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Martian Gardens Episode 1165
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 3, 2023
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Voxnova: Red Rock (P. Dusapin)
In the Sky I am Walking — 9 Native American Songs
Works of Stockhausen & Dusapin
Mode Records/1998
vocal quartet and Native American percussion (drum, rattle): Voxnova (soprano: Valérie Chouaniére; mezzo soprano: Isabelle Soccaja; tenor: Thierry Fouré; bass: baritone, Voxnova artistic director: Nicholas Isherwood; text: Olivier Cadiot; recorded in Paris; composer: Pascal Dusapin; composition year: 2002; time: 6:39

SET ONE
Mario Davidovsky: Shulamit’s Dream
a. Part One — Song of Songs (Chapter V) (8:34)
b. Part Two — Song of Songs (Chapter III) (5:57)
Three Cycles on Biblical Texts
Bridge Records/2002
soprano: Susan Narucki; Riverside Symphony, conductor: George Rothman; text: Song of Songs; recorded at Theater A, Purchase College, Harrison, New York, composition year: 1993; total time: 14:31

Judith Shatin: selections from Three Summers Heat
a. I remember desire like white light (3:20)
b. I raise my head to look at t’ung trees (2:20)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29 [various artists]
Music from VCCM: Virginia Center for Computer Music University of Virginia
Centaur Records/1999
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Tzu Yeh (Chin Dynasty); recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, August, 1998; composition year: 1989; total selections time: 5:40

SINGLE PLAY
Gloria Coates: The Force for Peace in War
I. Recitative: Telegram von Dachau (2:41)
II. Aria: “Jung Witwe” (5:00)
III. Recitative: BBC Weather Report (0:38)
IV. Aria: “The Flying Bombers” (2:27)
V. Recitative: Brief der Leherin Elfriede Birndorfer (1:33)
VI. Aria: “Rinne, Regen, Rinne” (1:44)
VII. Interlude: Hiroshima is Bombed (2:09)
VIII. Aria: “All These Dyings” (3:16)
Indian Sounds (Symphony No. 8) (et al.)
New World Records/2002
(cantata for soprano and chamber orchestra); soprano: Sigune von Osten; Musica-viva-ensemble Dresden, conductor: Jürgen Wirmann; composition year: 1973; total time: 19:00
texts: I. telegram from Dachau Concentration Camp, 1944; II. Charlotte Hagedoren, Berlin, 1941; III. BBC weather report; IV. Phillys McGinley, 1942; V. Elfriede Birndorfer, schoolteacher; VI. Bavarian newspaper, 1943; VIII. thoughts of Marianne Moore from “In Distrust of Merits,” 1942

In memory of Gloria Coates (October 10, 1933 — August 19, 2023)

Hour 2

SET THREE
Eric Chasalow: Due (Cinta)mani
I. Three Symbolic Gestures (4:26)
II. Cloudbands (2:49)
Feather, Breath, Mirror
Suspicous Motives Records/2014
(for piano and fixed media); piano: Vicki Ray; recorded at Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, March 2005; composition year: 2002; total time: 6:15

Edmund Campion: Musica
Quadrivium
Music of Edmund Campion performed by Earplay
Neuma Records/2023
Earplay (flute: Todd Brody; clarinet: Peter Josheff; marimba; Daniel Kennedy; piano: Patricia Plude), conductor: David Milnes; Quadrivium composition year: 1995; time: 13:21

SET FOUR
Tsippi Fleischer: The Gown of Night
Composing Israel (various artists)
The First Three Generations
Neuma Records/2023
electronic collage, sound source: voices of Bedouin schoolchildren from Rahat; text: Muhammad Ghana’im, The Gown of Night; recorded at the Beer Sheva Conservatory, edited at Yaakov Aviram’s studio, Tel Aviv; composition year: 1988; time: 2:51

Jorge Antunes: Expiation pour Cumiqoh (Rimbaudiannisia MCMXCV, Part 1)
¡No se Mata la Justicia!
Sistrum/2003
(for child solo singers, children’s chorus, and orchestra); Choeur La Maîtrise de Radio France; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conductor: Arturo Tamayo; text: Arthur Rimbaud, “Dormeur du Val,” translated by Iannis Xenakis; recorded in Paris, 1994; composition year: 1994; selection time: 10:03

Bun-Ching Lam: Age D’or (Golden Age)
Conversations With My Soul
Navona Records/2021
baritone: Thomas Buckner; French horn: Tim McCarthy; text: Arthur Rimbaud; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, engineer: Tom Hamilton; May 9, 2018; composition year: 2011; time: 6:39

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Pepples: Wire Sculpture for Ben (for Benjamin Boretz)
Open Space 43 (Pepples/Takahashi)
Open Space/2020
piano: Julia Hsu; recorded at the Sonorium, Tokyo, February 16, 2019; composition year: 2016; time: 6:48

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Karl Korte: Meeting the Enemy
Extensions — A retrospective of electro-acoustic compositions 
Centaur Records/1998
electroacoustic music: Karl Korte (sounds derived from stock recordings of children’s laughter, sporting events, and military drills); recorded at the Recording Studios of the University of Texas at Austin, 1995; composition year: 1995; time: 13:27

Christian Bouchard: selections from Parcelles 1 & 2
a. Des enfants-sirènes (3:42)
b. Saute-piano un jeu pour enfant! (1:41)
c. C’était pourtant calme… (3:56)
Fractures
empreintes DIGITALes/2004
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2002-2003; premiered in Montreal, February 14, 2004; total selection time: 9:19

SET SIX
Olivia De Prato: Tooth and Nail (M. Mazzoli)
Panorama (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for violin and electronics); violin: Olivia De Prato; recorded at The Bunker Studio, New York City; composer: Missy Mazzoli); composition year: 2010; time: 10:00

Missy Mazzoli: selections from Vespers for a New Dark Age
a. Wayward Free Radical Dreams (5:13)
b. Machine (4:47)
Vespers for a New Dark Age
New Amsterdam Records/2015
Ensemble Victoire: percussion: Glenn Kotche; additional voices: Martha Cluver, Virginia Warnken; violin: Olivia De Prato; clarinet: Eileen Mack; keyboards, electronics: Lorna “Lorna Dune” Krier; double bass: Eleonore Oppenheim; voice: Melissa Hughes; texts: Matthew Zapruder; composition year: 2010; total excerpts time: 10:00

SET SEVEN
Luc Ferrari: Les Seins* (from Chansons pour le corps)
Chansons pour le corps/Et si tout entiére maintenant
Mode Records/2002
voice: Elise Caron; clarinets: Carol Mundinger, Sylvain Frydman; percussion: Christine Lagniel; piano: Michael Maurer; synthesizer: Michel Musseau, taped voices of random women; recorded at Salle Olivier Messiaen, Maison de Radio France, Paris, March 18, 1995; composition years: 1988-1994; selection time: 3:19
*instrumental

Jocy De Oliveira: Milk of Love
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000
spoken voice: Marilena Bibas; synthesizer, electronics: Jocy De Olivera; text: JDO; recorded in Berlin, March, 1995; composition year: 1994; time: 3:08 

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