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Martian Gardens Episode 1209
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 17, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Ken Field: The Serving
The Canopy
Neuma Records/2024
alto saxophone, shakers: Ken Field; recorded at the Studio at Black Hill, Orleans, Massachusetts; time: 2:24

Manuel Zurria: Chromatic Canon (J. Tenney)
Fame di Vento (various composers)
ANTS Records/2023
flutes, percussion: Manuel Zurria; Fame di Vento recorded at BigCardo, Rome and Catania, Italy, 2020-2023; composer: James Tenney (for two pianos); arr. Zurria; composition year: 1984; time: 9:20

SET TWO
Steve Reich: It was a honeymoon — can’t take no mo’
from City Life
The Minimalists [Reich, Riley, Andriessen, Gann, Adams, Lang]
Mode Records/2009
performed by Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; percussion: Tatiana Koleva; clarinet: Fie Schouten; piano: Sepp Grotenhuis; samplers: Anthony Fiumara; recorded at MCO Studios, Hilversum, The Netherlands, April 28-30, 2009; composition year: 1995; time: 

Anthony Gatto: Wise Blood (Scenes 2-4)
a. Scene 2: Taulkinham (2:53)
b. Scene 3: Help a blind preacher (2:07)
c. Scene 4: I smell sin on your breath (2:57)
Wise Blood
An opera based on the novel by Flannery O’Connor
New Focus Recordings/2020
Jason Paul Andrews as Enoch Emery; Martin Bakari as Hazel Motes; Holly Hansen as Sabbath Lily Hawks; Michael Sommers as the potato-peeling machine hawker; Brian Major as Asa Hawks; The Adam Meckler Orchestra, conductor: David Bloom (trumpets, flugelhorns: Adam Meckler, Tom Krochock, cameron Kinghorn; trombone: Nick Syman; bass trombone: Jenn Werner; euphonium: Eric Ebeling; tuba: Nelson Devereaux; alto saxophone, soprano saxophone: David Hirsch; alto saxophone: Gus Sandberg; tenor saxophone: Angela Hirsch; baritone saxophone and piccolo: Kameron Markworth; bass: Steven Hobert; piano and accordion: Erik Barsness; percussion: Reid Kruger); libretto adapted from Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood; recorded in Minneapolis; composition year: 2015; selection time: 8:00

Donal Fox: Following the North Star Boogaloo
Gone City
New World Records/1997
Fox/Troupe Duo (text/reader: Quincy Troupe; piano: Donal Fox); recorded at Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, presented by Videmus, November 5, 1993; composition year: 1993; time: 5:57

SET THREE
Anna Weesner: My Mother in Love (selections)
a. My Sister (1:51)
b. Spare Parts (2:22)
c. Powers (2:08)
d. Lament: Invisible (3:02)
e. Laughing (1:28)
f. Fierce (0:36)
My Mother In Love
Bridge Records/2024
soprano: Tony Arnold; Cygnus Ensemble, conductor: Ryan McAdams; recorded at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, October 11, 2018; composition year: 2016; total selections time: 10:26

Elliott Carter: The Rose Family*
The Vocal Works (1975-1981)
Bridge Records/2005
baritone: Patrick Mason; Ensemble Musicae, conductor: David Starobin; text: Robert Frost; composition year: 1942, orchestrated 1980; time: 1:20
from Three Poems of Robert Frost

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
New York City Guitar Orchestra: Two of a Kind (M. Oppedisano)
Spectra — New Music for Guitar Orchestra (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for two guitar soloists); guitars: Matthew Kaplan, Matthew Pidi; Spectra recorded by the New York City Guitar Orchestra, conductor: Jason Sagebiel; Spectra recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, February 2018–February 2024; composer Marco Oppedisano; composition year: 2015; time: 9:44

SET FOUR
Russell Pinkston: Emergence
The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer (various artists)
Folkways/1976
digital synthesizer: Russell Pinkston; recorded at Thayer School of Electrical Engineering, Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire; time: 7:57

Elisabet Curbelo: Roxanne’nın Dönüşümü (The Transformation of Roxanne)
Resonance Unbound
New Focus Recordings/2024
electronics, sound collage: Elisabet Curbelo; recorded in Istanbul; composition year: 2010; time: 5:18

Alice Shields: The Transformation of Ani
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
electronic music on tape; voice: Alice Shields; text: Ani the Scribe, The Egyptian Book of the Dead; realized at the Colombia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; composition year: 1970; time: 9:00

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: Group Variations II.1
Open Spaces 2005 (various artists)
Music Around Benjamin Boretz
Open Space-Perspectives of New Music/2005
computer synthesis: Benjamin Boretz; composition years: 1970-1972, revised 2004; time: 14:00

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Emma Margetson: Sketching Froanna*
Contemplations
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(8-channel fixed medium); realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK, 2019; premiered at the concert Nocturnes: A Woman Refigured; Barber Lates series presented by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham; May 14, 2019; time: 9:37
*inspired by Wyndham Lewis, Portrait of Froanna

SET FIVE
Brion Gysin: Come to Free the Words
10+2:12 — American Text Sound Pieces (various artists)
Other Minds/2003 (orig. OM LP/1975)
text, recitation, chalk, blackboard: Brion Gysin; composition year: 1962; time: 3:28

David Lang & Eighth Blackbird: Composition as Explanation
a. There is Singularly Nothing (8:05)
b. Those Who Are Creating (4:16)
Composition as Explanation
Çedille Records/2024
(for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, cello and voices); The Eighth Blackbird ensemble; text: Gertrude Stein (lecture Composition as Explanation, 1926); recorded at Court Theater, University of Chicago, September 28-October 1, 2023; composition year: 2020; time: 12:21

Linda Dusman: Becoming Becoming Gertrude
Music/Text II [various artists]
Capstone Records/2001
two-channel analogue tape; readers: Susan McCully, Phil Maki; text: Gertrude Stein from “The Making of Americans”; recorded at WINC Studios, West Newton, Massachusetts, composition year: 2000;  time: 12:29

SET SIX
Kotoka Suzuki: Automa (Mechanical Garden)
Shimmer, Tree
Starkland Records/2022
electronics: Kotoka Suzuki; time: 8:31

Susumu Yokota: Rose Necklace
The Boy and the Tree
Leaf Label/2002
electronics: Susumu Yokota; time: 2:44

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