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Martian Gardens Episode 1174
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 19, 2023
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Hour 1

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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Klavierstück X
Stockhausen & Beethoven
Bridge Records/2023
piano: Mark Ponthus; recorded at the Concert Hall, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, September 2021; composition year: 1955; time: 21:42

SET ONE
Linda Dusman: and numberless quotidian happenings
Flashpoint
Neuma Records/2023
bass drum, voice: Tom Goldstein; text: Serena Hilsinger, Salvage; recorded at Linehan Concert Hall, University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 2022; time: 7:16

Stuart Saunders Smith: Tunnels
Crux
O.O. Discs/1992
(for musician/actor); percussion/actor: Tom Goldstein; composition year: 1982; time: 7:06

Philip Perkins: Gongo E
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: 3:26

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Robert Gross: Essay for Autoharp and Electronics
Penumbra
New Focus Recordings/2023
autoharp, electronics: Robert Gross; recorded at the composer’s studio, Anderson, Indiana, December 15, 2022; composition year: 2021; time: 10:07

Hour 2

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Brian Baumbusch: selections from Prisms for Gene Davis
a. Prism 6 (Penta) (3:11)
b. Prism 7 (Hexa) (4:56)
c. Prism 8 (Tetra) (1:49)
Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet
New World Records/2023
Nata Swara gamelan group, director: I Putu Adi Septa Seweca Putru (Putu Septa); recorded at Sanggar Nata Swara, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, January 2022; composition years: 2018-2021; total selections time: 9:53

SET TWO
Pande Made Sukerta: Mana 689
Mana 689 (various artists)
New Music Indonesia Vol. 2 (Central Java)
Lyrichord/1989
instrumentation: vocal mantram, bomboo gong, kecapi, pebbles, tin sheet, marbles, glass bottles, children’s voices, saluang, sruling, kendang, terbang, rebana, bedug drums; players: I Gede Pujo, I Nyoman Murtana, Sunardi, I Nengah Muliana, Cacup Cahpiper, I Ketut Saba, Pande Made Sukerta, Nyoman Angkus Pramana, Suara, Ketut Guru Arta Laras, Rafiloza; production: Larry Polansky, Jody Diamond; recorded at PN Lokananta Studios, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, July 21, 1989; time: 10:35

Marcelle Deschênes: Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles (1st 1/2)
a. Le monde est une goutte d’eau et (Lucia di Lammermoor)
b. Naissance des roches molles
c. Puce: Zig!… Zig! Zig!… Tu es là?… Es-tu blessé?  Zig: Je ne crois pas. Je suis tombé sur une chose molle…
d. Insectes secs — bâiller aux corneille
e. Étoile variable
f. Insectes (amertubes): boire la mer avec une paille
g. Étoile double
h. Jeu: vers une synchronisation
i. Si by the Sea
petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
(for 2 clarinets, 3 trombones, 3 percussions, toys, and fixed media); clarinets: Pierre Langevin; trombones: Réjean Marois; percussion, toys: Robert Leroux, René Joly, Raynald Lévesque, Robert Pelletier; electroacoustic music realized at Laval University, Quebec City, 1976; premiered at Pollack Hall, McGill University, Montreal, March 18, 1976; this recording made by Jean Corriveau, Studio Jean Sauvageau, Montreal, 1978; remastered by Dominique Bassal, 2005; total time: 11:00

SET THREE
Philip Blackburn: Weft Sutra
Ordo
Neuma Records/2023
veena: Niramala Rajasekar; bowed electric guitars: Philip Blackburn, Glen Whitehead, Michael Miler; Ryann Daisy Swimmer; Haley Olson, Jeff Johnson; recording locations: University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, September 10, 2021; The Waves, Minneapolis, December 15, 2021; composition years: 2021, 2023; time: 7:35

Jerome Cooper: The Indonesian
In Concert — From There to Hear
Mutable Music/2001
percussion, keyboards, electronic instruments: Jerome Cooper; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, May 28, 1998; time: 4:09

Hour 3

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No World (Trio): My Friend
No World (Trio) Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1992
African percussion: Mor Thiam; reeds, mukha veena (double reed): Joseph Celli; komungo: Jin Hi Kim; time: 9:20

SET FOUR
Gerald Eckert: Absence — traces éloignées
Absence
Mode Records/2020
(for four piccolos and two percussionists); Ensemble Reflexion K (piccolos: Beatrix Wagner; Rebecca Lenton, percussions: Johannes Fischer), conductor: Gerald Eckert; recrorded at St. Nicolaikirche,  Eckernförde, Germany, November 9, 2017; composition year: 2007; time: 12:04

Steve Peters: Chamber Music IV — Filtered Light
Chamber Music
ANTS Records/2023
4-channel audio installation; source recording: Manuel Rettinger; presented at the John and Donald Robb Symposium; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, spring 2008; time: 9:07

SET FIVE
Doug Bielmeier: Throwaway Culture
Music for Billionaires
New Focus Recordings/2023
electroacoustic music, recording, mixing: Doug Bielmeier; mastering; Ryan Streber, Oktaven Audio, July 2023; time: 5:33

Richard Pinhas: selections from DWW
a. Ballade pour Frédéric Magnus (5:16)
b. The Joe Chip Song (Quartet part 4) (5:06)
DWW
Cuneiform Records/1992
a. synthesizers, electric guitar: Richard Pinhas; electric guitar: Bernard Paganotti; Roland synth guitar: Alain Bellaich; synthesizers, piano, drums: Patrick Gauthier; b. synthesizers, digital effects: Richard Pinhas; synthesizer programming and orchestration: J. Phillipe Goude, The Paris Opera String Quartet; recorded at Heldon Studio and Ramsés Studios, 1983-1991; total selections time: 10:22

Philip Glass: Freezing
Songs from Liquid Days
CBS/1986
The Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Michael Riesman; The Kronos String Quartet; vocals: Linda Ronstadt; lyrics: Suzanne Vega; recorded at the Living Room, New York City, time: 3:16

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