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Martian Gardens Episode 1185
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
February 18, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Tessa Brinckman: Sonus Redux — And the Waves Rolled Back
Take Wing, Roll Back
New Focus Recordings/2024
multiple baroque flutes, prepared piano: Tessa Brinckman; Buchla synthesizser: Todd Barton; recorded at BrokenWorks studio, Portland, Oregon, 2021; composition year: 2020; time: 8:47

Anna Rubin: Stolen Gold
Electric Music (Rubin/Hollander)
Capstone Records/2004
(for amplified baroque oboe, live electronics, digital audio); baroque oboe: Debra Nagy; recorded at Kulas Hall, Oberlin College, May 12, 2001; composition year: 1991, revised 2000; time: 5:33

Elaine R. Barkin: Ars Nova Motet & Ars Subtilior Ballades*
a. Philippe de Vitry: Vos pastores (1291-1361) (3:52)
b. Baude Cordier (1380-1440) and Jacob de Senleches (fl. 1382-1395) (3:48)
Open Space 34 — Elaine R. Barkin
Open Space/2019
(MIDI orchestrations); a. oboe, voice, Balinese pemade, suwir, gong kajar, jegog, percussion, cello, harp; b. descant recorder, violin, cor anglais, triangle, maracas, voice, vibraphone, French horn, banjo, electric bass, harp, cello, contrabass; composition year: 2008; total time: 8:00
*dedicated to Kenneth Jay Levy

SET TWO
Kamala Sankaram: selections from Crescent
a. Heat Map: 2000-2009 (1:43)
b. Polyethylene (3:32)
c. The Memory of Birds (4:48)
Crescent
Neuma Records/2024
voice, electronics, field recordings, composition: Kamala Sankaram; percussion (tabla, bombo legüero, found objects): Brian Shankar Adler; voice: Drew Fleming; recorded at Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Hall, New York City, 2021-2022; time: 10:03

Ron Nagorcka: Grey Currawong, Dusky Woodswallow (Magpie Lark)*
Atom Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
fretless electric guitar, mandolin: Larry Polansky; trombone; Joe Cook; flute, piccolo: Jennie McDonald; clarinet, bass clarinet: Karlin Love; MIDI keyboard, didgiridoo: Ron Nagorcka; conductor: Marta Mumford; composition year: 2012; time: 4:05
from the Artamidae Suite — A suite celebrating a family of Australian songbirds

SET THREE
Joshua Burel: Voyage
I. Pinging; Searching (3:08)
II. Hurtling Through Space (2:17)
III. Into the Unknown (3:02)
Convergence (various composers)
Music & Cultural Legacy
Blue Griffin/2023
Elicio Winds (flute: Virginia Broffitt Kunzer; oboe: Kathleen Carter Bell; bassoon: Conor Bell); recorded at Hinton Hall, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, May 8-10, 2023; composer: Joshua Burel; composition year: 2021; time: 8:37

Tom Hamilton and Bruce Eisenbeil: Mars Fell on Alabama
Shadow Machine
Pogus Productions/2009
Nord modoular synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; guitar: Bruce Eisenbeil; time: 4:09

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Luis Tabuenca: Twittering Machine
Naturstudium
Mode Records/2023
homemade percussion instruments: Luis Tabuenca; recorded at the Phonos Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, 2018; time: 5:28

Elizabeth McNutt: The Twittering Machine (A. May)
Pipe Wrench — Flute + Computer (various composers)
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flute: Elizabeth McNutt; composer, computer program: Andrew May; composition year: 1995; recorded at SUNY Buffalo; time: 7:04

Roger Reynolds: selections from Symphony [Myths]/Symphony [Vertigo]
a. Intermezzo (Myths, mvt. 2) (3:20)
b. Drammatico (Vertigo, mvt. I) (7:50)
Whispers Out of Time — Symphonies
Works for Orchestra
Mode Records/2007
a. Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Kotaro Sato; recorded at Suntory Hall, Tokyo, October 25, 1990; composition year: 1990; b. La Jolla Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Harvey Sollberger; recorded at Mandeville Center for the Arts, University of California San Diego, March 15-16, 2003; composition year: 1987; total selections time: 11:10

