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Martian Gardens Episode 1161
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 30, 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Richard Festinger: After Blue
I. Allegro con brio (5:32)
II. Adagio Fantastico (7:44)
III. Allegro Capriccioso (3:37)
Chamber Music
Bridge Records/2008
The New Millennium Ensemble (flute, piccolo: Tara Helen O’Connor; clarinet, bass clarinet: Marianne Gythfeldt; violin: Sunghae Anna Lim; cello: Gregory Hesselink; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; percussion: John Ferrari); recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, January 15, 2001; total time: 17:08

Edgard Varèse: Hyperprism
Pierre Boulez (Carter/Varèse)
Sony Classical/1995
(for wind, brass, and percussion); Ensemble InterContemporain, conductor: Pierre Boulez; recorded at IRCAM, Paris, April 8, 1983; composition year: 1922-1923; time: 4:14

SET TWO
Andrew Byrne: Desert Terrain, Part 1
White Bone Country
Nine musical landscapes for piano and percussion
New World Records/2009
solo crotales: David Shivley; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, Bronx, New York, October 2006; time: 4:40

Robert Fleisher: Recollections (from Five Pieces for Flute and Percussion)
Ilta (various composers)
Neuma Records/2022
percussion (crotales 4 tuned gongs, vibraphone): Kyle Flens; flute, bass flute: Stephanie Abderhalden; recorded at the NIU School of Music Recital Hall; June 27 – July 1, 2016; composition year: 2016; selection time: 7:05

Jeff Herriott: Consciousness Floats into the Wind
The Stone Tapestry
New Focus Recordings/2017
(for flutes, percussion, and percussion quartet); Due East (flutes: Erin Lesser; percussion: Gregory Beyer); Third Coast Percussion (David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, Sean Connors); The Stone Tapestry instrumentation: alto flute, bass flute, contrabass flute, bowls of water, crotales, crystal glasses, glass bowls, gongs, pipes, stones, vibraphones, wood planks; recorded at Northern Illinois University; composition year: 2014; selection time: 10:56

SET THREE
Alistair MacDonald: Final Times
Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow, Huddersfield, and Newcastle (various artists)
MPS Music & Video/2000
sounds gathered in Glasgow and processed for the BBC by Alistair MacDonald; composition year: 1999; time: 5:01

Roxanne Turcotte: Bourdons enjoués (Cheerful Drones)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
(stereo fixed medium); sound sources: sawtooth soundwave, improvised drones on bagpipes, Breton bombarde, and keyboards; wind instruments: Michel Dubeau; keyboard: Roxanne Turcotte realized at Turcotte’s Studio Séducson, Montreal; premiered at the Les Maîtres sonneurs concert, Synthèse, the 34th Bourges International Electronic Music and Creation Festival; time: 4:08

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Emmanuel Madan: Freedom Highway
Deep Wireless 2 — Radio Arts Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
sound collage (Christian radio broadcasts, American religious commentary): Emmanuel Madan; composition year: 2003; time: 6:46

Charlie Morrow: Diet Coke
jingle: Charlie Morrow; time 0:56

Charles Amirkhanian: Gold and Spirit
Walking Tune
Starkland/1997
sports noises, electronics, chants, voices: Charles Amirkhaninan, written for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics; time: 10:15

SET FIVE
Dan Kurfirst:
a. Peace In (2:08)
b. Peace Out (2:22)
Arkinetics
Neuma Records/2022
trumpet, woodwinds: Daniel Carter; Fender Rhodes piano, piano: Alexis Marcelo; electric bass: Damon Banks; tabla: Roshini Semlal; drumset, Sogo drums: Dan Kurfirst; voice sample: Alan Watts; recorded at Tedesco Studios, Paramus, New Jersey, August 1, 2021; total selections time: 4:30

Adam Rudolph/Go: Organic Orchestra: White Sky, Black Clouds
Can You Imagine…The Sound of a Dream
Meta Records/2011
Go: Organic Orchestra, conductor: Adam Rudolph; recorded live at Roulette Intermedium, New York City, 2010; time: 6:06

African Head Charge: Language and Mentality
Off the Beaten Track
On-U-Sound/1986
Off the Beaten Track personnel — bass guitar: Adrian Sherwood (Crocodile), Keith Logan (Lizard), Peter Stroud (Doctor Pablo); drums: Charles Kelly (Eskimo); Adrian Sherwood (Prisoner); A. V. Scott (Style Scott); sound effects: Crocodile, Prisoner; Keyboards: Doctor Pablo, Skip McDonald; additional percussion: Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah; voice sample: Albert Einstein; recorded at Southern Studio and Town House Studio, London; selection time: 4:23

John Cage: Eleven Seconds on Einstein
From Zero DVD
Mode Records/2004 (orig. 1995)
voice, stopwatch: John Cage; director: Frank Scheffer; total time: 0:19

The Hub: Tesla Sync
Boundary Layer
Tzadik Records/2008
The Hub computer network: Chris Brown, John Bischoff, Mark Trayle, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Tim Perkis; composer: John Bischoff; recorded in 2006; time: 7:44

SET SIX
Warren Burt: To Make a Machine
Poems of Rewi Alley
Sonic Gallery/2006
reader: John Britton; electronic musical setting: Warren Burt; texts: Rewi Alley; recorded at Move Records Studio, Melbourne Australia Asia Foundation, 2006; time: 4:02

Lawrence Ball: Victoria
Method Music*
Imaginary Sitters-Imaginary Galaxies
Navona Records/2012
computer, sequencer: Lawrence Ball; recorded at Pete Townshend’s Oceanic Studios, Twickenham, UK; time: 5:02
*in re: The Lifehouse Method

Hour 3

SET SEVEN
Takehito Shimazu: Illusions in Desolate Fields
CCMIX Paris (various artists)
Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
(for voice, san-gen, & UPIC); san-gen, voice: Kazuko Takada; realized at UPIC (CCMIX), Paris, 1994; time: 13:27

Dom Turner & Jin Hi Kim: Shark Island Night Surfer
Microtonal Crossroads Two
Music for Slide Guitar & Komungo
Dom Turner’s Bandcamp/2020
guitars: Dom Turner; electric and acoustic komungo: Jin Hi Kim; recorded at Firehouse 12 Studios, New Haven, Connecticut, August 2016; time: 6:20

SET EIGHT
Marty Regan: Magic Mirror
Magic Mirror
Navona Records/2012
shamisen: Tetsuya Nozawa; hichirki: Hitomi Nakamura; ryūteki: Maya Sakai; shō: Kazue Tajima; shakuhachi: Ray Jin; shinobue: Yuka Sawada; recorded March 3, 2009; composition year: 2008; time: 14:25

Ralph Samuelson: Afterimage (E. Brown)
The Universal Flute
Innova Recordings/2016
shakuhachi: Ralph Samuelson; shamisen: Yoko Hiraoka; recorded at EastSide Sound, New York City, 2014, 2015; composer: Elizabeth Brown; composition year: 2011; time: 9:21

SINGLE PLAY
J.K. Randall & Benjamin Boretz: Duo 9 (excerpt)
Open Space 55 — Keyboard Conversations (Duo 9/Crumarsolo 2)
Open Space/2023
piano: J.K. Randall; Crumar orchestrator: Benjamin Boretz; recorded March 29, 1982; excerpt time: 5:00

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