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Martian Gardens Episode 1202
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 18, 2024
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Hour 1

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O’Connor and Kampmeier: All Sensation is Already Memory (E. Moe)
I. The Ungraspable Advance of the Past (7:17)
II. Devouring the Future (3:13)
The Way Things Go
Bridge Records/2015
flute: Tara Helen O’Connor; piano: Margaret Kampmeier; recorded at New Rochelle Studios, 2013; composer: Eric Moe; composition year: 2006; total time: 10:49

SET ONE
Joshua Fineberg: Broken Symmetries
Empreintes, Veils, and Shards
Mode Records/2009
Ensemble Fa; (performing members: flute: Patrice Bocquillon; cello: Frédéric Baldassare; clarinets: Olivier Voize; French horn: Pierre Beaumois; violin: Helen Sibley; conductor: Dominique My); recorded at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique), May 23, 2005; composition years: 2000-2001; time: 14:46

Richard Cameron-Wolfe: Passionate Geometries
Passionate Geometries
New Focus Recordings/2024
soprano: Nina Berman; flutes: Roberta Michel; guitar: Dan Lippel; cello: Caleb van der Swaagh; text: Richard Cameran-Wolfe; recorded at Dreamflower Studio, Bronxville, New York, January 2023; composition years: 2019; time: 8:51

SET TWO
David Rosenboom: Given the Senses the Real Pregeometry
Zones of Influence, Part III
Zones of Influence
Pogus Productions/2014
electronics: David Rosenboom; percussion: William Winant; recorded at the Dizzy Gillespie Digital Recording Complex, California Institute of the Arts, and the composer’s studio, Valencia, California, composition years: 1984, 1985; revised for this recording 2013; time: 8:36

Tom Hamilton: Modhera
Pieces for Kohn/Formal and Informal Music
Kvist Records/2010
keyboards, synthesizer, custom electronics: Tom Hamilton; drums, percussion, bells, cymbals: Rich O’Donnell; flute, clarinet: JD Parran; recorded at Washington University, St. Louis, 1975; time: 7:56

Hour 2

SET THREE
Robert Carl: Night Garden
Infinity Avenue
Neuma Records/2024
(for five contrabasses); Robert Black with Large Furniture: Greg Chudzik, Tristen Kasten-Krause, Ken Rescsanski, Evan Runyon; recorded at Hartt Recording Studio, University of Hartford, November 6, 2021; composition years: 2013-2014; time: 12:18

John Luther Adams: Triadic Waves
Waves and Particles
Cold Blue Music/2024
The JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman; viola: John Richards; cello: Jay Campbell); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, June 2, 2023; composition year: 2021; time: 5:25

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Carrie Rose: Family Portraits: Embden Pond (S.S. Smith)
Book of Flutes (various composers)
11 West Records/2008
(for flute and two vibraphones); alto flute: Carrie Rose; vibraphones: Sylvia Smith, Ayano Kataoka; composer: Stuart Saunders Smith; composition year: 2003; time: 13:55

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

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The Bifurcators: Light on a Wall
Part 1 — Light (8:00)
Part 2 — Dark (8:00)
Gang of 2
Artifact Recordings/1995
electric guitar: Scott Fraser; computer-controlled synthesizers, signal processing, MIDI performance controls; electronic cello: Doug Carroll; computer-driven synthesizer: Tim Perkis; recorded at Paul Dresher’s studio, Berkeley; mixed at Scott Fraser’s studio, Los Angeles; composition year: 1994; total time: 16:00

Hour 3

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David Hicks: Fractal Logic: After Compositions VIII*
Open Space 53 (Pepples/Hicks)
Open Space/2023
MIDI piano: David Hicks; composition year: 2019; time: 12:47
*Kandinsky, Composition VIII (oil on canvas, 1923)

SET FOUR
David Tudor: Bandoneon! (A Combine)*
The Art of David Tudor 1963–1992 [boxed set]
New World Records/2013
live electronics (sound source: bandoneon): David Tudor; recorded at 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, 69th Regiment Armory, New York City, October 1966; time: 14:15
*excerpt from a concert-length work

Emma Margetson: Cimbaal
Contemplations
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for stereo fixed medium; sound source: suspended cymbal); recorded at the Electroacoustic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 2015; premiered at BEASTdome – Emergence, The Dome, Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham; time: 7:02

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Eli Stine: Where Water Meets Memory
I. The Bay (of Trains and Shorebirds)
II. The Reef (of Predator and Prey)
III. The Ocean (The Lull of Sirens)
IV. The Deep (Beneath the Rain)
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 32 (various artists)
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S.
New Focus Recordings/2023
electroacoustic music: Eli Stine (includes performances of violin: David Bowlin; cello: Kevin William Davis; soprano: Kate Copeland); I. with solo violin; II. with cello, piano, glockenspiel; III. with soprano soloists, choir; IV. with string quartet, orchestra; composition year: 2021; time: 10:58

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