SET FIVE
Will Ogdon: Three Statements
I. The Last Invocation (Walt Whitman) [2:10)]
II. Madrigal (Thomas Campion) [1:21]
III. A Clear Midnight (Walt Whitman) [2:00]
We, Like Salangan Swallows… (various artists)
A Choral Gallery of Morton Feldman and his Contemporaries
New World Records/2018
(for six-part choir); The Astra Choir, conductor: John McCaughey; recorded at the Carmelite Church, Middle Park, Melbourne, Australia, April 26, 2017; I & III “Leaves of Grass” (Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1881-1882); II. Campion, “Oft have I sigh’d for him that hears me not” [The Third Book of Ayres; c. 1618] ; composition year: 1956; total time: 5:31

Will Ogdon: A Sylvan Suite for Xylophone (for Sylvia Smith)
a. Adagio
b. Allegretto
c. Lento
d. Allegretto
Percussion Sampler (various artists)
11 West Records/2023
xylophone: Justin DeHart; composition year: 2002; time: 10:07

SET SIX
James Rolfe: Sticky
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba (various artists)
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: Beverly Johnson; recorded at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, St. Lawrence University Conservatory, Appleton, Wisconsin, July 3, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 4:42

Steven Stucky: Dust Devil
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba (various artists)
Bridge Records/2009
marimba: William Moersch; recorded at the Zeltsman Marimba Festival 2009, St. Lawrence University Conservatory, Appleton, Wisconsin, July 3, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 2:53

Hour 3

SET SEVEN
Osnat Netzer: I won’t be outrun by a cavalry of snails
Dot: Line: Sigh
New Focus Recordings/2024
Ensemble Dal Niente (soprano: Carrie Henneman Shaw, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett; flutes: Emma Hospelhorn; clarinets: Katherine Schoepfin; piano: Winston Choi; violin: Hanna Hurwitz; viola: Ammie Brod; cello: Juan Horie), conductor: Michael Lewanski; recorded at Nichols Concert Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, Illinois, June 14, 2021; composition year: 2021; time: 11:22

Michael Matthews: In Emptiness, Over Emptiness
CDCM Computer Music Series, Volume 25 (various artists)
The International Computer Music Association Commission Awards 1994-1996
Centaur Records/1997
(for soprano and computer music on tape); soprano: Therese Costes; texts: Patrick Friesen, Tekkan Yosano, Ted Hughes; recorded at St. John’s College Chapel, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, January 1997; composition year: 1994; time: 12:08

SET EIGHT
Dominique Bassal: Broto et sa z’complice
Poupées Mathématiques
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
(for 7.1-channel fixed medium); electroacoustic music realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2013; premiered at Electrochoc 3 concert, Conservatory of Montreal;, December 5, 2013; time: 12:40

Livebatts: Adventures in Outer Space
Livebatts!
ANTS Records/2018
battery-driven keyboards, toys: John White; battery-driven keyboards, vocals: M.J. Coldiron; electric guitar, samples: Andrea Rocca; electrified flute: Nancy Ruffer; recorded at Baby Microbe Studio, 1990s, remastered 2018; time: 4:56

The Hub: Hot Pig
Boundary Layer
Tzadik/2008
computer network musicians: Chris Brown, Mark Bischoff, Mark Trayle, Phil Stone, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Tim Perkis; Hot Pig composers: Chris Brown, Mark Trayle, Tim Perkis; Boundary Layer CD 1 — Pulling recorded between 1986-1988; time: 4:49

Frank Zappa: Hot Poop
We’re Only In It for the Money/Lumpy Gravy
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
Rykodisc/1994 (orig. Verve/1968)
tape mixing: Frank Zappa; recorded 1967; time: 0:28

R. Weis: Swamp Thing
The Reaper & Me
R. Weis/2024
(for fixed media, The Reaper and Me sound sources: Andean flute, bells, harmonica, aluminum takeout container, table knife, wooden Olifant, Chokwe xylophone, rattles, 3-string Bamana guitar, thumb piano); music created in New York City, mid 1990s; mixed at the Argot Network, New York City; mastered at Campisi and Mr. Smalls studios, Pittsburgh; Swamp Thing time: 3:19

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