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Martian Gardens Episode 1171
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 22, 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Eric Nathan: Some Favored Nook, Part 3
XIV. These are my introduction (5:51)
XV. My Wars are laid away in Books/No Prisoner be (3:23)
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: 9:14

Tania León: Singin’ Sepia
Five Songs on Poems by Rita Dove
I. Wiring Home (2:12)
II. Persephone Abducted (3:04)
III. The Slave’s Critique of Practical Reason (3:40)
IV. In the Bulrush (1:50)
V. Then Came Flowers (2:04)
Singin’ Sepia
Bridge Records/2008
Continuum ensemble — soprano: Tony Arnold; clarinet: David Gresham; violin: Renée Jolles; piano for four hands: Joel Sachs, Cheryl Seltzer; texts: Rita Dove; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 3, 2004; composition year: 1996; time: 13:10

SET TWO
Alexander Tcherepnin: Four Diatonic Caprices
a. Animato (1:56)
b. Allegretto (1:28)
c. Lento (2:07)
d. Allegro (1:05)
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; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts, September 16, 2014; composer: Alexander Tcherepnin; composition year: 1977; total time: 6:43

Jeremy Beck: November Dances
Remember
Neuma Records/2023
flute: Petyo Kolyev; viola: Viktor Mitzev; harp: Denitza Dimitrova; recorded at the Church of the Redeemer, Cincinnati, Ohio; May 9, 2022; composition year: 2021; time; 7:33

ETHEL + Robert Mirabal: Peace Calls
The River
Innova Recordings/2016
ETHEL String Quartet (viola, voice, kalimba, shaker: Ralph Farris; violin, low-strung violin, voice, mandolin, shaker, drum: Kip Jones; violin, voice, shaker: Corin Lee; cello, voice, shaker: Dorothy Lawson); voice, flute, didgeridoo, shaker, drum: Robert Mirabal; recorded at Estancia Miribal, Taos, New Mexico, August 2015; composition year: 2015; time: 5:40

SINGLE PLAY
Fernando Cellicion: Courting Flute Song (trad.)
Music of New Mexico (various artists)
Native American Traditions
Smithsonian Folkways/1992
flute: Fernando Cellicion; time: 1:56

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Jorge Antunes: Vivaldia MCMLXXV
Works by Jorge Antunes e o GeMUnB
UnB Discos/2002
GeMUnB (Group of Musical Experimentation of the University of Brasilia) — voice: Laura Conde; flute: Geraldo Moreira; English horn/French horn: Raimundo Martins; viola: Fernando: Vasques; cello: Jorge Armando Nunes; piano: Mariuga Lisbôa Antunes; dancer: Maria Salma; magnetic tape, conductor: Jorge Antunes; recorded at University of Brasilia, 1975; composition year: 1975; time: 21:18

SET THREE
João Rodriguez Estevez: Magnificat
Negro Spirituals au Brésil Baroque (various composers)
K617-France/2001
(for organ and choir); Musiques des Lumières — organ: Jean-Christophe Frisch; mezzo soprano: Gemma Coma Alabert; tenor: Jean Delescluse; baritone: Jean-Baptiste Dumora; countertenor: Alan Thaï; recorded in the Moselle Department, France; composer: João Rodriguez Estevez; text: liturgical; composition year: 1721; time: 11:59

Eduarda Reck Miranda: selections from Requiem Per Una Veu Perduda
Requiem for a Lost Voice in Catalan
a. Kyrie (3:51)
b. Gloria (3:59)
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
for computer and voice; mezzo-soprano: Simone Sahyouni; recorded at The University of Glasgow Electronic Music Studio, 1997; composition year: 1997; texts: liturgical; total selections time: 7:50

SINGLE PLAY
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Benedictus (from Missa Brevis)
Music of Vladimir Ussachevsky
Composers Recordings, Inc./1999 (orig. 1973)
soprano: Jo Ann Ottley; Chorus of the University of Utah, Utah Symphony brass; conductor: Newell Wright; recorded at the University of Utah, 1972; composition year: 1972; texts: liturgical; total selections time: 8:47

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
The Early Immersive Music of Joan La Barbara
Mode Records/2017
(vocal music on 8 channels of tape); extended vocals, electroacoustic vocals, respirations, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusic Festival, Berlin, October 22, 1978; new 2017 stereo mix; time: 13:18

Robert Normandeau: Palimpseste
Palimpsestes
empreintes DIGITALes/2005
(16-channel fixed media; sound source: voices); realized in the studios of Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany, and the composer’s studio, Montreal; 2005 finalized version premiered at Theater des Horens, ZKM, October 21, 2005; time: 14:52

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Rock Garden
Palimpsest
Aucourant Records/2016
electronic music: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer’s studio, Roswell, Georgia, 2015; time: 6:29

SET FIVE
J.K. Randall: selections from A Garland of CSound
a. BAB-O (4:09)
b. An Overture to Something Else* (5:19)
Open Space 17 — A Garland of CSound
Open Space/2004
computer music in CSound: J.K. Randall; a. variation on Benjamin A. Boretz‘ composition “O”; b. from Leftovers; total selections time: 9:28
*full title: An overture to Something Else; in seven amply segregated manifestations : fff. ie. Loud gnome sane?

Lou Cohen: Shape 05
Music
Pogus Prodcutions/2013
computer music in CSound: Lou Cohen; composed for the Bohlen-Pierce Symposium, Boston, March 2010; time: 6:52

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