Martian Gardens for February 11, 2016

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SET ONE
Michael Byron: As She Sleeps
Awakening At the Inn of the Birds
Cold Blue Music/2003
piano: Sarah Cahill; recorded at Bay Records, Berkeley, December 2002; composition year: 2000; time: 3:18

Mary Kathleen Ernst: Keeping Time (V. Fung)
Keeping Time
Innova Recordings/2014
piano: Mary Kathleen Ernst; composer: Vivian Fung; recorded at Reston, Virginia, composition year: 2011; time: 3:49

SET TWO
Paul Lansky: Contemplating Weather (excerpts)
IX. Snow Arithmetic (4:20)
X. Stratus (1:55)
XI. Chorales (4:58)
Contemplating Weather
Bridge Records/2015
(for SATB chorus and eleven instruments); Western Michigan University Chorale with Birds On A Wire ensemble, conductor: Kimberly Dunn Adams; recorded at Western Michigan University Dalton Center, Kalamazoo, February 27-28, 2014; composition year: 2013; excerpts time: 11:15

Judith Shatin: Time to Burn
Time to Burn
Innova Recordings/2014
oboe: Aaron Hill; percussion: I-Jen Fang, Mike Schultz; recorded at Charlottesville, Virginia, composition year: 2006; time: 10:25

SET THREE
Beth Anderson: New Mexico Swale
Swales and Angels
New World Records/2004
flute, piccolo: Andrew Bolotowski; violin: Dink Van den Hauwe; viola: Mark Sonnaert; cello: Ilia Laporev; percussion: David Rozenblatt: conductor: Gary M. Schneider; recorded at Studio C, Mirror Image, New York City, November 20-21, 2003; composition year: 1995; time: 10:23

Chou Wen-chung: Ode to Eternal Pine
Eternal Pine
New World Records/2015
Boston Musica Viva (flute: Ann Bobo, clarinet: William Kirkley, piano: Geoffrey Burleson, violin: Bayla Keyes, cello: Jan Muller-Szeraws; percussion: Robert Schulz, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded at Fraser Performance Studio, WGBH, Boston, November 19, 2012; composition year: 2009; time: 14:32

SET FOUR
Jorge Antunes: Invocação em defesa da máquina
I. A máquina não desumanziza a música (2:35)
II. Reflexão (1:03)
III. A música humaniza a máquina (5:13)
In Defense of the Machine
Pogus Productions/2013
(for 4 percussionists, 4 metronomes, and electronic sounds); percussion: Adriano Letzel, Arturo Uribe, Bruno Cabrera, Catarina Percinio, Clenio Henrique, Rosângela Rhafaelle, Rubens Lopes, Sérgio Coutinho; recorded at Teatro Maria de Lourdes Sekeff, the Art Institute of UNESP, São Paulo, March 27, 2010; composition year: 1968; total time: 8:51

Juan Blanco: Música para Danza
Nuestro Tiempo (Our Time)
Innova Recordings/2013
sine-wave generator, tape dubbing: Juan Blanco; composition year: 1961; time: 5:28

Martin Alejandro Fumarola: El peregrinar de la araña
Travels of the Spider (various artists)
Pogus Productions/1998
computer, tone generator: Martin Alejandro Fumarola; recorded at de Laboratorio de Musica Electroacústica, National University of Córdoba, Argentina, 1995; time: 4:10

Craig Dongoski & Robert Scott Thompson: The Larval Staircase
Orbital Lullaby
Aucourant Records/2011
electronics: Craig Dongoski, Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at RST's studio, Roswell Georgia; time: 2:25

James Tenney: Ergodos II
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
computer music on stereo magnetic tape; composition year: 1964; time: 4:02

SET FIVE
Linda Dusman: Miss Furr and Miss Skeene
I Need No Words
Neuma Records/2013
voice: Wendy Salkind; percussion: Tom Goldstein; text: Gertrude Stein, 1922; composition year: 2010; time: 15:05

Stuart Sunders Smith: Tunnels
Crux
O.O. Discs/1992
percussion/actor: Thomas Goldstein; composition year: 1982; time: 7:06

SET SIX
Ulrich Krieger: Il cimitero chiuso
[urban dreamings]
Mode Records/2015
(for amplified chamber ensemble); Sonic Boom ensemble (contrabass clarinet: Alex Sramek, trumpet: Chris Kallmyer, tuba: Luke Storm, accordion: Robert Altaire, piano innards: Emi Tamura, percussion: Lydia Martin, cello: Aniela Marie Perry, contrabass: Jake Rosenzweig; recorded at CalArts, ROD, Valencia California, 2011; composition years: 1997, 2011; time: 7:16

Ulrich Krieger: Desert Center
(from RAW: Desert Towns of Southern California (Universe series, part 2) 
/RAW: ReSpace/
Pogus Productions/2015
electronic tenor saxophone, saxophone-controlled feedback, pedals, delays, 1/4-inch jack cable: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at π-Farm, Acton, California, 2013; mixed and mastered at TV Tray Studios, Ventura, California, 2014-2015; time: 12:43

SET SEVEN
Philip Mantione: Traffic for Strings
Traffic for Strings CD-R
Philip Mantione/2005
SEM Ensemble, conducted by Petr Kotik; recorded at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, 2005; time 11:54

Thomas Buckner: Luminescence, Movement I (A. Lockwood)
New Music for Baritone & Chamber Ensemble
Mutable Music/2008
baritone: Thomas Buckner; SEM Ensemble (flute: Helen Richman, trumpet: Kyle Resnick, viola: Lev Zhurbin; cello: Ariane Lallemand; piano: Joseph Kubera, percussion, Chris Nappi, conductor: Petr Kotik; recorded at Systems II, Brooklyn, composer: Annea Lockwood; text: Etel Adnan; composition year: 2004; time: 7:13

Harry Partch: The Rose
from Eleven Intrusions
Newband: Harry Partch/Dean Drummond
Innova Recordings/2001
bass-baritone: Robert Osborne; Newband playing on Partch instruments; director: Dean Drummond; text: Ella Young; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2000; composition years: 1949-1950; time: 2:02

Thomas Newman/Rick Cox: Goldmine Nectarine
35 Whirlpools Below Sound
Cold Blue Music/2014
piano, phase metals, sound effects, processing: Thomas Newman, Rick Cox; recorded in Pacific Palisades, California; time: 3:53

Artemiy Artemiev & Christopher De Laurenti: Recalibration
57 Minutes to Silence
Electroshock Records/2002
electronics, computer, synthesizers: Artemiy Artemiev, Christopher De Laurenti; recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, January 2002; time: 7:10

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