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Martian Gardens Episode 1197
Recorded at Max’s shabby digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 1, 2024
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Hour 1

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Denman Maroney Quintet: The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
Neuma Records/2024
hyperpiano: Denman Maroney; voice: Emilie Lesbros; tenor saxophone, b-flat clarinet: Robin Fincker; bass: Scott Walton; drums: Samuel Silvant; lyrics: Henry Miller, Joseph Campbell, Denman Maroney; recorded at La Buisse sonne, Pernes-Les-Fontaines, France, June 11-12, 2023; time: 10:40

SET ONE
Yi-Ting Lu: Sewing in Thin Air
An Unopened Seashell
New Focus Recordings/2024
piano: Lam Wong; recorded at Northwestern University Regenstein Master Class Room, Evanston, Illinois, 2023; composition years: 2022-2023; time: 7:53

Tina Davidson: Bleached Thread, Sister Thread
I Hear the Mermaids Singing
Composers Recordings, Inc./1996
Mendelssohn String Quartet (violins: Ida Levin, Nicholas Mann; viola: Katherine Murdock; cello: Marcy Rosen); recorded at Baby Monster, New York City; composition year: 1991; time: 16:01

SET TWO
Musicians of Bosnia: Svatovsko kolo (Wedding Dance)
Bosnia — Echoes from an Endangered World (various artists)
Music and Chant of the Bosnian Muslims
Smithsonian Folkways/1993
Svatovsko kolo performers: Izudin Osojkić, Omer Bikić, Rešo Kopčalić, Rašid Imamović; field recordings: Ted Levin, Ankica Petrović; time: 1:04

Neil Rolnick: Balkanization
Macedonian AirDrumming
Bridge Records/1992
(for MIDI performance system); synthesizers, MIDI keyboard, software programming: Neil Rolnick; recorded at Wittenberg Studio, Bearsville, New York, August 12, 1991; composition year: 1988; time: 10:08

Eleanor Hovda: Shenai Sky
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012 (orig. released on Coastal Traces, O.O. Discs/1997)
shenai: Libby Van Cleve; composition year: 1991; time: 1:50

Hour 2

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Larry Polansky: 22 Sounds
These Are the Generations
New World Records/2020
[for percussion quartet); percussion: Douglas Perkins; recorded in Chicago, October 26, 2016; composition year: 2010; time: 17:12

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

SET THREE
Sarah Hennies: Zeitgebers
Motor Tapes
New World Records/2024
field recordings: Marc Namblard; Ensemble 0 (percussion: Stéphane Garin, Julien Garin); recorded at Shorebreaker, Tarnos, France; composition year: 2021; time: 10:21

John Cage: 51′ 15.657″ (for a speaking percussionist) (excerpt)
The Works for Percussion 4
Music for Speaking Percussionist
Mode Records/2017
A solo-simultaneous realization of of 45′ for a speaker (1954) and 27′ 10.554″ for a percussionist (1956); percussion: Bonnie Whiting; recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego, May 2011; excerpt time: 10:00

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Herbert Brün: just Seven for drum
Language, Message, Drummage
Electronic Music Foundation/2004
snare drum: James Culley; Language, Message, Drummage recorded between 1960 and 1988; just seven for drum composition year: 1987; time: 8:48

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Christopher Cerrone: Beaufort Scales (selections)
a. Step 2 & 3: Small and Large Wavelets (4:10)
b. Interlude 2: Herman Melville (2:02)
c. Steps 4, 5, & 6: Small, Moderate, and Large Waves (4:44)
Beaufort Scales
Cold Blue Music/2024
(for vocal octet, electronics, and visual projection); voices: Lorelei Ensemble; texts: a., c. Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort; b. Herman Melville, Moby Dick; recorded at Dimension Sound, Boston, November 5-6, 2023; composition year: 2022; selections time: 10:56

Natalia Cappa: Secreta Voz (J. Halac)
Una (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for solo voice); soprano: Natalia Cappa; texts: Milagro Sala, political activist of Jujay, Argentina; composer: José Halac; composition year: 2023; time: 11:35

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Ingrid Drese: Treize virgule huit (13.8)
Lointain intérieur
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(8-channel fixed media); realized at the composer’s studio, Brussels, and the Groupe de recherches musicales (Ina-GRM), Paris, 2018-2019; premiered at Akousma 2 concert, Paris, January 19, 2019; time: 22:35

Doug Van Nort: Outer
Quartet for the End of Space (various composers)
Pogus Productions/2011
Deep Listening performers: Pauline Oliveros, Francisco López, Doug Van Nort, Jonas Brasch; composition year: 2011; time: 8:11

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