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Martian Gardens Episode 1116
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 31, 2022
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Hour 1
SET ONE
Steven Ricks: Heavy with Sonata
a. Plotting Our Next (Dance) Move (1:44)
b. Sarah’s Gigabit Broadband (4:08)
c. I’ll Amend the Current Trend (5:30)
Assemblage Chamber
New Focus Recordings/2022
violin: Aubrey Woods; viola: Alex Woods; harpsichord: Jason Hardink; recorded at Madsen Recital Hall, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; September 28, 2021; composition year: 2021; total time: 11:22
Lou Harrison: A Sonata for Harpsichord
a. Allegro Moderato (2:29)
b. Adagio, Arioso (3:24)
c. Estampie (3:20)
Keyboard Works
New Albion Records/2002
harpsichord: Linda Burman-Hall; recorded at the University of California Santa Cruz; composition year: 1999; total time: 9:13
SET TWO
Anne La Berge: [sic.] sauce
Blow
Frog Peak Music/1994
(for amplified flute and HMSL-driven computer); flute, computer: Anne La Berge; recorded at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Acoustic Music), Amsterdam; composition year: 1990; time: 7:46
Henri Pousseur: Litanie du miel matinal
Works for Flute
Mode Records/2019
flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2014; composition year: 1984; time: 8:41
Frances White: The Sound of the Bell as it Leaves the Bell
(from Three Small Pieces for flute duet and electronic sound)
Music by Frances White
CD-R/2004
flute: Elizabeth Brown; electronic sounds: Frances White; recorded in Princeton, New Jersey, composition year: 2002; total time: 4:31
SINGLE PLAY
Johanna Beyer: Quintet for Woodwinds
Music for Woodwinds
New World Records/2022
Arizona Wind Quintet (flute: Brian Luce; oboe, English horn: Sara Fraker; clarinet: Jackie Glazier; bassoon: Marissa Olegario); Music for Woodwinds recorded at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, Haskell Recording Studio, Tucson, Arizona, 2020-2021; Quintet composition year: 1938; time: 7:00
Hour 2
SET THREE
Ursula Mamlok: Concert Piece for 4
I. Capricious (2:01)
II. Very Calm (4:29)
III. In High Spirits (2:45)
Music of Ursula Mamlok Volume 4
Bridge Records/2013
Ensemble musicFabrik (flute: Helen Bledsoe; oboe: Peter Veale; viola: Axel Porath; percussion: Dirk Rothbrust; recorded at Deutschlandfunk, Kammermusiksaal, Köln, fall 2020; composition year: 1964; total time: 9:25
Aznavoorian Duo: Petrified Dance (V. Sharafyan)
Gems from Armenia (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
cello: Ani Aznavoorian; piano: Marta Aznavoorian; recorded at the Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, August 2021; composer: Vache Sharafyan; composition year: 2005; time: 5:15
David MacBride: 1 x 4
A Special Light
Innova Recordings/2014
(for cello and 3 prerecorded cello tracks); cello: Bryan Haslett; recorded at the Hartt School of Music, West Hartford, Connecticut, January 13, 2012; time: 3:45
SET FOUR
David B. Doty: Dithyramb
Uncommon Practice — Selected Compositions 1984-1995
Syntonic Records/1998
computer music in just intonation: David B. Doty; time: 6:37
William Sethares: Duet for Morphine and Cymbal
Xentonality
Frog Peak Music/1997
synthesizer, processing: William Sethares; time: 3:16
Allison Cameron: Raw Segundo
Raw Segundo
XI Records/1995
alto saxophone: Nic Gotham; trumpet: James Gardiner; tuba: Colin Couch; recorded at the Music Gallery, Toronto, January 1994; composition year: 1986; time: 8:29
SINGLE PLAY
Sophie Delafontaine: Ressort spiral
Accord ouvert
empreintes DIGITALes/2019
for fixed media; recorded at the composer’s studio, Brussels, 2014-2016; premiered at the ÉlectroBelge concert, Espace Senghor, Brussels; composition years: 2014-2016; time: 10:35
Hour 3
SINGLE PLAY
Ellen Band: Closet Bird (excerpt)
90% Post Consumer Sound
XI Records/2001
field and audio recordings: Ellen Band; composition year: 1976; time: 8:05
SET FIVE
Bruce Clarke: Of Spiraling Why (excerpt)
Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music–1930-1973 (various artists)
Shame File Music/2007
electronic music: Bruce Clarke; composition year: 1966; time: 5:10
Warren Burt: Remembering Durational Melancholy
Cellular Etudes 2012-2013
Scarlet Aardvark Records/2013
computers, samplers, samples: Warren Burt; time: 5:19
Doug Henderson: Footfalls for Jim
JKR Pass 3 — Music for Jim Randall’s 75th birthday by his friends (various artists)
Open Space/2007
piano strings, electric guitar pick-ups, amplifiers; recorded at the composer’s studio, 2005; time: 9:09
SET SIX
David Dunn: Verdant (excerpt)
Verdant
Neuma Records/2021
harmonic series music for sine waves, electric violins, processed environmental recordings, field recordings (New Mexico); composition/realization year: 2020; excerpt time: 12:00
Hans Otte: Minimum-Maximum (excerpt)
Orient-Occident/Minimum-Maximum
Pogus Productions/2005
an electronic environment (simultaneous concert in Stockholm and Bremen) for two organists, directed by Hans Otte; keyboards: Gerd Zacher, Karl-Erik Welin; recorded on October 27, 1973; composition year: 1973; excerpt time: 12:00
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