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Martian Gardens Episode 1121
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 11, 2022
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Sarah Bernstein: Clay Myth
VEER Quartet
New Focus Recordings/2022
VEER Quartet (violins: Sarah Bernstein, Sana Nagano; viola: Lenore Falcon; cello: Nick Jozwiak); recorded at Big Orange Sheep Studios, Brooklyn, October 2019; time: 12:42

Mary Ellen Childs: Shavasana
Dream House
Innova Recordings/2007
Ethel (violin: Cornelius Dufallo; viola: Ralph Farris; cello: Dorothy Lawson; violin: Mary Rowell); recorded at The Clubhouse, Rhinebeck, New York, July 2006; composition year: 2006; time: 9:12

SINGLE PLAY
Miguel del Águila: Salón Buenos Aires
a. Samba (4:45)
b. Tango to a Dream (10:14)
c. Obsessed Milonga (4:09)
Salón Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio (flute: Tallon Sterling Perkes; clarinet: Ilya Shterenberg; violin: Karen Stiles; viola: Emily Watkins Freudigman; cello: Kenneth Freudigman; piano: Kristin Roach); recorded at the First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas, Summer 2008; composition years: 2005-2006; total time: 19:08

SET TWO
Lincoln Trio: …a circle around the sun… (A. R. Thomas)
I. Elegant and spacious (1:54)
II. Dance-like, playful, and lyrical (3:15)
Trios from Contemporary Chicago (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
The Lincoln Trio (violin: Desirée Ruhstrat; cello: David Cunliffe; piano: Marta Aznavoorian); recorded at the Logan Center for the Arts, July 26-27, 2021; composer: Augusta Read Thomas; composition year: 2000; time: 5:10

Bernard Rands: Toccata (from Preludes for piano)
Piano Music (1960-2010)
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Robert Levin; recorded at Theaters A and C, Purchase College, 2013; composition year: 2007; time: 3:20

SINGLE PLAY
Jack London: Lounge (from The Mood Swingers)
The Debt
Tzadik/1997
bass: Mark Dresser; drums: Yoron Israel; piano: Anthony Coleman; saxophone: Greg Wall; trumpet: Frank London; The Debt recorded in New York City and Housatonic, Massachusetts; time: 0:36

Hour 2

SET THREE
David Hicks: SightLightning
Open Space 51 (Hicks/Pepples)
Open Space/2022
synthesizer: Craig Pepples; software: David Hicks; composition year: 2011; time: 8:56

Carey Nutman: Shocking News on Thorsday
The Sky and The Sea
MPS Music & Video/2021
computer, electronics: Carey Nutman; recorded at the composer’s studio, Houghton-Le-Spring, UK; time: 7:05

Thomas DeLio: Transparent Wave VI
Selected Compositions IV (1995-2021)
Neuma Records/2022
percussion: Chris Clarino; composition year: 2003; time: 2:46

SET FOUR
Rune Lindblad: Evening
Death of the Moon & Other Early Works
Pogus Productions/1989
electronics, tapes: Rune Lindblad; composition year: 1958; time: 8:11

Marco Oppedisano: Evening Sky
Evening Sky
Marco’s Bandcamp/2022
electric guitar, electroacoustic processing: Marco Oppedisano; time: 3:46

Robert Fripp & Brian Eno: Evening Star
Evening Star
Editions E.G./1988 (orig. LP 1975)
electric guitar: Robert Fripp; synthesizer, tapes: Brian Eno; recorded at Island and Air Studios, UK, 1975; time: 7:50

SET FIVE
Bernadette Speach: Viola
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
viola: Rozanna; piano: Anthony de Mare; Reflections recorded at LRP Studios, April 2000 – March 2001; composition year: 2000; time: 10:51

Anthony De Marge: A Room (J. Cage)
Pianos and Voices — Meredith Monk, John Cage
Koch International Classics/1992
piano: Anthony De Mare; recorded at Master Sound Astoria, Astoria, Queens, December 1991; composer: John Cage; composition year: 1943; time: 1:44

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Robert Scott Thompson: Fae oot o Killyglen
I. Five Ducks
II. Normal?
III. Sheep and Sinners
Folio Volume One
Aucourant Records/2011
electronics, synthesizers, samples (voices recorded in East Antrim, Northern Ireland): RST; recorded at the composer’s studio, Roswell, Georgia; composition year: 2010; time: 6:35

Skinny Puppy: Love
Mind–The Perpetual Intercourse
Nettwerk/1988
electronics, synthesizers, samples (from The Legend of Hell House, 1973): Skinny Puppy; time: 1:43

Anna Rubin: Crying the Laughing and Golden
Electric Music (Rubin/Hollander)
Capstone Records/2004 (via Neuma Records)
digital audio, tape loops, frequency oscillators (sound source: young woman laughing); recorded at the Sweelinck Conservatory, Amsterdam, 1983; time: 9:20

SET SIX
Lars-Gunnar Bodin: Bilder (Images)
The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer (various composers)
Folkways/1976
electronic music: LGB; recorded on the Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 1975; composition year: 1975; time: 10:22

Åke Parmerud: Necropolis — City of the Dead
Necropolis
empreintes DIGITALes/2016
(electroacoustic music on 8-track tape); realized in 2011 at the studio of the GRM, Paris, premiered at the Auditorium Saint-Germain of the Maison des pratiques artistiques amateurs, September 23, 2011; time: 13:45

SET SEVEN
Larry Polansky: Four Voice Canon #3
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009 (orig. Artifact Recordings/1989)
computer (SAIL language): Larry Polansky; recorded at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University; time: 1:46

Joseph Benzola: Ancestral Ritual — A Shaman’s Vision
Greatest Dance Hits​!​!​!​!​!​!​!
Amanita Music/2019
music and instruments: Joseph Benzola; time: 3:50

Charles Amirkhanian: Such a Surface (from Loudspeakers)
Loudspeakers
New World Records/2019
sampled voice: Morton Feldman, recorded September 24, 1984 in an interview with Steve Cellum; Synclavier programmed at Henry Kaiser’s Studio, Oakland, California; composition years: 1988-1990; selection time: 3:33

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