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Martian Gardens Episode 1176
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
December 10, 2023
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Hour 1

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Douglas Boyce: A Book of Songs
I. A Feather for Voltaire (8:06)
II. The Apple Orchard in October (6:30)
III. Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et les Unze Millie Vierges (6:35)
The Bird is an Alphabet
New Focus Recordings/2023
tenor: Robert Baker; piano: Molly Orlando; texts: a. Jorie Graham; b. B.J. Ward; c. Wallace Stevens; recorded at Sono Luminus, Boyer, Virginia, June 11, 2019; composition year: 2017; total time: 21:11

SET ONE
Lindsey Goodman: I Asked You (T. Zilincik)
I. Everything I Love (2:27)
II. I Play Music (5:27)
Returning to Heights Unseen (various composers)
New Music for Flute
Navona Records/2018
(for solo flute and fixed media); flute: Lindsey Goodman; recorded at Tuff Sound Recording, Pittsburgh, December 13, 2016; composer: Tony Zilincik; composition year: 2016; total time: 7:54

Abel Ehrlich: The Dream About Strange Terrors
Composing Israel (various artists)
The First Three Generations
Neuma Records/2023
flutes: Elizabeth Brightbill, Deanna Matthews Kilbourne; premiered at the New Music from Israel Concert, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, 1987; composition year: 1986; time: 3:00

Henry Brant: selections from Ghosts and Gargoyles
III. 1:02
IV. 2:07
V. 2:24
VI. 0:51
VII. 0:20
Music for Massed Flutes
New World Records/2008
The New York Flute Club (piccolos: Kathleen Nester, Svjetlana Kabalin; flutes: Bart Feller, Paul Taub; alto flutes: Stefani Starin, Sue Anne Kahn; bass flutes: Dianne Aitken, Patti Monson; drum set: Jeffrey Kraus; assistant conductor: Donato Cabera; soloist and conductor: Robert Aitken; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, April 6, 2005; composition year: 2001; total selections time: 9:47

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Gavin Bryars: Made in Hong Kong
The Marvelous Aphorisms of Gavin Bryars — The Early Years
Mode Records/2007
various toys: Ulrich Krieger; recorded at the π-Farm, Acton, California, November 2004; composition year: 1970; time: 10:32

Hour 2

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George Crumb: Dream Sequence (Images II)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 12
Bridge Records/2008
(for violin, cello, piano, percussion, bells, glass harmonicas); members of ICE — International Contemporary Ensemble (violin: David Bowlin; cello: Kivie-Cahn-Lipman; piano: Jacob Greenberg; percussion: David Schotzko); supervised by George Crumb; recorded September 7, 2006, location unspecified; composition year: 1976; time: 16:05

SET TWO
Linda Dusman: Mother of Exiles
Flashpoint
Neuma Records/2023
Inscape Chamber Orchestra (flute, piccolo: Susannah Loewy; Bb clarinet: Evan Ross Solomon; violin: Christopher Whitley; cello: Ben Capps; bass: Greg Watkins; piano: Daniel Pesca; harp: Clara Fleck; percussion: Eric Plewinsky), conductor: Richard Scerbo; recorded at Linehan Concert Hall, University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 2019; time: 10:24

Shih-Hui Chen: Fantasia on a Theme of Guanglingsan
Silvergrass & Other Orchestral Works
New World Records/2020
(for zheng and Chinese orchestra); zheng soloist: Hsin-Fang Hsu; Little Giant Chinese Orchestra, conductor: Chih-Sheng Chen; recorded at the National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei; composition year: 2014; time: 11:31

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Marty Regan: Devil’s Bridge
Magic Mirror
Navona Records/2012
shamisen (three stringed Japanese guitar): Tetsuya Nozawa; biwa (Japanese lute): Akiko Sakurai; composition year: 2010; recorded April 7, 2011, location unspecified, composition year: 2010; time: 9:36

Hour 3

SET THREE
Carey Nutman: Resurrection?
Resurrection?
MPS Music and Video/2008
reader: Barry Lewis; computers, synthesizers, vocoder effects, digital delays: Carey Nutman; text: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, “The Resurrection,”* recorded at the music dept. of Durham University, UK; composition years: 2000, 2001; premiered at Elvet Methodist Church, Durham, for the MUSICON concert series;
*inspired by Mahler’s setting of Klopstock’s “Die Auferstehung,” Symphony No. 2, 5th Mvt, “The Resurrection Symphony.”

ZNR: Seynette
Barricade 3
ReR Megacorp/1993 (orig. Isadora LP/1976)
synthesizer, voice: Hector Zazou; piano: Joseph Racaille; violin: Gilly Bell; bass clarinet: Patrick Portella; flute: David Rueff; tenor saxophone: Andre Jaume; recorded at Gilly Bell’s studio, Ventabren (Bouches-du-Rhône), France, January 1976; time: 3:45

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Benjamin Boretz and Elaine Barkin: Rochelle Owens “Session Two” (1st 1/2)
Open Space 56 (Hoffman/Boretz/Barkin)
Open Space/2023
piano: Benjamin Boretz; voice: Elaine Barkin; text: Rochelle Owens, “Strawberries mit Cream,” recorded at Boretz’s home studio, Barrytown, New York, January 7, 1980; excerpt time: 20:00

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Normandeau: Malina 
Clair de terre
emreintes DIGITALes/2001
(stereo fixed media; sound source: Shakuhachi played by Claire Marchand); realized at IMEB, Bourges, France and at the composer’s studio, 1999-2000; premiered at Festival Synthèse, Bourges, Cher, France, June 17, 2000; time: 15:02

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