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Martian Gardens Episode 1184
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
February 11, 2024
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Eric Moe: Welcome to Phase Space
Strenuous Pleasures
New Focus Recordings/2023
Horszowski Trio (violin: Jesse Mills; cello: Raman Ramakrishnan; piano: Rieko Aizawa); recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, September 20, 2016; composition year: 2014; time: 12:42

Daniel Goode: Sonata for Violin and Piano
AnnCela Express
New World Records/2021
violin: Pauline Kim-Harris; piano: Joseph Kubera; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, October 6, 2020; composition year: 2014; time: 8:41

SET TWO
Louis Karchin: selections from Quintet for Winds
a. Con Spirito (5:02)
b. Maestoso (5:36)
Keyboard-Winds
Bridge Records/2023
Windscape (flute: Tara O’Connor; oboe: Randall Ellis; clarinet: Alan R. Kay; French horn: David Jolley; bassoon: Frank Morelli); recorded at Drew University Concert Hall, Madison, New Jersey, November 20-21, 2022; total selections time: 10:38

Elicio Winds: Lullaby-Ballad-Spiritual (S. E. Okpebholo)
I. My Mama’s Sweet Baby Boy (3:35)
II. The Blind Child’s Prayer (4:12)
III. Scandalizin’ My Name (3:43)
Convergence
Music & Cultural Legacy
Blue Griffin/2023
Elicio Winds (flute: Virginia Broffitt Kunzer; oboe: Kathleen Carter Bell; bassoon: Conor Bell); recorded at Hinton Hall, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, May 8-10, 2023; composer: Shawn E. Okpebholo; composition year: 2021; time: 11:20

SINGLE PLAY
Hurwitz – Stokes – Pesca: Fantasie No. 1 (F. Price)
The Night Shall Break (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
(for violin and piano); violin: Hanna Hurwitz; piano: Daniel Pesca; recorded June 2022; composer: Florence Price; composition year: 1933; time: 4:44

Hour 2

SET THREE
Robert Erickson: Dunbar’s Delight
Percussion Sampler (various artists)
11 West Records/2023
timpani: Rob Falvo; composition year: 1985; time: 13:24

Elliott Carter: selections from Eight Pieces for Timpani
I. Improvisation (3:02)
III. Moto Perpetuo (1:31)
IV. Recitative (3:21)
The Music of Elliott Carter Volume 4
Bridge Records/2001
timpani: Daniel Druckman; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters; 2000, 2001; composition years: 1950, 1966; total selections time: 8:04

SET FOUR
John Cage: Music for Two (by One)
The Works for Percussion 4 — Music for Speaking Percussionist
Mode Records/2017
solo voice and percussion: Bonnie Whiting; a solo simultaneous realization of  “Music for ____” (seventeen pieces for variable ensemble; scoreless); recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego, May 2011; composition years: 1984-1987; time: 13:38

Kamala Sankaram: selections from Crescent
a. A Brief History of Progress (4:57)
b. Heat Map — 1990-1999 (1:40)
c. The Machine in the Garden (4:19)
Crescent
Neuma Records/2024
voice, electronics, field recordings, composition: Kamala Sankaram; percussion (tabla, bombo legüero, found objects): Brian Shankar Adler; voice: Drew Fleming; recorded at Kaufman Music Center, Merkin Hall, New York City, 2021-2022; time: 11:56

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Swinging
The Works for Piano 10
Mode Records/2018
piano: Thomas Schultz; recorded at Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, March 2014; composition year: 1989; time: 0:57

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Elaine Barkin and the UCLA Experimental Workshop Ensemble: Untitled
ee² (Open Space 12)
a sound album by elaine barkin
Open Space/2000
performers: Elaine R. Barkin; Benjamin Boretz; Lindsay Clare; David Jones, Jay Keister; Grace M., Ben Thigpen; recorded at UCLA, April 17, 1991; time: 9:14

SET FIVE
Carey Nutman: All Gone to the Stars
WAV file
Carey Nutman/2024
computer music: Carey Nutman; time: 13:53

Larry Kucharz: Dark Choral Blue
Unit 28 — Blue Motion
International Audiochrome/1999
synthesizers: Larry Kucharz; recorded at Clive Smith Studio, New York City; time: 4:39

SET SIX
Dominique Bassal: Poupées Mathématiques
Poupées Mathématiques
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
(for 7.1-channel fixed medium); electroacoustic music realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2013; premiered at Electrochoc 3 concert, Conservatory of Montreal; time: 12:23

Manuel Zurria: Dance #2 (P. Glass)
Again & Again (various composers)
ANTS Records/2020
flutes, field recordings, toy percussion: Manuel Zurria; recorded at MZ @FUN’OM Studios, Rome; composer: Philip Glass; composition year: 1979; arr. Manuel Zurria (orig. Glass piece for organ); time: 16:02

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