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Martian Gardens Episode 1175
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
December 3, 2023
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Hour 1
SINGLE PLAY
Elizabeth Hoffman: …Twelve to Seven
Open Space 56 (Boretz/Barkin/Hoffman)
Open Space/2023
piano: Andrew Zhou; composition year: 2015; time: 2:31
SET ONE
Elizabeth Hoffman: O.A. (Onder Andere)
Modus Nodus and Other Works
Albany Records/2003
piano: Dann Vanderwalle; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 7:11
Justin Dello Joio: Due per Due
I. Elegia: To An Old Musician (6:04)
II. Moto In Perpetuo (7:18)
Oceans Apart
Bridge Records/2023
cello: Carter Brey; piano: Christopher O’Riley; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, September 4, 2011; composition year: 2011; total time: 13:22
SET TWO
Eric Moe: Deep Ecology
Strenuous Pleasures
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for cello and pre-recorded sounds); cello: David Russell; recorded at Joel Gordon Audio Recording Studio, Watertown, Massachusetts, January 23, 2022; composition year: 2020; time: 10:49
Seth Parker Woods: Winter Tendrils (M. Adkins)
Difficult Grace (various composers)
Çedille Records/2023
(for cello and electronics); cello: Seth Parker Woods; recorded at Chicago Recording Company, Chicago, Illinois, September 2022; composer: Monty Adkins; composition years: 2014, 2020; time: 10:19
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Monty Adkins: Digital Memories
a. Breaking (3:05)
b. Liquid Neon (3:05)
Fragmented Visions
MPS Music & Video/2002
electroacoustic music: Monty Adkins; composition year: 1999; total time: 6:10
Hour 2
SET THREE
Robert Gross: Here We Call It Pop
Penumbra
New Focus Recordings/2023
soda pop bottle, processing: Robert Gross; soprano: Shana Oshiro; text: Robert Gross; recorded at Edmond Charles Studio, Bowie, Maryland, June 6, 2022; composition year: 2022; time: 6:47
Steven Ricks: dpvscoke
Available Resonances
Steven Ricks/2012
aluminum cans, glass bottles, plastic cups, processing: Steven Ricks; recorded between 2009 and 2011; time: 9:36
Annea Lockwood: Dialogue: Bottles and Jars
The Glass World
¿What Next? Recordings/1997 (original Tangent LP 1970)
glass objects played by Annea Lockwood from The Glass World concert series 1966-1973; time: 1:42
Deep Listening Band: Balloon Payment
The Ready-Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1991
balloon set up: Gordon Hempton; balloon pop: Al Swanson; recorded at Deep Listening, Kingston, New York, February 1990; time: 0:45
SET FOUR
Deep Listening Band: Processional
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
organ, overtone flutes, electronics: David Gamper; just tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; trombones, didjeridu, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; voice: Julie Lyon Balliet; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, NY, June 1993: time: 8:45
Philip Blackburn: The Song of the Earth
Ordo
Neuma Records/2023
vibraphone: Patti Cudd; windharps: Philip Blackburn; recorded at Studio Z, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 29, 2020; time: 12:38
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Robert Scott Thompson: selections from Amorphia
a. Stochos I (3:28)
b. Remnant (6:31)
Amorphia
Aucourant Records/2007 (orig. 1995)
electroacoustic music: RST; total selections time: 10:00
Hour 3
SET FIVE
Francis Dhomont: Forte-Piano (for Oscar Wiggli)*
Images nomades
empreintes DIGITALes/2020
(for 8-channel fixed media); realized at the composer’s studio, Avignon, France, 2008; premiered at the Oscar Wiggli 80th birthday concert, Town Hall, Saignelégier, Switzerland, September 20, 2008; revised 2010; time: 8:41
*from Dhmont’s Ami-versaires cycle (2002-2020)
Jon Christopher Nelson: Bang, Crunch, Bounce
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; Bang time: 9:03
SET SIX
Peter Gena: Red Blood Cells
Beethoven in SoHo and Other Works
New World Records/2023
for digitally synthesized DNA sequences; genetics consultant: Charles M. Strom, PhD, MD; composition year: 1995; time: 10:08
Taylor Brook and Dana Jessen: Improvisation II
Set
New Focus Recordings/2023
bassoon: Dana Jessen; electronics: Taylor Brook; recorded at Clonick Hall, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, April 5, 2022; composition year: 2019; time: 10:0111
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Matthew Barber: Bob’s Harmonic Labyrinth (Sets I-VII)
Robert Morris at 70 (various artists)
Compositions and Performances in Celebration
Open Space/2014
(for 12 saxophones, composition in harmonic set classes); saxophones: Sumner Truax; electronic construction: Matthew Barber; composed for Robert Morris, 2014; time: 10:12
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