Martian Gardens, Valley Free Radio Edition, May 19, 2016

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SET ONE
Milton Babbitt: Philomel
Philomel
New World Records/1995
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: Milton Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: John Hollander (based on Ovid's "Philomela"), created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964: time: 18:47

IN OBSERVANCE OF THE CENTENNIAL OF MILTON BABBITT

Lou Cohen: Shape05
Music
Pogus Productions/2013
computer, MIDI keyboard: Lou Cohen; time: 6:52

SET TWO
Brian Eno: In Dark Trees
Another Green World
EG Editions/1987 (orig. Island LP/1975)
rhythm generator, percussion, electric guitar: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Studios, London, Summer 1975; time: 2:29

Robert Scott Thompson: In the Shade of Brilliant Trees
Shadow Gazing
Aucourant Records/1994
computer, sampled flute, harp, violin, piano; composition year: 1988-1994; time: 3:05

David Toop: Breathing Chaos
Museum of Fruit (Architettura Series Volume 3)
Caipirinha Productions/1999
synthesizers, electronics, keyboards, flutes, percussion: David Toop; recorded in London, Fall 1998; total selections time: 8:02

Brian Eno: Complex Universe
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Warp Records/2010
computer: Brian Eno; piano, keyboards, electronics: John Hopkins; guitar, laptop, guitarnet: Leo Abrahams; time: 3:05

Robert Scott Thompson: Snapshot
Shadow Gazing
Aucourant Records/1994
computer, sampled flute, harp, violin, piano; composition year: 1988-1994; time: 2:26

Victoria Fenner: The Queen of Bees
Deep Wireless 3 -- Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
field recordings, bee sounds; apiological commentary (no time or place of recordings noted); composition year: 2006; time: 6:02

Chris Watson: selections from Outside the Circle of Fire
a. Vultures (3:22)
b. Unidentified pair of birds (1:35)
c. Woodpigeon (0:20)
d. Southern right whale (0:13)
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch Records/1998
a. nine birds feeding on a Zebra carcass, Aitong Plains, Kenya, September 1994; recorded at Nancite, Costa Rica, February 1995; wings in flight recorded at Coille Na Uladh, Glen Alfric, Scotland, July 1995; recorded surfacing at Valdes Peninsula, Argentina, August 1997; total selections time: 5:28

SET THREE
Laurie Anderson: selections from Heart of a Dog
a. Iron Mountain (3:03)
b. How to Feel Sad Without Being Sad (2:06)
c. The West Village (1:42)
d. Life Lived Backwards (2:23)
Heart of a Dog
Nonesuch Records/2015
All words, music, and performance: Laurie Anderson; recorded in New York City, 2015; total selections time: 9:18

Elizabeth Brown: Arcana
Mirage
New World Records/2013
(for flute and recorded sounds); flute: Elizabeth Brown; recorded in Brooklyn, New York, 2004; composition year: 9:32

SET FOUR
Euardo Reck Miranda: Entre o Absurdo e o Mistério
Plural (Miranda/Correa)
Fumproarte/2004
(for chamber orchestra); The Contemporary Music Group; conductor: Stephen Davismoon; recorded at Reid Concert Hall, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1995; composition year: 1993; time: 8:43

Benjamin Boretz: Group Variations I, for Chamber Orchestra
BENJAMINBORETZ9X9 (various artists)
Open Space/2016
The Group for Contemporary Music, conductor: Charles Wuorinen; recorded at Town Hall, New York City, November 24, 1968; composition year: 1967; time: 14: 14

SET FIVE
Ursula Mamlok: Haiku Settings
I. So cold are the waves (0:40)
II. When a nightingale sang (0:36)
III. A leaf is falling (1:05)
IV. A tree frog slowly begins (0:35)
V. How cool the green hay smells (2:59)
Music of Ursula Mamlok Vol. 1
Bridge Records/2009
soprano: Tony Arnold; flute: Claire Chase; text: Ransetsu; recorded at the Performing Arts Center, SUNY, Purchase, August 22, 2007; composition year: 1967; total time: 6:14

IN MEMORIAM URSULA MAMLOK (FEBRUARY 1, 1923 -- MAY 4, 2016)

John Cage: Seven Haiku
a. Haiku I (0:17)
b. Haiku II (0:19)
c. Haiku III (0:17)
d. Haiku IV (0:16)
e. Haiku V (0:17)
f. Haiku VI (0:16)
c. Haiku VII (0:15)
The Works for Piano 6
Mode Records/2005
piano: Martin Joste; recorded at Forum Culturel, Le Blanc-Mesnil, France, July 2003; composition year: 1952; total time: 2:14

John Cage: selections from Chorals
a. 0:42
b. 0:31
c. 0:53
The Works for Violin 5
Mode Records/2003
violin: Irvin Arditti; recorded at Sendesaal de Hessischen Rundfunk, Frankfurt, September 1999; composition year: 1978; total selections time: 2:05

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