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Martian Gardens Episode 1214
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 31, 2024 
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Haskell Small: Haunted House
from Visions of Childhood
The Rothko Room — Journeys in Silence
MSR Classics/2014
piano: Haskell Small; recorded at the Westmoreland Church of Christ, Bethesda, Maryland; composition year: 2011; time: 1:59

SET ONE
New Circle Five: Ghost Women
Dreaming Wide Awake
Deep Listening/2003
accordion: Pauline Oliveros; percussion: Susie Ibarra; soprano: Kristin Norderval; trombone, didgeridoo, conch: Monique Buzzarté; violin, voice: Rosi Hertlein; recorded at Kingston, New York, October 19-20, 2002; time: 12:37

Glenn Kotche: The Haunted, Mvt. 5 — Dance
Adventureland
Cantaloupe Music/2014
piano: Lisa Kaplan, Yvonne Lam; percussion: Matthew Duvall, Doug Perkins; recorded at Ganz Hall, Music Institute of Chicago; time: 5:34

SET TWO
Steven Mackey: Conclusion and Epilogue (Act III)
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: 12:42

Bandwidth: Sextet
a. Prologue with Verve (3:06)
b. Espressivo, Con Movimento (3:41)
c. Spaciously, Doppio Movimento (3:30)
Where Songs Go at Night (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
Bandwidth ensemble (flute: Cobus du Tolt; oboe: Kemp Jernigan; B-flat clarinet: Romie de Guise-Langlois; E-flat alto saxophone: Jonathan Hultin-Cohen; horn in F: Joshua Michal; bassoon: Rémy Taghavi); recorded at Bezanson Recital Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, January 23-24, 2023; composer: Ingrid Arauco; composition year: 2021; total time: 10:16

SINGLE PLAY
George Cacioppo: Holy Ghost Vacuum or America Faints*
Advance of the Fungi
Mode Records/2006
(for 5-octave, 2-manual electric organ, 2-octave foot pedal keyboard, loudspeaker); electric organ: George Cacioppo; recorded in Ann Arbor, 1966; composition year: 1966; time: 25:57
*Podcast only

Hour 2

SET THREE
The Canadian Electronic Ensemble: Whale Oil
The Canadian Electronic Ensemble
CEE/2019 (orig. LP Music Gallery Editions/1977)
EMS Synth A, Arp Odyssey, “Dyna-Soar” synthesizer, electronics, found sounds, piano, brass: David Jaeger, Jim Montgomery, David Grimes, Larry Lake, Karen Kieser; recorded at Convocation Hall, Toronto, September 23, 1977; composition year: 1973; time: 9:50

Larry Lake: Psalm
Shadow Box (various artists)
Centrediscs/2012 (orig. 1988)
electronic music on tape: Larry Lake; oboe: Lawrence Cherney; composition year: 1985; time: 10:15

SET FOUR
Anna Rubin: Stolen Gold
Electric Music (Rubin/Hollander)
Capstone Records/2004
(for amplified baroque oboe, live electronics, digital audio); baroque oboe: Debra Nagy; recorded at Kulas Hall, Oberlin College, May 12, 2001; composition year: 1991, revised 2000; time: 5:33

Lucia Berio: Sequenza VII
Complete Sequenzas, Alternate Sequenzas, & Solo Works (various musicians)
Mode Records/2006
(for oboe); oboe: Jacqueline Leclair; drone voices: Okkyung Lee, Mary Kay Garvey, Stephanie Griffin; recorded at LRP Studios, New York City, April 21, 2004; composition years: 1969, revised 2000; time: 7:36

SET FIVE
Luciano Berio: Momenti
Acousmatrix — History of Electronic Music III (Berio/Maderna)
from Acousmatrix — The History of Electronic Music (9-CD boxed set)
BV Haast Records/2005
(for electronic sounds, source: 93 sine tones); recorded at Stuio di Fonologia, RAI Italia Radio, Milan, 1960, composition year: 1960; time: 7:23

Juan Blanco: Musica para Danza
Nuestro Tiempo/Our Time
Innova Recordings/2013
sine-wave generator, tape dubbing: Juan Blanco; recorded in Cuba; composition year: 1961; time: 5:28

Hour 3

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Brian Eno: Spirits Drifting
Another Green World
EG Editions/1987 (orig. Island LP/1975)
synthesizer, organ, bass guitar: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Records Studio, London, 1975; time: 2:36

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

Apostolos Loufopoulos: Spirit
Metamorphoses 2012 (various artists)
7th Biennieal Acousmatic Composition Competition
Musiques & Recherches/2013 (via empreintes DIGITALes)
electroacoustic music created with Apple LogicPro; composition year: 2012; time: 12:25

SET SEVEN
Timothy Roy: dans les dents de la guivre*
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 33 (various artists)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for multichannel electroacoustic sound and solo harp, visual media); harp: Hope Cowan; composition years: 2021-2024; time: 10:46
*Valentina V., Mvt. I

Henning Christiansen:  reality is a ghost in my mind (cruelty & terror)
Ghosts and Monsters (various artists)
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
(electronic music on tape); recorded in Denmark, May 7, 1998; composition years: 1986-1998; time: 5:45

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: Soul Rejoinder
Shadow Gazing
Computer Music
Aucourant Records/1994
(for electronic and electroacoustic sounds; acoustic sources: bamboo flute, cello, voice, trumpet); computers, processing: RST; Shadow Gazing recorded at studios in La Jolla, California, Aarhus, Denmark, and the composer’s studio, 1988-1994; time: 16:07

SINGLE PLAY
Elizabeth Hoffman: …Twelve to Seven*
Open Space 56 (Boretz/Barkin/Hoffman)
Open Space/2023
piano: Andrew Zhou; composition year: 2015; time: 2:31
*Podcast only

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