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Martian Gardens Episode 1172
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 31, 2023
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Fred Lerdahl: Embedded Loops (Inner Life, Mvt. I)
Fred Lerdahl Volume Seven
Bridge Records/2023
(for two pianos); Quattro Mani (pianos: Jeremy Beck, Susan Grace); recorded at Klavierhaus, New York City, January 2023; composition years: 2020-2022; selection time: 19:15

SET ONE
Peter Gena: Beethoven in SoHo
Beethoven in SoHo
New World Records/2023
(for two pianos, bass guitar); piano 1: Joseph Kubera; piano 2: Anthony De Mare; bass guitar: Gregory Chudzik; recorded at Oktoaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, April 21-22, 2023; composition: 1980; time: 9:52

Jennifer Jolley: Lilac Tears
Project Encore, Vol. 1 (various composers)
Neuma Records/2022
saxophones: Timothy McAllister; piano: Liz Ames; recorded at Stamps Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 24-25, 2022; composition year: 2022; time: 3:04

Richard Beaudoin: Reproducció (after Casals/Bach)
Digital Memory and the Archive
New Focus Recordings/2023
cellos: Neil Heyde, Rohan de Saram; HMV Wilson Peck portable grammophone, model 102, no. 5b soundbox (c. 1936); recorded at Hastoe Village Hall, near Tring, Hertfordshire, UK, November 15-16, 2021; time: 6:01

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Neil B. Rolnick: Ever Livin’ Rhythm
ElectriCity
O.O. Discs/1992
(for percussion and electronic processing); percussion: Gordon Gottlieb (from the New York New Music Ensemble); composition year: 1977; recorded at Chelsea Sound Studios, New York City, January 21, 1983; time: 8:56

Hour 2

SET TWO
Christopher Chandler: These Old Roots
Roots (Chandler/Stebbins)
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for percussion and computer); percussion: Megan Arms (from the Switch~Ensemble); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, October 8-9, 2021; composition year: 2017; time: 12:07

Roland Auzet: Metallic Cristal (K. Tanaka)
Percussion (s) [boxed set]
Mode Records/2008
(for percussion and electronics); percussion:  Roland Auzet; electronics realized at and percussion performed at IRCAM, La Muse en Circuit, Atelier en Bel Air, Alfortville, France; composer: Karen Tanaka; composition year: 1995; time: 9:26

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: Thunder
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies
Cantaloupe Music/2006
percussion: Steven Schick; recorded at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks; 2002-2003; composition year: 2002; time: 8:41

Sō Percussion: selections from Threads (P. Lansky)
a. Chorus (2:14)
b. Aria (2:41)
c. Recitative 2:24)
d. Chorus (2:16)
Sō Percussion — Paul Lansky’s Threads
Cantaloupe Music/2010
Sō Percussion (Eric Beach, Jason Treuting, Josh Quillen, Adam Silwinski); principal recordings: Avatar Studios, New York City, 2008; composer: Paul Lansky; composition year: 2005; total selections time: 9:35

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Gondang Sabangunan: selections from Toba
a. Alu-alu tu Mula Jadi na Bolon* (5:06)
b. Malim (2:57)
c. Hata sopsik** (4:44)
Batak — Music of North Sumatra
New Albion Records/1992
(music for gongs, drums, and oboe); Gondang Sabangunan ensemble; recorded in North Sumatra; total selections time: 12:47
* Three announcements at the start of the ceremony: to the Creator, to the leaders, to the participants
** Gondang naposo, youth music

Hour 3

SET FOUR
New Music Group: King of Handcuffs (Ragtime for Harry) (A. Strange)
Night of the Living Composers (various composers)
New Music Group/2005
members of the New Music Group (flute: Teresa Orozco Peterson; clarinet: Matt Ingalls; percussion: Jim Kassis, Ward Spangler; violin: Cynthia Baehr; cello: Ari Di Salvio; tenor, narration: Brian Staufenbiel), conductor: Philip Collins; recorded at the Music Center Recital Hall, University of California Santa Cruz, January 31, 2004; composer, text: Allen Strange; composition year: 2000; time: 11:25

Allen Strange: selections from Sleeping Beauty
a. Flying (3:44)
b. Dream of Fools (Waltz) (4:34)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 18 (various artists)
the composer in the computer age iii
Centaur Records/1994
(for amplified violin and computer-generated sounds); violin: Pat Strange; recorded at CREAM (Center for Research in Electroacoustic Music); San Jose State University School of Music, November 1993; composition years: 1988-1992; total time: 8:18

SET FIVE
Lea Boudreau: Recovery
Limaçon
empreintes DIGITALes/2023
(stereo fixed media); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2018; premiered at the Ultrasons festival at Salle Claude-Champagne of the University of Montreal; time: 7:16

Philip Perkins: uhoh C
Undanceable — Musical Sound Scores for Dance 2022-23
Artifact Recordings/2023
all sounds and composition: Philip Perkins; recorded at the composer’s studio, San Francisco; music created for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet; time: 2:18

Steve Peters: Chamber Music I: Suyama
Chamber Music
ANTS Records/2023
for 10-channel audio + visual installation; presented as part of Uprising with artist Rick Araluce, Suyama Space, Seattle, exhibited 2012; time: 6:14

Jon Christopher Nelson: Ripples in the Fabric of Space Time
The Persistence of Time and Memory
Neuma Records/2023
(for stereo fixed media); Jon Christopher Nelson; recorded at the composer’s studio, Denton, Texas; The Persistence of Time and Memory cycle composition years: 2021-2023; Ripples time: 7:52

SINGLE PLAY
Gordon Mumma: Greys
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 (boxed set)
New World Records/2002
electronic music for film: Gordon Mumma; performed at the ONCE Festival, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; February 16, 1963; composition year: 1963; time: 3:19

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