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Martian Gardens Episode 1182
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
February 4, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Yvar Mikhashoff: Nocturne (J. Sellars)
I. Spanish Dreams (4:17)
II. French Dreams (2:14)
III. American Dreams (3:47)
Panorama of American Piano Music (various composers)
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; Panorama recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composer: James Sellars; composition year: 1981; total time: 10:18

Yvar Mikhashoff: Seis Caprichos
a. Adivinanza de la Guitarra (1:02)
b. Candil (2:26)
c. Crótalo (1:19)
d. Chumbera (1:46)
e. Pita (0:48)
f. Cruz (1:30)
Songs and Dances
New Focus Recordings/2023
piano: Amy Williams; soprano: Tiffany Du Mouchelle; Songs and Dances recorded at the Linehan Concert Hall, University of Maryland Baltimore County, December 14-15, 2022, and Lippes Conert Hall, University of Buffalo, April 15-16, 2023; Seis Caprichos; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca; composition year: 1968; total time: 9:05

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Night of the Four Moons
I. La luna está muerta, muerta… (2:33)
II. Cuando sale la luna (3:29)
III. Otro Adán oscuro está sonando… (2:50)
IV. ¡Huye luna, luna, luna! (8:26)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 11
Bridge Records/2008
The Aeolian Chamber Players — alto flute/piccolo: Erich Graf; banjo: Lewis Kaplan; cello: Paul Tobias; percussion: Raymond DesRoches; mezzo soprano: Jan DeGaetani; texts: Federico Garcia Lorca (I. Dos lunas de la tarde; II. La luna asoma; III. Adam; IV. Romance de la luna); recorded 1974; composition year: 1969; total time: 17:28

SINGLE PLAY
Ben Shirley: High Sierra Sonata
I. Buttermilk Morning (8:15)
II. Angry Secrets (3:34)
III. Reflections on a Day (7:14)
American Stories (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
Pacifica Quartet (violins: Simin Ganatra, Austin Hartman; viola: Mark Holloway; cello: Brandon Vamos); clarinet: Anthony McGill; recorded at the Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, September 2021; composition year: 2020; time: 8:15

Hour 2

SET TWO
Ewart – Asplund – Ricks Trio: Call to Attention
Emphatic Now
Neuma Records/2024
woodwinds, didgeridoo, percussion, voice, texts: Douglas R. Ewart; viola and piano: Christian Asplund; trombone and electronics: Steven Ricks; recorded at Madsen Recital Hall, Provo, Utah, October 14, 2022; time: 10:18

Various performers: Instrumental Music
a. Triste (0:39)
b. Triste (0:48)
c. Huaynito (0:50)
d. Kashwa (1:29)
e. Kashwa — Arrocito con Gallina (1:50)
f. Kashwa — La paja brava (2:30)
g. Kashwa — La china María (1:51)
Traditional Music of Peru Vol. 3 (various artists)
Cajamarca and the Colca Valley
Smithsonian Folkways/1996
performers: a., b., c., d: Jose Cercado Huaripata; e. Group in Porcón; f., g: Segundo Rufino, Fidencio Arce Zelada, and Manuel Antonio Gallardo Murillo; recorded in Peru, 1980s; total selections time: 10:02

SET THREE
Ron Nagorcka: Dawn in the Wombat Forest
Atomic Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
violin: Liza Lim; clavichord, didjeridu, electronics, field recordings: Ron Nagorcka; composition year: 1985; time: 11:41

Warren Burt: 100xJohn — The View from Wombat Hill (excerpt)
Four Pieces 2012-2013
Scarlet Aardvark/2013
environmental sound recordings (100 recordings, 10 seconds each, recorded at Wombat Hill, Daylesford, Victoria, Australia); computer processing: Warren Burt; composition year: 2012; excerpt time: 9:00

SINGLE PLAY
Jean-Charles François: Fragments II
Percussion Sampler (various artists)
11 West Records/2023
snare drum: Christoph Brunner; composition year: 1990; time: 5:18

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Sascia Pellegrini: Harp II
HARP
The Repository/2024
harp, processing: Sascia Pellegrini; time: 4:01

Christopher Maher: Keine Katastrophe, Part 6
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
John White: 16th Symphony
Electric Music
Music composed and performed in London, 1980 — 1995
ANTS Records/2021
cassettes restored and remastered by Andrea Rocca at Baby Microbe Studios, London, 2019-2020; time: 14:31

In memory of John White (April 5, 1936 — January 4, 2024)

Carolyn Borcherding: Life is
Music from SEAMUS Vol. 32 (various artists)
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2023
(for fixed medium and baritone saxophone); baritone saxophone: Justin Massey; composition year: 2018; time: 7:27

SET SIX
Nikos Stavropoulos: Granicus
Micro-Lieux
empreintes DIGITALes/2019
(for stereo fixed medium; percussion) percussion: Alexander Pepelasis; realized at the composer’s studio, Leeds, UK, 2016, premiered at International Festival for Innovations in Music Production and Composition (iFIMPaC), The Venue, Leeds, March 11, 2016; time: 6:44

Ros Bandt: The Tears of Yerbatan Palace
Medusa Dreaming
Neuma Records/2021
Ros Bandt and The Medusa Ensemble: Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Natalia Mann, İzzet Kızıl; for water drips, percussion, flute call to water, water and glass lachrimae; recorded live by TRT Turkish Radio in the Yerebatan Sarnici (Basilica Cistern), May 8, 2010; time: 8:02

Jonathan Gibbs: Heart of the Matter
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
(for electronics and saxophone); saxophone: Nigel Nash; composition year: 1986; time: 1:13

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