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Martian Gardens Episode 1163
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 13, 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Arie Shapira: Off Piano
Composing Israel (various artists)
The First Three Generations
Neuma Records/2023
piano, amplified voice: Michael Tal; recorded at the New Music from Israel concert, 1987; composition year: 1984; time: 5:48

Arie Shapira: Pro Piano
Different Compositions 1967-2003
non-commercial CD-R/2003
piano: Michael Tal; recorded at the Tel Aviv Museum, May 1998; composition year: 1996; time: 9:26

Anastasia Sadomski: Moths
Same Dream
Anastasia’s Bandcamp/2018
piano: Anastasia Sadomski; recorded at AudioCue, Studio, Berlin, 2017; time: 5:20

SET TWO
Lincoln Trio: Without (from Sanctuary) (S. Garrop)
Trios from Contemporary Chicago (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
Lincoln Trio  (violin: Desirée Ruhstrat; cello: David Cunliffe; piano: Marta Aznavoorian); recorded at the Logan Center for the Arts, July 26-27, 2021; composer: Stacy Garrop; composition year: 2011; time: 15:31

Akropolis Reed Quintet: Passage through the Netherworld* (S. Garrop)
Ghost Light
New Focus Recordings/2021
Akropolis Reed Quintet recorded at the First Presbyterian Church, Ypsilanti, Michigan and Tempermill Studios, Ferndale, Michigan; composer: Stacy Garrop; composition year: 2018; time: 4:56
*from Part II from  Rites for Afterlife

SINGLE PLAY
James Moore: Misurgirafical & Plomlied
Desolation Pops
New World Records/2023
piano: Kathleen Supové; The Rhythm Method (violins: Leah Asher; Marina Kifferstein; viola: Carrie Frey; cello: Meaghan Burke); recorded at Taplin Hall, Princeton University, June 16, 2022; composition years: 2016-2018; total selections time: 5:46

Hour 2

SET THREE
Edmund Campion: Astronomia
Quadrivium
Neuma Records/2023
marimba: Daniel Kennedy; electronics: Edmund Campion; composition year: 1995; time: 10:11

Edmund Campion: Losing Touch
Outside Music
Albany Records/2009
(for vibraphone with fixed electronics); vibraphone: Christopher Froh; composition year: 1994; time: 11:13

SET FOUR
Elliott Carter: Figments V, III, IV
a. Figment V.(1:57)
b. Figment III (3:10)
c. Figment I V (3:06)
Music of Elliott Carter Volume VIII
16 Compositions 2002-2009
Bridge Records/2010
a. marimba: Simon Boyar; b. contrabass: Donald Palma; c. viola: Hsin-Yun Huang; a. recorded at Lefrak Concert Hall, Queen College, New York City, September 5, 2009; b. recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, New York City, October 15, 2009; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, September 22, 2009; composition years: a. 2009; b.,c. 2007; total selections time: 8:13

Emma Carlé: Go Go Gadget Arms
Open Space 16 [various artists]
Open Space/2004
violins: Chris Van der Zee, Anna Broadbent, Eleanor Ryan; bonang barung Javanese gongs: Jo Hilder; composition year: 1999; time: 4:40

Elaine Barkin: Poem
Open Space 16 [various artists]
Open Space/2004
UCLA Symphonic Wind Ensemble, conductor: Thomas Lee; composition year: 1999; time: 4:53

SINGLE PLAY
Alvin Lucier: Swing Bridge (excerpt)
Swing Bridge and Sizzles
Mode Records/2022
(for organ, ensemble, and pipe wavers); Australian Art Orchestra (organ: Austin Buckett; voice: Sonya Holowell; trumpet: Peter Knight; trumpet: Tristram Williams; cello: Errki Veltheim; violin: Anna McMichael; cello: Mary Rapp; contrabass: Samuel Pankhurst; pipe wavers: Claire Edwardes, Martin Ng, Joe Talia, Simon James Phillips); recorded at Melbourne Town Hall, January 5, 2016; composition year: 2015; excerpt time: 10:00 (10:00 – 20:00 of 36:20)
brief notes on Swing Bridge

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Léa Boudreau: Dementia
Limaçon
empreintes DIGITALes/2023
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2017; time: 4:58

Alex Williams and Seth Andrew Davis: Circuits I
Music for Cello and Electronics
Mother Brain Records/2023
cello: Alex Williams; laptop, electronics: Seth Andrew Davis; recorded in Kansas City and Neosho, Missouri, and Los Angeles; time: 8:21

James Mobberley: Balancing Act
Mobberley Music 1 & 2
non-commercial CD-R/2009
(for ehru and cello); cello: Madeleine Shapiro; ehru: Xu Ke; composition year: 1989; time: 7:07

SINGLE PLAY
César Bolaños: Flexum
Peruvian Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2010
(for woodwind instruments, strings, percussion, and tape); directed by Eduardo Kusnir; recorded at the VIII Contemporary Music Festival at the Instituto Di Tella, Buenos Aires, September 23, 1969; composition year: 1969; time: 13:50

SET SIX
Luigi Nono: Ricorda Cosa ti Hanno Fatto in Auschwitz?*
La Fabbrica Illuminata/Ha Venido, Canciones Para Silvia/Ricorda Cosa Ti Hanno Fatto In Auschwitz
Wergo/1992
for choir and soprano (on tape); choir: Kinderchor des Piccolo Teatre, Mailand, Italy; soprano (on tape); Stefania Woytowitz; recorded at Studio de Fonologia Musicale di Milano; composition year: 1966; time: 11:09
*Remember what they did to you at Auschwitz?

Paul Burnell: Orange Juice
Deep Wireless 4 — RadioArts Compilation [various artists]
New Adventures In Sound Art/2007
electronics, samples, voice; Paul Burnell; time: 1:02

Frank Zappa: Nasal Retentive Calliope Music
We’re Only In It for the Money/Lumpy Gravy
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. Verve/1968)
tape mixing: Frank Zappa; sampled voice: Eric Clapton; recorded 1967; time: 2:02

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