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Martian Gardens Episode 1190
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
April 2, 2024
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Hour 1

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H. Leslie Adams: Prayer
Wide as Heaven (various artists)
A Century of Song by Black American Composers
New World Records/2024
baritone: James Martin; piano: Lynn Raley; recorded at Rubendall Recital Hall, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; July 12-14, 2022; composition year: 1961; text: Langston Hughes; time: 2:27

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George Crumb: Kronos-Kryptos
Four Tableaux for Percussion Quartet
I. Easter Dawning (6:13)
II. A Ghostly Barcarolle (6:02)
III. Drummers of the Apocalypse (2:37)
IV. Appalachian Echoes (Look Homeward, Angel)* (9:04)
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 21
Bridge Records/2024
Curtis Institute of Music Ensemble (percussion: Yoonseo Kang, Tae McLoughlin, Andrew Malonis, Hamza Able, Griffin Harris); recorded at Gould Rehearsal Hall, Curtis Institute of Music, March 26, 2022; composition year: 2020; total time: 23:56
* “For my daughter Ann [In Memoriam]”

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Péter Eötvös: Electrochronicle Sessions
a. June 5, 1974 (0:18)
b. June 6, 1974 (0:39)
c. June 8, 1974 (3:59)
d. June 9, 1974 (4:13)
e. June 12, 1974 (2:32)
f. June 13, 1974 (5:20)
g. June 21, 1974 (3:01)
h. June 22, 1974 (0:55)
Electrochronicles
Budapest Music Center Records/2002
stereo tape: Péter Eötvös, electric organ: Mesias Maiguashica; recorded live at WDR, Köln, 1974; total time: 21:13

In memory of Péter Eötvös (June 2, 1944 — March 24, 2024)

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Michael Hersch: Cortex and Ankle (selections)
I. 1:29
II. 4:27
The Script of Storms
New Focus Recordings/2022
soprano: Ah Young Hong; Ensemble Klang; recorded at Jurriaanse Zaal, December 8, 2016;

Hour 2

SET ONE
Luigi Nono: …sofferte onde serene…
Como una ola de fuerza y luz (and other works)
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
piano: Maurizio Pollini; tape: Luigi Nono; recorded at Hercules Hall, Munich, September, 1977; composition year: 1976; time: 14:00

In memory of Maurizio Pollini (June 5, 1942 — March 23, 2024)

Bruno Maderna: Serenata Senza L’Astronauta
Per Bruno Maderna Vol. 2
Riccardo Massari Spiritini’s Bandcamp/2020
The Biogramma Ensemble (violin: Marta Oro Amon; viola: Maria Morera; flutes: Fabio Zannoni; clarinet: El Pricto; saxophones: Ferran Besalduch, El Pricto; trumpet: Feliciano Garcia Zecchin; electric guitars: Diego Calicedo, Tony Peña; percussion: Vasco Trilla, Pablo Posa; piano, Tarcordium: Riccardo Massari; electronics: José Guillen, Riccardo Massari); recorded at Tarkampa Studio, Barcelona, 2020; time: 7:35

SET TWO
Manuel Zurria: Chromatic Canon (J. Tenney)
Fame di Vento (various composers)
ANTS Records/2023
flutes, percussion: Manuel Zurria; Fame di Vento recorded at BigCardo, Rome and Catania, Italy, 2020-2023; composer: James Tenney (for two pianos); arr. Zurria; composition year: 1984; time: 9:20

Aaron Jay Myers: Save One Life, You Save the World Entire
Late Night Banter
Neuma Records/2023
NorthStar Duo (flute: Adrienne Baker; baritone saxophone: Seychelle D. Cobin); recorded at Futura Productions, Roslindale, Massachusetts, August 21, 2021; composition year: 2017: time: 5:04

James Tenney: Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy (selections)
a. Poem (2:12)
b. Ergodos I (3:17)
Melody, Ergodicity and Indeterminacy
Mode Records/2007
a. flute: Jos Zwaanberg; b. computer music on tape; a. recorded in Amsterdam, 2007; composition year: 1955; b. realized at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1963; total selections time: 5:29

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Tessa Brinckman: You Never Come Out the Same (Stacey/Brinckman)
Take Wing, Roll Back
New Focus Recordings/2024
piccolo, piano, percussion: Tessa Brinckman; prepared piano: Kathleen Supové; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, 2022; composers: Tessa Brinckman, Cara Stacey; composition year: 2022; time: 8:14

Hour 3

SET THREE
Christopher Maher: Keine Katastrophe, Part 8
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; time: 2:16

Judith Shatin: House Music*
JKR Pass 3 — Music for Jim Randall‘s 75th Birthday [various artists]
Open Space/2007
sound source: sculptor Emilie Brzezinsky carving tree trunks; digital processing: Judith Shatin; composition year: 2004; time: 3:08
*aka Homemade Music

R. Weis: Invocation
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; Swamp Thing time: 2:49

SET FOUR
Ana Dall’Ara-Majek: Mare Buchlae
Radiolaria
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for stereo fixed medium, sound sources: ocean field recordings, synthesized water sounds)
recording locations: Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm, summer 2022; Studio Blue Spider, Montreal, 2023; time: 11:53

Erdem Helvacioğlu: Below the Cold Ocean
Wounded Breath
Aucourant Records/2008
(fixed medium, synthesized ocean sounds); mastered at ITU MIAM Studios, Istanbul; composition year: 2007; time: 11:51

SET FIVE
John Bischoff: Circuit Combine
Bitplicity
Artifact Recordings/2021
circuit box: John Bischoff; recorded live at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, California, August 10, 2021/April 24, 2021; engineer: Philip Perkins; composition year: 2013; time: 10:20

Halim El Dabh: Leiyla and the Poet
Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center (various artists)
Columbia Masterworks/1964 (Sony Classical digital reissue/2018)
electronic music on tape, voice Halim El-Dabh; text: Layla and Majnun; realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City, 1959; premiered at the C-PEMC concert, McMillin (now Miller) Theater, Columbia University, May 9-10, 1961; time: 5:18

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