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Martian Gardens Episode 1177
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
December 17, 2023
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
William Duckworth: Simple Songs About Sex and War
a. Six O’Clock (1:56)
b. If love’s no more (2:13)
c. Freilingslied (2:17)
d. The Stranger (3:27)
e. Always or The Children or Whatever (3:25)
The Time Curve Preludes
Neuma Records/2023
voice: Costanza Savarese; piano: Emanuele Arciuli; lyrics: Hayden Carruth; recorded at Digressione Studios, Molfetta, Italy, December 2022; composition years: 1983-1984; total time: 13:47

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James Moore: Lowlands
Desolation Pops
New World Records/2023
accordion: Nathan Koci; voices: Joe Brent, Lainie Fefferman, Betsy Moore, James Moore, Jascha Narveson, Brett Parnell, Kenji Shinagawa, Kathleen Supové, Andie Tanning, Randall Woolf; recorded at James Moore’s apartment, Brooklyn, October 4, 2017; time: 18:12

SET ONE
Pauline Oliveros: The Last Time
Ghostdance*
Deep Listening/1998
accordion, expanded instrument system: Pauline Oliveros; voice, EIS: Julie Lyon Rose; EIS: David Gamper; *soundtrack for a dance collaboration with choreographer Paula Josa-Jones; time: 7:28

Arthur Jarvinen & The California Ear Unit: Clean Your Gun
Edible Black Ink
O.O. Discs/1996
(for violin, chromatic harmonica, cello, baritone saxophone — all instruments amplified); Edible Black Ink recorded between November, 1990, and May, 1996; Clean Your Gun composition year: 1991; time: 5:23

Doug Bielmeier: Burning Old Man Summer
Music for Billionaires
New Focus Recordings/2023
Hypercube (saxophones: Erin Rogers; electric guitar: Jay Sorce; piano: Andrea Lodge; vibraphones, percussion: Chris Graham); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York; time: 5:42

Hour 2

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Fred Lerdahl: Inner Life (Inner Life, Mvt. II)
Fred Lerdahl Volume Seven
Bridge Records/2023
(for two pianos); Quattro Mani (pianos: Steven Beck, Susan Grace); recorded at Klavierhaus, New York City, January 2023; composition years: 2020-2022; selection time: 22:23

SET TWO
Eric Moe: Spirit Mountain
Strenuous Pleasures
New Focus Recordings/2023
Da Capo Chamber Players (flute: Patricia Spencer; oboe, English horn: Jaqueline LeClair; bassoon: Nanci Belmont; percussion: Michael Lipsey; piano: Steve Beck; recorded at Merkin Concert Hall, New York City, April 6, 2022; composition year: 2010; time: 9:52

Arthur Levering: Furies
Parallel Universe 
New World Records/2014
(for 11 players); Sequitur (flute: Erin Lesser, oboe: Jacqueline LeClair, clarinet: Jo-Ann Sternberg, bass clarinet: Philip Everall, piano: Peggy Kampmeier, percussion: Matthew Gold, violins: Andrea Schulz, Miranda Cukson, viola: Daniel Panner, cello: Greg Hesselink, bass: Jeremy McCoy; conductor: Paul Hostetter); recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, June 6, 2009; composition year: 2006; time: 10:13

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SIGMA Project: Influx (A. Fuentes)
New Mexican Music for Saxophone Quartet (various composers)
Mode Records/2022
SIGMA Project (soprano saxophone: Andrés Gomis; alto saxophone: Ángel Soria; tenor saxophone: Alberto Chaves; bass saxophone: Josetxo Silguero); recorded at the Auditorium of the Profesional Música Rafael Frühbeck, Burgos, Spain, February 2022; composer: Arturo Fuentes; composition year: 2012; time: 9:15

Hour 3

SET THREE
Alistair MacDonald: Bound for Glory (Postcard from Poland)
Cabinets de Curiosité
empreintes DIGITALes/2018
(for stereo fixed media; sound sources: field recordings from Poland); realized at the studios of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama; premiered at the Audio Art Festival, Kraków, November 10, 2002; time: 7:28

Dariusz: Mazurowski: My Polish Songbook
Hidden Dimensions
Neuma Records/2018
electroacoustic music: Dariusz Mazurowski; recorded at De Em Studios, Gdańsk, Poland; premiered at the Audio Art Festival, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, November 21, 2013; composition year: 2013; time: 7:48

Paul Steenhuisen: Poland is Not Yet Lost
60 x 60 2004/2005 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2007
(for stereo fixed media); NeXT Computer, Calrec Soundfield microphone: Paul Steenhuisen; composition year: 1992; inspired by the paintings of Anslem Kiefer; time: 1:00

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Benjamin Boretz and Elaine Barkin: Rochelle Owens “Session Two” (2nd 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

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Mark So: Though we haven’t read it, we know there is a script* (excerpt)
Part of Life
Open Space/2021
cassettes, readings (*readings 44): Mark So; text: Eileen Myles, “The End of New England,”; excerpt time: 10:00 (00:00-15:00 of 45:55)

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