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Martian Gardens Episode 1138
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 29-31, 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
John Cage: Bird Cage, Part 2
Bird Cage
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
(for two-channels of tape [sound sources: caged birds, bird cages, and conversation among John Cage, David Tudor, Joel Chaddabe, et al. recorded September 9, 1973, Albany, New York], and eight loudspeakers; composition years: 1972, 1973; selection time: 3:43

Alwin Nikolais:
a. Aviary Dance 1 (2:49)
b. Aviary Dance 2 (2:06)
Electronic Dance Music
Composers Recordings, Inc./1993
synthesizers, electronics: Alwin Nikolais; composition year: 1978; total selections time: 2:06

Chris Brown: Aviary
Tremble Trove
Artifact Recordings/2023
cello: Ben Davis; drums: Marshall Trammell; piano, electronics: Chris Brown; recorded at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, California, June 3, 2022; time: 10:40

SET TWO
Scott L. Miller:
a. Sonata II (4:55)
b. Sonata III/Sonata IV (4:07)
Coincident
New Focus Recordings/2023
members of the Zeitgeist Ensemble; a. piano: Nikki Melville; Kyma software: Scott L. Miller; b. percussion: Heather Barringer, Pat Cudd; composition year: 2020; total selections time: 9:02

Fang Wan: Origin
Music from SEAMUS vol. 28 (various artists)
New Focus Recordings/2019
electroacoustic music via Kyma platform: Fan Wang (sound sources: traditional Chinese percussion instruments); composition year: 2019; time: 9:12

SINGLE PLAY
David Hicks: selections from Seven Sequences
I. (4:06)
II. (5:59)
III. (2:44)
Open Space CD 53 (Hicks/Pepples)
Open Space/2022
electronics: David Hicks; composition years: 1990s; total selections time: 11:49

Hour 2

SET THREE
SIGMA Project: Masih (J. Torres-Maldonado)
New Mexican Music for Saxophone Quartet (various composers)
Mode Records/2022
SIGMA Project (soprano saxophone: Andrés Gomis; alto saxophone: Ángel Soria; tenor saxophone: Alberto Chaves; bass saxophone: Josetxo Silguero); recorded at the Auditorium of the Profesional Música Rafael Frühbeck, Burgos, Spain, February 2022; composer: Javier Torres-Maldonado; composition years: 2012-2013; time: 10:15
Masih = Still in Indonesian

Jorge Mario Liderman: Notebook
Exchange — Latin America (various composers)
Composers Recordings, Inc./2000
Divertimento Ensemble (flute: Lorenzo Missaglia; clarinet: Maurizio Longoni; piano: Maria Grazia Bellocchio; violin: Lorenzo Gorli; cello: Reljia Lukic; percussion: Maurizio Ben Omar; conductor: Sandro Gorli; recorded at CAL Performances, November 1993; composition year: 1993; time: 9:31

SET FOUR
Gilbert Galindo: Spunk
Terrestrial Journeys
Neuma Records/2023
Argos Quartet (alto saxophone: Jeff Hudgins; electric guitar: Daniel Lippel; violin: Clara Kim; contrabass: Gregory Chudzik); composition year: 2019; time: 6:38

Eric Moe: Rough Winds Do Shake the Darling Buds
I. Energetic (5:09)
II. Raucous, obsessive (6:25)
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
members of the Raschèr Saxophone Quartet — alto saxophone: Elliot Riley, tenor saxophone: Bruce Weinberger; baritone saxophone: Kenneth Coon; recorded at the Theodor Egel Saal, Freiburg-Ebnet, Germany; September 18, 2005; title text: from Shakespeare, Sonnet 18; composition year: 1999; time: 11:34

SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Aphorisms I & II
Aphorisms I
I. Andante (1:35)
II. Sehr langsam (2:03)
III. Presto (0:41)
IV. Schnell (0:52)
V. Larghetto (2:39)
Aphorisms II
I. Andante con moto (0:34)
II. Adagio (1:01)
III. Quarter-note = 76 (0:36)
IV. Largo, dreamy (1:30)
V. Allegro molto (1:13)
VI. Lamentoso (2:22)
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume IV
Bridge Records/2013
violin: Kolja Lessing (Aphorisms I); clarinets: Charles Neidich, Ayako Oshima (Aphorisms II); Aphorisms I recorded at Hochschule für Musik, Stuttgart Studio, July 2011; Aphorisms II recorded at New Rochelle Studios, New Rochelle, New York, February 2012; composition year: 2009; total time: 13:01

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Yves Daoust: Lily
Docu-Fictions
empreintes DIGITALes/2022
(for stereo fixed medium); text: Yves Daoust; voice: Simone Chartrand; realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2011-2012; premiered at the Électrochoc 6 concert, Conservatory of Montreal, March 15, 2012; time: 17:37
Notes

Eduardo Kusnir: Como es Lily
Lily
Mnémosyne Musique Média/1996
electroacoustic music: Eduardo Kusnir; recorded at LIPM Studios, Buenos Aires; Argentina; composition year: 1985; time: 10:30

SET SEVEN
Collin J. Rae/Red Gnein Sextet: Janga Kubwa
Pandemia
Neuma Records/2023
JMT synths*, composition, recording: Collin J. Rae; recorded in the basement of Tantalus Studios North, time: 7:07
*designer: Tetsuji Masuda

Herbert Brün: i toLD You so!
SAWDUST Computer Music Project
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
SAWDUST sound synthesis computer program: Herbert Brün; composition year: 1981; time: 12:56

John Cage: Bird Cage, Part 4
Bird Cage
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
(for two-channels of tape [sound sources: caged birds, bird cages, and conversation among John Cage, David Tudor, Joel Chaddabe, et al. recorded September 9, 1973, Albany, New York], and eight loudspeakers; composition years: 1972, 1973; selection time: 6:48

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