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Martian Gardens Episode 1190
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
April 14, 2024
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Hour 1

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Sylvia Smith: The Year Begins to be Ripe (selections)
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (2:32)
b. Nowth Upon Nacht (0:49)
The Year Begins to be Ripe (various composers)
11 West Records/2008
voice: Christie Finn; closed piano: Sylvia Smith; recorded at the University of Baltimore County, Maryland; composer: John Cage; composition years: a. 1942, b. 1984; text: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, total time: 4:21

SET ONE
Natalia Cappa: La Culor dil Tiempu (J.S. Levi)
I. Si me Dabas tus Ojos
II. La Pared mi Sta Mirandu
III. Knosornos!
Una (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for voice and live electronics); voice: Natalia Cappa; text: Clarisse Nicoïdski, Jorge Sad Levi; composer: Jorge Sad Levi; composition year: 2023; time: 6:22

Mario Davidovsky: Romancero
a. Morenica a mi me llam (3:47) (Morenica called me
b. Arriba Canes Arriba! (4:01) (Hell, Dogs, Hell!
c. Seguidillas (1:41) (a Spanish dance
d. Triste Estaba el Rey David (4:01) (King David was sad
Flashbacks
Bridge Records/2000
soprano: Susan Narucki; Speculum Musicae (flute: Laura Gilbert; clarinet: Allen Bustine; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Chris Finckel), conductor: Donald Palma; texts: anonymous; composition year: 1983; time: 13:29

SET TWO
Galan Trio: Dance Music for a Frenetic Mind (T. Groves)
Kinesis (various composers)
Neuma Records/2023
piano: Petros Bouras; violin: Babis Karasavvidis; cello: Marina Kolovou; Kinesis recorded at Antart Studios, Athens, November, 2021–April, 2022; composer: Todd Groves; composition year: unlisted; time: 9:26

Stephen Jaffe: Dance Around the Light* 
The Music of Stephen Jaffe, Vol. 4
Bridge Records/2022
Da Capo Chamber Players (flute/piccolo: Patricia Spencer; clarinet/bass clarinet: Meighan Stoops; violin: Curtis Macomber; cello: Chris Gross; piano: Stephen Beck; percussion: Michael Lipsey); recorded at LeFrak Concert Hall, Queens College, May 17, 2017; composition years: 2009-2010; selection time: 8:26
*from Light Dances: Chamber Concerto, No. 2

SINGLE PLAY
Aleš Friedl: I-Ching — The Book of Changes
Otročarije — Scenes from Childhood
Sazaz/2021
violin: Nadežda Tokareva; piano: Lovorka Nemeš Dular; recorded at the PianoRoom, Golnik, Upper Slovakia, 2020-2021; total selections time: 5:03

Hour 2

SET THREE
J.K. Randall: pitch-derived rhythm: five demonstrations
a. 1:14
b. 1:50
c. 1:37
d. 1:23
e. 2:25
JKR Pass 3 — Music for Jim Randall‘s 75th Birthday [various artists]
Open Space/2007
electronic music: James K. Randall; composition year: c. 1960; time: 8:29

Joel Gressel: P-Vibes — Three Canons
I. 2:36
II. 2:18
III. 3:56
Computer Generations (various artists)
Composers Recordings Incorporated/1978
computer music realized at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton University, 1972; time: 8:51

SET FOUR
Michael Jon Fink: I Hear it in the Rain
Cold Blue Night @ REDCAT* (various artists)
Cold Blue Music/2006
electric guitars: Rick Cox, Michael Jon Fink; electric piano: Bryan Pezzone; electric bass: Barry Newton; electric bass: Dan Morris; percussion: Jonathan Marmor; recorded at REDCAT theater, Disney Concert Hall, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, February 18, 2006; composition year: 1985; time: 10:42
*not commercially released

Brian Eno: Julie With…
Before and After Science
Jem Records/1987 (orig. Isand Records LP/1977)
voice, piano, electric guitar, synthesizers, bell: Brian Eno; bass guitar: Paul Rudolph; recorded at Basing Street studio, London, Conny Plank’s studio, Köln, 1977; time: 6:01

Michael Jon Fink: Hieroglyph
From a Folio
Cold Blue Music/2014
cello: Derek Stein; piano: Michael Jon Fink; recorded at Architecture studios, Los Angeles; time: 2;01

SET FIVE
Peter Gena: Chopin’s Catarrh cf2 — Canon Mensurabilis*
Beethoven in Soho and Other Works
New World Records/2023
for two computer-driven pianos; composition year: 2023; time: 8:05
*Cystic Fibrosis CFTR 508deIF mutation, DNA consultant: Charles M. Strom, PhD, MD

Luis Tabuenca: Fish Magic*
Naturstudium
Mode Records/2023
homemade percussion instruments: Luis Tabuenca; recorded at the Phonos Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, 2018; composition year: 2018; time: 6:22
*Paul Klee painting

Hour 3

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Kate Soper: The Hunt (selections)
a. Prologue: De Monoceron (2:15)
b. Livestream #1; Day 17 (1:26)
c. King’s Comment #1 (0:46)
d. Riddle #1 (a violin and bow) (0:52)
The Hunt — Opera in One Act
New Focus Recordings/2024|
music director: Mila Henry; soprano, violin: Hirona Amamiya; soprano, ukulele: Christiana Cole, Brett Umlauf; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, October 16-17, 2023; composition year: 2023; total selections time: 5:19

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Ashley: Act IV (Years 43-56)
Crash — An Opera by Robert Ashley
Lovely Music, Ltd./2015
voices: Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinton, Dave Ruder, Aliza Simons; music director and live sound: Tom Hamilton; music and text: Robert Ashley; recorded at the Roulette, New York City, April 15-18, 2015; time: 15:16

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John Young: Sweet Anticipation
Espaces lointains
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for 16-channel fixed medium); realized at Music, Technology, and Innovation Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; premiered at the Sound Junction Autumn 2018 festival, Firth Hall, University of Sheffield, UK, composition year: 2018-2023; time: 17:26

SINGLE PLAY
Carey Nutman: Set Sail on the Solstice (excerpt)
The Sky and the Sea
MPS Music & Video/2021
computer music: Carey Nutman; excerpt time: 12:00 (00:00 — 12:00)

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