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Martian Gardens Episode 1204
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 5, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Haskell Small: A Journey in Silence
Reflections on the Book of Hours (1st 1/2)
a. Introduction (3:17)
b. Vigils (5:27)
c. Lauds (1:10)
d. Prime (1:51)
e. Terce (0:38)
f. Walk to Cavalry (1:50)
Book of Hours
MSR Classics/2016
piano: Haskell Small; recorded at the Westmoreland United Church of Christ, Bethesda, Maryland, November 11, 2015; composition year: 2015; total selections time: 13:36

SET ONE
Lydia Kakabadse: Thirty Steps (Steps 1-7)
Scene 1. Renunciation of the World
a. Step 1 (2:15)
b. Step 2 (1:13)
c. Step 3 (1:36)
d. Step 4 (3:01)
Scene 2. Penitence
e. Step 5 (1:05)
f. Step 6 (2:06)
g. Step 7 (2:17)
Kefi
Choral & Chamber Works
Divine Art Recordings Group/2024
The Choir of Royal Holloway (soloists — tenor: James Gooding, Step 1; alto: Phoebe Wakefield, Step 2; tenor: Joseph Morris, Step 7); harp: Cecily Beer; flute: Mary Bull; percussion: Tom Wagner; text: St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent; composition year: 2020; total selections time: 13:38

Stacy Garrop: Terra Nostra, Part I (selections)
Part I: Creation of the World
a. In the Beginning (8:16)
b. God’s World (3:56)
Terra Nostra
Oratorio by Stacy Garrop
Çedille Records/2024
soloists: soprano: Michelle Areyzaga; mezzo-soprano: Leah Dexter; tenor: Jesse Donner; baritone: David Govertsen;; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra Chorale & Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Uniting Voices youth choir, conductor: Stephen Alltop; libretto: Stacy Garrop (a. Genesis 1-3, King James Bible; Egyptian creation myth; b. Edna St. Vincent Millay; Percy Bysshe Shelley); recorded at PIck-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois, February 6 and 8, 2023; composition year: 2015; total selections time: 12:11

Hour 2

SET TWO
Hans Fjellestad: Free Throw Prophet
Red Sauce Baby
Accretions/2001
woodwinds: Jason Robinson, Ellen Weller; church organ: Hans Fjellestad; percussion: Marcos Fernandes, Kristen Cheadle; bagpipes (“Scotland the Brave,” 1844): “The Wizard”; basketball game recorded at the Zion Building, San Diego, 1999; time: 10:16

Charles Amirkhanian: Gold and Spirit
Walking Tune
Starkland/1997
sports noises, electronics, chants, voices: Charles Amirkhaninan, written for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics; time: 10:15

SET THREE
Harry Partch: Ten Li Po Lyrics (selections)
a. A Dream (4:33)
b. An Encounter in the Field (0:48)
Enclosure Two — Harry Partch
Innova Recordings/1995
(for voice and adapted viola); voice — speaking on tones: Harry Partch; viola adapted to monophony: William Wendlant; texts: Li Po; recorded by Warren Gilson, Madison, Wisconsin, 1947; composition years: 1930-1933; Partch microtonal music settings for Tang Dynasty poetry by Li Bai (AKA Li Po) total time: 5:31

Harry Partch: Harrington Ranch, June 24, 1935
Bitter Music
Bridge Records/2011
narrator: John Schneider; piano: Richard Valitutto; recorded at Second Story Studio, Venice, California; composition year: 1935; time: 13:38

Philip Blackburn: More Fools Than Wise/The Silver Swan/Harbour Symphony
Ordo
Neuma Records/2023
soprano: Carrie Henneman Shaw; text: Orlando Gibbons; ; recorded at the Henhouse Studio, location unlisted, 2017; composition years: The Silver Swan (1982), More Fools Than Wise (2023); Harbour Symphony (for 8 ships’ horns, recorded in St. John’s Harbor, Newfoundland) (2003); time: 6:22

Percussia: songs of John Dowland
a. The Lady Rich, Her Galliard (2:08)
b. The Shoemaker’s Wife (A Toy) (1:54)
Plucked & Struck (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
soprano: Melissa Fogarty; Orff xylophone, small percussion: Ingrid Gordon; Celtic harp: Susan Jolles; recorded at Bridge Studios, Brooklyn, summer 2022; composer: John Dowland; arr. Susan Jolles; total time: 4:02

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Robert Strobel: Infinite Garden Dawn
MP3
Robert Anton Strobel’s Spotify/2024
Shepard-Risset glassando tone: Robert Strobel (sound clips from Yellow Stone National Park’s website public domain sounds); time: 948

Joel Taylor: The Forest is Alive
Night Stories
Spectropol/2013
electronic music: Joel Taylor; time: 6:06

Ana Dall’Ara-Majek: Improvisus B200-3
Radiolaria
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, remixed at Studio Blue Spider, Montreal, 2022-2023, time: 5:25

SET FIVE
Michael Pisaro-Liu: Radiolarians 7
Radiolarians
New World Records/2022
(for orchestra); Muzzix collective; recorded at La rose des vents, Villeneuve D’Ascq, France, July 2019; composition year: 2018; time: 4:46

Frances White: Centre Bridge (Dark River)
Centre Bridge
Electroacoustic Works
Mode Records/2007
(for string quartet and electronic sound); first violin: Pauline Kim; second violin: Airi Yoshioka; cello: Susannah Chapman; double bass: John Rinker, Jr.; conductor: Paul Hostetter; recorded at SUNY Purchase, Purchase, New York; composition year: 2001; time: 11:54

Lei Liang: Hearing Landscapes III. Water and Mist
Hearing Landscapes/Hearing Icescapes
New Focus Recordings/2023
electronics (sound sources: Styrofoam peanuts dropped into a piano, guqin): Lei Liang; guqin: Wu Jing-lüe (Water and Mist Over Xiaoxiang, trad.); inspired by the paintings of Huang Binhong; recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego; January 2022; composition year: 2015; time: 8:48

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