitar: Dan Bruce; nylon string guitar: Daniel Lippel; bass: Aidan Plank; drums: Nathan Douds; trombone: Chris Anderson; recorded at Tri-C Studios, Cleveland, Ohio, September 2019; time: 7:11

Ornette Coleman: Bird Food
Change of the Century
Atlantic/1992 (orig. LP/1960)
alto saxophone: Ornette Coleman; pocket trumpet: Don Cherry; bass: Charlie Haden; drums: Billy Higgins; recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California, October 8, 1959; time: 5:23

Hour 3

SET SIX
John Cage: ¢Composed Improvisation (first version)
The Works for Percussion 3
Mode Records/2014
(for bass guitar, snare drum, one-sided drum); all instruments: D’Arcy Philip Gray; recorded at Sutton United Church, Sutton, Quebec, July 2008; composition year: 1990; time: 8:13

Brian Archinal: Tris (C. Czernowin)
MP3
Brian Archinal’s Bandcamp/2011
(for percussion and pre-recorded percussion); percussion: Brian Archinal; composer: Chaya Czernowin; composition year: 1993; time: 11:13

SET SEVEN
Pathos Trio: Fiction of Light (E. Chapman)
When Sounds Collide — New Music for Percussion and Piano
New Focus Recordings/2022
Pathos Trio: Felix Reyes, Marcelina Suchocka, Alan Hankers; recorded at Rittenhouse Soundwork, in Philadelphia, PA, June 5, 2021; composer: Evan Chapman; time: 10:03

Nick Vasallo: The Moment Before Death Stretches on Forever, Like an Ocean of Time…
Apophany
Neuma Records/2022
The Wild Rumpus (flute: Bethanne Walker; bass clarinet: Sophie Huet; baritone saxophone: David Waugh; trombone: Weston Olencki; percussion: McKenzie Camp; piano: Margaret Halbig; electric guitar: Dan VanHassel; soprano: Vanessa Langer; violin: Mia Nardi-Huffman; cello: Joanne De Mars; contrabass; Eugene Theriault); recorded at Montclair Presbyterian Church, Oakland, California, May 8, 2015; composition year: 2015; time: 4:55

Thomas Newman & Rick Cox: Eyes of Blue
35 Whirlpools Below Sound
Cold Blue Music/2014
instruments, electronics, field recordings; Thomas Newman, Rick Cox; recorded at Deep Sleep and SnakeHouse Studios, Pacific Palisades, California; time: 1:34

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Pisaro-Liu: Radiolarians 1, 2, & 10
Radiolarians
New World Records/2022
(for orchestra); Muzzix collective; recorded at La rose des vents, Villeneuve D’Ascq, France, July 2019; composition year: 2018; time: 12:39

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