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Martian Gardens Episode 1157
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 25, 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
John Liberatore: A Very Star-like Start
Catch Somewhere
New Focus Recordings/2023
The Zohn Collective (flute: Molly Barth; oboe: Andrew Nogal; clarinet: Sammy Lesnick; percussion: Paul Vaillancourt; piano: Daniel Pesca; violin: Hanna Hurwitz; viola: Dominic Johnson; cello: Colin Stokes), conductor: Tim Weiss; recorded at the University of Notre Dame; composition year: 2017; time: 7:46

Roxanne Turcotte: Au rythme des lucioles (To the Rhythm of the Fireflies)
Réverbères
empreintes DIGITALes/2021
(for synthesizer and 16-channel fixed medium); synthesizer: Roxanne Turcotte; recorded at Studio Séducson, Montreal, 2019; premiered at Salle Pierre-Mercure of the Centre Pierre-Péladeau; Les oiseaux de Nias concert, May 3, 2021; time: 2:56

Dorota Czerner: Fireflies
Open Space 29 (Barkin, Czerner, Boretz)
Open Space/2012
voice, texts: Dorota Czerner; sound: Benjamin Boretz; composition year: 2012 time: 4:37

David Liptak: The Stars (from Ancient Songs)
Music of David Liptak
Bridge Records/2005
baritone: William Sharp; Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble (flute, piccolo: Sue Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin; clarinet, bass clarinet: Katherine Matasy; violin: Cyrus Stevens; cello: Michael Curry; piano: Donald Berman; percussion: Craig McNutt), conductor: Scott Wheeler; texts: trad. Passamaquoddy culture, Maine; recorded at Sonic Temple Studio, Roslindale, Massachusetts, April 16, 2004; composition year: 1992; selection time: 5:38

SET TWO
Lindsey Goodman: For the Fallen (J. Shatin)
Returning to Heights Unseen (various composers)
New Music for Flute
Navona Records/2018
(for amplified flute and electronics); flute: Lindsey Goodman; recorded at Tuff Sound Recordings, Pittsburgh, September 15, 2017; composer: Judith Shatin; composition year: 2017; time: 7:11

David Toop: selections from the Museum of Fruit
a. Translucent World (0:37)
b. Seeds in Flight (2:09)
Museum of Fruit
Caipirinha Music/1999
synthesizers, electric bass, percussion: David Toop; bioelectric recordings of fruit: Michael Prime; recorded in London, autumn, 1998; total selections time 2:46

Anne La Berge: [sic.] sauce
Blow
Frog Peak Music/1994
(for amplified flute and HMSL-driven computer); flute, computer: Anne La Berge; recorded at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Acoustic Music), Amsterdam; composition year: 1990; time: 7:46

SINGLE PLAY
Bodil Rørbech: …de la Terre (K. Saariaho)
Violin Vision (various composers)
Albany Records/2005
(for violin and electronics); violin: Bodil Rørbech; recorded at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Park City, Utah, January, 2002; composition year: 1992; time: 14:30

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

Hour 2

SET THREE
J.K. Randall and Benjamin Boretz: Duo 5, Part 1 (tr. 3)
JKR BAB DUO 5 OPEN SPACE CD 54
Open Space/2023
piano: James K. Randall; Crumar Orchestrator synthesizer: Benjamin A. Boretz; recorded March 5, 1982; time: 6:54

Olivia De Prato: Panorama (A. Negrón)
Panorama (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for violin and electronics); violin: Olivia De Prato; recorded at the Bunker Studio, New York City; composer: Angélica Negrón; composition year: 2012; time: 9:06

Juan Blanco: Musica para Danza
Nuestro Tiempo/Our Time
Innova Recordings/2013
sine-wave generator, tape dubbing: Juan Blanco; recorded in Cuba; composition year: 1961; time: 5:28

SET FOUR
Carey Nutman: A Stone on the Beach
Rivers Run Through It
MPS Music and Video/2016
synthesizers, computer: Carey Nutman; recorded at the composer’s studio, Houghton-Le-Spring, UK; time: 6:02

Lawson & Merrill: A Day at the Beach
Signals
Neuma Records/2022
synthesizers, electronic instruments: David Margolin Lawson, David Merrill; mastered at Tiki Studios, Glen Cove, New York; time: 9:36

Elainie Lillios: Wringcliff Beach*
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 11 (various artists)
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
SEAMUS/2002
*Movement II from Earth Ascending (for electroacoustic music and female voice); voice: Deborah Norin-Kuehn; text: Jehanne Mehta; composition year: 2000; selection time: 6:05

SINGLE PLAY
Cindy McTee: Metal Music
a. Bins and Bells (2:59)
b. Kettles and Cans (1:24)
c. Tins and Tanks (1:47)
d. Buckets and Bolts (2:29)
e. Pots and Pans (1:00)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 9 (various composers)
…musics, metaphors, and machines (Music from CEMI)
Centaur Records/1991
music on computer-generated tape: Cindy McTee; recorded at CEMI (Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia), University of North Texas, Denton, 1990; composition year: 1989; total time: 10:29

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Elliott Sharp: The Hidden Variable
Dispersion
Mode Records/2018
Veni Academy (bassoon: Bálint Fábry; marimba: Lenka Novosedlíková; viola: Peter Dvorský; double bass: Jaanus Siniväli; clarinets: Branislav Dugovič; violin: David Daniel;  synthesizer: Fero Király; synthesizer, electronics, objects: Daniel Matej; synthesizer, piano: Ivan Šiller), conductor: Marián Lejava; electroacoustic guitar: Elliott Sharp; recorded July 2015, Kasárne/Kulturpark, Košice, Slovakia; composition year: 2014; time: 12:27

Roger Reynolds: Wedge
Music from the ONCE Festival (various artists)
New World Records/2003
ONCE Chamber Ensemble, conductor: David Sutherland; recorded at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 10, 1962; composition year: 1961; time: 7:56

SINGLE PLAY
Roger Reynolds Here and There
For A Reason
Neuma Records/2023
speaking percussionist: Steven Schick; text: Samuel Beckett (Stories and Texts for Nothing, Number IX); recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, November 22-23, 2021; composition year: 2018; time: 32:48

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