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Martian Gardens Episode 1153
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 28, 2023
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Hour 1

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Harold Meltzer: Beautiful Ohio
a. Small Frogs Killed on the Highway (3:03)
b. Little Marble Boy (3:05)
c. Beautiful Ohio (3:22)
d. Caprice (2:52)
e. Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio (3:28)
Songs and Structures
Bridge Records/2018
tenor: Paul Appleby; piano: Natalia Katyukova; text: James Wright; composition year: 2010; total time: 15:47

SET ONE
The Astra Choir: When, Not if (R. Crawford)
Unsettled Choruses (various composers)
A terrain of Humming and Phoneties 1930 – 1974
New World Records/2023
(3-part round; text: Fred Rolland, New Masses);  The Astra Choir, conductor: John McCaughey; recorded at the Church of All Nations, Melbourne, Australia, August 10, 2022; composer: Ruth Crawford; composition year: 1933; time: 2:32

Lincoln Trio: Fanfare 80 (M. Zupko)
Trios from Contemporary Chicago (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
Lincoln Trio  (violin: Desirée Ruhstrat; cello: David Cunliffe; piano: Marta Aznavoorian); recorded at the Logan Center for the Arts, July 26-27, 2021; composer: Mischa Zupko; composition year: 2010; time: 2:55

Robert E. Thomas: Sixteen Lines Circling a Square
I. (2:47)
II. (1:30)
III. (2:20)
IV. (1:20)
Sustain (various artists)
Music for Solo Piano & Percussion Instruments
Navona Records/2019
vibraphone, marimba: Matt Sharrock; recorded at Mix One Studios, Boston, September 27, 2017; composition year: 2005; total time: 8:03

Marion Bauer: Prelude No. 1 (for left hand)*
Concord (Ives/Bauer)
Neuma Records/2023
piano: Philip Bush; recorded at the University of South Carolina School of Music Recital Hall, Columbia, August, 2019; composer: Marion Bauer; composition year: 1922
*from Six Preludes for Piano, Op. 15

SET TWO
Halim El-Dabh:
a. Wire Recorder Piece (1:57)
b. Electronic Fanfare (with Otto Luening) (7:07)
Crossing into the Electric Magnetic
Without Fear/2001
a. electronics: Halim El-Dabh; recorded at the Middle East Radio Station of Cairo, 1944; b. recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1959, with Otto Luening; total selections time: 9:04

Otto Luening: Fantasy in Space
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
electronic music created at the home of Henry Cowell, Woodstock, NY, 1952; time: 2:51

Hour 2

SET THREE
Steven Ricks & Ron Coulter: Mechanic’s Choice
Precipitations
New Focus Recordings/2023
trombone, lo-fi electronics: Steven Ricks; percussion, lo-fi electronics: Ron Coulter; recorded in Casper, Wyoming, March 2021; time: 6:03

Jack Ellitt: Journey #1 (excerpt)
Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music 1930-1973 (various artists)
Shame File Music/2007
sound collage: Jack Ellitt; recorded in Sydney, early 1930s; time: 4:43

R. Weis: Victoriana (excerpt Movement 1)
Installed Sound for Exhibitions
A mix of excerpts from five sound scores created for gallery/museum exhibitions
Wormhole World Bandcamp/2022
antique door sounds from R. Weis’ former residence, a Victorian house; premiered at the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, 2009; total selections time: 3:02

Glen Whitehead: Dawn of the Din
Pale Blue
Neuma Records/2023
trumpet: Glen Whitehead; vernal recording environments: Cork and the Gap of Dunhow, Ireland; Millau, France, Spring 2019; time: 8:51

SET FOUR
SIGMA Project: Grande Équerre: Ensayo sobre la negación* (V. Ibarra)
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: Victor Ibarra; composition year: 2014; time: 11:30
*after Antoni Tápie‘s Grande Équerre

Arditti Quartet: Exposición (String Quartet No. 1, Mvt. I) (H. Vázquez)
Mexico — New Music for Strings (various composers)
Mode Records/2006
Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings; viola: Dov Scheindlin; cello: Rohan De Saram); recorded at Sala Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico City, 2022; composer: Hebert Vázquez; composition year: 1999; time: 9:32

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Elaine Barkin: Exploring the rigors of in between
ee² — A Sound Album by Elaine Barkin
Open Space/2000
flute: Alice Macgonical; French horn: Louise MacGillivray; violin: Marcy Dicterow-Vaj, viola: Lynn Lusher Grants; cello: Erika Duke Kirkpatrick; conductor: Daniel Kessner; time: 2:56

Hour 3

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Jorge Sad Levi: Klang Clan
Músicas de Una Etnia Imaginaria
Elektramusic Bandcamp/2020
(for instruments and real time electronics); flute: Juliana Moreno; cello: Martín Devoto; bandoneon: Enrique Entenza; electric guitar: Germán Meira; recorded at Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción, Music Department of the Music and Technology Division, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina; time: 7:46

SET FIVE
Andrew Imbrie: Dandelion Wine
Americans in Rome (various artists)
Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Bridge Records/2008
Collage Music Ensemble (oboe: Laura Ahlbeck; clarinet: Robert Annis; violins: Ronan Lefkowitz, Jennifer Elowitch; viola: Anne Black; cello: Joel Moerschel; piano: Christopher Oldfather), conductor: David Hoose; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 4, 2004; composition year: 1967; time: 4:23

Kyong Mee Choi: Flowering Dandelion
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 32 (various artists)
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for violin and electronics); violin: Sarah Plum; composition year: 2020; time: 8:12

SET SIX
Mari Kimura: Sarahal
Harmonic Constellations (various composers)
Works for Violin & Electronics 
New World Records/2016
violin, electronics: Mari Kimura; recorded at Harvestworks Media Arts Center, New York City, June 2015; composition year: 2013; time: 7:06

Yves Daoust: Le Temps Fixé
Voix
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
(fixed media); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal; premiered at the Rien a voir (15) concert, Espace GO, Montreal, February 14, 2004; time: 9:17

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Alain Savouret: Le lait/le sang
Alain Savouret
IMEB-Chrysopée Électronique série/2002
electroacoustic music: Alain Savouret; composition year: 1996; time: 10:08

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