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Martian Gardens Episode 1156
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 18, 2023
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Hour 1

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Kaija Saariaho: Laterna Magica
D’om le vrai sens/Laterna Magica/Leino Songs
Ondine Oy/2011
(for large orchestra); Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Sakari Oramo; recorded at Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, May 31-June 1, 2010; composition year: 2008; time: 23:40
Saariaho’s notes on Laterna Magica.

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

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros: One Word–Sonic Meditation XII
Unsettled Choruses (various composers)
A terrain of Humming and Phoneties 1930 – 1974
New World Records/2023
(multiple voices, cell phone recordings);  The Astra Choir, conductor: John McCaughey; recorded at the Church of All Nations, Melbourne, Australia, May, 2022; composer: Pauline Oliveros; composition year: 1974; time: 7:01

The Vocal Constructivists: Medium (M. Applebaum)
Walking Still (various composers)
Innova Recordings/2014
(for four instruments; arr. for 15 voices); vocals: The Vocal Constructivists, director: Jane Alden; recorded at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 2014; composer: Mark Applebaum; composition year: 2008; time: 10:08

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Thea Musgrave: On the Underground #3 — Medieval Summer
Choral Works
Bridge Records/2004
The New York Virtuoso Singers*, conductor: Harold Rosenbaum; texts: Geoffrey Chaucer: Roundel (Parliament of Fowl); Ich Am of Irlande; I Have a Gentil Cock; Sumer is Icumin In; I Shall Say What Inordinate Love Is; O Western Wind When Wilt Thou Blow; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 2002; composition year: 1994; time: 11:52
*On On The Underground: soprano: Gayla Morgan; alto: Mary Marathe; tenor: Mukund Marathe

Hour 2

SET TWO
J.K. Randall & Benjamin Boretz: Duo 9 (track 3)
Open Space 55 — Keyboard Conversations (Duo 9/Crumarsolo 2)
Open Space/2023
piano: J.K. Randall; Crumar orchestrator: Benjamin Boretz; recorded March 29, 1982; time: 6:58

Sun Ra: Cosmo-Surrepetitious
Solo Keyboards, Minnesota 1978
Enterplanet Koncepts/2019
Crumar synthesizer, piano: Sun Ra; recorded at the Whole Coffeehouse, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 1978; time: 10:44

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Roger Reynolds: Shifting/Drifting (SHARESPACE IV)
For A Reason
Neuma Records/2023
violin: Irvine Arditti; computer musician: Paul Hembree; recorded at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, University of California San Diego/University of California Irvine, September 24, 2015; composition year: 2015: time: 23:29

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John Cage: selections from 44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776*
a. Harmony I: Cookfield – Lyon (1:33)
b. Harmony II: Mansfield – Billings (1:25)
c. Harmony III: Funeral Anthem – Billings (2:51)
d. Harmony VI: Psalm 17 – Lyon (1:01)
e. Harmony VII: Larr’s Lane – Law (0:59)
f. Harmony VIII: Tyndale — Law (0:46)
g. Harmony IX: Dover – Law (0:44)
h. Harmony XI: Wheeler’s Point – Law (0:51)
The Works for Violin 6 — The String Quartets 4
Mode Records/2005
The Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings; viola: Dov Scheindlin; cello: Rohan de Saram); recorded at HR Hessischer, Frankfurt, Germany, July 2000; composition year: 1976; total selections time: 10:26
*derived from Apartment House 1776 (for the U.S. Bicentennial), harmonies based on compositions by early American composers William Billings, James Lyons, Andrew Law, Supply Belcher, and Jacob French

Hour 3

SET THREE
Lawrence Ball: Mehar Baba Piece
Method Music*
Navona Records/2012
computer, sequencer: Lawrence Ball; recorded at Pete Townshend’s Oceanic Studios, Twickenham, UK; time: 5:14
*in re: The Lifehouse Method

Terry Riley: Persian Surgery Dervishes (excerpt from Performance 2, Part 2)
Persian Surgery Dervishes
Shanti Records/1972
electric organ, tape feedback: Terry Riley; recorded at Théâtre de la Musique, Paris, May 24, 1972; excerpt time: 5:00

SET FOUR
Eli Stine: Where Water Meets Memory
I. The Bay (of Trains and Shorebirds)
II. The Reef (of Predator and Prey)
III. The Ocean (The Lull of Sirens)
IV. The Deep (Beneath the Rain)
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 32 (various artists)
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S.
New Focus Recordings/2023
electroacoustic music: Eli Stine (includes performances of violin: David Bowlin; cello: Kevin William Davis; soprano: Kate Copeland); I. with solo violin; II. with cello, piano, glockenspiel; III. with soprano soloists, choir; IV. with string quartet, orchestra; composition year: 2021; time: 10:58

David Berezan: Moorings
Cycle Nautique
empreintes DIGITALes/2018
(5.1 channel fixed media); sound sources: rigging, hawsers, chains, hulls, engine noises dockside; realized at Visby International Centre for Composers (VICC) and Electroacoustic Music Studios (EMS), Stockholm, Sweden, 2014; premiered March 2, 2014, MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound), Manchester, UK, March 2; 2014; recordings assistant: Manuella Blackburn; time: 11:22

SET FIVE
Robert Honstein: selections from Lost and Found
a. Lost and Found — Spiders 1 (1:24)
b. Half Asleep (3:57)
Lost and Found
New Focus Recordings/2023
percussion (prepared marimba, small objects): Michael Compitello; recorded at Shirk Studios, Chicago, June 2020 – March 2022; composition year: 2018; total selections time: 5:20

Peter Garland: Peaceful, Radiant
The Basketweave Elegies
Cold Blue Music/2023
vibraphone: William Winant; recorded at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, August 11-12, 2022; total selections time: 3:31

Agnese Toniutti: Man in Field (the sound as “Hero”) (P. Corner)
Subtle Matters
Neuma Records/2021
piano, timbre piano, toy piano: Agnese Toniutti; recorded in Italy, Spring 2020; composer: Philip Corner; composition year: 2020; time: 7:47

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