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Martian Gardens Episode 1213
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 24, 2024 
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Hour 1

SET ONE
George Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965 (Echoes I) (selections)
Eco 1. Fantastico (1:17)
Eco 2. Languidamente, quasi lontano (“Hauntingly”) (1:27)
Eco 3. Prestissimo (1:23)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) (violin: David Bowlin; alto flute: Claire Chase; clarinet: Joshua Rubin; piano: Jacob Greenberg); recorded at the Performing Arts Center, Theater C, SUNY Purchase, September 6, 2006; composition year: 1966; total selections time: 4:07

Anna Weesner: The Eight Lost Songs of Orlando Underground (selections)
a. Early Days (2:28)
b. Parenthetical Blues (Timing is Everything) (1:18)
c. A Few Questions for Arnold (2:32)
My Mother In Love
Bridge Records/2024
clarinet: Romie de Guise Langlois; The Lark Quartet (violins: Deborah Buck, Basia Danalow; viola: Kathryn Lockwood; cello: Caroline Stinson; recorded at SUNY Purchase Recital Hall, April 5, 2019; composition year: 2019; total selections time: 6:18

Galan Trio: Ghost Town Sounds (J. Levey)
I. Blacklick (2:56)
II. Claghorn (2:59)
III. Buena Vista (2:42)
Kinesis (various composers)
Neuma Records/2023
piano: Petros Bouras; violin: Babis Karasavvidis; cello: Marina Kolovou; Kinesis recorded at Antart Studio, Athens, Greece, November 2021, April 2022; composer: John Levey; composition year: 2022; total time: 9:40

SET TWO
Joseph Benzola: Fourth Meditation
Stained Glass Meditation*
Aminita Music/2024
piano: Joseph Benzola; time: 4:33
*inspired by the stained glass windows at the Church of St. Therese of Lisieux, Montauk, New York

Ann Southam: Glass Houses No. 2
Unaccompanied (various artists)
Canadian Music Centre-Red Shift/2023
piano: Avan Yu; recorded at the Canadian Music Centre, Murray Adaskin Salon, Vancouver; composition year: 1981; time: 4:21

Aleš Friedl: Otročarije — Scenes from Childhood (selections)
a. Potoček (The Creek) (0:54)
b. Deževan dan (Rainy Day) (1:26)
c. V Gozdu (In the Forest) (1:12)
d. Jutranja Meglica (Morning Haze) (1:48)
Otročarije — Scenes from Childhood
Sazaz/2021
violin: Nadežda Tokareva; piano: Lovorka Nemeš Dular; recorded at the PianoRoom, Golnik, Upper Slovakia, 2020-2021; total selections time: 8:00

Craig Pepples: Nocturne
Open Space 53 (Hicks/Pepples)
Open Space/2022
piano: Yuji Takahashi; composition year: 2018; time: 6:52

SINGLE PLAY
Anne Southam: Glass Houses No. 2 (reprise) (0:30)

Hour 2

SET THREE
Steve Layton: Chill in September
Spooks
Niwosound/2024
electronics, sampling: Steve Layton; Spooks recorded at the composer’s studio August – October, 2024; time: 5:54

Elisabet Curbelo: L’anello
Resonance Unbound
Neuma Records/2024
(for large ensemble and percussion soloist); RENGA Ensemble, conductor and percussion soloist: Steven Schick; recorded at the Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, University of California San Diego, 2018; composition year: 2018; time: 11:24

SET FOUR
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Schlagtrio
Complete Early Percussion Works
Mode Records/2014
piano: Katalin Lukács; timpanis: Justin DeHart, Fabio Oliveira; recorded at Theater A, University of California San Diego, October 2008; composition year: 1952, revised 1973; time: 16:08

Leonie Klein: Thunder (P. Eötvös)
Gathering Thunders
Wergo/2018
(for solo bass timpani ); bass timpani: Leonie Klein; recorded at SWR Studio, Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 2018; composer: Peter Eötvös; composition year: 1993; time: 5:44

SINGLE PLAY
Helmut Lachenmann: Hauswand (…in einem Winkel)
from Teil II. An der Hauswand
Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern
The Little Match Girl
ECM New Series/2004
The Little Match Girl performers — soprano: Eiko Morikawa, Nicole Tibbels; spoken word: Helmut Lachenmann; shō: Mayumi Miyata; piano: Yukiko Sugawara, Tomoko Hemmi; sound direction: André Richard; SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart (Southwest Broadcasting, Stuttgart); SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg (Southwest Broadcasting, Baden Baden and Freiburg); texts: Hans Christian Anderson, Leonardi Da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Helmut Lachenmann; recorded in Freiburg, Germany, July 2003; selection time: 8:34

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Jonty Harrison: …… (“French Suite”)*
a. a propos (1:46)
b. (parenthèse 1) (1:00)
c. commentaire 1 (3:26)
d. (parenthèse 2 (1:29)
e. réflexion (0:58)
f. commentaire 2 (2:54)
g. souffle de insectes (parenthèse 3) (O:55)
h. resonance (parenthèse 4) (0:41)
i. rèsume (1:55)
j. (parenthèse 5) (0:41)
k. commentaire 3 (1:44)
Articles Indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
(stereo fixed medium; sound source: rough-textured wine glasses); realized at GRM (Groupe de recherches musicales), Paris, “Birmingham Version” broadcast premiered at Pebble Mill studios, Birmingham via BEAST (Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre) for “Sounds Like Birmingham — UK City of Music 1992 Festival; composition year: 1992; time: 19:17
*Et Ainsi de Suite: And so on

SET FIVE
Scott L. Miller: Eidolon
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 33 (various artists)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for small ensemble and electronic sounds); TAK Ensemble (flute: Laura Cocks; violin: Marina Kifferstein; clarinet: Joshua Rubin; percussion: Ellery Trafford); composition year: 2024; time: 11:18

Deep Listening Band: Phantom
The Ready Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1991
Deep Listening Band — Phantom performers: trombone, voice: Stuart Dempster; voice: Thomas Eckert; accordion: Pauline Oliveros, voice: Panaiotis; recorded in the Dan Harpole Cistern (aka. Cistern Chapel), Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, Washington, February 27-28, 1990; time: 8:49

SINGLE PLAY
Neely Bruce: Eight Ghosts (selections)
a. 28 (tr. 7) (2:49)
b. 58 (1:18)
The Plague & Other Vocal Works
The Electric Phoenix Sing Neely Bruce
Mode Records/1991
vocal group: The Electric Phoenix; text: Michael McClure, “Ghost Tantras” (1964), recorded at October Sound, London, July 1989; composition year:1989; selection time: 4;09

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