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Martian Gardens Episode 1212
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 15, 2024 (audio files to be posted)
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Frank Pahl: Columbus on Guadeloupe
Transforms — The Nerve Events Project (various artists)
Cuneiform Records/1993
brass instruments, guitar, electronics: Frank Pahl; time: 2:04

SET ONE
Natalia Cappa: La Culor dil Tiempu (J.S. Levi)
I. Si me Dabas tus Ojos (if you gave me your eyes)
II. La Pared mi Sta Mirandu (the wall is staring at me)
III. Knosornos!
Una (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for voice and live electronics); voice: Natalia Cappa; text: Clarisse Nicoïdski, Jorge Sad Levi; composer: Jorge Sad Levi; composition year: 2023; time: 6:22

Daniel Schachter: Sin Tiempo (Cycle Tiempo Quebrado)
El Peregrinar de la Araña (various artists)
Travels of the Spider — Electroacoustic music from Argentina
Pogus Productions/1998
electroacoustic music: Daniel Schachter; premiered at X Semana Nacional de la Música Electroacoústica (X National Electroacoustic Music Week), Centro Cultureal Recoleta, Buenos Aires, October 26, 1994; composition year: 1993; time: 13:58

SET TWO
Kamala Sankaram: A Brief History of Progress
Crescent
Neuma Records/2024
voice, electronics, field recordings, composition: Kamala Sankaram; percussion (tabla, bombo legüero, found objects): Brian Shankar Adler; voice: Drew Fleming; recorded at Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Hall, New York City, 2021-2022; time: 4:57

Colin Newman: Blue Jay Way (G. Harrison)
Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish/Not To
4AD/1988 (orig. LPs 1981/1982)
vocals, tabla, cymbals, vibes, effects: Colin Newman; bass guitar, backing vocals: Simon Gilham; drum kit: Robert Gotobed; recorded at Scorpio Sound, London, 1981; composer: George Harrison; composition year: 1967; time: 3:11

Alan Sondheim: 780
Ritual-All-7-70
ESP-Disk/2006 (orig. LP/1967)
(for clarinet, trumpet, bass, tabla); bass: Chris Matheson; tabla: Barry Sugarman; trumpet: Robert Poholek; clarinet: Alan Sondheim; recorded in Providence, Rhode Island, January 1967; time: 1:50

Lotfi Jormana Group: Mawwal I (trad.)
The Music of Islam, Volume Eight
Folkloric Music of Tunisia
Celestial Harmonies/1997
Lotfi Jormana Group (group leader, vocals: Lotfi Jormana; mizwid (bagpipes): Abdessalem Zarga; tabal (drum): Fathi Bougeura; bendĩr (drum); darabouka (drum): Hichem Sallemi; tar (tambourine): Khaled Bhakir; recorded at a private home in Tunis, Tunisia; time: 4:27

Benjamin Boretz: Fantasy on an improvisation by Jim Randall
Open Space 40 — bab – jkr – erb
Open Space/2019
Bard Composer’s Ensemble (banjo: Hillary Hawke; mandolin: Joseph Brent; alto flute: T.J. Wible; English horn: Zachary Boening; violin: Scot Moore; cello: Eleanor Lee); recorded at Bard College; time: 5:41

Hour 2

SET THREE
Ken Field: Culture
The Canopy
Neuma Records/2024
all instruments: Ken Field; music for The Canopy, Joanie Block & Selmadanse; recorded at the Studio at Black Hill, Orleans, Massachusetts; time: 4:46

Ken Field: Sympathetic Magic
Subterranea
O.O. Discs/1996
voice: John Fleagle; congas, djembe: Karen Gruber; percussion: Karen Aqua; percussion, bamboo flutes, flutes, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone: Ken Field; recorded at The Basement, Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 1994; time: 7:40

SET FOUR
Steven Mackey: Memoir, Act III (selections)
a. Hair (5:46)
b. Drinking Problem (1:32)
c. Tacos (4:30)
d. Rock Bottom (2:40)
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 selections time: 14:18

Hans Reichel: Mr. and Mrs. Alcohol
Lower Lurum — A Guitar and Daxophone Operetta
Rastascan Records/1995
pick-behind-the-bridge guitar: Hans Reichel; Lower Larum recorded in Wuppertal, Germany, December 1993, January 1994, time: 1:55

Arthur Levering: A Drinking Song (from Drinking Songs)
Parallel Universe
New World Records/2014
mezzo soprano: Krista Rivers; harps: Franziska Huhn, Amanda Romano; pianos: Donald Berman, John McDonald; conductor: Scott Wheeler; recorded at Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts; May 29, 2009; A Drinking Song text: W.B. Yeats (1910); Drinking Songs composition year: 2005; time: 1:59

SET FIVE
Arthur Levering: Flumen (River) (OceanRiverLake, Mvt. II)
OceanRiverLake
New Focus Recordings/2024
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, September 11, 2019; Flumen composition year: 2013; time: 10:01

Charles Ives: The Housatonic at Stockbridge
The Light That is Felt — Songs of Charles Ives
New World Records/2008
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Robert Underwood Johnson; piano: Donald Berman; recorded at the Recital Hall at the Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase, March 2008; composition year: 1921; time: 3:06

Heather O’Donnell: The missing nail at the river (W. Zimmermann)*
Responses to Ives (various composers)
Mode Records/2009
piano, toy piano: Heather O’Donnell; recorded at Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Köln, January 2008; composer: Walter Zimmermann; composition year: 2006; time: 5:50
*podcast only

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: October Music — Star Showers and Extraterrestrials
Voice is the Original Instrument — Early Works
Lovely Music, Ltd./2003
extended vocals, tapes: Joan La Barbara; premiered at The American Center for Students and Artists, Paris, France, October 1980; time: 14:16

SINGLE PLAY
Elsa Justel: L
Yegl
empreintes DIGITALes/2019
(radiophonic work in stereo fixed medium); realized in the Studios of La Muse en circuit, Alfortville, Val-de-Marne, France, 2003; texts: Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics; Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum; Marie-Louise von Franz, Number and Time; Francis Wolff, the logic of the element; premiered at Péniche Adélaïde, Paris, January 19, 2004; time: 13:52

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Austin: Accidents
SOURCE (various artists)
Music of the Avant-garde: Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971
Pogus Productions/2008
(for electronically prepared piano); prepared piano: David Tudor, assisted by Larry Austin; electronics recorded at the University of California Davis, 1968; composition year: 1967; time: 17:05

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