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Martian Gardens Episode 1189
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
March 24, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Saunders Smith: Palm Sunday (selections)
I. 7:46
II. 3:58
Palm Sunday
New World Records/2019
piano: Kyle Adam Blair; recorded at the Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, May 16-17, 2016; composition year: 2012; total time: 11:44

SET ONE
Joseph Benzola: Juju
Odds and Sods 2020-2024
Amanita Music/2024
percussion: Joseph Benzola; time: 5:56

Jin Hi Kim & Gerry Hemingway: Quick Step
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; percussion, drums: Gerry Hemingway; recorded Shutesbury, Massachusetts, August 18, 2010; time: 3:09

Gerry Hemingway: The Creeks Do Rise
Afterlife
Auricle Records/2022
vocal, drums, sampler: Gerry Hemingway; synthesizer: Earl Howard; guitars: Manuel Troller; time: 3:26

Earl Howard: Improvisation
Clepton
New World Records/2007
synthesizer, live processing: Earl Howard; piano: Georg Graewe; cello: Ernst Reijseger; drums: Gerry Hemingway; recorded at Sporthalle der Gewerblichen Schulen, Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006, October 21, 2006; time: 6:02

SET TWO
The Bifurcators: The Rose Window
Gang of Two
Live recordings of ensemble works for instruments, computers, and other electronics
Artifact Recordings/1995
computer-controlled synthesizers, sampler, pre-recorded sounds, MIDI performance controls, signal processing, electronic noise-makers, radios: Philip Perkins; electric and electronic guitars: Scott Fraser; recorded in San Francisco; time: 12:00

Mendi + Keith Obadike: Rodeo Red
Mendi + Keith Obadike present
Crosstalk: American Speech Music (various artists)
Bridge Records/2008
vocals: Mendi Obadike; synthesizers, treatments, guitar, bass, drums, ubo aka (thumb piano): Keith Obadike; time: 3:08

SINGLE PLAY
DJ Spooky, feat. Ursula Rucker: Being Black
Mendi + Keith Obadike present
Crosstalk: American Speech Music (various artists)
Bridge Records/2008
sounds: Paul Miller; voice: Ursula Rucker; time: 1:13

Hour 2

SET THREE
Ewart – Asplund – Ricks Trio: Water Song
Emphatic Now
Neuma Records/2024
woodwinds, didgeridoo, percussion, voice, texts: Douglas R. Ewart; viola and piano: Christian Asplund; trombone and electronics: Steven Ricks; recorded at Madsen Recital Hall, Provo, Utah, October 14, 2022; time: 12:58

Chaya Czernowin: The Memory of Water
MAIM [Water]
Mode Records/2010
saxophone, tubax: Rico Gubler; piano, harpsichord: John Mark Harris; guitars: Seth Josel; viola: Mary Oliver; musette, oboe, English horn: Peter Veale; live electronics: Experimental Studio of Rado SWR; orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conductor: Johannes Kaltitzke; recorded at the MaerzMuzik Festival of Contemporary Music by Berliner Festspiele, Konzerthaus Berlin, March 17, 2007; composition years: 2002-2006; time: 8:32

SET FOUR
Kyle Bruckmann: Proximity, Affect
Of Rivers
Acoustic and electroacoustic works for oboe/English Horn
New Focus Recordings/2024
deconstructed oboe, electronics: Kyle Bruckmann; recorded at CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies), University of California Berkeley, November 2020; composition year: 2020; time: 13:25

Joseph Celli: Spiral (K. Stockhausen)
Organic Oboe
O.O. Discs/1991 (orig. LP/1978)
(for shortwave radio, amplification system, and soloist); oboe, English horn, electric English horn, voice, kazoo, wah-wah peddle, etc: Joseph Celli; composer: Karlheinz Stockhausen; composition year: 1968; time: 9:15

SET FIVE
Artur Avanesov: Wondrous It Is…
Serenade with a Dandelion (various artists)
Modulation Necklace Series, Volumes 2-5
Armenian chamber music, old and new
New Focus Recordings/2024
VEM Ensemble (violin: Ela Kodžas; viola: Damon Zavala; cello: Niall Tarō Ferguson); recorded at the Ostin Music Center, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles, May 28, 2023; composition year: 2023; time: 4:36

Phil Kline: Wondrous Love
John the Revelator — A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
Lionheart vocal group; Ethel string quartet; recorded at the Church of St. Luke’s in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August 2007; music, lyrics: traditional, arr. Kline; time: 2:42

Hour 3

SET SIX
Manuel Zurria: Aurea 1 (S. Pilla)
Fame di Vento (various composers)
ANTS Records/2023
flutes, bells, and bottles: Manuel Zurria;  Fame di Vento recorded at BigCardo, Rome and Catania, Italy, 2020-2023; composer: Stefano Pilia; arr. Zurria; composition year: 2020; time: 5:33

Robert Scott Thompson & Erdem Helvacioǧlu: Lumen Oscura
From a Language of Light*
Aucourant Records/2024
keyboards, cello: RST; guitar: Erdem Helvacioǧlu; percussion: Stuart Gerber; time: 5:04
*forthcoming

SET SEVEN
Emma Margetson: Abstracted Objects
Contemplations
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for 8-channel fixed medium, sound sources: coins, foil, metal pan, cellophane, bubblewrap, and other noises); composed at the Electroacoustic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK; premiered BEAST FEaST 2019: Concert 5, Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham; composition year: 2019; time: 8:30

David Mahler: Rising Ground
The Voice of the Poet — Works on Tape 1973-1986
Artifact Recordings/1997
electroacoustic music on tape (sound sources: spinning objects — coins, washers, aluminum hoop, Chinese yo-yo); composition years: 1979-1980; time: 10:03

SET EIGHT
David Hicks: Seven Sequences (selections)
III. 2:44
IV. 3:07
V. 1:51
VII. 1:32
Open Space 53 — Pepples/Hicks
Open Space/2022
computer music: David Hicks; composition years: 1990s; total selections time: 9:29

Iannis Xenakis: Mélanges (Pléïades, Mvt. I)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
(for percussion sextet); ensemble red fish blue fish, director: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego; composition year: 1978; time: 8:52

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