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Martian Gardens Episode 1130
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 30, 2022
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Hour 1
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Gerald Barry: 1998
In the Asylum
Mode Records/2022
violin: Darragh Morgan; piano: Mary Dullea (from the Fidelio Trio); recorded at the Harty Room, School of Music, Queen’s University, Belfast, August 2018; composition year: 1998; time: 21:59
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Tom Flaherty: Recess
I. Spin (5:45)
II. Swing (4:15)
III. Tag (6:44)
Music for Humans and Electronics
New Focus Recordings/2022
Eclipse Quartet (violins: Sarah Parkins, Sara Thornblade; viola: Alma Lisa Fernandez; cello: Maggie Parkins); recorded at Bridges Hall, Pomona College, Claremont, California; composition year: 2017; total time: 16:44
SET ONE
Yuji Takahashi: Dream Butterfly for Julia
Open Space 43 — Pepples/Takahashi
Open Space/2020
piano: Julia Hsu; recorded at the Sonorium, Tokyo, February 16, 2019; composition year: 2017; time: 7:14
Tyler Kline: selections by Christy Sallee
a. Loquat (2:49)
b. Okra (1:44)
Orchard — A Collection of 50 Short Piano Pieces (various composers)
Neuma Records/2021
piano: Tyler Kline; recorded at Burness Recital Hall, University of South Florida, Tampa; composer: Christy Sallee; total selections time: 4:23
Hour 2
SET TWO
Mari Kimura: Mièle (H. Lash)
Harmonic Constellations — Works for Violin and Electronics (various composers)
New World Records/2016
violin, resonator patch: Mari Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks Media Arts Center, New York City, June 2015; composer: Han Lash; composition year: 2014; time: 4:24
Martin Bédard: Honey (Architectures from Silence I)
Lames de Fond
empreintes DIGITALes/2022
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Longueuil, Quebec, 2020-2021; time: 17:18
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Annea Lockwood: Nufaru to the Black Sea
A Sound Map of the Danube
Lovely Music, Ltd./2008
field recordings, interviews: Annea Lockwood; interviewee: Nicolau Vergos (boat pilot and guide from Tulcea, Romania); Sound Map recorded 2001-2004; selection time: 19:34
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Jane Rigler/Curtis Bahn/Thomas Ciufo: Compassion (excerpt)
ElectroResonance — Immersive Electroacoustic Music
Neuma Records/2022
improvised electroacoustic music: Rigler, Bahn, Ciufo; recorded live at McCulloch Auditorium, Pratt Hall, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, April 12, 2019; excerpt time: 7:00
Hour 3
SET THREE
Gamelan Son of Lion: In Scrolls of Leaves
The Complete Gamelan in the New World, Volumes 1 & 2
Locus Music/2003 (orig. Folkways/1979-1982)
GSL recorded at Rutgers University; composer: Barbara Benary; time: 10:12
Neil B. Rolnick: ReBong
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
gamelan instruments, real-time digital processing: members of Gamelan Son of Lion (Barbara Benary, David Demnitz, Nick Didkovsky, Daniel Goode, Neil B. Rolnick); composition year: 1989; time: 8:48
SET FOUR
Benjamin Boretz: Looking
Open Space 44 — Pepples/Pellegrini/Takahashi/Boretz
Open Space/2021
electronics: Benjamin Boretz; composition year: 2017; time: 12:24
John Bischoff: Silent Theater
Surface
Artifact Recordings/2022
computers, synthesizers, electronics: John Bischoff; recorded in Berlin, Germany, May 28, 1993; time: 9:53
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Philip Perkins: selections from Flare
a. bartydellBB (3:08)
b. lin (3:56)
c. Who Knows (3:03)
Flare — Solo Live Performances 2019-2022
Artifact Recordings/2022
all sounds: Philip Perkins; no details; total selections time: 10:07
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