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Martian Gardens Episode 1178
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
December 23, 2023
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Elaine R. Barkin: Gamélange
Open Space 34
Open Space/2016
(for harp and gamelan); harp: Sue Carole DeVale; UCLA gamelaners: Michael Bakkan, Elaine Barkin, Wanda Bryant, Alice Hunt, Jay Keister, Grace M, David Martinelli; composition year: 1992; time: 14:00

In memory of Elaine R. Barkin (December 15, 1932 — February 22, 2023)

Philip Corner: Belum (excerpt)
3 Pieces for Gamelan Ensemble
Gamelan Son of Lion plays Philip Corner
Alga Marghen/1999
(for gamelan and Western instruments); Gamelan Son of Lion, director: Barbara Benary; recorded at Philip Corner’s Farewell to New York concert, Experimental Intermedia Foundation, February 29, 1992; excerpt time: 7:00

SET TWO
Robert Gross: Five Movements for Flute and Electronics
a. Gracefully in Spite of Everything (2:07)
b. Icily (2:17)
c. Always With Some Forward Motions (2:07)
d. On the Brink (2:17)
e. Easily (2:21)
Penumbra
New Works by Robert Gross
New Focus Recordings/2023
flute: Anne McKennon; recorded at Anne McKennon‘s studio, Jacksonville, Florida; composition year: 2022; time: 11:09

Diane Thome: Bright Air/Brilliant Fire
Bright Air/Brilliant Fire
Centaur Records/2001
(for flute and computerized sound); flute: Sarah Bassingthwaighte; recorded at the University of Washington School of Music; 1997-1999; composition year: 1997; time: 11:00

SINGLE PLAY
George Cacioppo: Two Worlds
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
(for soprano, flute, oboe, piano, percussion, violin, viola, cello, and contrabass); soprano: Sevan Manoukian; conductor: Paul Méfano; composition year: 1962; time: 7:58

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Peter Kolkay: Red Maple (J. Tower)
Red Maple (various composers)
Music for Bassoon and Strings
Bridge Records/2023
bassoon: Peter Kolkay; Calidore String Quartet (violins: Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan; viola: Jeremy Berry; cello: Estelle Choi); recorded at the Drew University Concert Hall, Madison, New Jersey; January 2022; composer: Joan Tower; composition year: 2013; time: 14:41

SET THREE
Taylor Brook and Dana Jessen: Introduction/Song 1
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: 7:05

Bogusław Schaeffer: Project for Bassoon and Tape
Bassoon With A View (various artists)
Late 20th Century Bassoon Music
Innova Recordings/1998
bassoon: Charles Lipp; recorded at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; composition year: 1979; time: 14:55

SINGLE PLAY
Mary Jane Leach: Feu de Joie
Celestial Fires
XI Records/1993
(for solo bassoon and six taped bassoons); bassoon: Shannon Peet; composition year: 1992; time: 8:50

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Philip Blackburn: Stuck!
Ordo
Neuma Records/2023
(for ensemble and fixed media; sound source: Car Talk); UCCS Creative Music Ensemble, director: Glen Whitehead; recorded at Centennial Hall, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, April 18, 2015; composition year: 2008; time: 2:32

Glen Whitehead: Wilderness of Mirrors
Pale Blue
Neuma Records/2023
trombone: Glen Whitehead; ney: Mert Gunal; recorded outdoors with cicada sounds on Murdala Island, Turkey, time: 7:04

SINGLE PLAY
Erik Nyström: Lucent Voids
Morphogenése
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
(for 8-channel fixed media); realized at the Electroacoustic Studio of City University London, 2012; premiered at the Alchemy & Transmutation of Sonic Matter concert, City University London, October 16, 2012; time: 20:45

SINGLE PLAY
Gerard Pape: Ascension au Purgatoire
a. 6:10
b. 1:42
c. 5:13
d. 1:11
e. 3:55
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
(for percussion and computer); percussion: Roland Auzet; Stochos computer program programming: Sinan Bokesoy; CCMIX assistant: Stefan Tiedje; recorded live in Paris at the Rencontres Festival of CCMIX; composition year: 2004; total time: 18:25

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