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Martian Gardens Episode 1216
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 20, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Christopher Trapani: The Polyphony of Colonial Ports (selections)
a. Radiola Prelude (2:08)
b. Jakarta (Kroncong) (3:53)
c. Tunis (5:34)
Noise Uprising*
A Polystylistic Atlas
New World Records/2024
a. vocal: Sophia Burgos; strohviol: Johannes Westendorp; b. vocal: Sophia Burgos; ukulele: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe; banjo: Toon Callier; lap steel guitar, omnichord: Christopher Trapani; strohviol: Johannes Westendorp; c. vocal: Sofia Jernberg; def, tambourine: Kobe Van Cauwenbergh; banjo guitar: Toon Callier; melodica: Christopher Trapani; microtonal Stratocaster: Johannes Westendorp; recorded at Studio 3, DE SINGEL International Arts Center, Antwerp, Belgium, May 15-18, 2024; composition year: 2024; selections time: 12:00
*performers: Sophia Burgos, Sofia Jernberg, Christopher Trapani, and Zwerm

PAN Project Ensemble: Borderless Flows (selections)
a. Shui Jiezou (Water Rhythms) (4:34)
b. The Naked Call (5:58)
Borderless Flows
Neuma Records/2024
a. guqin, electronics, found objects, composition: Jeff Roberts; shakuhachi: Ned Rothenberg; percussion: Woojung Sim; saenghwang: Gamin; b. piri, saenghwang: Gamin; vocals: Jessika Kenney; shakuhachi, bass clarinet: Ned Rothenberg; Borderless Flows recorded at littlelife music, New York City; Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, New York; Riverdale Records, Edmonton, Alberta; Akgong Studios, Seoul, July 16-18, and December 9 & 12, 2023; selections time: 10:32

SET TWO
Ken Field: Deluge
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: 3:55

Roberta Michel: Red (J. Rigler)
Hush (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
piccolo, vocals: Roberta Michel; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, November 16 & 18, 2023; composer: Jane Rigler; composition years: 2001, 2010; time: 5:50

Al Margolis: Innocent
An Innocent, Abroad
Pogus Productions/2007
vocals: Lisa Bernard; flutes: Jacqueline Martelle, Jane Rigler; electronics, processing: Al Margolis; time: 9:28

Tom Hamilton: BRQ Ten
Local Customs
Mutable Music/2009
flute: Jaqueline Martelle; clarinets: Richard Cohen; trombone: James Martin; contrabass: Terry Kippenburger; percussion: Rich O’Donnell; electronic harmony generator; recorded at Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri; time: 5:01

Hour 2

SET THREE
Stacy Garrop: Terra Nostra, Part II (selections)
The Rise of Humanity
a. High Flight (2:52)
b. Binsey Poplars (4:13)
c. A Dirge (3:53)
Terra Nostra
Oratorio by Stacy Garrop
Çedille Records/2024
a. Midwestern University Symphony Orchestra Chorale & Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Uniting Voices, conductor: Stephen Alltop; text: John Gillespie Magee, Jr.; b. soprano: Michelle Areyzaga; mezzo-soprano: Leah Dexter; text: Gerard Manley Hopkins; c. Midwestern University Symphony Orchestra Chorale & Alice Millar Chapel Choir, Uniting Voices, conductor: Stephen Alltop; soprano: Michelle Areyzaga; mezzo-soprano: Leah Dexter; tenor: Jesse Donner; baritone: David Govertsen; text: Percy Bysshe Shelley; recorded at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois, February 6 & 8, 2023; selections time: 11:00

Thea Musgrave: Black Tambourine (selections)
I. North Labrador (2:54)
II. Legend (2:47)
III. Black Tambourine (1:38)
Choral Works
Bridge Records/2004
The New York Virtuoso Singers, conductor: Harold Rosenbaum; piano: Walter Hilse; percussion: Richard Fitz; percussion: Rex Benincasa; texts: Hart Crane, White Buildings; recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 1-3, 2002; composition year: 1986; selections time: 7:17

