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Martian Gardens Episode 1169
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 8, 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Ami Maayani: Arabesque No. 2
Composing Israel (various artists)
The First Three Generations
Neuma Records/2023
flute: Elizabeth Brightbill; harp: Ruth Maayani; composition year: 1973; time: 8:12

Gloria Coates: Perchance to Dream, Parts I & III
I. Wer nie Sein Brot mit Traenen Ass (5:44)
(He who never ate his bread in tears)
III. An die Tueren Will Ich Schleichen (6:25)
(I shall quietly steal from door to door)
Postcard from Heaven (various composers)
Music for Harp by John Cage, Gloria Coates, Alexander Tcherepnin, and James Tenney
New World Records/2015
harp: Susan Allen; bowed vibraphone: Colton Lytle; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts; April 20, 2014; composition year: 2014; total selections time: 12:19

SINGLE PLAY
John Luther Adams: Darkness and Scattered Light
Darkness and Scattered Light
Cold Blue Music/2023
(for five double basses); 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: 2023; total time: 16:32

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Julian Velasco: Animus (E. D. Smith)
As We Are (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
(for soprano saxophone and electronics*); soprano saxophone: Julian Velasco; recorded at Galvin Recital Hall, Evanston, Illinois; composer: Elijah Daniel Smith composition year: 2018; time: 7:37
*orig. for flute and electronics

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965 (Echoes I)
Eco 1. Fantastico (1:17)
Eco 2. Languidamente, quasi lontano (“Hauntingly”) (1:27)
Eco 3. Prestissimo (3:23)
Eco 4. Con bravura (2:44)
Eco 5. Dark, intense 2:06)
Eco 6. Dark, intense (1:25)
Eco 7. Dark, intense (0:57)
Eco 8. Feroce, violento 1:13)
Eco 9. Serenamente, quasi lontano (“Hauntingly”) (2:35)
Eco 10. Senza misura (“gently undulating”) (0:47)
Eco 11. Adagio; (“like a prayer”) (1:50)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) (violin: David Bowlin; alto flute: Claire Chase; clarinet: Joshua Rubin; piano: Jacob Greenberg); recorded at the Performing Arts Center, Theater C, SUNY Purchase, September 6, 2006; composition year: 1966; time: 17:50

SET TWO
Kaija Saariaho: L’Ouïe (Clarinet Concerto D’om le vrai sens Mvt. I)
D’om le vrai sens/Laterna Magica/Leino Songs
Ondine Oy/2011
clarinet: Kari Kriikku; Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Sakari Oramo; recorded at the Helsinki Kulttuuritalo (House of Culture), April 2011; composition year: 2010; selection time: 7:00

Edgard Varése: Offrandes
a. Chanson de Lá-haut (3:29)
b. La Croix du Sud (3:33)
Arcana/Integráles/Offrandes/Déserts
Naxos/2001
(for soprano and chamber orchestra); soprano: Maryse Castets; Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Christopher Lyndon-Gee; recorded at the Grzegorz Fitelberg Concert Hall, Katowice, Poland, May 2000; composition year: 1921; texts: a. Vicente Huidobro; b. José Juan Tablada; total time: 7:02

Frank Zappa & Ensemble Modern: Ruth is Sleeping
The Yellow Shark
Barking Pumpkin/1993
(arr. for two pianos); pianos: Ueli Wiget, Hermann Kretzschmar; The Yellow Shark recorded in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Vienna, September 1992; Ruth is Sleeping composed on Synclavier, 1982-1983; time: 5:32 (sans applause)

Frank Zappa: Regyptian Strut
Sleep Dirt
Rykodisc/1995 (orig. Discreet/1979)
percussion: Frank Zappa; keyboards: George Duke; bass: Patrick O’Hearn; electrified marimba: Ruth Underwood; drum overdubs: Chad Wackerman; Sleep Dirt recorded at Record Plant, Los Angeles, and Caribou Ranch, Nederland, Colorado; time: 4:13

David Hicks: Penumbrae I
Open Space 47 (various artists)
Open Space/2022
(for piano and electronics); piano: Julia Hsu; recorded at the Sonorium, Tokyo, February 2019; composition year: 2016; selection time: 2:50

Hour 3

SET THREE
Emanuel Dimas De Melo Pimenta: Short Waves 1985
Digital Music
Mode Records/1990
(sound source: shortwave radio transmissions received in the Amazon rainforest); arranged and processed at Emanuel Pimenta’s studio, Lisbon, Portugal; composed for Fabrications, by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; composition year: 1985; time: 13:56

John Cage: Variations V (excerpt)
Music for Merce 1952 — 2009 (various artists)
New World Records/2010
electronics: John Cage, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma; composition year: 1965; performed in Paris, 1966, for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s dance Variations V; Music for Merce excerpt time: 13:41

SINGLE PLAY
Monique Jean: Out of Joint
Troubles
empreintes DIGITALes/2018
(for stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2009; premiered at the concert Je me souviens (2.3) — Hommage a Pierre Mercure, La Sala Rossa, Montreal; time: 19:04

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