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Martian Gardens Episode 1164
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 25, 2023
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: selections from Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)
a. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening) (5:44)*
b. Music of the Starry Night (11:56)**
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 4
Bridge Records/2001
(for two amplified pianos and percussion); Quattro Mani (pianos: Susan Grace, Alison Rybak; percussion, slide whistles: John Kinzie, David Colson); recorded at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, August 2000; composition year: 1974; total selections time: 17:40
*Magical, Suspenseful
**Fantastic, oracular; “Song of Reconciliation” joyous, ecstatic, with a sense of cosmic time

SET ONE
Annette Vande Gorne: Été
a. Jeux d’insectes lancinants [Nagging Insect Games] (2:45)
b. Songe d’un aprės-midi d’été [A Midsummer Afternoon Dream] (5:06)
c. Voyage immobile [Motionless Journey] (1:24)
d. Danse folle des feux follets [Witty Dance of The Wisps] (1:55)
Haïkus
empreintes DIGITALes/2020
electroacoustic music realized at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium, 2018-2019; premiered at Monaco électroacoustique 2019: Concert 3, Théâtre des variétés, Monaco, April 20, 2019; selection time: 11:24

Noah Creshevsky: Summer
The Four Seasons
Hyperrealist Music by Noah Creshevsky
Tzadik/2013
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; ingredients may include — clarinets: Sherman Friedland, Al Margolis; clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontoravich; tenor and alto saxes: Audrey Betsy Welber; tenor sax: Tedross Avery; trumpet: Ben Holmes; trumpet voice: Susan Watts; trombone: Monique Buzzarte; drums: Ray Marchica, Gregg Mervine; voice: Tomomi Adachi, Jeremiah Crawly, Amy Denio, Beth Griffith, Kathy Hanson, Chris Mann, Maria Mannisto; guitars, voice: Gary Heidt; guitars, Rodney Jones, Marco Oppedisano; banjo: Rich Gross; violins: Maria Kimura, Amy Zakar; basses: Orin Buck, Lonnie Plaxico, Heather Chriscaden Versace; composition years: 1992–2013; master composition year: 2013; time: 12:05

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Kate Soper & Sam Pluta: Dialogue II
The Understanding of All Things
New Focus Recordings/2022
voice, piano: Kate Soper; live electronics: Sam Pluta; recorded at Sweeney Concert Hall, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; August 13-15, 2021; composition years: 2013, revisions: 2015, 2019; time: 9:53

Hour 2

SET TWO
John Cage: Sonata IX
Sonatas and Interludes
Neuma Records/2023
prepared piano: Agnese Toniutti; recorded in Italy, 2021; composition years: 1946-1948; total selections time: 4:06

John Cage: Totem Ancestor
The Works for Piano 4
The Complete John Cage Edition Volume 25
Mode Records/2002
prepared piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Crowell Concert Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, August 4-5, 2001; composition year: 1944; time: 1:55

Joseph Benzola: Ho Chi Minh — His Dreams and Visions by the Perfume River
3 Haikus
Amanita Music/2019
traditional percussion, prepared piano, electronics, sampled voice of Ho Chi Minh: Joseph Benzola; time: 13:47

SET THREE
Yuji Takahashi: Dream Butterfly for Julia
Open Space 43 — Pepples/Takahashi
Open Space/2020
piano: Julia Hsu; recorded at the Sonorium, Tokyo, February 16, 2019; composition year: 2017; time: 7:14

Elaine Barkin: …of shreds and patches…
Open Space 34
Open Space/2017
for MIDI pianos, harpsichord, and string bass; composition year: 2013; time: 4:12

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Malcolm Goldstein: Summer
The Seasons — Vermont
XI Records/1998
double bass: Robert Black; wood flutes, electric guitar, percussion: Mark Steven Woods; oboe, English horn, ocarina: Joseph Celli; violin: Malcolm Goldstein; saxophones, vibraphones: Tom Guralnick; vibraphone, percussion: Brian Johnson; vocalizing, accordion: Kenneth Karpowicz; recorded at Real Art Ways, Hartford, February 26, 1983; composition year: 1980-1982;  excerpt time: 16:05

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Conrad Cummings: Summer Air
Cummings/Ung
Composer’s Recordings, Inc./1983
The New Music Consort (flute: Susan Deaver; Harp: Barbara Allen; percussion: Claire Heldrich, William A. Trigg; soprano saxophone: Virgil Blackwell; viola: Lois Martin; violin: Curtis Macomber), conductor: Conrad Cummings; recorded in New York City, May 1982; composition year: 1980: time: 12:28

Robert Erickson: Summer Music
Recent Impressions — Orchestral, Chamber & Vocal Music
Naxos/2007 (orig. 1990)
(for violin and tape) violin: Mia Wu; recorded at Yale Divinity School, New Haven, June 1988, tape sound source: the brooks of Sequoia National Park, Sierra Nevada, California; composition year: 1974; time: 15:41

SET FIVE
Betty Olivero: Bashrav
Composing Israel (various artists)
The First Three Generations
Neuma Records/2023
members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (flute: Boaz Meirovitch; clarinet, bass clarinet: Jonathan Hadas; trumpet: Yigal Meltzer; percussion: Ziv Stein; piano, celesta: Yael Kareth; violins: Ari Vilhjálmsson, Salda Bar-Lev; viola: Matan Noussimovitch; cello: Linor Katz); conductor: Lahav Shani; composition year: 2004; time:

Elżbieta Sikora: Rouge d’été (Red Summer)
Les Saisons 1972 [GMEB] — 2002 [IMEB] (various artists)
IMEB/2002
electroacoustic music on tape: Elżbieta Sikora; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France; composition year: 2002; time: 10:28

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