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Martian Gardens Episode 1180
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
January 7, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Ronald Perera: Three Poems of Günter Grass
a. Gleisdreieck (9:12)
b. Klappstühle (Folding Chairs) (7:52)
c. Schlaflos (Sleepless) (5:10)
Crossing the Meridian
Composer’s Recordings, Inc./1998
soprano: Elsa Charlston; Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; text: Günter Grass; electronic tape recorded 1974 at Smith College Electronic Music Studios; composition year: 1974; time: 22:14

In memory of Ronald Perera (December 25, 1941 — August 4, 2023)

SET ONE
Linda Dusman: Dancing Universe
Flashpoint
Neuma Records/2023
Trio des Alpes (violin: Hana Kotkova; cello: Claude Hauri; piano: Corrado Greco); recorded at the Associazione Musica nel Mendrisiotto, Mendrisio, Switzerland; composition years: 2016, 2023; time: 8:40

Peter Kolkay: Wake Your Wild Voice (J. Weir)
Red Maple (various composers)
Music for Bassoon and Strings
Bridge Records/2023
bassoon: Peter Kolkay; cello: Estelle Choi; recorded at the Concert Hall, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey; January 2022, composer: Judith Weir; composition year: 2008; time: 9:35

SINGLE PLAY
Bernadette Speach: Trio des Trois
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
viola: Lois Martin; cello: David Heiss; piano: Anthony De Mare; Reflections recorded at LRP Studios, New York City, April, 2000 – March 2001; Trio des Trois composition year: 1992; time: 10:56

Hour 2

SET TWO
Yu-Hui Chang: In Thin Air
I. Allegretto (4:37)
II. Adagio (6:07)
III. Andantino (4:57)
Mind Like Water
New Focus Recordings/2024
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble (violin: Gabriela Diaz; piano: Donald Berman; percussion: Robert Schulz); recorded at Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University; composition year: 2012; time: 15:41

John Cage: selections for prepared piano
a. A Room (2:48)
b. Totem Ancestor (2:02)
Cage Edition 37 — The Works for Piano 8
Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
piano: Philipp Vandré; Complete Short Works recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk (Sendasaal), Frankfurt, October 2001 — January 2002; composition years: a. 1943, b. 1942; total time: 4:50

SET THREE
Hsiao-Lan Wang: selections from Elecroacoustic Works
a. Green Potato I (6:03)
b. Green Potato II (4:51)
Electroacoustic Works
Hsiao-Lan Wang/2005
fixed media: Hsiao-Lan Wang; composition years: a. 2001-2002; b. 2002-2003; time: 10:54

Jon Christopher Nelson: Left to His Own Devices
The Persistence of Time and Memory
Neuma Records/2023
fixed media: Jon Christopher Nelson; recorded at the composer’s studio, Denton, Texas, composition year: 2018; time: 8:40

SET FOUR
Eric Chasalow: Left to His Own Devices*
Left to His Own Devices
New World Records/2003
fixed media, text, voice: Milton Babbitt; recorded at the composer’s studio and BEAMS (Brandeis Electro Acoustic Music Studio), Brandeis University; composition year: 1996; time: 5:46
*for Milton Babbitt at 80

Milton Babbitt: Phonemena 
Philomel
New World Records/1995 (orig. LP/977)
(for soprano and synthesized tape); soprano: Lynn Webber; tape realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; composition year: 1969; time: 4:13

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Christopher Maher: Keine Katastrophe
a. Part 2 (6:09)
b. Part 3 (5:52)
Keine Katastrophe
Open Space/2023
Yale student orchestra, conductors: Martin Bresnick, Timothy Goplerud, Evan Ziporyn; recorded at Jonathan Edwards College Dining Hall, Yale University, April 1980; total selections time: 12:02

Henry Brant: Indigenous Peoples
Rainforest — Environmental spatial oratorio for four voices and instrumental ensemble
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 6
Innova Recordings/2006
performers, where known: flute, piccolo: Sarah Pflueger; oboe, English horn: Denise Kamradt; clarinets, bassoon: Eric Dirksen; horn: Jennifer Harrison; trumpet, trombone: John Dent; percussion, chimes, harp: Gillian Bennet; piano: Elizabeth Di Felice; violins: Nick Eanet, Marissa Regini, Gabrielle Shek, Ayoko Yonetani; violas: Nancy Obern, Anna Rogers; cellos: Arpad Muranyi, Jonas Tauber, double bass: Stuart Sankey; solo soprano: Michelle Eaton; solo mezzo soprano: Mary Nessinger; solo tenor: Mark Conley; baritone: William Riley; conductors: Amy Snyder, Henry Brant; libretto: Daniel Abd al-Hayy Moore; performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Aspen Colorado, 1989; composition year: 1989; selection time: 7:08

SET SIX
Jonty Harrison: Pair/Impair
Articles indéfinis
empreintes DIGITALes/1996
(electroacoustic music); realized at the Recording and Electronic Music Studio of the University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, composition year: 1978; time: 11:48

Elaine Barkin: Out Back (from Five Collages)
Open Space 3 (Barkin/Boretz)
Open Space/1992
tape sources and participants: Cynthia Woll, Warren Burt; Elaine Barkin, recorded May 30, 1986; Paul Humphreys and Elaine Barkin, recorded July 2, 1986; Benjamin Boretz and Elaine Barkin, January 16, 1986, UCLA; time: 6:40

SINGLE PLAY
Steve Peters: Chamber Music X – Airforms
Chamber Music
ANTS Records/2023
(2 or 4 channel sound installation); source recording: Steve Roden; Wallace Neff Bubble House, Pasadena, California, May 2013; time: 7:59

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