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Martian Gardens Episode 1219
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 14, 2024 (files to be uploaded)
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Edward Smaldone: Beauty of Innuendo
What No One Else Sees…
New Focus Recordings/2024
Brno Philharmonic, conductor: Mikel Toms; title: Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird; recorded at Besední dům, Brno, Czech Republic, June 2013, composition year: 2013; time: 13:06

SET ONE
John Melby: Two Stevens Songs
I. A Postcard from the Volcano (4:24)
II. Domination of Black (4:55)
International Electronic Music (various composers)
Composer’s Recordings, Inc./1976
soprano: Phyllis Bryn-Julson; computer-synthesized tape: John Melby; texts: Wallace Stevens (I. 1923; II. 1916); composition year: 1975; realized at the Digital Recording Laboratory, University of Illinois, and Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton University; total time: 9:18

Juan J.G. Escudero: Páginas de Mar
Ice Door
Neuma Records/2024
violin: Emilie-Ann Gendron; cello: Christopher Gross; clarinet, bass clarinet: Benjamin Fingland; piano: Molly Morkoski; percussion: Josh Perry; conductor: Benjamin Grow; recorded at Dreamflower Acoustic, Bronxville, New York, January 8, 2024; composition year: 2024; time: 9:54

SET TWO
David Starobin: Four Stevens (M. Starobin) (selections)
I. Summer (The House was Quiet and the World was Calm) (4:33)
II. Autumn (Autumn Refrain) (2:29)
New Music with Guitar, Vol. 10 (various composers)
Bridge Records/2016
guitar: David Starobin; bariton: Patrick Mason; composer: Michael Starobin; texts: Wallace Stevens (I 1947, II 1932) ; composition year: 1992; time: 7:02

Meredith Monk: Songs of Ascension (selections)
a. Autumn Variation (2:48)
b. Fathom (4:37)
Songs of Ascension
ECM New Series/2011
a. violins: Todd Reynolds, Courtney Orlando; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; alto saxophone: Bohdan Hilash; percussion: John Hollenbeck; b. vocals, shruti box: Meredith Monk; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009; selections time: 7:25

Hour 2

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Lawrence Moss: Unseen Leaves
Unseen Leaves
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
(for soprano, oboe, tape, and slides); soprano: Ruth Drucker; oboe: James Ostryniec; commentary: Graydon Moss; Moog synthesizer on tape; Moog synthesizer designed by Joel Chadabe; texts: Walt Whitman, Unseen Buds (1891), Leaves of Grass (1855); principal recordings: RCA Studio A, New York City; composition year: 1975; time: 16:40

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Joel Chadabe: Follow Me Softly
CDCM Computer Music Series, Volume 24 (various artists)
The Composer in the Computer Age VII
Centaur Records/1997
(for percussion and Synclavier digital music system); percussion: Jan Williams; Synclavier; Joel Chadabe; recorded at SUNY Buffalo, November 1984; composition year: 1984; time: 16:17

SET THREE
Alejandro Núñez Allauca: Gravitación Humana
Tensions at the Vanguard (various artists)
New Music from Peru (1948–1979)
Pogus Productions/2012
(electronic music on tape); magnetic tape: Alejandro Núñez Allauca; recorded at Laboratorio de Música Electrónica del Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudio Musicales (CLAEM)*, Institute Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina; composition year: 1971; time: 13:55
*The Laboratory of Electronic Music at the Latin American Center for Higher Studies in Music

Jorge Sad Levi: La Danza Del Tutuguri
Retransmisión
Elektramusic/2020
acousmatic music performed by  Jorge Sad Levi and the Ensamble Gest (u) alt; based on Antonin Artaud’s “Pour finir avec le jugement de Dieu“; composition years: 2002-2005; time: 2:09

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Christopher Trapani: Decolonizing the Ear (selections)
a. Bali (2:44)
b. Hanoi (5:01)
Noise Uprising
A Polystylistic Atlas
New World Records/2024
a. vocal: Sophia Burgos; Zwerm Ensemble (small Thai gong, mbira: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe; đàn bầu (gourd zither): Toon Callier; lap steel guitar: Christopher Trapani; Stroh violin: Johannes Westendorp); text: Ngoréng jaja (poem, Bali, 1928); b. vocal: Sofia Jernberg; Zwerm Ensemble (electric guitar: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe; đàn bầu (gourd zither): Toon Callier; lap steel guitar, resonator guitar: Christopher Trapani; wooden sticks: Johannes Westendorp); text: Mưỡu, from poem Hồng Hồng Tuyết Tuyết by Dương Khuê; composition year: 2024; selections time: 7:45

Nguyen Huu Ba: Tu Dai Canh (Landscape of Four Generations) (trad.)
The Music of Vietnam (various artists)
Anthology of World Music — UNESCO Collection (1968-1987)
Rounder Records/1999
voice: Duong Thi Tuyet; two-stringed fiddle: Nguyen Huu Ba; zither: Buu Loc; lute: Nguyen Gia Cam; field recording from Huế, North Central Coastal region of Vietnam; time: 5:54

SINGLE PLAY
Joan La Barbara: Autumn Signal
The Early Immersive Music of Joan La Barbara
Mode Records/2017
(vocal music on 8 channels of tape); extended vocals, electroacoustic vocals, respirations, Buchla synthesizer: Joan La Barbara; premiered at Metamusic Festival, Berlin, October 22, 1978; new 2017 stereo mix; time: 13:18

SET FIVE
Hans Tutschku: Issho Ni (Together) (excerpt)
Firmament
empreintes DIGITALes/2015
(for 16-channel fixed medium — sound sources: songs and prayers from around the world); realized at Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC), Cambridge; premiered at the International House of Japan, Tokyo, May 21, 2014; excerpt time: 13:00 (00:00-13:00 of 30:00)

PAN Project Ensemble: The Naked Question
Borderless Flows
Neuma Records/2024
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; time: 5:31

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