SET FOUR
Elliott Carter: Voyage
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 9
Bridge Records/2013
soprano: Tony Arnold; text: Hart Crane, White Buildings; Colorado College Festival Orchestra, conductor: Scott Yoo; recorded at Packard Hall, Colorado Springs, June 2007; composition year: 1943; time: 5:12

Howard Skempton: Bolt from the Blue (selections)
a. Starlight (1:22)
b. Music, when soft voices die (1:20)
Bolt from the Blue
Mode Records/2010
piano: Daniel Becker; Exaudi choir, conductor: James Weeks; b. text: Percy Bysshe Shelley; piano recorded at Potton Hall, Suffolk, UK, October 2, 2007; choir recorded at Silas Chalk Farm, London, September 26, 2007; a. composition year: 1996; b. composition year: 1992; selections time: 2:42

John Melby: For Milton
Milton Babbitt — A Composers’ Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
(for computer and soprano); soprano: Patricia Sonego; text: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais; computer: John Melby; composition year: 2011; time: 6:28 

SET FIVE
Mathew Rosenblum: The Loneliness One Dare Not Sound
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); text: Emily Dickinson; composition year: 2020; time: 4:21

Paula Matthusen: The Days are Nouns
Pieces for People
Innova Recordings/2015
(for two amplified vibraphones, feedback, and soprano); vibraphones: Manta Percussion; soprano: Jamie Jordan; text: common table prayer in Norwegian (fragmented); recorded at Traxler Studios, New York City, and Notre Dame of Mount Carmel Church, Cedar Knolls, New Jersey; July 2013; composition year: 2013: time: 6:33

Burr Van Nostrand: Light and Edgy, Placid*
Voyage in a White Building I
New World Records/2013
flute: Robert Stallman; cello: Jay Humeston; prepared piano: Herman Weiss; violin: Paul Severtson; NEC Chamber Ensemble, conductor: Anthony Coleman; theme: Hart Crane; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, October 8, 2012; composition year: 1969; time: 3:34
*from Voyage in a White Building I

Hour 3

SET SIX
Joseph Benzola: Second Meditation
Stained Glass Meditation*
Aminita Music/2024
piano: Joseph Benzola; time: 2:55
*inspired by the stained glass windows at the Church of St. Therese of Lisieux, Montauk, New York

John Cage: Tossed As It Is Untroubled (Meditation)
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Cage Edition 37 — The Works for Piano 8
Mode Records/2007
prepared piano: Philip Vandre; Complete Short Works recorded at Hessischer Broadcasting Concert Hall, Frankfurt, October, 2001 & January, 2002; Tossed composition year: 1943; time: 2:35

Halim El-Dabh: Meditation in White Sound
Crossing into the Electric Magnetic
Without Fear/2001
electronics on tape: Halim El-Dabh; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1959; time: 6:09

SINGLE PLAY
Hans Tutschku: Firmament — Schlaflos
Firmament
empreintes DIGITALes/2015
(for 16-channel fixed medium); electroacoustic music realized at at Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC), Cambridge, Massachusetts; voice: Sarah Maria Sun;  premiered at the Festival Inventionen in St. Elisabeth-Kirche, Berlin, July 29, 2010; composition year: 2010; excerpt time: 20:25

SET SEVEN
Francis Dhomont: Brief an Den Vater (Letter to His Father)
Etudes Pour Kafka
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
(for stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio Avignon, France, 2005; premiered at the trans_canada festival in the ZKM_Kubus of the Center for Arts and Media Technology Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 12, 2005; text: Franz Kafka; narration: Martin Engler; vocalizations, processed voice: Hans Tutschku; time: 17:02

Sarah Maria Sun: Herbst (Autumn) (H. Holliger)*
Modern Lied (various composers)
Mode Records/2017
soprano: Sarah Maria Sun; piano: Jan Philip Schulze; recorded at Studio 2, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, February 2016; composer: Heinz Holliger; composition years: 1956-1957; selection time: 2:36
*from Hans Holliger: Sechs Lieder nach den Gedichten von Christian Morgenstern (Six Songs after Christian Morgenstern)

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