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Martian Gardens Episode 1170
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 15, 2023
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Hour 1

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Garifuna singers, drummers: Hugulendu
Dabuyabarugu — Inside the Temple
Sacred Music of the Garifuna of Belize
Smithsonian Folkways/1982
field recording, Belize, 1981; time: 2:23

SET ONE
Lebeha Drummers: selections from Biama
a. Maya Hatina (They can’t bake cassava) (3:35)
b. Saragatina Luba Laruga (I woke up before sunrise) (2:20)
c. Combination Dance (3:44)
Biama
Neuma Records/2023
segunda drum: Jabbar Lambey; vocals, primero drum, shakkas, turtle shells: Warren Martinez; vocals, segunda, primero, shakkas; additional vocals, claves: Marcela Torres; recorded in Hopkins, Belize; total selections time: 9:39

Jilala – Gnaoua: Darba del Hameni (from Jilala Tanger)
Moroccan Trance Music
Sub Rosa/1991
master of ceremonies: Mohammed Krimo; bendir drum: Cherif Lrouse, Haj Slam Ben Mohammed; qsbah flute: Haj Mohammad Ladani, Mohammed Krimo; vocals, handclaps: Mjedo Jbari; vocals: Ahmed Mkansi; recorded in Meknes, Morocco, May 7, 1990; produced at World Village Studios, Boston, summer 1990; time: 8:54

SET TWO
John Cage: Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon
Cage Edition 38 — The Number Pieces 4
Mode Records/2007
recorders: Trio Dolce; recorded in Speyer, Germany, July 27, 1990; composition years: 1933-1934; time: 9:07

If, Bwana: Flute Thang
33 Birds Went
Pogus Productions/1995
vocals: Ellen Christi; soprano saxophone: Brian Charles; sampled flute, electronics, tapes: Al Margolis; time: 7:21

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John Luther Adams: Inuksuit 2
Inuksuit
Cantaloupe Music/2013
(for percussion and environmental sounds); percussion director: Doug Perkins; recorded in the woods of Guilford, Vermont; composition year: 2013; time: 12:44

Hour 2

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David Hicks: Tightwire
Open Space 51 (Hicks/Pepples)
Open Space/2022
computer music: David Hicks; composition year: 2017; time: 17:32

SET THREE
Jon Christopher Nelson: Tightly Wound
The Persistence of Time and Memory
Neuma Records/2023
(for stereo fixed media); Jon Christopher Nelson; recorded at the composer’s studio, Denton, Texas; The Persistence of Time and Memory cycle composition years: 2021-2023; Tightly Wound time: 7:35

Lei Liang: Coda
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: 4:16
* “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

Annette Vande Gorne: Automne (Haïkus)
a. Jeux Mécaniques (4:36)
b. Jeux éxtendus, brouillard (2:53)
c. Jeux fragmentés, feuilles d’automne (2:30)
d. Jeux répétés (2:54)
Haïkus
empreintes DIGITALes/2020
(for 16-channel fixed media); realized at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain, Belgium; premiered on October 25, 2020, during the Espace du son festival at Théâtre Marni in Brussels (Belgium); total time: 13:00

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Scott A. Wyatt: Counterpoints
Music from SEAMUS, Volume 3 (various artists)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2022 (orig. SEAMUS/1994)
(for soprano saxophone with tape accompaniment and live processing); soprano saxophone: Debra Richmeyer; composition year: 1992; time: 8:42

Hour 3

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Steve Peters: Two Ways of Listening to Nothing (Chamber Music VI)
Chamber Music
ANTS Records/2023
sound filtration for audio installations: Steve Peters; CMVI for 4-channel audio installation in collaboration with Rene Barge; presented as part of SOUND, Subtropics Festival, Bass Museum, Miami, curated by Gustavo Matamoros, February-March, 2009; time: 7:58

SET FOUR
Jonathan Harvey: Ritual Melodies
From Silence – Nataraja – Ritual Melodies
Bridge Records/1992
for quadraphonic tape (all sounds electronically generated); realized at IRCAM, Paris, 1990; time: 13:26

Steven Ricks & Ron Coulter: Charming Ways
Precipitations
New Focus Recordings/2023
trombone, lo-fi electronics: Steven Ricks; percussion, lo-fi electronics: Ron Coulter; recorded in Casper, Wyoming, March 2021; time: 7:45

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Vaster Than Empires: Empyrean Tides
Three Days
New Focus Recordings/2021
violin, baritone violin: Erica Dicker; percussion, amplified sound boards, shortwave radio: Allen Otte; electric guitar, synthesizers: Paul Schuette; recorded at Dr. Otte’s house, Ohio Valley, 2021; time: 19:00

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