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Martian Gardens Episode 1181
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
January 17, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Stuart Saunders Smith: When Music is Missing, It Sings
Percussion Sampler (various artists)
11 West Records/2023
found percussion: Sylvia Smith, Ayano Kataoka; composition year: 1998; time: 6:49

Bonnie Whiting: Exercise for Hands, Right, Left and Deserted Mouth* (S. Parenti)
Perishable Structures (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2020
*no. 4 Speaking Percussionist and Ditties; speaking percussionist: Bonnie Whiting; composer: Susan Parenti; text: Susan Parenti, and excerpts from American patriotic and popular songs; composition year: 1987; recorded at the Green Center for the Performing Arts, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana; time: 8:30

Brad Dutz Obliteration Percussion Quartet: Dry Steam
Brad Dutz Obliteration Percussion Quartet
Brad Dutz/2003
percussion: Joseph Berardi, Dan Morris, John Holmes, Brad Dutz; recorded at Apperson Street Studios, Tujunga, California, 1999-2001; time: 5:00

SET TWO
Paul Lansky: Spirals
Idle Fancies
Bridge Records/2015
marimba: Gwendolyn Dease; recorded at Abeshouse Productions, Pelham, New York, composition year: 2013; time: 11:58

Michael Byron: Music of Steady Light II
Halcyon Days
Cold Blue Music/2023
William Winant Percussion Group (marimbas, xylophones, glockenspiels, vibraphones); recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, January 2022; selection time: 9:01

SET THREE
R. Weis: Message to Charly
The Reaper & Me
R. Weis/2024
(for fixed media, The Reaper and Me sound sources: Andean flute, bells, harmonica, aluminum takeout container, table knife, wooden Olifant, Chokwe xylophone, rattles, 3-string Bamana guitar, thumb piano); music created in New York City, mid 1990s; mixed at the Argot Network, New York City; mastered at Campisi and Mr. Smalls studios, Pittsburgh; Message to Charly time: 2:58

CRAG: For the Money
Polychromy
pfMENTUM/2021
drums, percussion, junk, lo-fi electronics: Ron Coulter; trombone, electronics: Steven Ricks; piano, keyboards: Christian Asplund; woodwinds: Vinny Golia; recorded at Madsen Recital Hall, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, September 19, 2019; time: 5:55

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Evan Ware: selections from Symphony No. 2
a. Prologue (2:26)
b. Begin Again (6:05)
c. Night Music (3:42)
The Quietest of Whispers
Symphonies No. 1 and 2
Neuma Records/2023
Æpex Contemporary Performance, conductor: Kevin Fitzgerald; soprano: Amy Petrongelli; text: Jane Hirschfield; recorded at Staples Family Concert Hall, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, March 2019; composition year: 2019; total selections time: 12:13

Christopher Maher: Keine Katastrophe, Part 4
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: 5:20

SET FIVE
Diane Thome: Masks of Eternity
I (3:31)
II (3:48)
III (3:42)
IV (3:49)
Palaces of Memory — Electroacoustic Music
Centaur Records/1995
(fixed media); recorded at Lumiere Studio, Lake Forest Park, Washington; composition year: 1994; selection time: 15:02

Anatoly Pereslegin: Turn thee unto me (p. 25:16)
Fastgod: e-psalms
Electroshock Records/2002
electronic music: Anatoly Pereslegin; recorded at Electroshock Studios, Moscow, 2001; time: 6:28

SINGLE PLAY
Ingrid Drese: Papillon, abîme, nuit
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
(fixed media); realized at the composer’s studio, Brussels,Belgium; premiered at the 6th international acousmatic festival L’Espace du son, at XL Théâtre du Grand Midi, Brussels; September 17, 1999; composition year: 1999; time: 12:07

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Phill Niblock: Kontradictionaries
Disseminate
Mode Records/2004
The Kontra-Trio (contrabass flute: Madeleine Bischof; contrabass saxophone: Thomas K.J. Mejar; contrabass tuba: Lou Bachmann; samples and live performance recorded by Mobiles Tonstudio Peter Pfister, Swiss Radio, Zurich; Protools portion recorded at Experimental Intermedia, New York City; composition year: 1999, revised 2003; time: 22:13

In memory of Phill Niblock (October 2, 1933 — January 8, 2024)

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: Crumarsolo 2
Open Space 55 (Randall/Boretz)
From the Inner Studio–Keyboard Conversations
Open Space/2023
Crumar Orchestrator synthesizer: Benjamin Boretz; recorded at Bard College, July 9, 1980; time: 15:48

SET SIX
Robert Ashley: Quartet
Music from the ONCE Festival 1961-1966 (various artists)
New World Records/2003
clarinet: William Albright; French horns: Richard Reynolds, Gordon Mumma; readers: Mary Ashley, Harold Borkin, George Cacioppo; Cynthia Liddell, Anne Wehrer, William Wehrer; recorded at the ONCE Festival, Ann Arbor, March 29, 1966; composition year: 1965; time: 9:51

Robert Ashley: Automatic Writing (brief excerpt)
Automatic Writing
Lovely Music, Ltd./1996 (orig. LP/1979)
synthesizer, electronics, voice: Robert Ashley; voice: Mimi Johnson; composition year: 1979; excerpt time: 2:15

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