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Martian Gardens Episode 1187
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
March 9, 2024
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Hour 1

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Manuel Zurria: Rudram Mantra/Kunti Mantra (R. Nova)
Fame di Vento (various composers)
ANTS Records/2023
(for alto flute and fixed media); alto flute; fixed media sources — voice: Varijashree Venugopal; mirdangham drum: Basanavahalli Chandramouli Manjunath; pre-recorded voice: Guru Prasanna, Manuel Zurria); Fame di Vento recorded at BigCardo, Rome and Catania, Italy, 2020-2023; Rudram Mantra/Kunti Mantra composer: Riccardo Nova; composition year: 2022; time: 18:13

SET ONE
Philip Blackburn: Over Again
Ordo
Neuma Records/2023
Quey Percussion Duo (Gene Koshinkski, Tim Broscious); instrument designer: Philip Blackburn; pre-recorded voice: 1st Lt. Warren Ward, WWII glider pilot (1944); recorded at the University of Delaware, August 14, 2023; composition year: 2020; time: 9:47

Field Recording: Runaway Train
Touch.Sampler (various artists)
Touch Records/1997
Alfie, railroad controller, and Weslie, train engineer, recorded March 9, 1948, New Brunswick, Canada; time: 3:39

Quey Percussion Duo: In the History of Man (B. Wahlund)
soniChroma (various composers)
Innova Recordings/2019
(for drumset and marimba); Gene Koshinski, Tim Broscious: percussion; recorded at Weber Music Hall, University of Minnesota Duluth, December 2018, January 2019; composer: Ben Wahlund; composition year: 2005; time: 6:50

SET TWO
Peter Gena: Vaccinum: COVID-19 spike protein
Beethoven in Soho
New World Records/2023
piano 1: Joseph Kubera; piano 2: Anthony DeMare; DNA consultation: Charles M. Strom, Phd., MD; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York; composition year: 2021; time: 6:42

Gordon Mumma: Perspective 2 (from 3 Perspectives)
Music for Solo Piano (1960-2001)
New World Records/2008
piano: Daan Vandewalle; recorded at German Radio, Frankfurt, May 2007; composition years: 1966-1996; time: 0:44

Hour 2

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Christian Wolff: Stardust Pieces
a. 9:55
b. 8:54
Volume 2–Chamber Works
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Mode Records/1998
(for cello and piano); members of the Barton Workshop. director: James Fulkerson; composition year: 1979; total time: 18:46

For Christian Wolff’s 90th birthday, March 8, 2024

SET THREE
George Crumb: Sonata
I. Fantasia (3:54)
II. Tema pastoral con variazioni (5:30)
III. Toccata (2:38)
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 21
Bridge Records/2024
(for solo violoncello); cello: Timothy Eddy; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, April 20, 2006; composition year: 1955; time: 12:02

Paul Lansky: On the Qixingshan Trail
Open Space 33 — BENJAMINBORETZ9X9 (various artists)
Music for Benjamin Boretz’s 81st Birthday
Open Space/2016
(for string quartet); violins: Scot Moore, Reina Murooka; viola: Rosemary Nelis; cello: Stanley Moore; composition year: 2016; time: 2:09

Benjamin Boretz: Fantasy on an Improvisation by Jim Randall
Open Space 33 — BENJAMINBORETZ9X9 (various artists)
Music for Benjamin Boretz’s 81st Birthday
Open Space/2016
banjo: Hilary Hawke; mandolin: Joseph Brent; alto flute: TJ Wible; English horn: Zachary Boeding; violin: Scot Moore; cello: Eleanor Lee; composition year: 2014; time: 5:33
*In memoriam J.K. Randall

SET THREE
Joseph Benzola: Angkor Wat
Odds and Sods 2020-2024
Amanita Music/2024
percussion: Joseph Benzola; time: 4:36

Jen Curtis and Tyshawn Sorey: Invisible Ritual VII
Invisible Ritual
New Focus Recordings/2018
violin: Jennifer Curtis; piano, percussion: Tyshawn Sorey; principal recording: home of Randy Ezratty, New York City; engineering, mxing, mastering: Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York; time: 5:16

Hour 3

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Robert Scott Thompson: Ghost Words After Trees Fall
Ghost Words
Aucourant Records/2008
(for 8-channel fixed medium); commissioned by the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB); composed in Bourges, France, 2007; time: 20:51

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Lawson & Merrill: Morning Meditation
Signals
Neuma Records/2022
synthesizers, electronic instruments: David Margolin Lawson, David Merrill; mastered at Tiki Studios, Glen Cove, New York; time: 16:20

SINGLE PLAY
Ingrid Drese: Voix de l’aurore
Interstices
empreintes DIGITALes/2009
(for stereo fixed medium); realized at Musiques & Recherches’ Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio in Ohain, Belgium, and at the composer’s studio, Brussels, 2006-2007; premiered at the 14th international acousmatic festival L’Espace du son at Théâtre Marni, Brussels, October 17, 2007; time: 14:00

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