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Martian Gardens Episode 1194
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
May 9, 2024
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Mari Tamki: Sneak into the Q-city
Retrograde
Navona Records/2024
Sirius Quartet (violins: Fung Chern Hwei, Gregor Huebner; viola: Ron Lawrence; cello: Jeremy Harman); recorded Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, March 5, 2019; composition year: not listed; time: 7:31

SINGLE PLAY
Alfred Schnittke: Sonata No. 1
I. Andante (2:54)
II. Allegro (5:13)
III. Largo (4:38)
IV. Allegretto Scherzando — Allegro-Largo-Allegretto (5:16
Quasi una Sonata — Music for Violin and Piano
Bridge Records/2000
violin: Joanna Kurkowicz; piano: Sergey Schepkin; recorded at Wellesley Chapel, Wellesley, Massachusetts, January 1999; composition year: 1978; total time: 18:01

SET ONE
John Luther Adams: Murmurs in a Chromatic Field
Waves and Particles
Cold Blue Music/2024
JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman; viola: John Richards; cello: Jay Campbell); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, June 2, 2023; composition year: 2021; time: 7:54

Morton Feldman: Patterns in a Chromatic Field*
Complete Music for Cello and Piano
Mode Records/2024
cello: Stephen Morotto; piano: Marilyn Nonken; recorded at the Concert Hall of EMPAC**, Troy, New York, December 2018; composition year: 1981; time: 9:57
*mm 388 — 558, Page 20
**Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Chou-Wen Chen: Twilight Colors (selections)
III. Colors of Dawn (1:46)
IV. In the Mist (3:32)
Clouds
Mode Records/2011
Boston Musica Viva, conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded at Fraser Performance Studio, Boston, September 17, 2008; composition year: 2007; total selections time: 5:28

Hour 2

SET TWO
James Díaz: Atardecer en 8-bits
Speaking in a Foreign Language
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for violen and electronics); violin: Julia Jun Un Suh; recorded at 310 Penn Studios, Monroeville, Pennsylvania; time: 3:14

Juan J.G. Escudero: Das Wort als Horizont
Ice Door
Neuma Records/2024
electroacoustic music: Juan J.G. Escudero; recorded at Dreamflower Acoustic, Bronxville, New York, January 8, 2024; time: 7:25

Jorge Sad Levi: Klang Clan
Músicas de Una Etnia Imaginaria
Elektramusic Bandcamp/2020
(for instruments and real time electronics); flute: Juliana Moreno; cello: Martín Devoto; bandoneon: Enrique Entenza; electric guitar: Germán Meira; recorded at Laboratorio de Investigación y Producción, Music Department of the Music and Technology Division, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina; time: 7:46

SET THREE
Heiner Goebbels: In the Country of Last Things
Surrogate Cities
ECM Records/2000
(for vocals and orchestra) vocals: Jocelyn B. Smith ; narrator: David Moss; text: Paul Auster (Le Voyage D’Anna Blume); Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, conductor: Peter Rundel; recorded at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, 1996; composition year: 1994; time: 5:14

In memory of Paul Auster (1947-2024)

Frank Zappa: Food Gathering in Post-Industrial America, 1992
The Yellow Shark
Barking Pumpkin/1993
Ensemble Modern, conductor: Frank Zappa; text: Frank Zappa; dramatic reading: HIlary Sturt; The Yellow Shark recorded in Frankfurt, Berlin, and Vienna, September 1992; time: 2:52

Laurie Anderson: Another Day in America
Homeland
Nonesuch/2010
modulated voice, percussion, violin, keyboards, essay: Laurie Anderson; viola: Eyvind Kang; percussion, drums: Ben Wittman; bass: Skúli Sverrisson; background vocals: Antony; recorded in New York City, 2010; time: 11:24

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Natalia Cappa: De los Sos Ojos (D. Tedesco)
Una (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for solo voice); soprano: Natalia Cappa; texts: Cantar de mio Cid; composer: Diego Tedesco; composition year: 2023; time: 11:35

John Melby: For Milton
Milton Babbitt — A Composer’s Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
(for computer and soprano); soprano: Patricia Sonego; text: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais; computer: John Melby; composition year: 2011; time: 6:28 

SET FIVE
Ana Dall’Ara-Majek: Canticum Asphodeli
Radiolaria
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for stereo fixed medium); recording locations: Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm, summer 2022; Studio Blue Spider, Montreal, 2023; time: 11:53

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 (24:00 — 36:00)

SINGLE PLAY
Olivia De Prato: Fire in the Dark (J. Baker)
I, A.M. (various artists)
Artist Mother Project — New Works for Violin and Electronics
New World Records/2022
violin: Olivia De Prato; recorded in Vienna, September 3, 2021; composer: Jen Baker; composition year: 2020; time: 8:07

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