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Martian Gardens Episode 1186
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
March 1, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Processional
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 21
Bridge Records/2024
piano: Gilbert Kalish; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, recorded May 31, 2019; composition year: 1983; time: 13:20

SET TWO
Aaron Jay Myers: Lichens III
I. Fruticose (1:07)
II. Crustose (1:25)
III. Byssoid (2:12)
IV. Leprose (1:51)
V. Filamentous (1:40)
VI. Gelatinous (2:25)
VII. Squamulose (2:11)
VIII. Foliose (1:38)
Late Night Banter
Neuma Records/2023
soprano: Stephanie Lamprea; recorded at Futura Productions, Roslindale, Massachusetts, July 24, 2021; composition year: 2018; total time: 14:28

Meredith Monk: selections from Volcano Songs: Solos
a. Offering (2:36)
b. Boat Man (2:11)
c. Skip Song (1:36)
Volcano Songs
ECM New Series/1997
voice: Meredith Monk; recorded at Clinton Studios, New York City, July 1995; composition year: 1994; total selections time: 6:13

SET THREE
Galen Trio: Piano Trio No. 3 (L. A. Smith)
a. Allegro con insistenza
b. Adagio
c. Allegro con spirito
Kinesis, Vol. 2 (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
piano: Petros Bouras; violin: Babis Karasavvidis; cello: Marina Kolovou; Kinesis, Vol 2 recorded at National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, November 2022-April 2023; composer: Larry Alan Smith; composition year: 2022; time: 10:52

Osnat Netzer: away dream all away
Dot: Line: Sigh
New Focus Recordings/2024
soprano: Amanda De Boer; flute: Constance Volk; viola: Doyle Armbrust; text: Samuel Beckett; recorded at Gannon Hall, Holtschneider Performance Center, DePaul School of Music, Chicago, March 31, 2023; composition year: 2015; time: 4:28

Phil Kline:  The Unnamable
John The Revelator
A Mass for Six Voices
Cantaloupe Music/2008
Lionheart vocal group; Ethel string quartet; recorded at the Church of St. Luke’s in the Fields, Greenwich Village, August 2007; text: Samuel Beckett; time: 3:08

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Christian Wolff: Percussionist 5
8 Duos
New World Records/2013
percussion: Joey Baron, Robyn Schulkowsky; 8 Duos recorded in Berlin, 2011-2012; composition year: 2002; time: 9:12

Luis Tabuenca: Insula Dulcamara
Naturstudium
Mode Records/2023
homemade percussion instruments: Luis Tabuenca; recorded at the Phonos Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, 2018; time: 10:46

SET FIVE
Philip Perkins: Cold
Undanceable — Musical Sound Scores for Dance 2022-23
Artifact Recordings/2023
all sounds and composition: Philip Perkins; recorded at the composer’s studio, San Francisco; music created for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet; time: 3:26

Kamala Sankaram: selections from Crescent
a. Heat Map: 2010-2022 (2:22)
c. Crescent (4:16)
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: 6:38

John Oliver: STOP THE WAR
MP3
ENNER synthesizer improvisation: John Oliver, 2023; time: 4:22

Joseph Benzola: Okkulte Stimmen #1
Odds and Sods 2020-2024
Amanita Music/2024
all instruments, music: Joseph Benzola; time: 8:10

SINGLE PLAY
Jesse Budel: Solo #2 (Murray Bridge, Australia)
Weathered Piano Solos #2
Weathered Piano Exchange/2024
weathered piano: Jesse Budel; recorded at Murray Bridge, Australia, December 23, 2023; time: 10:55
for Nadene Thériault-Copeland’s Weathered Pianos project

Hour 3

SET SIX
Yuji Takahashi:
a. Asu mo zangai (Only wrecks tomorrow) (2:41)
b. Shiinto (Without sound) (2:41)
c. Bofura ni tsukamatte (Clinging to mosquito larvae) (3:12)
Open Space 43 — Pepples/Takahashi
Open Space/2020
baritone saxophone: Takashi Matsuidaira; serpent: Shimya Hashimoto; texts: Ayane Kawata; total time: 8:34

Burton Beerman: Dayscapes
I. Sighs and Deep Breaths (3:32)
II. Farmer’s Dance (5:27)
III. Left Over Moonlight (2:23)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 38 (various artists)
Music from Bowling Green State University
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music
Centaur Records/2010
(for clarinet and live, interactive electronics); clarinet: Burton Beerman; composition year: 2009; time: 11:13

SET SEVEN
Vanessa Massera: Exercitium arithmeticæ occultum nescientis se numerare animi*
Fulgurances
empreintes DIGITALes/2022
(for stereo fixed medium and optional saxophone quartet); realized at the University of Sheffield Sound Studios, UK, and the EMS, Stockholm; premiered at the Svensk Musikvår Festival, Grünewaldsalen of Konserthuset Stockholm, saxophone quartet: Stockholms Saxofonkvartett; March 16, 2019; time: 11:55
*The secret arithmetical exercise of the mind that does not know how to count itself

Steve Peters: Chamber Music V – Stained Glass
Chamber Music
ANTS Records/2023
(6-channel sound installation); part of Ashes to Ashes, curated by Mary Welch; Good Shepherd Cha-e, Pasadena, California, May 2013; time: 7:59

SINGLE PLAY
Lei Liang: Hearing Landscapes III. Water and Mist
Hearing Landscapes/Hearing Icescapes
New Focus Recordings/2023
electronics (sound sources: Styrofoam peanuts dropped into a piano, guqin): Lei Liang; guqin: Wu Jing-lüe (Water and Mist Over Xiaoxiang, trad.); inspired by the paintings of Huang Binhong; recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego; January 2022; composition year: 2015; time: 8:48

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