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Martian Gardens Episode 1217
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 26, 2024 (files to be uploaded)
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Karl Kohn: Ternaries
I. Moderato (3:40)
II. Largo (4:07)
III. Adagio Molto (4:56)
Encounters
Complete Works for Flute
Bridge Records/2022
(for flute and piano); flute: Rachel Rudich; piano: Karl Kohn; recorded at Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1996; composition year: 1996; total time: 13:43

In memory of Karl Kohn (August 1, 1926 — November 18, 2024)

Roberta Michel: The Great Bridge and a Lion’s Gate (J. Baker)
Hush (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
piccolo, vocals: Roberta Michel; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, November 16 & 18, 2023; composer: Jen Baker; composition year: 2021; time: 7:47

SET TWO
Olivia De Prato: Fire in the Dark (J. Baker)
I, A.M. (various artists)
Artist Mother Project — New Works for Violin and Electronics
New World Records/2022
violin: Olivia De Prato; recorded in Vienna, September 3, 2021; composer: Jen Baker; composition year: 2020; time: 8:07

Bryan Hayslett: in manus tuas (C. Shaw)
Cello Unblocked (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
cello: Bryan Hayslett; recorded at the University of Miami Gusman Concert Hall, Frost School of Music, Miami, Florida, July 29-30, 2023; composer: Caroline Shaw; composition year: 2009; time: 8:05

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: Particle Dust*
Waves and Particles
Cold Blue Music/2024
The JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman; viola: John Richards; cello: Jay Campbell); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, June 2, 2023; composition year: 2021; time: 9:18
*Cantor Dust (Cantor Set)

Arditti Quartet: Adagissimo (B. Ferneyhough)
The Arditti Quartet 1974-1994
Montaigne Auvidis/1994
composer: Anton Webern; The Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, David Alberman; viola: Levine Andrade; cello: Rohan de Saram); recorded at St. Michael’s, Highgate, London, February 1990; composer: Brian Ferneyhough; composition year: 1984; total excerpts time: 1:48

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Tasa and Dol Drummers: Warring Rhythm
a. Basosoh (6:51)
b. Matam (Ali Mahatam) (4:42)
The Music of Islam Volume 15 (various artists)
Muslim Music of Indonesia: West Sumatra & Aceh
Celestial Harmonies/1997
Tabuik (tabut) drum group, director: Bp. M. Jaring; ceremony recorded at VII Koto Sungai Sarik, Padang Pariaman, West Sumatra, 1972; selections time: 11:33

Napoleon Strickland and Drummers: Hey Freddie
Troubled Waters (various artists)
Mississippi Records/2015
fife: Napoleon Strickland; field recording, date and location unlisted; time: 1:54

Napoleon Strickland and The Como Drum Corps: My Babe
Alan Lomax’s American Patchwork (various artists)
Mississippi Records/2021
fife: Napoleon Strickland; field recording, date and location unlisted; time: 2:28

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: Downtime
Open Space 48 (Forshee/Boretz)
Open Space/2021
(for piano and percussion ensemble); original computer-generated performance; composition year: 2005; time: 19:44

SET FIVE
Christopher Trapani: Mombasa*
Noise Uprising
A Polystylistic Atlas
New World Records/2024
Zwerm ensemble — mbira: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe; guembri (sintir): Toon Callier; mandole, shaker, rugalator (voodoo rattle), tin box: Christopher Trapani; microtonal Telecaster: Johannes Westendorp); recorded at Studio 3, DE SINGEL International Arts Center, Antwerp, Belgium, May 15-18, 2024; composition year: 2024; time: 5:40
*from The Polyphony of Colonial Ports

J.D. Parran: 3 x Spearman (for O’Hara)
Window Spirits — Solo
Mutable Music/2010
mbira, poetry, voice: J.D. Parran; time: 4:25

Third Coast Percussion: Chigwaya (trad.)
Paddle to the Sea (various composers)
Çedille Records/2018
percussion, mbira, thumb piano, vocals: TCP; traditional southern African work song; arr. Musekiwa Chingodza; total selections time: 4:57

Hour 3

SET SIX
Bernard Parmegiani: Strio
Stries — For 3 Synthesizers and Tape
Mode Records/2021
synthesizers: Collette Broeckaert, Sebastian Berweck; Martin Lorenz; recorded at Hertz-Lab ZKM, Center for Arts and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; composition year: 1980; time: 7:31

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Kurzwellen (selections)
a. Page 1 — Introduction Shortwave Radio Quartet (1:20)
b. Page 2 — Introduction Instrumental Quartet (1:40)
Kurzwellen
Mode Records/2018
(for six players with shortwave radio receivers and live electronics); C.L.S.I. Ensemble* (piano: Jacqueline Mefano; shortwave radio, ring modulation, filtering: Lissa Meridan, Gerard Pape; synthesizer, live electronics: Michael Kinney; shortwave radio, live electronics: Martin Phelps, Rodolphe Bourette; viola: Olga Krashenko; Tibetan bowls, live electronics: Stefan Tiedje); conductor: Paul Mefano; recorded at GRM Studios, Radio France, Paris, January 2012; composition year: 1968; selections time: 3:00
*Circle for the Liberation of Sound and Image

SINGLE PLAY
Wendy Carlos: Fall
Sonic Seasonings & Land of the Midnight Sun
East Side Digital/1998 (Sonic Seasonings orig. Columbia LP/1972)
synthesizers, electronics, processing: Wendy Carlos; production: Rachel Elkind; composition year: 1972; time: 21:06

SINGLE PLAY
James O’Callaghan: Empties-Impetus
Espaces tautologiques
empreintes DIGITALes/2016
(4-channel fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2014-2015; completed at the Studios of the GRM (Groupe de recharches musicales), 2015; premiered at the Multiphonies series presented by Ina-GRM, Auditorium Saint-Germain, MPAA (la Maison des Pratiques Artistiques Amateurs), July 24, 2015; time: 20:02

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