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Martian Gardens Episode 1207
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 29, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Roger Reynolds: Blind Men
Modern Choral Music (various composers)
Composers Recordings, Inc./1970
(for mixed chorus and chamber ensemble); The Peabody Concert Singers and Chamber Ensemble; text: Herman Melville, Journey Up the Straits; composition year: 1966; time: 15:30

Christopher Cerrone: Beaufort Scales (selections)
a. Interlude 2 (2:02)
b. Interlude 4 (2:11)
Beaufort Scales
Cold Blue Music/2024
(for vocal octet, electronics, and visual projection); voices: Lorelei Ensemble; text: Herman Melville, Moby Dick; recorded at Dimension Sound, Boston, November 5-6, 2023; composition year: 2022; total selections time: 4:13

SET TWO
VEM Ensemble: String Trio, Op. 201 (A. Hovhaness)
Serenade with a Dandelion (various artists)
Armenian Chamber Music, Old and New
New Focus Recordings/2024
VEM Ensemble (violin: Ela Kodžas; viola: Damon Zavala; cello: Niall Tarō Ferguson); recorded at the Ostin Music Center, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles; May 28, 2023; composer: Alan Hovheness; composition year: 1962; total time: 7:07

Yvar Mikhashoff: Five Visionary Landscapes Op. 214 (A. Hovhaness)
I. (4:34)
II. (2:31)
III. Evening Bell (3:34)
Panorama of American Piano Music (various composers)
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composer: Alan Hovhaness; composition year: 1965; total time: 10:39

SET TWO
Easley Blackwood, Jr: Twelve Microtonal Etudes, Op. 28 (selections)
a. Allegro volando (18 notes) (2:32)
b. Con moto (2:50)
Acoustic Microtonal
Çedille Records/2024
Budapest Scoring Orchestra; recorded at Rottenbiller Studios, Tom-Tom Studio A, and Pannania Sound Systems, Budapest, 2021-2022; composition year: 1980; arr. for orchestra: Matthew Sheeran; total selections time: 4:22

Hour 2

SET THREE
Byron Hayslett: r e c o v e r i n g (speech rhythm study I) (A.R. Green)
Cello Unlocked (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
cello: Byron Hayslett; recorded at Gusman Concert Hall, Frost School of Music, Miami, July 29-30, 2023; composer: Anthony R. Green; composition year: 2020; time: 4:27

Robert Cogan: Utterances
Neuma New Music Series Volume 2 (various artists)
Neuma Records/1988
soprano: Joan Heller; texts: William Bronk; Chiang K’uei; Karl Jaspers, Franz Kafka, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, William Butler Yeats; composition years: 1971 forward; time: 8:28

Eric Chasalow: Hanging in the Balance
Over the Edge
New World Records/1993
(for cello and electronics); cello: Fred Sherry; electronics realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; composition year: 1983; time: 6:17

SET FOUR
J. P. A. Falzone: Metamerism
A Curving Abacus
New World Records/2019
ELISION Ensemble (recorder: Ryan Williams; harp: Samantha Ramirez; percussion: Peter Neville); recorded at Studio 52, Melbourne, Australia, April 1, 2021; composition year: 2021; time: 12:11

Sascia Pellegrini: Squares
Idiot Savant
The Repository/2023
laptop, electronics: Sascia Pellegrini; time: 9:07

SINGLE PLAY
Anna Weesner: My Mother in Love (selections)
a. Reading on the Stairs (3:00)
b. Dinnertime (2:07)
My Mother in Love
Bridge Records/2024
soprano: Tony Arnold; Cygnus Ensemble (flute: Tara Helen O’Connor; oboe: James Justin Smith; violin: Calvin Wiersma; cello: Susannah Chapman; guitars: William Anderson, Oren Fader), conductor: Ryan McAdams; recorded at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, October 11, 2018; composition year: 2016; total selections time: 6:58

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Eliot Britton: Metatron 4 (1980) — Galvatron
Metatron
Ambiances Magnétiques/2016
Architek Percussion (percussion, drums, electronics: Ben Duinker, Mark Morton, Ben Reimer, Alessandro Valliante), with guests on percussion and electronics: Zachary Hale, Christian Smith; recorded at MMR, McGill University, Montreal, February 14, 2014; Blue Skies composer: Irving Berlin; arr. Eliot Britton; time: 10:03

David Shea: Initials B.B. (S. Gainsbourg)
Great Jewish Music — Serge Gainsbourg (various artists)
Tzadik/1997
vocals: Tiziana Shea; instruments, arrangement: David Shea; composer: Serge Gainsbourg; composition year: 1968; arr. David Shea; time: 3:48

Severed Heads: Better Harms and Heartbreaks (vs. Trudy Lovelife, PhD.)
Haul Ass!
Sevcom/1998
synthesizers, computer, samplers: Tom Ellard; sampled voice: Trudy Lovelife, PhD; recorded at Terse Tapes, Sydney, Australia; time: 4:15

Noah Creshevsky: Götterdämmerung
The Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik Records/2010
electroacoustic processing: Noah Creshevsky; vocals, trumpet: Susan Watts, clarinet, alto sax: Alex Kontorovich; violin, vocals: Amy Zakar; ; bass, vocals: Heather Chriscaden Versace; tenor sax, alto sax: Audrey Betsy Welber; trumpet: Ben Holmes; piano: Adrian Banner; drums: Gregg Mervine; samples: The Klez Dispensers; composition year: 2009; time: 4:04

SINGLE PLAY
Georges Forget: L’appel*
Le dernier présent
empreintes DIGITALes/2015
(stereo fixed medium; child voice: Gabrielle Forget); realized at the composer’s studio, 2008; premiered at the Akousma (5) Festival, Studio Hydro-Quebec, Monument-National, Montreal, December 11; 2008; time: 16:32
*inspired by Herman Melville, Moby Dick

SET SIX
Laurie Anderson: One White Whale
Life on a String
Nonesuch Records/2001
lead vocal, keyboard: Laurie Anderson; backing vocals: Tom Nelis, John Kelly; percussion: Joey Baron; recorded at The Lobby, New York City; time: 2:03

Mary Ellen Childs: Wreck Theme*
Wreck
Innova Recordings/2013
bass clarinet: Pat O’Keefe; violin: Laura Harada; cellos: Michelle Kinney, Jacqueline Ultan; percussion: Peter O’Gorman; recorded at Wild Sound Studio, Minneapolis, August – December, 2011; for Carl Fink’s Black Label Movement dance company; time: 4:30

Lisa Walker: Transients*
Electroacoustic Music Volume VIII [various artists]
Electroshock Records/2002
humpback whale recordings, violin: Lisa Walker; composition year: 2001; time: 8:38

*podcast only

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