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Martian Gardens Episode 1211
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 7, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Anna Weesner: My Mother In Love (selections)
a. Reading Before Sleeping (3:22)
b. Okay? (4:19)
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: 7:41

Tania León: Singin’ Sepia
Five Songs on Poems by Rita Dove
I. Wiring Home
II. Persephone Abducted
III. The Slave’s Critique of Practical Reason
IV. In the Bulrush
V. Then Came Flowers
Singin’ Sepia
Bridge Records/2008
soprano: Tony Arnold; Continuum ensemble — clarinet: David Gresham; violin: Renée Jolles; piano for four hands: Joel Sachs, Cheryl Seltzer; texts: Rita Dove; recorded at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 3, 2004; composition year: 1996; time: 13:10

SET TWO
The Noonan Trio: Drunkard Landlady
Inherit a Memory
Neuma Records/2024
piano: Matthew Bourne; double bass: Michael Bardon; drums, vocals, composition: Sean Noonan; recorded at TYE Studios, London; time: 3:12

Frank Zappa: Mystery Disc (selections)
a. I Was a Teenage Malt Shop (1:10)
b. Bossa Nova Pervertamento (2:15)
Mystery Disc
Rykodisc/1998
a. voice: Dan Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart); guitar: Frank Zappa; guitar: Jim “Motorhead” Sherwood; drums: Vic Mortenson; b. guitar: Frank Zappa; drums: Les Papp; electric bass: Bobby Saldana; composition years: a. 1963; b. 1962; total time: 3:25

Un Drame Musicale Instantané: Urgent Meeting 221
Opération Blow Up (Urgent Meeting, Vol. 2)
GRRRR Records/1992
double bass, voice: Joëlle Léandre; electronics: Jean-Jacques Birgé; trumpet, reeds: Bernard Vitet; guitar: Francis Gorgé; time: 5:32

Antoine Berthiaume/Quentin Sirjaq/Norman Teale: Cases and Staircases
Leaves and Snows
Actuellecd/2005
guitar: Antoine Berthiaume; piano: Quentin Sirjaq; electronics, mix: Norman Teale; recorded at CCM Studio and Mills College Concert Hall, Oakland, California, Autumn 2004; time: 5:02

SINGLE PLAY
Arthur Levering: Il Mare Dentro (The Sea Within)*
OceanRiverLake
New Focus Recordings/2024
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, September 22, 2008; composition year: 2008; time: 9:14
*Adapted as Movement 1, OceanRiverLake (2008-2014)

Hour 2

SET THREE
Robert Gross: Hexagonal Labyrinth II
(WAV file)
electronics: Robert Gross; Blank Experiment — oboe: Ava Wirth; clarinet: Michelle Cusick; tenor saxophone: Andrew Hosler; bassoon: Maya Grossman; harp: Danielle Kuntz; recorded at the Cleveland Institute of Music, August 2023; electroacoustic content recorded at the composer’s home studio; composition year: 2024; time: 10:35

David Behrman: A Traveller’s Dream Journal (Berlin-NY) (Setting A)
Leapday Night
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
electronics: Clara Mondshine (Walter Bachauer); keyboards: Jakino (Achim Giesler); computer programming: Achim Giesler; voice sample: Takehisa Kosugi; recorded at Walter Bachauer’s studio, Berlin; composition year: 1990; time: 9:22

SET FOUR
Gordon Mumma: Retrospect
Studio Retrospect
Lovely Music, Ltd./2000
electroacoustic music: Gordon Mumma; Retrospect assembled from four Mumma electroacoustic pieces: Densities (1959); Phenomenon Unarticulated (1972); Wooden Pajamas (1973; Spectral Portrait (1982); time: 9:00*
*90 consecutive seconds of silence omitted

Robert Ashley: Quartet
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 (various artists)
New World Records/2003
clarinet: William Albright; French horns: Richard Reynolds, Gordon Mumma; readers: Mary Ashley, Harold Borkin, George Caccioppo, Cynthia Liddell, Anne Wehrer, Joseph Wehrer; recorded at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 29, 1966; composition year: 1965: time: 9:51

SINGLE PLAY
Gerard Pape: Weaveworld Prologue
Ascension to Purgatory
Mode Records/2006
bass voice: Nicholas Isherwood; Atelier du Musique Contemporaine du CNR de Versailles (flute: Miraka Nasu; oboe: Louis Hedde; clarinet: Krista Martynes; bassoon: Alexandre Ouzounoff; trumpet: François Pallies; horn: Isabelle Varrauz; trombone: Hiroyuki Morooka; violins; Takuro Ikewzawa, Violaine Reboul; viola Estelle Marsal; cello: Floaraine Vieux-Rochas; contrabass: Hui-yng Yang; percussion: Pierre Lacroix), conductor: Lionel Arnaud; record at Conservatoire National de Région de Versailles; composition year: 1998; time: 10:39

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Julia Wolfe: Cruel Sister* (Parts 1 & 2)
a. Part 1 (5:16)
b. Part 2 (9:06)
Cruel Sister
Cantaloupe Music/2011
(for string orchestra); Ensemble Resonanz, conductor: Brad Lubman; recorded at studio GSO Bremen, Bremen, Germany; composition year: 2004; total selections time: 14:22
*inspired by The Twa Sisters story

Nick Didkovsky: She Closes Her Sister With Heavy Bones
Tube Mouth Bow String
Pogus Productions/2006
(for electric guitar and string quartet); electric guitar: Nick Didkovsky; Sirius String Quartet: violins: Gregor Huebner, Meg Okura; viola: Ron Lawrence; cello: Dave Eggar; recorded at Studio A, Steinhardt School, NYU, time: 6:41

SET SIX
Francis Dhomont: Je te salue, vieil océan!
…Et Autres Utopies
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
(for stereo fixed medium); text: Comte de Lautréamont (Isadore Lucien Ducasse), “Song I,” The Songs of Maldoror (Les chants de Maldoror) realized at the Institut International de Musique Électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), Bourges, Chere, France, 1998; revised at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2000-2004; final version premiere: Synthèse 2005: Concert, Palais Jacques-Cœur, Bourges, June 5, 2005; time: 14:54

John Eaton: Blind Man’s Cry
First Performances
The Syn-Ket and Moog Synthesizer in the 1960s
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
Syn-Ket: John Eaton; tapes, mix: Wilson Allen; Moog synthesizer: Jaye Williams; soprano: Michiko Hirayama; text: Tristan Corbière, Blind Man’s Cry (Cris d’Aveugle); composition year: 1968; time: 10:54

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