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Martian Gardens Episode 1160
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 23 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Eugene O’Brien: A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island*
Algebra of Night
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for voice and piano quartet); mezzo soprano: Deanne Meek; 21st Century Consort (violin: Jeremy Black; viola: Daniel Foster; cello: Rachel Young; piano: Lisa Emenheiser), conductor: Christopher Kendall; text: Frank O’Hara; recorded at Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., February 22-23, 2015; composition year: 2015; selection time: 8:23
*from the Algebra of Night song cycle

Frederic Mompou: Combat del Somni
a. Damunt De Tu Només Les Flors (3:36)
b. Aquesta Nit Un Mateix Vent (2:54)
c. Jo Et Pressentia Com La Mar (1:36)
Visca L’Amour (various composers)
Catalan Art Songs
Bridge Records/2021
tenor: Isaí Jess Muñoz; piano: Oksana Glouchko; texts: Josep Janés i Olivé, 1937; recorded at Gore Recital Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, August 23-25, 2019; composition years: 1942-1948; total time: 8:06

SINGLE PLAY
Goffredo Petrassi: Sestina d’ autunno, “Veni Creator Igor”
Musica de Camera (Dallapiccola/Petrassi)
Mode Records/2006
members of the Ensemble Dissonanzen (mandolin: Avi Avital; guitar: Marco Capelli; viola: Francesco Solombrino; cello: Manuela Albano; double bass: Antonio Sciancalepore; percussion: Alessandro Tomassetti); recorded at Teatro delle Palme, Naples, February 21-23. 2005; composition years: 1981-1982; time: 17:00

SET TWO
Brian Baumbusch: Three Elements for String Quartet
a. Helium (1:35)
b. Lithium (3:01)
c. Mercury (4:26)
Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet
New World Records/2023
JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford Richards; cello: Kevin McFarland); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, February 2, 2023; composition year: 2016; total time: 9:02

Ian Jarvis: Elements of Time
Deep Wireless 8 — Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011
electroacoustic music (sound sources: water, sand): Ian Jarvis; time: 2:32

David Toop/Michael Prime: A Second Nature
Museum of Fruit
Architettura Volume 3 — Itsuko Hasegawa
Caipirinha Music/1999
bioelectric recordings of fruit: Michael Prime; recorded in London, autumn, 1998; time 0:41

Hour 2

SET THREE
Robert Fleisher: Reconstruction (from Five Pieces for Flute and Percussion)
Ilta (various composers)
Neuma Records/2022
percussion (2 brake drums, 3 cowbells, 3 cymbals, glockenspiel, 4 tuned gongs): Kyle Flens; recorded at the NIU School of Music Recital Hall; June 27 – July 1, 2016; composition year: 2016; selection time: 11:36

Lou Harrison: Fugue
Drums Along the Pacific
New Albion Records/2003
William Winant Percussion Group — flexatone, claves, maracas: William Winant; metallophone, box, cowebells: Daniel Kennedy; meditation bells, brake drums, washtub: avid Rosenthal; bell-coils, bass drum, gongs, suspended Turkish cymbal, triangles: Todd Manley; recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, August 1993; composition year: 1941; time: 3:55

Sylvia Smith: Poems I, II, III (S.S. Smith)
a. Poem I (0:53)
b. Poem II (1:03)
c. Poem III (0:51)
The Year Begins To Be Ripe (Smith, Cage, Erickson)
11 West Records/2008
recitation: Stuart Saunders Smith; brake drums: Sylvia Smith; recorded at UMBC, Baltimore; composer, texts: Stuart Saunders Smith; composition year: 1970; time: 3:45

SET FOUR
Annie Gosfield: Nickolaievski Soldat
Burnt Ivory and Loose Wires
Tzadik/1998
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; percussion: Jim Pugliese, Christine Bard; recorded at Harvestworks Studio, New York City, winter 1997, composition year: 1994; time: 6:56

Craig Pepples: Geode (from Watercolors for David Hicks)
Open Space 47 (various artists)
Open Space/2021
(for piano and electronics); piano: Julia Hsu; recorded at the Sonorium, Tokyo, February 2019; composition year: 2019; composition year: 2018; total selections time: 5:14

Benjamin Boretz: Ainu 1
Open Space 47 (various artists)
Open Space/2021
piano: Ben Boretz; recorded at the composer’s home; composition year: 2002; time: 8:02
*for George Quasha‘s Ainu poems and the author’s 60th birthday

SET FIVE
Diego Luzuriaga: Viento en el Viento (excerpt)
Southern Cones (various artists)
Music Out of Africa and South America
Leonardo Music Journal/2000
(for 2 flutes, percussion, and live electronics); Ensemble InterContemporain; recorded at Grande Salle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, December 2, 1994; electronic portion realized at Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique (IRCAM), Paris, 1994, programming assistant: Leslie Stuck; time: 5:47

Leslie Stuck: Go (excerpt)
Pas
Cycling ’74/2003
computer music: Leslie Stuck; realized at IRCAM, Paris, for the Kanagawa Arts Festival, 1998; time: 2:36

Hour 3

SET SIX
Léa Boudreau: Mini-bestiaire pour la fin du monde
Limaçon
empreintes DIGITALes/2023
(for stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer‘s studio, Montreal, 2022; time: 9:45

Brian Eno: Late Anthropocene
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Warp Records/2010
computer music: Brian Eno; piano, keyboards, electronics: John Hopkins; guitar, guitaret, laptop: Leo Abrahams; recorded at The Soundmasters, London, UK, time: 7:54

Tod Dockstader: Apocalypse, Part Three
Apocalypse
Starkland/1993
musique concrète (sound sources: spring, switch arcs, metal plate, electrical generator, bell-tree, piano, voice): Tod Dockstader; composition year: 1961; total time: 5:00

SET SEVEN
Kenneth Gaburo: The Wasting of Lucrecetzia
Tape Play
Pogus Productions/2000
tape collage, mixing: Kenneth Gaburo; composition year: 1964; time: 3:43

Lelo Nezario: Discurso aos Objetos
Fios de Trana, Vol. 2 (various artists)
Berro/2021
sound collages, electronics, synthesizers: Lelo Nezario; composition year: 1978; time: 7:54

José Maria Neves: Un-X-2
Musica Electroacustica Brasileira, Vol. II (various artists)
Sociedade Brasileira de Musica Eletroacustica/1999
electroacouastic music (sound sources: temple block, cello, vibraphone tremolo); recorded at Centro Americano Studio, Paris, 1971; composition year: 1971; time: 9:02

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: Starfields
Halcyon Days
Cold Blue Music/2023
pianos: Ray-Kallay Duo (Vick Ray, Aaron Kallay) ; recorded at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, August 22, 2022; composition year: 1974; time: 7:57

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