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Martian Gardens Episode 1166
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 10, 2023
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
John Luther Adams: Three High Places
a. Above Sunset Pass (5:09)
b. The Wind at Maclaren Summit (4:39)
c. Looking Toward Hope (5:42)
The Darkness and Scattered Light
Cold Blue Music/2023
double bass: Robert Black; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, Connecticut, March 25-27, 2023, further production at Dubway Studios, Nw York City; composition year: 2007; total time: 16:00

In memory of Robert Black (March 16, 1956 — June 22, 2023)

SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: September Canons
September Canons
New World Records/2009
violin, electronic processing: Todd Reynolds; a lamentation on the events of September 11, 2001; composition year: 2002; time: 13:13

Movses Pogassian: selections from Signs, Games and Messages (G. Kurtág)
a. Doloroso (1:52)
b. Kromatikus feleselös (1:10)
c. Panaszos nóta (1:10)
d. Perpetuum Mobile (1:03)
e. Calmo, sognando (1:35)
Hommage à Kurtág
New Focus Recordings/2022
solo violin: Movses Pogassian; Hommage à Kurtág recorded at Ostin Music Center, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, January 8-9 and May 1, 2022; composer: György Kurtág; composition years: 1989 — onward; total selections time: 6:50

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Mantione: Traffic for Strings
Traffic for Strings (CD-R)
Philip Mantione/2005
SEM Ensemble, conducted by Petr Kotik; recorded at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, 2005; time 11:54

Hour 2

SET TWO
Luc Ferrari: Les Yeux (from Chansons pour le corps)
Chansons pour le corps/Et si tout entiére maintenant
Mode Records/2002
chanteuse: 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: 9:53

Jocy De Oliveira: Mythical Chants
Illud Tempus
O.O. Discs/2000
soprano: Gabriela Di Geanx; spoken voice: Marilena Bibas; clarinet: Paulo Passos; percussion: Paraguassu Abrahao; synthesizer, electronics: Jocy De Olivera; text: JDO; recorded in Berlin, March, 1995; composition year: 1994; time: 11:54

SET THREE
Lawson & Merrill: Dark Angel
Signals
Neuma Records/2022
synthesizers, electronic instruments: David Margolin Lawson, David Merrill; mastered at Tiki Studios, Glen Cove, New York; time: 9:36

Paul Ellis: selections from Into the Liquid Unknown
a. Slowly Rowing Through Ghost Melodies (5:49)
b. Undines (3:38)
Into the Liquid Unknown
Paul Ellis’ Bandcamp/2015 (orig. Hypnos Records/2001)
synthesizers, electronics: Paul Ellis; total selections time: 9:29

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Night Traffic
Homebrew
Bridge Records/1992
electronically filtered sounds from a four-lane highway; composition year: 1990; time: 10:14

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Darren Copeland: selections from Purdu et Retrouve
a. The Wrong Mistakes (4:34)
b. They’re Trying to Save Themselves (3:53)
Perdu et Retrouve
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
a. fixed medium: Darren Copeland; commissioned by CBC Radio One for the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks; all sounds sourced from CNN immediately following the bombings of the World Trade Center towers, September 11, 2001; realized at the composer’s studio, 2002, premiered on CBC Radio One, September 11, 2002; b. fixed medium: Darren Copeland; realized at the composer’s studio, 2003; premiered at the Tone Deaf Series, Modern Fuel gallery, Kingston, Ontario, October 2004; total selections time: 8:29

Natasha Barrett: Impossible Moments from Venice 1
Reconfiguring the Landscape
Natasha Barrett’s Bandcamp/2023
(for installation); field recordings from Venice, Italy, recorded, assembled, and mixed by Natasha Barrett; time: 6:48

SET FIVE
John White: selections from Electric Music
a. Nententions 5 (2:08)
b. Nintentions 1 (1:22)
Electric Music
ANTS Records/2021
music composed and performed by John White, 1980-1995, London; cassettes restored and remastered at Baby Microbe Studios, 2019-2020; total selections time: 3:30

Ensemble SuperMusique: Le Fruit du Hasard (By Chance) (J. Derome)
Bruit court-circuit
Actuellecd.com/2012
Ensemble SuperMusique — alto saxophone, voice, objects: Joane Hétu; percussion, microphones: Michel F Côté; violin: Guido Del Fabbro; cello: Émilie Girard-Charest;  tenor saxophone, flute, objects: Jean Derome; percussion: Danielle Palardy Roger; synthesizers: Vergil Sharkya; electric bass, electronics: Alexandre St. Onge; turntables: Martin Tétreault; composer: Jean Derome; composition year: 2012; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2012, time: 12:05

SET SIX
Sascia Pellegrini: Aísthēsis
Open Space 38 — Pellegrini/Hicks/Friedl string quartets
Open Space/2019
Mivos Quartet (violins: Olivia De Prato, Maya Bennardo; viola: Victor Lowrie Tafoya; cello: Tyler J. Borden); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, composition year: 2019; time: 13:28

James Correa: Colors and Sounds Reply to One Another
Portfolio (CD-R)
James Correa/2008
piano: Catarina Leite Domenici; live electronics: James Correa; composition year: 2006; time: 7:11

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