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Martian Gardens Episode 1215
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 12, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
David Felder: November Sky
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo: Rachel Rudich; computer music: David Felder; computer processing engineered at at SUNY Buffalo and Banff Centre, Alberta; recorded at the University of California San Diego; 1992; composition year: 1992; time: 16:33

SET ONE
Elisabet Curbelo: Kara Toprak*
Resonance Unbound
Neuma Records/2024
voice, computer processing: Elisabet Curbelo; kanun: Sanaz Nakhjavani: recorded at Istanbul Technical University, İTÜ Dr. Erol Üçer Center for Advanced Studies in Music (MIAM); composition year: 2011; time: 7:38
*Turkish for “Black Earth,” inspired by Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu‘s poem Kara Toprak

Jin Hi Kim/Gerry Hemingway: Unknot
Jin Hi Kim’s Sound Universe
Living Tones/2009
electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; percussion: Gerry Hemingway; excerpt from Jin Hi Kim’s Sanjo Ecstasy, premiered at the Sanjo Festival, Jeonju, South Korea; composition year: 2003; time: 7:59

George Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn (selections)
a. Eco 5. Dark, Intense (2:44)
b. Eco 6. Dark, Intense (2:06)
c. Eco 7. Dark, Intense (1:25)
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: 6:15

SET TWO
David Hicks: Composite Sketches, in four movements
a. 1:59
b. 1:52
c. 2:43
d. 3:14
Open Space 38 (Pellegrini, Hicks, Friedl)
Open Space/2019
violin: Matthew Woodward; viola: Scot Moore; cello: Andrew Borkowski; total time: 9:38

Craig Pepples: Junkyard
Open Space 51 (Hicks/Pepples)
Open Space/2022
synthesizers: Craig Pepples; software: David Hicks; composition year: 3:29

Delia Derbyshire: Great Zoos of the World
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
collected animal noises, processing: Delia Derbyshire; composition year: 1969; time: 0:35

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Mari Kimura: Obey Your Thirst (E. Moe)
Harmonic Constellations (various composers)
Works for Violin & Electronics
New World Records/2016
violin: Mari Kimura; recorded May 2014, Oktaven Audio, Yonkers, New York; composer: Eric Moe; composition year: 2014; time: 9:26

SET THREE
Mathew Rosenblum: We Lived Happily During the War, Mvts. I & II
a. Movement I: No Words (4:23)
b. Movement II: Ikh lakh fin dir, az Got iz mit mir!* (2:24)
We Lived Happily During the War
Cantaloupe Music/2024
soprano: Jamie Jordan; Talujon Percussion (Ian Antonio, David Cossin, Matthew Gold, Michael Lipsey, Daniel Matei, Matt Ward); pre-recorded voice, Mvt. II: Rosenblum’s Ukrainian grandmother; composition year: 2020; selections time: 6:47
*I’m Laughing at You, for God is With Me (trad.)

Larry Polansky: בהתחלה (B’reysheet) (excerpt)
(In the Beginning…) [Cantillation Study #1) 
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
voice: Jody Diamond; live interactive computers: Phil Burk, Larry Polansky; engineer: Tom Erbe; recorded at Mills College Concert Hall, January, 1990 (HMSL software designed by Larry Polansky and Phil Burk, 1984-1990); composition: Larry Polansky (1985-1989); style: traditional Hebrew cantillation and live computer music; excerpt time: 3:24

Steve Reich: Nagoya Marimbas
Third Coast Percussion/Steve Reich
Çedille Records/2016
marimbas: Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore); recorded at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, December 15-19, 2014; composition year: 1994; total time: 4:48

SET FOUR
Daniel Lippel: Échange (B. Speach)
Adjacence (various composers)
New Chamber Works for Guitar
New Focus Recordings/2024
guitar: Daniel Lippel; percussion: Jeffrey Irving; piano: Renate Rohlfing; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, November 12, 2019; composer: Bernadette Speach; composition year: 1982; time: 10:31

Bernadette Speach: Shattered Glass
Without Borders
Mode Records/1988
percussion: Michael Pugliese; recorded at Sorcerer Sound, New York City, composition year: 1987; time: 7:29

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Dorothy Hindman: Tapping the Furnace
Tapping the Furnace
Innova Recordings/2013
unpitched percussion, voice: Stuart Gerber; text: retired blast furnace worker Clarence Dean; recorded at the Center for Audio Recording Arts, Georgia State University School of Music; composition year: 2006; time: 14:57

Glenn Kotche: The Haunted Furnace (The Haunted, Mvt. 1)
Adventureland
Cantaloupe Music/2014
piano: Lisa Kaplan, Yvonne Lam; percussion: Matthew Duvall, Doug Perkins; recorded at Ganz Hall, Music Institute of Chicago; time: 5:04

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
*homage to Pierre Henry; sitar: Mark Bogaert

Michael Pugliese: Peace Talks (excerpt)
Music for Merce 1952-2009 (various composers)
New World Records/2010
sitar, percussion: Takehisa Kosugi; percussion: Michael Pugliese; recorded November 13. 1990, Bangalore, India, for the dance “August Pace,” (1989), The Merce Cunningham Dance Company; composition year: 1989; time: 11:44

David Tudor + Composers inside electronics: Rainforest IV (brief excerpt)
Rainforest IV
Neuma Records/2022
Composers inside electronics: Paul DeMartinis, John Driscoll, Phil Edelstein, David Poyurow, Prent Rogers, David Tudor, Bill Driscoll; principal composition and schematics: David Tudor, 1973; Rainforest IV sound installation created during David Tudor’s residency at the Center for Music Experiment, University of California San Diego, February 2, 1977; excerpt time: 5:00

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