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Martian Gardens Episode 1154
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 4, 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Julia Werntz: Five Vignettes From the Garden by the Sea
a. The Sea Changes in the Afternoon (1:31)
b. Magpies Fly in the Trees (1:55)
c. We Eat Figs (1:49)
d. A Shield Bug Clings to the Trees for Hours (1:39)
e. Everyone is Away (2:33)
Someone Who Loves You Throws Me at You
New Focus Recordings/2023
violin: Gabriella Diaz; cello: David Russell; recorded at BMOP Club Concert, Club Oberon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 2, 2011; composition year: 2009; time: 11:34

Richard Carr:
a. Processional (5:52)
b. Slow, Calm, Deliberate (2:12)
Over the Ridge
Neuma Records/2022
a. violins: Laura Lutzke, Ravenna Lipchik; viola: Caleb Burhans; cello: Clarice Jensen; b. violin: Richard Carr; recorded at Kilgore Sound, New York City, March 16, 2022; total selections time: 8:04

SET TWO
Benjamin Boretz: Violin Concerto, Mvt. III
Violin Concerto
Open Space/2010
violin: Charles Castleman; Eastman Composers’ Orchestra, conductor: Geoffrey Pope; recorded at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, 2010; composition years: 1956-1957; time: 9:17

Elliott Carter: Violin Concerto, Mvt. I — Impulsivo
The Music of Elliott Carter Volume Six
Bridge Records/2005
violin: Ralph Schulte; Odense Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Justin Brown; recorded at the Carl Nielsen Hall, Odense, Denmark, February 9, 2005; composition year: 1990; time: 10:35

SET THREE
Seth Parker Woods: Dam Mwen Yo (N. Joachim)
Difficult Grace (various composers)
Çedille Records/2023
(for cello, voice, and electronics); cello, voice: Seth Parker Woods; voice: Nathalie Joachim; recorded at the Chicago Recording Company, September, 2022; composer: Nathalie Joachim; composition year: 2017; time: 5:25

selections from Angels in The Mirror
a. Port-Au-Prince Drumming Demonstration (2:54)
b. Sanba Zawo and Djakata: O Bazilo Ou Pa Wè Nou Nan Chenn (2:37)
Angels in The Mirror – Vodou Music of Haiti (various artists)
Ellipsis Arts/1997
a. Yanvalou and Kongo rhythms recorded in Port-Au-Prince; b. vocal: Sanba Zawa with the Djakata Haitian music ensemble; recorded at Pacific Coast Soundworks, West Hollywood, California; total selections time: 5:31

Hour 2

SET THREE
Gerald Barry: In the Asylum
In the Asylum
Mode Records/2022
(for piano trio); Fidelio Trio (violin: Darragh Morgan; piano: Mary Dullea; cello: Adi Tal); recorded at the Harty Room, School of Music, Queen’s University, Belfast, August 2018; time: 12:15

Kristopher Bendrick: Progressively Smaller TVs
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 32 (various artists)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for voice, flute, piano, and electronics); voice, flute, piano: Molly Hodson; based on Stephen Dobyns‘ poem Arrested Saturday Night (1980); composition year: 2019; time: 8:02

SET FOUR
Diane Labrosse: Black & white TV sets
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd/2007
violin: Marie-Soleil Bélanger; flute, fake trumpet: Jean Derome; electric guitar: Bernard Falaise; clarinet: Lori Freedman; accordion: Diane Labrosse; viola: Jean René; percussion: Pierre Tanguay; with eight television sets; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal; time: 4:00

Lindsey Goodman: Separation Logic (R. Dannenberg)
Returning to Heights Unseen (various composers)
New Music for Flute
Navona Records/2018
(for flute and live computer processing); flute: Lindsey Goodman; recorded at Tuff Sound Recordings, Pittsburgh, May 18, 2016; composer: Roger Dannenberg; composition year: 2013; time: 5:57

Freida Abtan: Electric Smudge
Subtle Movements
Freida Abtan’s Bandcamp/2007 (orig. Jnana Records/2007)
electronic music: Freida Abtan, Steven Stapleton; time: 5:51

Bob Gluck: selections from Electric Songs
a. Electric Songs I (3:13)
b. Electric Songs II (3:29)
Electric Songs
Electronic Music Foundation/2003
shofar, electronics: Bob Gluck; voice: Zoe Zak; Electric Songs was recorded in many locations throughout the United States; total selections time: 6:42

SINGLE PLAY
Delia Derbyshire: Great Zoos of the World
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
collected animal noises, processing: Delia Derbyshire; composition year: 1969; time: 0:35

Hour 3

SET SIX
Robert Normandeau: Tunnel azur
Mélancolie
empreintes DIGITALes/2021
(multichannel fixed media); recorded and revised 2016-2018 at the composer’s studio, Montreal, time: 12:31

Tom Hamilton: Queens Plaza
Off-Hour Wait State — Some Music About the Subway
Tom Hamilton’s Bandcamp/2023 (orig. O.O. Discs/1996)
electronic environment: Tom Hamilton; voice: Thomas Buckner; alto saxophone: Roscoe Mitchell; shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; trombone: Peter Zummo; time: 8:08

SET SEVEN
Tremble Trove: Quartet Trios
Tremble Trove
Artifact Recordings/2023
piano, electronics: Chris Brown; cello: Ben Davis; clarinet, bass clarinet: Matt Ingalls; drums: Marshall Trammell; recorded at 25th St. Recordings, Oakland, June 3, 2022; time: 13:35

Steven Ricks & Ron Coulter: Button Drop
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

SET EIGHT
Wendy Mae Chambers: Hoodoo Root Doctor
12²
New World Records/1998
percussion: Michael Pugliese, Randy Crafton, Jason Cirker, Charles Kiger, Andy Bowman, Kory Grossman, Mark Belair, Dan McMillan, Frank Cassara, David Cossin, Jimmy Musto, Dominic Donato, conductor: Howard Van Hyning; recorded at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University, July 21, 1994; time: 4:52

The New Music Consort: Pulse (H. Cowell)
Pulse (various composers)
New World Records/1990
(for six percussionists); NMC: Joseph Grable, Kory Grossman, Michael Pugliese, Mark Rendon, William Trigg, Terri Weber, conductor: Claire Heldrich; recorded at Studio A, BMG Studios, New York City; composer: Henry Cowell; composition year: 1939; time: 4:00

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