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Martian Gardens Episode 1162
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 6, 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Robert Scott Thompson: Serenade of the Night Sky
Circle and Shadow — Volume One
Aucourant Records/2023
piano, electronics: RST; recorded at the composer’s studio, 2023; time: 6:00

George Crumb: selections from Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik
A Little Midnight Music — Ruminations on “‘Round Midnight” by Thelonious Monk for amplified piano
I. Nocturnal Theme (1:17)
II. Charade (1:27)
III. Premonition (1:28)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 18
Bridge Records/2017
amplified piano: Marcantonio Barone; recorded at Swarthmore College, Lang Performance Center, June 2016; composition year: 2001; total selections time: 4:07

William Duckworth: selections from The Time Curve Preludes
V. 2:10
VI. 4:48
VII. 2:26
The Time Curve Preludes
Neuma Records/2023
piano: Emmanuele Arciuli; recorded at Digressione Studios, Molfetta, Italy, December 2022; composition years: 1977-1978; total selections time: 9:24

SET TWO
Eugene O’Brien: selections from Algebra of Night
a. Moon (6:23)
b. Old Postcard of 42nd Street at Night (2:58)
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; texts: a. Mark Strand, b. Charles Simic; recorded at Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., February 22-23, 2015; composition year: 2015; selection time: 9:21

Gabriel Fauré: Diane, Séléné (from L’Horizon chimérique, op. 118)
The Complete Songs — 1
Hyperion Records/2005
baritone: Christopher Maltman; piano: Graham Johnson; text: Jean de La Ville de Mirmont; composition year: 1921; time: 2:12

Charles Dodge: In Celebration
Synthesized Voices
Composers Recordings, Inc./1976
speech synthesis: Charles Dodge; text: Mark Strand; realized at the Columbia University Center for Computing Activities, and Nevis Laboratories, Irvington, New York, 1975; time: 8:31

SET THREE
Elizabeth Hoffman: Twelve-to-Seven for Ben for Piano
BENJAMINBORETZ9X9 (various artists)
Open Space/2016
piano: Blair McMillan; composition year: 2016; time: 3:11

Benjamin Boretz: Partita
a. Prelude (2:26)
b. Gavotte (1:38)
c. Allemande (1:22)
c. Capriccio (1:55)
BENJAMINBORETZ9X9 (various artists)
Open Space/2016
piano: Benjamin Boretz; composition year: 1955; total time: 7:34

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Lei Liang: Season 4 — Migration
Six Seasons
New World Records/2023
(for improvising musicians and prerecorded sounds*); Mivos Quartet (violins: Olivia De Prato, Maya Bennardo; viola: Victor Lowrie Tafoya; cello: Tyler J. Borden; recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego, October 14-15, 2022; composition year: 2022; selection time: 8:06
* “Hydrophones were placed about 300 meters below the sea surface at a seafloor recording location 160 km north of Point Barrow, Alaska. They capture the sound of sea ice, marine mammals, and the underwater environment throughout an entire year.” — Lei Liang

David Dunn: Entrainments 1
Music, Language, and Environment
Environmental Sounds Works by David Dunn 1973-1985
Innova Recordings/1996
environmental sounds recorded Azalea Glen, Cuyamaca State Park, September 1984; speaking voices: Ronald Robboy, Lizbeth Rymland, Stephen Storer; oscillators: L. Rymland, Dan Schwarz; computer engineering: D. Dunn, Peter Seibel; time: 8:14
technical specs on Entrainments (via liner notes)

SET FIVE
Lisa Renée Coons: Chimera’s Garden
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 32 (various artists)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for electronics and alto flute); alto flute: Shanna Pranaitis; composition year: 2022; time: 12:18

Lindsey Goodman: Sleep’s Undulating Tide (E. Lillios)
Returning to Heights Unseen (various composers)
New Music for Flute
Navona Records/2018
(for C flute and live, interactive electroacoustics); C flute: Lindsey Goodman; recorded at Stanton Audio Recording Studio, Kuhlin Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, January 7, 2017; composer: Elainie Lillios; music inspired by Margaret Atwood’s poem, “Variation’s on the Word Sleep,” composition year: 2016; time: 12:49

SINGLE PLAY
Brian Ferneyhough: Cassandra’s Dream Song
Music for Flute
Bridge Records/2002
solo flute: Kolbeinn Bjarnason; recorded at Viðistaðkirkja, Hafnerfjörður, Iceland, 2000; composition year: 1970; time: 9:39

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Iannis Xenakis: Kassandra
Xenakis Edition Vol. 7
Complete Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
voice, Javan psaltery: Philip Larson; percussion (woodblocks, skin drums): Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studio, University of California San Diego; composition year: 1987; time: 20:48

SET SIX
Christian Bouchard: Birdscape
IV
empreintes DIGITALes/2023
(4-channel fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, 2021-2022; Montreal; premiered at Usine C, Montreal, October 12, 2022; time: 14:16

Leo Kupper: Aviformes (Part 2-6)
Digital Voices
Pogus Productions/2012
soprano: Barbara Zanichelli; processing, electronics: Leo Kupper; recorded at Studio de Recherches, Brussels, composition year: 2009; time: 7:14

SINGLE PLAY
Roderik De Man: Air to Air
Electrified Music
Electroshock Records/2004
(for tape, woodwinds, and brass); European Winds Ensemble; composition year: 1989; time: 8:11

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