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Martian Gardens Episode 1199
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 20, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Yi-Ting Lu: Sewing in Thin Air
An Unopened Seashell
New Focus Recordings/2024
guitar: Daniel Lippel; recorded at Oktaven Audio, 2023; composition years: 2022-2023; time: 9:22

SET ONE
Christopher Cerrone: Beaufort Scales (selections)
a. Interlude 3: Anne Carson (3:26)
b. Steps 7, 8, & 9: Sea Heaps Up/Waves of Greater Length/High Waves (5:27)
c. Interlude 4: Herman Melville (2:11)
Beaufort Scales
Cold Blue Music/2024
(for vocal octet, electronics, and visual projection); voices: Lorelei Ensemble; texts: a. Anne Carson, Plainwater; b. Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort; c. Herman Melville, Moby Dick; recorded at Dimension Sound, Boston, November 5-6, 2023; composition year: 2022; selections time: 11:02
In Memoriam Ingram Marshall

Ingram Marshall: Alcatraz (selections)
a. Inside (2:57)
b. Rules and Regulations (3:03)
c. Cell Doors (2:51)
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1994
electronic music: Ingram Marshall; composition years: early 1980s; selections time: 8:51

SET TWO
Annie Gosfield: Daughters of the Industrial Revolution
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik/2012
sampling keyboard: Annie Gosfield; electric guitar: Roger Kleier; cello: Felix Fan; drums, percussion: Ches Smith; percussion: Alex Lipowski; recorded at The Kitchen, New York City, 2011; composition years: 2011; time: 5:35

Christine Groult: Pierres cantabiles
La Condition Captive
Trace Label/2007
electroacoustic music: Christine Groult; Le Chazel, Paris; composition year: 2004; time: 9:54

R. Weis: Legs of Helix
Glass In Your Ear
R. Weis/2019
electroacoustic music (sound sources: broken glass, broken crockery), Machfive Sampling Software and Digital Performer: Robert Weis; recorded at the composer’s studio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; time: 4:26

Hour 2

SET THREE
Richard Carr: August Light (selections)
a. Fission (4:02)
b. Vik (4:58)
August Light
Neuma Records/2024
violin, piano, electronics: Richard Carr; violin, violin, electronics: Caleb Burhans; cello, electronics: Clarice Jensen; bass, electronics: Carrtoons; recorded at Dreamland Studios, Hurley, New York, August 2022; selections time: 9:00

Sarah Hennies: Clock Dies (excerpt)
The Motor Tapes
New World Records/2024
Talea Ensemble (flute: Barry R. Crawford; clarinet: Marianne Gythfeldt; piano: Stephen Gosling; percussion: Alex Lipowski, Matthew Gold; violin: Karen Kim; viola: Hannah Levinson; cello: Chris Gross), conductor: James Baker; composition year: 2021; excerpt time: 10:00 (00:00-10:00 of 30:00)

SET FOUR
Morton Feldman: Sonatina
I. Allegro (3:33)
II. Larghetto cantabile e tranquillo (3:51)
III. Allegro graziozo (2:09)
Complete Music for Cello & 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: 8:23
*Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Percussia: envelope(s) (S. Knable)
Plucked & Struck (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
Celtic harp: Susan Jolles; Orff xylophone, small percussion: Ingrid Gordon; recorded at Bridge Studios, Brooklyn, New York, summer 2022; composer: Sunny Knable; composition year: 2020; time: 6:03

SET FIVE
Tim Patterson: Five Miniatures (J. Bergamo)
1. 0:45
2. 0:21
3. 0:26
4. 0:18
5. 0:46
Like Style, Dig?
The Music of John Bergamo
Innova Recordings/2015
(for percussion quartet); percussion: Tim Patterson, Tom Ross, Joseph Murfin, Jack Alcorn; recorded at Blast House Studios, Madison, Wisconsin; composer: John Bergamo; arr. Tim Patterson; composition year: 1966; total time: 2:31

John Luther Adams: Strange and Sacred Noise (selections)
a. Clusters on a Quadrilateral Grid 2 (4:36)
b. Clusters on a Quadrilateral Grid 3 (4:31)
Strange and Sacred Noise
Mode Records/2005
(a. for four vibraphones; b. for four sets of crotales and orchestra bells); Percussion Group Cincinnati (Allan Otte, James Culley, Russell Burge, Stuart Gerber, Matt McClung, Brady Harrison); recorded at Patricia Corbett Theater, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 12-15, 1998; composition year: 1997; time: 4:36

Hour 3

SET SIX
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 (20:00 — 30:00 of 47:59)

Tom Hamilton: Crimson Sterling, Mvt.I
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009 DISCOGS
ARP 2500 synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; tubalum, kotoveen, aqua-lips, sprahng, Chinese cymbal, tom-toms, timpani, Roto-toms: Rich O’Donnell; alto flute, alto clarinet, alto saxophone, nagaswaram: J.D. Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1978-1980; time: 8:57

SET SEVEN
Gilles Gobeil: Projet Proust
…dans le silence de la nuit…
empreintes DIGITALes/1995
(stereo fixed medium); narration: Marc Béland; text: Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way; realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal; premiered aon Le son électrisé, Radio-Canada, December 23, 1995; time: 13:00

Mary Lee Roberts: Madeleines
I. (0:45)
II. (3:55)
III. (0:46)
IV. (1:00)
V. (0:37)
Open Space 9
Mary Lee Roberts
Open Space/1997
computer-generated music; recorded at New York University, 1997; total time: 7:03

SET EIGHT
Laurie Anderson: Finnish Farmers
United States Live
Warner Bros./1984 DISCOGS
spoken word, text, electric violin, synthesizers: Laurie Anderson; saxophone: Bill Obrecht; percussion: David Van Tieghem; United States Live recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, February 7-10, 1983; time: 4:38 (sans applause)

Guy Barash: Pied Piper
Killdeer
New Focus Recordings/2023
electronics: Guy Barash; spoken word, text: Nick Flynn; trumpet: Frank London; guitar: Eyal Maoz; piano: Kathleen Supové; recorded at Dubway Studios, New York City, May 10, 2022; time: 4:58

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