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Martian Gardens Episode 1221
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 23, 2024 
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(Hour 3 postponed due to software failure)

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
David Starobin: Four Stevens (M. Starobin) (selections)
III. Winter (The Snow Man) (3:39)
IV. Spring (Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself) (4:24)
New Music with Guitar, Vol. 10 (various composers)
Bridge Records/2016
guitar: David Starobin; baritone: Patrick Mason; composer: Michael Starobin; texts: Wallace Stevens (III. 1921; IV. 1954); recorded at Eglise de Mont St. Guibert, Belgium, November, 1995; composition year: 1992; time: 8:03

SET ONE
Kate Soper: Romance of the Rose (selections)
a. A Volunteer (4:07)
b. The Garden (3:12)
c. Narcissus (3:23)
The Romance of the Rose
An Opera
New Focus Recordings/2024
The Romance of the Rose — tenor: Lucas Steele; baritone: Phillip Bullock; soprano: Anna Schubert; mezzo-soprano: Devony Smith; soprano: Ariadne Greif; baritone: Ty Bouque; The Wet Ink Ensemble (clarinets: Rane Moore; saxophones: Erin Rogers; piano, keyboard: Laura Barger; percussion: Ian Antonio; violin, viola: Modney; cello: Michael Nicolas; electric guitar: James Moore; harp: Jacqueline Kerrod; electronics: Sam Pluata), conductor: Eric Wubbels; libretto: Kate Soper; inspiration: Le Roman de La Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun; additional texts: Christine de Pizan, Christina Rossetti, William Shakespeare, Alfred Lord Tennyson; recorded at Oktaven Audio, August 11-13, 2023; composition year: 2021; selections time: 10:42

Mark Applebaum: Narcissus ReMix
The Janus ReMixes
Exercises in auto-plundering
Innova Recordings/1999
(electroacoustic music — sounds sourced from Applebaum’s Narcissus: Strata/Panacea for solo marimba); computer: Mark Applebaum; time: 5:34

SET TWO
Juraj Kojš & Pioneer Winter Collective: Barbara
Birds of Paradise
Neuma Records/2025
electronic music: Juraj Kojš; spoken word: Barbara Meulener (Pioneer Winter Collective); Birds of Paradise songs and dances premiered in Miami, 2021; time: 7:31

Laurie Anderson: Mister Hearbreak (selections)
a. Langue d’Amour (6:12)
b. Excellent Birds (3:12)*
Mister Heartbreak
Warner Bros./1984
a. vocals, Synclavier, vocoder, electronic conches: Laurie Anderson; backing vocals: Peter Gabriel; b. vocals, Synclavier: Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel; electric bass guitar: Bill Laswell; Peter Gabriel: Linn drum; electric guitar: Nile Rodgers; recorded in New York City, 1983; selections time: 9:24
*L. Anderson/P. Gabriel

Paul Lansky: Barbara Allen (trad.)
Folk Images
Bridge Records/1995
computer music: Paul Lansky; Princeton University, 1991, time: 3:29

Hour 2

SET THREE
Daniel Lippel: Neñia (Canción Fúnebre) (P. Gilbert)
Adjacence (various artists)
New Chamber Music for Guitar
New Focus Recordings/2024
soprano: Elizabeth Weigle; guitar: Daniel Lippel; text: Carlos Guido y Spano, Neñia; recorded Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, January 26, 2020; composer: Peter Gilbert; composition year: 2005; time: 6:08

Natalia Cappa: De los Sos Ojos (D. Tedesco)
Una (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for solo voice); soprano: Natalia Cappa; texts: Cantar de mio Cid; Marco Polo, “Kublai Khan,” Amancio Prada, “Romance del Prisionero; structural inspiration: Macedonio Fernández, “Museo de la Novela de la Eterna; Manuel Puig, “The Buenos Aires Affair; composer: Diego Tedesco; composition year: 2023; time: 11:35

Leopoldo La Rosa: Andes No. 1, 1969 (Fragment)
Tensions at the Edge (various artists)
New Music from Peru (1948-1979) 
Pogus Productions/2012
(for orchestra); National Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Leopoldo La Rosa; premiered in Lima, 1970; composition year: 1969; time: 4:17

SET FOUR
Jeremy Beck: The Highway — An Opera Noir (Excerpts) (selections)
a. Prelude (1:37)
b. The Highway on the Left — Get the hell back! (7:12)
Song of the Sky
Neuma Records/2025
soprano: Emily Albrink (as Melody); tenor: Robert Frankenberry (as Dave); baritone: Chad Sloan (as James); libretto: Jeremy Beck; Sofia Session Orchestra, conductor: Lyubomir Denev, Jr.; electric guitar: Seth Thomas; recorded at TNT Studios, Louisville, Kentucky, 2022; composition year: 1992; selections time: 8:49

Martin Bresnick: Fantasia on a theme by Willie Dixon*
My Twentieth Century
New World Records/2005
Povera Players (piano: Lisa Moore; bass clarinet: Meighan Stoops; drum set: John Ferrari; vibraphone: Jason Treuting; keyboards: Marija Ilic; guitar: Mark Stewart; violin: Jeannine Wynton); recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University School of Music, September 24, 2003; composition year: 2001; time: 9:19
*based on Dixon’s song “Spoonful”

Marco Capelli: A Bright Moon Makes a Little Daytime: Hammertones (N. Didkovsky)
EGP — Extreme Guitar Project (various composers)
Music from Downtown New York
Mode Records/2006
guitar: Marco Capelli; composer: Nick Didkovsky; time: 3:03

Nick Didkovsky: A Fire in God’s Path
The $100 Guitar Project (various artists)
Bridge Records/2013
electric guitar: Nick Didkovsky; time: 0:40

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Terry Riley: Bird of Paradise (selections)
a. Part 4 (1:20)
b. Part 5 (6:04)
Music for the Gift
Organ of Corti/1998
tape assemblage: Terry Riley; sound source: Junior Walker, Shotgun; recorded at the composer’s home studio, San Francisco, 1965; selections time: 7:24

David Lee Myers: Replication of Masks
(re) visitation
Pulsewidth/2024
electronics, mixing: David Lee Myers; time: 9:30

SET SIX
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: 17:00 (13:00-30:00 of 30:00)

J.K. Randall: Three works for MIDI (2 & 3)
a. My Prayer for Bella (4:10)
b. The Persistence of Memory, for Giselle (3:15)
Open Space 39 (Boretz/Randall/Hicks)
Open Space/2019
MIDI-generated electronic music: Jim Randall; composition years: c. 2009-2012; total time: 7:35

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