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Martian Gardens Episode 1167
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 17, 2023
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Hour 1

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Eric Nathan: Some Favored Nook, Part 1
I. To tell me what is true? (4:49)
II. The nearest dream recedes unrealized (2:45)
III. Could you tell me how to grow? (3:01)
IV. The shut me up in Prose (3:53)
V. My barefoot rank is better (2:10)
Some Favored Nook
New Focus Recordings/2023
soprano: Tony Arnold; baritone: William Sharp; piano: Seth Knopp; libretto: Mark Campbell, Eric Nathan (texts adapted from the correspondence between Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson; recorded at Sun Hill Studios, Putney, Vermont, August 26-27, 2022; composition year: 2017; total selections time: 17:00

SET ONE
Robert Owens: Mortal Storm, op. 29
I. A House in Taos (3:21)
II. Little Song (2:19)
III. Jaime (0:37)
IV. Faithful One (1:42)
V. Genius Child (2:08)
Dreams of a New Day (various composers)
Songs of Black Composers
Çedille Records/2021
baritone: Will Liverman; piano: Paul Sanchez; texts: Langston Hughes; recorded at Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen, Indiana, July 22-24, 2022; composition year: 1969; total time: 10:17

Elie Siegmeister: Langston Hughes Songs
a. Ballad of Adam & Eve (1:51)
b. Motto (O:46)
c. Hope (1:06)
d. Question (0:46)
e. Life is Fine (4:05)
Music of Elie Siegmeister
Composers Recordings, Inc./1996 (orig. 1986)
baritone: Charles Williams; The Washington Music Ensemble (violin: Mary Findley; cello: Harriet Kaplan; flute: Jan Pompilo; clarinet: Charles Stier; percussion: Robert Lynn; piano, artistic director: Alan Mandel), conductor: Joel Lazar; texts: Langston Hughes; recorded at the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress, September 4, 1984; composition year: 1948; time: 8:34

SET TWO
György Kurtág: selections from Signs, Games and Messages
a. Hommage à John Cage (1:52)
b. Schatten (0:45)
c. Jelek (Signs) I (0:59)
d. János Pilinszky: Gèrard de Nerval (1:28)
e. Virag az ember, Mijakònak (1:30)
Signs, Games and Messages
ECM New Series/2003
Orlando Trio (violin: Hiromi Kikuchi; viola: Ken Hakii; cello: Stefan Metz); composition years: circa 1989 (from Signs, Games and Messages, 1989-onward); recorded at Radio DRS, Zürich, Switzerland, winter 2002; total selections time: 6:45

Béla Bartók: Adagio
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Pinopo Records/2022
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Rafael Kubelík; recorded 1951; composition year: 1936; selection time: 7:16

Hour 2

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Giacinto Scelsi: Preghiera per’ un ombra
Scelsi Edition 3 — Music for High Winds
Mode Records/2001
clarinet: Carol Robinson; recorded in Chatillon, France; composition year: 1954; time: 8:41

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Carol Robinson: Black on Green
The Weather Pieces
Mode Records/2023
(for double bass and computer); double bass: Charlotte Testu; computer music design: Charles Bascou; text: Carol Robinson; recorded at Pole Sup ’93, La Courneuve, France, February 23, 2018; composition year: 2015; time: 14:46

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: Three Nocturnes
a. Moonrise (4:37)
b. Night Wind (4:41)
c. Moonset (4:26)
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, New York City; composition year: 2022; total time: 13:45

Mari Kimura: GuitarBotana 
Polytopia
Bridge Records/2007
violin: Mari Kimura; GuitarBot: LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots); composition year: 2004; time: 6:20

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John Cage: Harmony XI — II: Worcester (W. Billings)
The Works for Violin 6 — The String Quartets 4
Mode Records/2005
The Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings; viola: Dov Scheindlin; cello: Rohan de Saram); recorded at HR Hessischer, Frankfurt, Germany, July 2000; composer: William Billings; composition year: 1778 (first published); composition year (Cage): 1976; selection time: 1:49

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Roger Cochini: Chansons de Geste
Eva ou les yeux fermés
Chrysopée Électronique Series Vol. 6
Mnémosyne Musique Média/1995
electroacoustic music: Roger Cochini; composition year: 1977; time: 9:55

Léa Boudreau: Quatre machines pour sauver le monde
Limaçon
empreintes DIGITALes/2023
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2019; premiered at the Ultrasons Festival, Salle Claude-Champagne, University of Montreal, April 30, 2019; time: 12:27

SET FIVE
Lei Liang: Season 4 — Bloom
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: 6:43
* “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

Glen Whitehead: Pila del Ángel
Pale Blue
Neuma Records/2023
(for trumpet, classical guitar, field recordings); trumpet: Glen Whitehead; acoustic and electric guitar: Dr. Colin McAllister; ambient sounds recorded in the environs of Morelia, Mexico; time: 9:01

Philip Perkins: selections from Undanceable
a. New Whynt A (3:04)
b. Uhoh C (2:18)
Undanceable — Musical Sound Scores for Dance 2022-23
Artifact Recordings/2023
all sounds and composition: Philip Perkins; recorded at the composer’s studio, San Francisco; music created for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet; total selections time: 5:22

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Pepples: selections from String Quartet No. 4
The Cabinet of Curiosities
a. pigeonhole 1 (1:35)
b. pigeonhole 2 (1:37)
c. pigeonhole 3 (0:47)
Open Space 42 (Boretz/Pepples)
Open Space/2020
Mivos String Quartet (violins: Olivia De Prato, Maya Bennardo; viola: Victor Lowrie Tafoya; cello: Tyler J. Borden); recorded at Oktaven Audio; composition year: 2016; total selections time: 3:49

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