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Martian Gardens Episode 1196
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
May 23, 2024
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Hour 1

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Mark-Anthony Turnage: Massarosa for Bassoon and String Quartet
a. Very tender and expressive (7:10)
b. Intermezzo (1:58)
c. Very slow and serene (6:25)
Red Maple (various composers)
Music for Bassoon and Strings
Bridge Records/2023
bassoon: Peter Kolkay; Calidore String Quartet (violins: Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan; viola: Jeremy Berry; cello: Estelle Choi); recorded at the Concert Hall, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, January 17-19, 2022; composition year: 2018; total time: 15:33

SET ONE
Federico Bonacossa: De Profundis
Elettroarmonico
New Focus Recordings/2024
clarinet: John Antisz; electronics: Federico Bonacossa; Elettroarmonico recorded at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Miami, Florida, 2019; composition year: 2013; time: 9:17

Ewart – Asplund – Ricks Trio: The Struggle to Receive the Breath
Emphatic Now
Neuma Records/2024
woodwinds, didgeridoo, percussion, voice, texts: Douglas R. Ewart; viola and piano: Christian Asplund; trombone and electronics: Steven Ricks; recorded at Madsen Recital Hall, Provo, Utah, October 14, 2022; time: 9:12

SET TWO
John Luther Adams: Particle Dust*
Waves and Particles
Cold Blue Music/2024
The 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: 9:18
*Cantor Dust (Cantor Set)

Iannis Xenakis: Ergma
Complete String Quartets
Mode Records/2009
The JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Ari Streisfeld; viola: John Pickford; cello: Kevin McFarland); recorded at WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal, Koln, November, 2008; composition year: 1994; time: 8:30

Hour 2

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Larry Polansky: Canon #14 — Kid Canon
Four-Voice Canons
Cold Blue Music/2002
voices: Anna Diamond Polansky and friends; recorded at Brittrax, Dartmouth College and Los Angeles, 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 1:37

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Larry Polansky: בהתחלה (B’reysheet) (In the Beginning…) [Cantillation Study #1) 
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
vocal: Jody Diamond; live interactive computers: Phil Burk, Larry Polansky; engineer: Tom Erbe; recorded at Mills College Concert Hall, January, 1990 (HMSL software designed by Larry Polansky and Phil Burk, 1984-1990); composition: Larry Polansky (1985-1989); style: traditional Hebrew cantillation and live computer music; time: 13:36

In memory of Larry Polansky (October 16, 1954 — May 9, 2024)

SET THREE
Leo Kupper: Electro-Acoustic Santur (selections)
a. 3:54
b. 6:09
Electro-Acoustic
Pogus Productions/1996
(for 2 santurs, 4 microprocessors, electronic sounds); santurs: Leo Kupper, Kyomars Peergalou; recorded at the composer’s studio, Brussels; composition year: 1989; total selections time: 10:03

Ivan Tcherepnin: Santur Live! (selections)
a. Heralder of Good Tidings (3:21)
b. The Call of Lunar Felines (2:26)
c. Overture: The Situation in The Land (3:58)
Flores Musicales – Five Songs – Santur Live!
Composers Recordings, Inc./1995 (org. LP/1982)
santur, serge modulator electronics: Ivan Tcherepnin; a. recorded at the Longy School of Music, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977; b. recorded at Festival d’ Automne, Paris, 1980; c. recorded at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, 1980; composition years: 1977 and forward; total selections time: 11:35

SET FOUR
Noah Creshevsky: Sleeping Awake
Sleeping Awake
Open Space/2019
electroacoustic music; Noah Creshevsky; voice, text: Dorota Czerner (text inspired by the painting Dervisci Rotanti by Aldo Mondino); composition year: 2017; time: 4:36

Randy Greif: The Hole to Heaven
Dry Lungs II (Various Artists)
Placebo Records/1986
tape collage, instruments (saxophone, electric bass, percussion), tape: Randy Greif; time: 8:00

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Wadada Leo Smith/Benjamin Boretz: Inside Track (excerpt)
Inside Track
Open Space/2024
trumpet, flute: Wadada Leo Smith; piano: Benjamin Boretz; recorded at Brook House, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, September 5, 1988; excerpt time: 10:00 (10:00 — 20:00 of 47:59)

Joseph Benzola: For Alice Coltrane
Odds and Sods 2020-2024
Amanita Music/2024
all instruments and recording: Joseph Benzola; time: 6:23

SET SIX
John Young: Le chant en dehors
Espaces Lointains
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for 16.2 channel fixed medium); realized at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Laboratory at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; premiered at the Klang! electroacoustique 2022 festival, Montpellier, France; time: 10:08

Philip Blackburn: Sonata Homophobia
Ordo
Neuma Records/2023
(for flute and brainwave-triggered right wing hate speech); flute, neural activity: Zachary Meier; electronics: Philip Blackburn; recorded at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, April 17, 2014; composition year: 2014; time: 10:55

SET SEVEN
Christian Marclay: His Master’s Voice (excerpt)
Records
Atavistic Records/1997
turntables, phonograph records, live sound collage: Christian Marclay; recorded at The Kitchen, NYC, 1982; time: 4:01

Willem De Ridder & Hafler Trio: Report
Aerial #5 (various artists)
Nonsequitur/1992
text, voice: Willem De Ridder; sounds: Andrew McKenzie; composition year: 1991; time: 7:01

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