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Martian Gardens Episode 1210
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 26, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Tina Davidson: Tremble
Barefoot
New Focus Recordings/2024
members of the Jasper String Quartet (violin: J. Freivogel; cello: Rachel Henderson Freivogel); piano: Natalie Zhu; recorded at Gore Recital Hall, University of Delaware, September 16-17, 2023; composition year: 2013; time: 9:49

Steven Mackey: Memoir, Act II (selections)
a. Medley (3:58)
b. Back in the U.S.A. (2:06)
c. Night and Day (5:35)
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: 11:18

SET TWO
Ken Field: The Canopy (selections)
a. Also Known As (1:49)
b. Laevinic Defeat (1:43)
The Canopy
Neuma Records/2024
guitar, alto saxophone, shakers: Ken Field; music for The Canopy, Joanie Block & Selmadanse; recorded at the Studio at Black Hill, Orleans, Massachusetts; time: 3:32

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: The Iridium Controversy (selections)
a. The Iridium Controversy Before (2:59)
b. The Iridium Controversy After (5:30)
The Iridium Controversy
Cuneiform Records/2003
grand piano, washboard, acetone organ: Erik Lindgredn; saxophones, flute, percussion: Ken Field; synthesizer, piano, percussion: Rick Scott; guitar, programming, sound design, floor tom: Martin Bierylo; recorded at Sounds Interesting, Middleborough, Massachusetts and Virtual Planet, Brookline, Massachusetts, August 2002- April 2003; total selections time: 8:29

SET THREE
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Orkest De Volharding: The Minimalists (various composers)
Mode Records/2009
Orkest De Volharding, conductor: Jussi Jaatinen; The Minimalists recorded at MCO Studios in Hilversum, The Netherlands, April 28-30, 2009; composer: John Adams; composition year: 1986; arr. Anthony Fiumara; time: 4:07

Philip Glass: Symphony No. 10 (Mvt. III)
Symphony No. 10, Concert Overture
Orange Mountain/2015
Bruckner Orchester Linz, conductor: Dennis Russell Davies; recorded at Musiktheater Volksgarten-Orchestersaal, September 3-5, 2013; composition years: 2011-2012; time: 5:31

Edgard Varèse: Hyperprism
The Varèse Album
Wounded Bird Records/2007 (org. LP Columbia/1972)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Robert Craft; composition year: 1923; time: 3:50

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Elisabet Curbelo: Fantasia Flamenca
Resonance Unbound
Neuma Records/2024
electronics, flamenco sound collage: Elisabet Curbelo; flamenco footwork: Beatriz López Salinas; recorded at Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid Auditoria Manuel de Falla, Madrid, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 6:52

Mario Verandi: Figuras Flamencas
Sonic Circuits VII (various artists)
Innova Recordings/1999
electroacoustic music: Mario Verandi; text: Federico Garcia Lorca, Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding); produced at the Electronic Music Studios at the University of Birmingham, UK; composition year: 1995; time: 12:20

SET FIVE
John Gibson: In Summer Rain
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 33 (various artists)
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2024
electronics: John Gibson; composition year: 2023; time: 9:23

John Luther Adams: In the Rain
The Place We Began
Cold Blue Music/2009
(music for tape); found-sound tapes recorded in the 1970s by John Luther Adams; processing, mixing: John Luther Adams, Fairbanks, Alaska; time: 8:53

Hugh Le Caine: Dripsody (An Etude for Variable Speed Recorder)
Compositions and Demonstrations 1946-1974
Electronic Music Foundation/1999 (orig. JWD Music/1985)
electronics, tapes: Hugh Le Caine; recorded at National Research Council’s Electronic Music Laboratory (ELMUS), NRC Computer Music System; composition year: 1955; time: 1:28

SINGLE PLAY
J.P.A. Falzone: A Tension Span
A Curving Abacus
New World Records/2019
Switch ~ Ensemble (flute: Laura Cocks; clarinet: Madison Greenstone; saxophone: Matt Evans; vibraphone: Megan Arms; piano: Wei-Han Wu; violin: Clara Kim; cello: T.J. Borden), conductor: Jason Thorpe Buchanan; recorded at Lippes Concert Hall, Slee Hall, University of Buffalo, March 28, 2022; composition year: 2022; time: 12:48

Hour 3

SET SIX
Annette Vande Gorne: Automne (Haïkus)
a. Jeux Mécaniques (4:36)
b. Jeux éxtendus, brouillard (2:53)
c. Jeux fragmentés, feuilles d’automne (2:30)
d. Jeux répétés (2:54)
Haïkus
empreintes DIGITALes/2020
(for 16-channel fixed media); realized at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches in Ohain, Belgium; premiered on October 25, 2020, during the Espace du son festival at Théâtre Marni in Brussels; total time: 13:00

Howard Jonathan Fredrics: The Tragedy of Leaves
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 20 {various artists]
The University of Texas at Austin Electronic Music Studios
Centaur Records/1995
electroacoustic music: Howard Jonathan Fredrics; text: Charles Bukowski, The Tragedy of Leaves; composition year: 1991; time: 11:00

SET SEVEN
George Balch Wilson: Concatenations
P. Westergaard/G.B. Wilson/R. Wilson
Composers Recordings, Inc./1971
Contemporary Chamber Players University of Illinois, conductor: Edwin London; composition year: 1969; time: 6:43

Gerard Pape: Makbénach
Electroacoustic Chamber Music
Mode Records/1998
saxophone: Daniel Kientzy; Ensemble 2e2m, conductor: Paul Mefano; tape, sound projection: Gerard Pape; composition years: 1996-1997; time: 10:20

Tom Baker Quartet: Residue No. 11 (for Ben Boretz)
Open Spaces 2005 (various artists)
Music Around Benjamin Boretz
Open Space-Perspectives of New Music/2005
fretless guitar: Tom Baker; drums: Greg Campbell; clarinet: Jesse Canterbury; bass: Brian Cobb; recorded at Jack Straw Productions, Seattle, Washington, May 2005; time: 2:50

Martin Supper: Fragment
Open Spaces 2005 (various artists)
Music Around Benjamin Boretz
Open Space-Perspectives of New Music/2005
for speaker, two-channel tape, loudspeaker; speaker: Hans Zischler; composition year: 2003; time: 3:40

SINGLE PLAY
Mary Elizabeth Bowden: Scram! (J.M. Stephenson)
Storyteller (various composers)
Contemporary Concertos for Trumpet
Çedille Records/2024
(for trumpet and chamber orchestra); trumpet: Mary Elizabeth Bowden; Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Allen Tinkham; recorded at Jarvis Opera Hall, DePaul University, December 9-10, 2024; composer: James M. Stephenson; composition year: 2018; time: 3:15

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