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Martian Gardens Episode 1173
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 11, 2023
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Louis Karchin: Processions
Keyboards/Winds
Bridge Records/2023
organ: Carson Cooman; recorded at Memorial Church, Harvard University; composition years: 2007, 2021; time: 7:15

SET ONE
Eric Moe: Strenuous Pleasures
Strenuous Pleasures
New Focus Recordings/2023
Da Capo Chamber Players (flutes: Patricia Spencer; clarinet: Carol McGonnell; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Chris Gross; percussion: Michael Lipsey; piano: Steven Beck); recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, March 22, 2019; composition year: 2010; time: 10:53

Laura Karpman: Now All Set
Milton Babbitt (various artists)
A Composers’ Memorial
Open Space/2012
(for jazz ensemble); saxophone, woodwinds: Mark Small; vibraphone: Nathan Skinner; percussion: Daniel Susnjar; saxophone: Gary Keller; trombone: Dante Luciani; piano: Shelton G. Berg; bass: Chuck Bergeron; composition year: 2011; time: 10:05

SET TWO
Erik Carlson: All Set (M. Babbitt)
Slowly Expanding Milton Babbitt Album
Erik Carlson’s Bandcamp/2018
saxophones: Ryan Muncy; trumpet: Samuel Ewens; trombone: Dave Nelson; bass: Kathryn Schulmeister; drums: Andrew Munsey; vibraphone: Sean Dowgray; piano: Aleck Karis; composer: Milton Babbitt; composition year: 1957; time: 7:01

Bill Evans Trio: T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune)
On a Friday Evening
Craft Recordings/2021
piano: Bill Evans; acoustic bass: Eddie Gomez; drums: Eliot Zigmund; recorded at Oil Can Harry’s, June 20, 1975, Vancouver, BC; composition year: 1971; time: 5:10

John McDonald: selections from At All Device
a. Held Dear (2:00)
b. Offering in Tribute (3:05)
c. Deep Disappointment (2:32)
At All Device
David Holzman Plays Music by John McDonald
Bridge Records/2020
piano: David Holzman; recorded at Distler Performance Hall, Tufts University, 2017; composer: John McDonald; composition years: a. (Op. 614, No. 7) 2017; b. (Op. 420, No. 6) 2006; c. Op. 614, No. 2) 2017; total selections time: 7:37

Hour 2

SET THREE
Linda Dusman: Dream Prayer Lullaby
Flashpoint
Neuma Records/2023
violin: Airi Yoshioka; recorded at Linehan Concert Hall, University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 2018; time: 8:30

Chaya Czernowin: String Quartet
Afatsim
Mode Records/1999
Arditti String Quartet (violins: Irivne Arditti, Graeme Jennings; viola: Garth Knox; cello: Rohan de Saram); recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, Darmstadt, Germany, 1996; composition year: 1995; time: 12:30

SET FOUR
Tom Chiu: Into the Forest
The LIVE One
XI Records/2021
violin: Tom Chiu; mix, sound design, sequencing: Terence Pender; time: 12:30

Peter Gena: Dihydrotestosterone
Beethoven in SoHo
New World Records/2023
digitally synthesized DNA sequence; DNA consultant: Charles M. Strom, PhD, MD; composition year: 2000; time: 7:55

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Dr. Ox: Anchor Synthesis
Dr. Ox
Cyclng ’74/2008
cello: Tanja Orning; computer: Natasha Barrett; recorded at NOTAM, Oslo, 2006; time: 8:09

Hour 3

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Philip Blackburn: Ordo
Ordo
Neuma Records/2023
voice: Ryland Angel; veena: Nirmala Rajasekar; instruments, electronics: Philip Blackburn; text: Aaron Freeman, Why You Want a Physicist at Your Funeral; recorded at Beatntrack Studio, Fallbrook, California, November, 2022-March, 2023; time: 19:35

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Hildegurls: Electric Ordo Virtutum, Act IV
Electric Ordo Virtutum
Innova Recordings/2009
Hildegurls (Kitty Brazelton, Lisa Bielawa, Eve Beglarian, Elaine Kaplinsky); voices: Hildegurls; Act IV — programming assistance (MIDI wands): John Halle; DX-7 synthesizer sample: David First; text: HIldegard Von Bingen, Ordo Virtutum; Act IV, composers: Hildegard/Hildegurls/Elaine Kaplinsky); premiered at Lincoln Center Festival 1998; time: 19:52

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Marcelle Deschênes: Le bruit des ailes
petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
(for stereo fixed media); realized at the Bruit blanc studio and the PRIM, (centre d’arts médiatiques) Studio, Montreal; premiered at the Notre-Dame-de-Jacques-Cartier Church, Quebec City, November 2, 2002; final mastering: Dominique Bassal, 2005; time: 10:54

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