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Martian Gardens Episode 1208
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 8, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Steven Mackey: Memoir, Act II (selections)
a. Jerry versus Jim (3:55)
b. Jitterbug (3:48)
c. Hard Ten (2:30)
d. Only Make Believe (5:05)
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: 15:00

SET ONE
Easley Blackwood: Twelve Microtonal Etudes, Op. 28 (selections)
a. Andantino (16 notes) (3:51)
b. Suite in Four Movements (21 notes) (4:49)
c. Allegro moderato (23 notes) (3:24)
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: 12:04

Easley Blackwood: Twelve Microtonal Etudes, Op 28 (selections)
a. Allegro volando (18 notes) (2:32)
b. Con moto (2:50)
Micorotonal Compositions by Easley Blackwood
Çedille Records/1994
polyfusion synthesizer: Easley Blackwood, Jr; recorded at Sound 80 Studios, Minneapolis; composition year: 1980; total time: 4:22

William Sethares: Xentonality (selections)
a. Unlucky Flutes (3:49)
b. Imaginary Horses (3:53)
Xentonality — Matching Timbre and Tuning
William Sethares/1997
synthesizer, processing: William Sethares; total selections time: 7:43
(Xenharmonic music)

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Patterns in a Chromatic Field*
Complete Music for Cello and Piano
Mode Records/2024
cello: Stephen Morotto; piano: Marilyn Nonken; recorded at the Concert Hall of EMPAC**, Troy, New York, December 2018; composition year: 1981; excerpt time: 8:14
*mm 865 — 1045, Page 46
**Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Hour 2

SET TWO
Lydia Kakabadse: Thirty Steps (Steps 13-28)
from Scene 3: Overcoming Vices
a. Step 13 (1:29)
b. Step 14 (1:21)
c. Step 15 (1:44)
d. Step 16 (1:19)
e. Step 17 (1:52)
from Scene 4: Self-Denial
f. Step 18 (1:03)
Kefi
Choral & Chamber Works
Divine Art Recordings Group/2024
The Choir of Royal Holloway (selections soloists — soprano: Esmé Ellis; tenor: Joseph Morris, Step 15); harp: Cecily Beer; flute: Mary Bull; percussion: Tom Wagner; text: St. John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent; composition year: 2020; total selections time: 8:35

Fotina Naumenko: How to See An Angel (C. Magin/D. Walters)
Bespoke Songs (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
soprano: Fotina Naumenko; bassoon: Ryan Romine; piano: Marika Bournaki; text: Dorothy Walters; composer: Carrie Magin; composition year: 2023; time: 7:33

SET THREE
Ingram Marshall: September Canons
September Canons
New World Records/2009
violin, electronic processing: Todd Reynolds; a lamentation on the events of September 11, 2001; composition year: 2002; time: 13:13

Glass Farm Ensemble: Lacrimosa (L. Andriessen)
Nieuw Amsterdam New York (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
(for two bassoons); bassoon: Freek Sluijs, Margreet Bongers; Nieuw Amsterdam New York recorded at Broadcasting Music Center, Hilversum, NL, June 2023/January 2024; composer: Louis Andriessen; composition year: 1991; time: 10:34

SINGLE PLAY
Carrier Band: Chaos and Attention
Bode Sound Project* (various artists)
Institute for Electronic Arts/2005
Carrier Band: Pauline Oliveros, Peer Bode, Andrew Deutsch; time: 7:22
*based on the technical notebooks (1934-1949) of Harald Bode

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Carrier Band: Pigeon
Bode Deutsch Oliveros
Deep Listening/1998
accordion, signal processing: Pauline Oliveros; bells, music box, tape loops, synthesizer, voice, signal processing: Andrew Deutsch; text, voice, Bode Vocoder: Peer Bode; time: 12:27

Andrew Deutsch: Weaver
MP3
Andrew Deutsch’s Bandcamp/2022
electronics, field recordings: Andrew Deutsch; time: 2:40

The Hub: Dovetail
Boundary Layer
Tzadik Records/2008
computer network: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, and Mark Trayle; recorded circa 1986; time: 5:05

SET FIVE
Sascia Pellegrini: Alchemical Studies I & II (C. Pepples)
Open Space 35
Sascia Pellegrini Plays Music by Boretz, Pepples, and Pellegrini
Open Space/2017
piano, vibraphone, processing: Sascia Pellegrini; composer: Craig Pepples; composition year: 2014; time: 10:10

John Young: Filaments and Phases (J. Young/S. Perill)
Espaces lointains
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for 8-channel fixed medium); realized at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 2022-2023; poem: Simon Perril, Sun Deck Set Cognition; premiered at the Electroacoustic Spring 2023 festival, Crete, Greece, June 3, 2023; time: 11:37

SINGLE PLAY
James Diaz: Pink Room
[Speaking in a Foreign Language]
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for electronically processed violin); violin: Julia Jung Un Suh; recorded at 310 Penn Music Studio, Philadelphia; dates unlisted; time: 6:40

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