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Martian Gardens Episode 1154
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 11, 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Pierre Schaeffer: Variations sur une flûte mexicaine (from Les incunables)
L’Œuvre Musicale (Schaeffer/Henry)
Electronic Music Foundation/1998 (orig. INA-GRM/1990)
musique concrète: Pierre Schaeffer; recorded at Studio d’Essai, Paris, Radio France; composition year: 1949; time: 3:45

:Zoviet*France:): Stocc Blawers
Shouting at the Ground
Red Rhino/1988
unspecified sounds: ZF, recorded in England, April 1987, time: 2:22

SINGLE PLAY
Ensemble Musikfabrik: The Tempest Songbook (K. Saariaho)
a. Ariel’s Hail (2:53)
b. Caliban’s Dream (2:32)
c. Miranda’s Lament (3:43)
d. Prospero’s Vision (4:30)
e. Ferdinand’s Comfort (2:07)
Edition Muiskfabrik 15 (Schleiermacher/Saariaho/Wertmüller)
Wergo/2019
Ensemble Musikfabrik (flute: Helen Bledsoe; oboe: Peter Veale; clarinet: Carl Rosman; bassoon: Alban Wesly; horn: Christine Chapman; trumpet: Marco Blaauw; trumpet: Bruce Collings; tuba: Melvyn Poore; piano: Benjamin Kobler, Ulrich Löffler; drum kit: Dirk Rothbrust; violin: Judith Haeberlin, Hannah Weirich; viola: Axel Porath; cello: Dirk Wietheger; contrabass: Florentin Ginot, Michael Tiepold), director: Emilio Pomarico; soprano: Olivia Vermeulen; baritone: Peter Schöne; recorded at Klaus-von-Bismarck, Saal, WDR funkhaus am Wallrafplatz Köln, June 20, 2010; composer: Kaija Saariaho; texts: William Shakespeare; composition years: 1992-2004; time: 15:45

In memory of Kaija Saariaho (October 14, 1952 — June 2, 2023)

SET TWO
Roger Reynolds: Dream Mirror (SHARESPACE I)
For A Reason
Neuma Records/2023
guitar: Pablo Gómez Cano; computer musician: Paul Hembree; recorded at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California San Diego/University of California Irvine; November 18-19, 2015; composition year: 2010; time: 22: 28

Aleš Friedl: Nokturno 7
Open Space 47 (various artists)
Open Space/2021
piano: Lovorka Nemeš Dular; recorded at the Grosuplje Music School, Slovenia, November 19, 2019; composition year: 3:31

Hour 2

SET THREE
Brian Baumbusch: selections from Prisms for Gene Davis
a. Prism 1 [Tetra] (1:04)
b. Prism 2 [Penta] (2:25)
c. Prism 3 [Hexa] (1:09)
d. Prism 4 [Tetra] (2:06)
e. Prism 5 [Hepta] (3:25)
Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet
New World Records/2023
Nata Swara gamelan group, director: I Putu Adi Septa Seweca Putru (Putu Septa); recorded at Sanggar Nata Swara, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, January 2022; composition years: 2018-2021; total selections time: 10:09

Larry Polansky: Four-Voice Canon #7
6 Pieces for Gamelan Slendro (various composers)
Ensemble 0 and Eklekto
Mode Records/2021
gamelan: Júlia Gállego, Alexandre Babel, Maximilen Dazas, Louis Delignon, Julien Garin, Stéphane Garin, Jeanne Larrouturou, Mark Lockett; recorded at Studio Ernest-Ansermet, Geneva, Switzerland, March 29, 2015; composer: Larry Polansky; composition year: 1990; time: 7:42

SET FOUR
Karl Kohn: Ternaries
I. Moderato (3:40)
II. Largo (4:07)
III. Adagio Molto (4:56)
Encounters
Complete Works for Flute
Bridge Records/2022
(for flute and piano); flute: Rachel Rudich; piano: Karl Kohn; recorded at Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1996; composition year: 1996; total time: 13:43

Marty Regan: Voyage
Magic Mirror
Navona Records/2012
(for shakuhachi and string quartet); shakuhachi: Shōzan Tanabe; violins: Gen Takeuchi, Ensuko Hirano; viola: Saeko Wakiyo; cello: Masabumi Sekiguchi; recorded on July 20, 2010; composition year: 2008; time: 10:49

SET FIVE
Julia Werntz: Tantrum
Someone Who Loves You Throws Me at You
New Focus Recordings/2023
piano: John McDonald; recorded at Distler Hall, Tufts University, September 28, 2019; composition year: 2001; time: 2:37

John McDonald and Robert Carl: A Gift…And an Invitation! 2: Fugue
States of Play
Bridge Records/2022
piano: John McDonald; recorded at Granoff Music Center, Tufts University, September 23, 2018; composers: John McDonald, Robert Carl; composition year: 2018; time: 2:43

Hour 3

SET SIX
Julia Perry: Homunculus, C.F.
Harrison/Perry/Gyring
Composer’s Recordings, Inc./1970*
(for 10 percussionists); The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Paul Price; composition year: 1960; time: 5:12
*CD-R reissue: New World Records/2010

Lou Harrison: Suite for Percussion
I. Moderato (3:34)
II. Slow (3:04)
III. Recitative; Moderato allegro (2:43)
Music of Lou Harrison
Composer’s Recordings, Inc./1991 (orig. 1981)*
The Manhattan Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Paul Price; recorded in 1965; composition year: 1940; time: 9:38
*reissued as Chamber & Gamelan Works (New World Records/2006)

SET SEVEN
Adam Mirza: Snared, Wired, Crashed
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 32 (various artists)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for percussion and electronics); percussion: Josh Perry; composition year: 2021; time: 10:00

Steven Ricks & Ron Coulter: Tap, Rattle, Blow
Precipitations
New Focus Recordings/2023
trombone, lo-fi electronics: Steven Ricks; percussion, lo-fi electronics: Ron Coulter; recorded in Casper, Wyoming, March 2021; time: 7:45

SET EIGHT
Rasmus B. Lunding: Det Nødvendige (The Necessity)
Sonic Circuits VI (various artists)
Innova Recordings/1998
electroacoustic construction, bass, percussion: Rasmus B. Lunding; percussion: Henrik Corfitsen; voice: Line Tjørnhøj-Thomsen; text: Thorkild Bjørnvig; recorded at DIEM (Danish Institute for ElectroAcoustic Music); composition year: 1998; time: 16:39

TROUSERS: Anonymous Love Song
Dice 2 [She Says] (various artists)
Ishtar Records/1996
voice: Elise Kermani; keyboards: Elaine Kaplinsky; percussion: Christine Bard; recorded at Sorcerer Sound and Network Studios, New York City, June 1996; time: 4:11

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