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Martian Gardens Episode 1182
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
January 27, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Peter Gena: John Henry
Beethoven in Soho and Other Works
New World Records/2023
piano: Anthony De Mare; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, April 2023; composition year: 1986; composer: trad. arr. Peter Gena; time: 12:28

SINGLE PLAY
Julia Wolfe: Polly Ann/The Race
Steel Hammer
Cantaloupe Music/2014
members of the Bang On A Can All-Stars (cello: Ashley Bathgate; percussion: David Cossin; sandsticks: BOACAS) vocals: Trio Mediaeval (Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth, Torunn Østrem Ossum); text: Julia Wolfe (derived from the John Henry ballad); recorded at Dolan Music Recording Studios, New York University, November 2011/February 2012; composition year: 2009; time: 15:49

SET ONE
Paul Lansky: Pretty Polly
Folk Images
Bridge Records/1995
computer music: Paul Lansky; trad., arr. Paul Lansky; time: 3:10

Linda Dusman: Corona Bagatelles
a. Silent City (1:00)
b. Quarantine Summer (2:13)
c. Cape Ann Gulls: Pecking Order (1:43)
d. Spring Torpor (3:56)
e. Binding (Variations on “A”) 3:21
Flashpoint
Neuma Records/2023
cello: Gita Ladd; piano: Daniel Pesca; recorded at Linehan Concert Hall, University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 12:10

Yvar Mikhashoff: Nocturne — The sensualist, dying, recalls his Protestant youth*
Panorama of American Piano Music (various composers)
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; *composer: Nils Vigeland; composition year: 1987; total time: 3:13

Hour 2

SET TWO
Robert Gross: Symphonies for Electronic Instruments
Penumbra
New Focus Recordings/2023
synthesizers, samples, flanger: Robert Gross; recorded at the composer’s studio, Anderson, Indiana, July 31, 2022; composition year: 2022; time: 10:07

Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizers
New Electronic Music from the Leaders of the Avant-Garde
John Cage – Henri Pousseur – Milton Babbitt
Columbia Masterworks/1967
RCA synthesizer: Milton Babbitt; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City; composition year: 1964; time: 10:37

SET THREE
Ben Johnston: Knocking Piece
Percussion Sampler (various artists)
11 West Records/2023
(for two percussionists); piano exterior, piano interior: Sylvia Smith, Lee Hinkle; composition year: 1962; time: 8:11

John Cage: Mysterious Adventure
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 year: 1945; time: 8:36

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Eleanor Hovda: Coastal Traces Tidepools 2
Coastal Traces
O.O. Discs/1997
grand piano (bowed innards): Eleanor Hovda; composition year: 1997; time: 8:31

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Amelia Cuni & Alex Mendizabal: Aria
Stimmen aus Himmel und Hölle
ANTS recordings/2022
voices through bamboo pipe: Amelia Cuni, composer: Alex Mendizabal; recorded in Berlin, 2021, mastered by Andrea Rocca, Baby Microbe Studios, London; total selections time: 3:28

(In memory of Amelia Cuni 1958-2024)

R. Weis: Acid & Acrobat
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; Acid & Acrobat time: 3:00

Craig Pepples: Batik
Open Space 51 (Hicks/Pepples)
Open Space/2022
synthesizers: Craig Pepples; software design: David Hicks; composition year: 1992; time: 5:32

SINGLE PLAY
Gilles Gobeil: Le miroir triste
Trois songes
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
(electroacoustic music for 5.1-channel fixed medium); realized at the studios of the Zentrum für Kunst un Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, summer 2007; time: 13:42

SET FIVE
J.K. Randall: BOBFEST Exs. D 4&5
I. Silent as a mirror is believed/Realities plunge in silence by (6:01)
II. It is to be learned –/This leaving and this burning (4:07)
III. Until the bright logic is won/Unwhispering as a mirror/Is believed (2:59)
Robert Morris at 70 (various artists)
Compositions and Performances in Celebration
Open Space/2014
digital synthesis: J.K. Randall; title texts: Hart Crane; total time: 13:07

James Correa: selections from Danças & Intermezzi
a. Mirror of Sand (1:27)
b. Mirror of Granite (1:27)
c. Winter Dance (3:07)
Plural (Correa/Miranda)
Fumproarte/2002
piano: Catarina Damenici; electronics: James Correa; recorded at PUC Auditorium, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2002; composition year: 2002; total selections time: 6:00

Elliott Carter: Figment V
Music of Elliott Carter Volume VIII
16 Compositions 2002-2009
Bridge Records/2010
marimba: Simon Boyar; recorded at Lefrak Concert Hall, Queen College, New York City, September 5, 2009; composition year: 2009; time: 1:41

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