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Martian Gardens Episode 1200
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 28, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
George Crumb: Drummers of the Apocalypse
Kronos-Kryptos, Movement III|
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 21
Bridge Records/2024
(for percussion quintet); Curtis Institute of Music Ensemble (percussion: Yoonseo Kang, Tae McLoughlin, Andrew Malonis, Hamza Able, Griffin Harris); recorded at Gould Rehearsal Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, March 26, 2022; composition year: 2020; selection time: 2:37

George Crumb: Seven Trumpets of the Apocalypse
Star-Child , Movement V
A Parable for Soprano, Antiphonal Children’s Voices,
Male Speaking Choir, Bell Ringers, and Large Orchestra
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 3
70th Birthday Album
Bridge Records/1999
Star Child — soprano: Susan Narucki; solo trombone: Joseph Alessi; Warsaw Boys’ Choir; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; bell ringers: George Crumb, Paul Cesarczyk; conductor: Thomas Conlin; recorded at Philharmonic Hall, Warsaw, summer 1999; composition year: 1999; selection time: 2:06

George Crumb: Perilous Night (Jasper Johns)
Metamorphoses, Book I/Five Pieces for Piano
Ten Fantasy-Pieces (after celebrated paintings) for amplified piano
Mode Records/2021
piano: Marcantonio Barone; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, October 2019; composition years: 2015-2017; selection time: 3:01

George Crumb: Makrokosmos Volume I, Part 1
a. Primeval Sounds (Genesis I) (4:07)
b. Proteus (1:16)
c. Pastorale (from the Kingdom of Atlantis c. 10,000 B.C.) (1:56)
d. Crucifixus (Symbol) (2:55)
Makrokosmos I & II
24 Pieces After the Zodiac for Amplified Piano
Mode Records/2004
amplified piano: Margaret Leng Tan; recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, July 2003; total selections time: 9:34

SET TWO
Eunmi Ko: Cave Paintings of Discourse (B. D. Whiting)
Eunmi Ko + CAMP — 12 Views on Life
Neuma Records/2024
piano, kitchen appliances, utensils, and SPAM: Eunmi Ko; recorded at the CAMPground, Tampa, Florida; composer: Benjamin D. Whiting; composition year: 2020; time: 8:15

Robert Scott Thompson: Time Crystal (Crystalline Mix)
Time Crystal
Aucourant Records/2024
electronic music: RST; recorded at the composer’s studio, Roswell, Georgia; time: 3:58

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Gross: Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Nine Instruments
Penumbra — New Works by Robert Gross
New Focus Recordings/2023
tenor saxophone: Drew Hosler; flute: Laura Volenik; oboe: Shawn Reynolds: clarinet: Becky DeLorenzo; bassoon: Reid Young; horn: Laura Makara; violin: David Mendieta; violin: Sarah Husak; viola: Cibel Mendez; cello: Ellie Glorioso; conductor: Matthew Salvaggio; recorded at Bad Racket Studios, Cleveland, Ohio, June 4, 2023; composition year; 2022; time: 17:19

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Saunders Smith: Ground
a. 1:28
b. 1:59
c. 1:57
d. 1:43
e. 2:52
f. 1:35
g. 2:31
Percussion Sampler (various composers)
11 West Records/2023
glockenspiel: Rob Falvo; composition year: 2011; time: 16:15

In memory of Stuart Saunders Smith (March 16, 1948 — June 3, 2024)

SET THREE
Annie Gosfield: Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Flying Sparks and Heavy Machinery
Tzadik/2001
(for string quartet and percussion quartet); FLUX Quartet (violins: Tom Chiu, Cornelius Dufalo, viola: Kenji Bunch, cello: Darrett Adkins); Talujon Percussion Quartet (Michael Lipsey, Dominic Donato, Tom Kolor, Jim Pugliese); recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, 2001; composition year: 2000; time: 14:38

Christine Groult: Etincelles
Etincelles
Motus/2006
electroacoustic music: Christine Groult; composition year: 2005; time: 15:03

SINGLE PLAY
Gregory Whitehead: As We Know
Deep Wireless 2 — Radio Arts Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
voice, electronics: Gregory Whitehead; recorded live at the Deep Wireless Festival, 2004; time: 2:25

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Gustavo Matamoros: Portrait: Bob Gregory
The Aerial #5 (various artists)
Nonsequitur/1992 DISCOGS
electronic music: Gustavo Matamoros; text and voice: Bob Gregory, Bebop in the Forest of Lonely Rhythms; composition year: 1991; time: 10:00

Rick Cox: Taken from Real Life
The Complete 10-Inch Series from Cold Blue (various artists)
Cold Blue Music/2003
prepared electric guitar, voice, text: Rick Cox; clarinet: Marty Walker; recorded at College Street Studio, Redlands, California, March 28-31, 1981; time: 10:03

SET FIVE
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: 6:00 (9:25-15:25 of 30:00)

Ingrid Drese: Horlage à feu
a. Source (intérieur/points) (2:11)
b. Danse 1 (1:38)
c. Ligne/points (1:42)
d. Points (1:05)
e. Envol 1 (1:43)
f. Danse 2 (1:44)
g. Envol 2 (0:48)
h. Étirement/extérieur (1:01)
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
(for 8-channel fixed medium); realized at the studio of GMEM, Marseille, and Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherche, Ohain, Belgium, 1998; premiered at the Prix supérieur concert at the Conservatoire royal de Mons, Belgium; total time: 11:52

SINGLE PLAY
David Hicks: Seven Sequences (selections)
II. 5:59
V. 1:51
Open Space 53 — Pepples/Hicks
Open Space/2022
computer music: David Hicks; composition years: 1990s; total selections time: 8:50

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