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Martian Gardens Episode 1206
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 21, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Steven Mackey: Memoir, Act I
a. Introductions (4:09)
b. Aunts (4:03)
c. Cars (4:57)
d. More Machines (9:01)
Memoir
Bridge Records/2024
narrators: Natalie Christa Rakes, Steven Mackey; Dover Quartet (violins: Joel Link, Bryan Lee; viola: Hezekiah Leung; cello: Camden Shaw); Arx Duo (percussion: Garrett Arney, Mari Yoshinaga); text adapted from the diary of the composer’s mother, Elaine Mackey; recorded at Gould Rehearsal Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, January 20-23, 2023; composition year: 2021; total time: 22:30

SET ONE
Amy Brandon: Intermountainous
Lysis
New Focus Recordings/2024
10-string guitar: Julian Bertino; electronics: Amy Brandon; recorded at the Music Multimedia Room, CIRMMT (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology), McGill University, Montreal; composition year: 2017; time: 7:55

Mara Helmuth: Mountain Wind
Mara Helmuth–Sound Collaborations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Centaur Records/2007
pipa: Ming Ke; flute: I-Yin Tu; alto flute: Carlos Velez; bassoon: James Massol; violin: Timothy O’Neil; cello: Kaylie Duncan; computer: Mara Helmuth; recorded at College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati; composition year: 2003; time: 7:25

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Walter Zimmermann: Shadows of Cold Mountain 3*
Schatten der Ideen (Shadow of an Idea)
Mode Records/2002
*(for flute, oboe, and clarinet; arr. for large ensemble); Ensemble Recherche; Schatten der Ideen recorded at Hans Rosbaud Studio, Baden Baden, Germany, May 13-14, 1998, October 9, 1999; composition year: 1997; time: 13:47
*Inspired by Brice Marden’s Cold Mountain Series, Zen Study 3 (1991)

Hour 2

SET TWO
Cobus du Toit: A Room of Quiet (N. Hall)
From the Rooftop (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
(for C flute, alto flute, piccolo, and piano); flutes: Cobus du Toit; piano: Amanda Harberg; text: Dag Hammarskjold; recorded at Bezanson Recital Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, September 23-234, 2023; composer: Nathan Hall; composition year: 2017; time: 10:15

Denman Maroney Quintet: The Sea of Chairs
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Neuma Records/2024
Denman Maroney Quintet (composition, hyperpiano: Denman Maroney; voice: Emilie Lesbros; tenor saxophone, B-flat clarinet; bass: Scott Walton; drums: Samuel Silvant); recorded at La Buis sonne, Permes-les-Fontaines, France; time: 10:03

SET THREE
Lydia Kakabadse: Diabelli
a. Original Theme by Anton Diabelli (0:58)
b. Variations on a Theme by Anton Diabelli (1:23)
Kefi
Choral & Chamber Works
Divine Art Recording Group/2024
piano: John Lenehan; composers: Anton Diabelli, Lydia Kakabadse; total time: 2:21

Lydia Kakabadse: Thirty Steps, Scene 3 (selections)
Scene 3 — Overcoming Vices
a. Step 8 (1:30)6
b. Step 9 (1:29)
c. Step 10 (1:36)
d. Step 11 (1:33)
e. Step 12 (0:47)
Kefi
Choral & Chamber Works
Divine Art Recording Group/2024
The Choir of Royal Holloway; harp: Cecily Beer; flute: Mary Bull; percussion: Tom Wagner; text: St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent; composition year: 2020; total selections time: 6:55

Stacy Garrop: Terra Nostra, Part II (selections)
a. Locksley Hall (3:47)
b. Railways 1846 (1:49)
c. A Song of Speed (2:00)
Terra Nostra
Oratorio by Stacy Garrop
Çedille Records/2024
a. tenor (Jesse Donner), chorus; b. men of the chorus; baritone (David Goversten), chorus: Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra Chorale & Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Uniting Voices youth choir, conductor: Stephen Alltop; libretto: Stacy Garrop (a. Lord Alfred Tennyson; b. Charles Mackay; c. William Ernest Henley); recorded at PIck-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois, February 6 and 8, 2023; composition year: 2015; total selections time: 6:38

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The Astra Choir: Three Liturgical Pieces (K. Gaburo)
a. Laetentur Caeli (Let the Heavens Rejoice) (0:44)
b. Terra Tremuit (The Earth Trembles) (1:01)
c. Ad Te, Domine (To You O Lord I Lift My Soul) (2:51)
Unsettled Choruses (various composers)
A Terrain of Humming and Phonetics, 1930-1974
New World Records/2023
The Astra Choir, conductor: John McCaughey; texts: a. Psalm 95, Offertory for Christmas; b. Psalm 76, Offertory for Easter Sunday; c. Psalm 25, Offertory for Advent; recorded at the Church of All Nations, Melbourne, Australia, May, 2022; composer: Kenneth Gaburo; composition years: 1957-1958; total time: 4:36

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Vertical Squirrels: Nomads, Sparrows, & Machines
Hold True (Accroche-toi)
Ambiances Magnétiques/2010
Vertical Squirrels: Lewis Melville, Ajay Heble, Rob Wallace, Daniel Fischlin; composition year: 2009; time: 6:13

Gen Ken Montgomery: Birds & Machines (Machine Suite)
Birds + Machines 1980 – 1989
Pogus Productions/2010
noises, electronics, processing: Gen Ken Montgomery; recorded in New York City, 1989; time: 8:04

SET FIVE
Steven Naylor: Automatopoiea — Study 1*
Lieux imaginaires (Imaginary Places)
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(8-channel fixed media; sound source: mechanical toys); realized at the composer’s studio, Nova Scotia, and the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Voyages sonores concerts, Birmingham, March 17, 2006; time: 9:34
*mechanical toys designed by Tony Mann (1927-2013)

Chris Brown: Talking Drum (selections)
a. Rumba Quinto, Havana, Cuba (3:15)
b. Mariwo Chant, Havana, Cuba (3:54)
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2001
Escuela Nacional Del Arte, faculty of the Institute Superior Del Arte; recorded by Chris Brown at Casa Fina, Miramar-Havana, Cuba, July 28, 1994; total selections time: 7:09

SET SIX
John Luther Adams: Particles Rising
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: 9:10

Julia Wolfe: Fuel (selections)
a. Fuel 1 (5:49)
b. Fuel 2 (3:33)
Cruel Sister
Cantaloupe Music/2011
(for string orchestra); Ensemble Resonanz, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at GSO Tonstudio, Hamburg; composition year: 2007; total selections time: 8:24

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