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Martian Gardens Episode 1195
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
May 16, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Paolo Marchettini: Preludio e Corrente
I. Preludio (2:30)
II. Corrente (4:48)
Ebony Chants
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for clarinet quartet); clarinets: Meng Zheng, Paolo Marchettini, Ka Hei Chan; bass clarinet: Tommy Shermulis; recorded at Myers Recording Studio, New York City; composition year: 2009; time: 7:18

Johanna Beyer: Suite for Bass Clarinet and Piano
I. Rubato (4:20)
II. Lento (5:33)
III. Allegretto (4:47)
Music for Woodwinds
New World Records/2022
members of the Arizona Wind Quintet (bass clarinet: Marissa Olegario; piano: Daniel Linder); Music for Woodwinds recorded at recorded at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, Haskell Recording Studio, Tucson, Arizona, 2020-2021; Suite composition year: C. 1936; time: 14:40

SET TWO
Ursula Mamlok: Movements
I. With Plasticity (1:52)
II. Veiled (3:41)
III. Exuberant (3:17)
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 4
Bridge Records/2013
Ensemble musicFabrik (flute: Helen Bledsoe; bass: Michael Tiepold; vibraphone: Achim Seyler; percussion: Thomas Meixner; recorded in Koln, Germany, autumn 2010; composition year: 1966; total time: 8:51

Manuel Zurria: Ciculata Melodia (G. Battistelli)
Fame di Vento (various composers)
ANTS Records/2023
flutes, temple bells: Manuel Zurria; Fame di Vento recorded at BigCardo, Rome and Catania, Italy, 2020-2023; composer: Giorgio Battistelli (for mixed choir and bells); arr. Zurria; composition year: 2008; time: 4:23

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

Elicio Winds: The Ewells & Atticus Finch (Great Horned Owl & Bald Eagle)* (T. Hagen)
Convergence (various composers)
Musical & Cultural Legacy
Blue Griffin/2023
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: Timothy Hagen; selection time:
*from Birds of Maycomb

Hour 2

SET THREE
Wadada Leo Smith/Benjamin Boretz: Inside Track (excerpt)
Inside Track
Open Space/2024
trumpet, flute: Wadada Leo Smith; piano: Benjamin Boretz; recorded at Brook House, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, September 5, 1988; excerpt time: 10:00 (00:00 — 10:00 of 47:59)

Wadada Leo Smith/Louis Moholo-Moholo: Moholo-Moholo/Golden Spirit
Ancestors
TUM Records/2012
trumpet, percussion: Wadada Leo Smith; drums, percussion, voice: Louis Moholo-Moholo; recorded at Master Recordings, Espoo, Finland, February 6, 2011; time: 8:55

SET FOUR
Christopher Cerrone: Beaufort Scales (selections)
a. Prelude: Sea Like a Mirror (3:27)
b. Step 1: Ripples with Scales (2:37)
c. Interlude I: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1:24)
Beaufort Scales
Cold Blue Music/2024
(for vocal octet, electronics, and visual projection); voices: Lorelei Ensemble; texts: a., b. Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort; c. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; recorded at Dimension Sound, Boston, November 5-6, 2023; composition year: 2022; selections time: 7:28

Sorrel Hays: Water Bug (from Dreaming the World)
Dreaming the World
New World Records/1996
(for baritone, piano, percussion, and voices);  baritone: Thomas Buckner; piano: Joseph Kubera; Essential Music (percussion, button-on-string instruments, Tibetan singing bowls: John Kennedy, Charles Wood, Maya Gunji, Eric Kivnick, Jai Smith); chorus: Sal Basile, Jennifer Lopez, John Schaffer, Sorrel Hays); text: Yuma Deer Dance; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City; composition year: 1994; selection time: 11:04

Katharina Rosenberger: Tempi Agitati (selections)
a. Recitativo 1: Oggi, spinto dal solo desiderio… (1:01)
b. Recitativo 2: Un compagno di vaggio (1:43)
Tempi Agitati
Mode Records/2022
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart (high soprano: Johanna Zimmer; soprano: Susanne Leitz-Lorey; mezzo soprano: Truike van der Poel; tenor: Martin Nagy; baritone: Guillermo Anzorena; bass: Andreas Fischer); recorded at Stadtkirche Böblingen, Stuttgart, Germany, October 2016; texts: Francesco Petrarca: Familiaris IV; e. Giovanni della Casa: O Sonno; original sonnet settings: Adrian Willaert, Cipriano de Rore; contemporary arrangements, composition: Katharina Rosenberger; composition year: 2016; total selections time: 2:44

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Two Pieces
I. Allegro (0:28)
II. Intermezzo (1:09)
Complete Music for Cello and Piano
Mode Records/2024
cello: Stephen Morotto; piano: Marilyn Nonken; recorded at the Concert Hall of EMPAC*, Troy, New York, December 2018; composition year: 1947; total time: 1:37
*Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Carl: The Inevitable Wave (B)
Infinity Avenue
Neuma Records/2024
(for percussion octet and fixed media); Crane Percussion Ensemble, conductor: James Petercsak; recorded at SUNY Potsdam, October 29, 2014; composition years: 2011-2012; time: 16:01

SET FIVE
Robert Voisey: Mission: Mars
BC Sound Serum (various artists)
Electro-Acoustic Music Club/2004
electronics, voices: Robert Voisey; recorded at the Brooklyn College Electronic Music Studio; composition year: 2003; time: 4:24

Dominique Bassal: Conséquences des gaz à effet de serre*
Poupées Mathématiques
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
(for 7.1-channel fixed medium); electroacoustic music realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2012; premiered at Elektramusic, Musee d’art moderne et contemporain, Strousbourg, France, October 25, 2012; time: 13:37
*The consequences of greenhouse gases

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Normandeau: Le renard et la rose*
a. Babillage et rythme (Babbling and Rhythm) (4:02)
b. Nostalgie et timbre (Nostalgia and Tone) (2:39)
c. Colere et dynamique (Anger and Dynamics) (2:49)
d. Lassitude et espace (Weariness and Space) (2:04)
e. Serenite et texture (Serenity and Texture) (3:20)
Sonic Circuits V (various artists)
Innova Recordings/1997
(stereo fixed medium, sound source: music and voices for The Little Prince radio play, Radio-Canada, 1994); recorded at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 1995; premiered at ICMC 1995: Concert, Margaret Greenham Theatre, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, September 6, 1995; total time: 14:55
*The Fox and the Rose, also released on Robert Normandeau’s Figures album

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