Martian Gardens Episode 963
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 27, 2019
Contact Max Shea: martiangardens@gmail.com 
(or just leave a comment below)
Listen: Where and When
Valley Free Radio WXOJ 103.3 FM
radio4all.net
Taint Radio

Hour 1

SET ONE
Paul Elwood: selections from Émissions transparents
I. L’ange de l’annonciation — Interlude — Magnificat (7:24)
II. Voiceless Transit (3:28)
Émissions transparents
Innova Recordings/2019
The Callithumpian Consort (solo electric guitar: Pablo Cano-Gomez; piano: Yukiko Takagi; mellotron: Jacob Mason; percussion: Mike Williams; cello: Stephen Morotto; electronics: Rose Wrightman), conductor: Stephen Drury; Recorded at the New England Conservatory of Music, September 25, 2018; composition year: 2016; total selections time: 10:52

Marco Oppedisano: Snapshots (for Noah Creshevsky)
BC Sound Serum (various artists)
Brooklyn College Electro-Acoustic Music Club/2004
electroacoustic electric guitar, samples: Marco Oppedisano; composition year: 2003; time: 7:18

Roger Kleier: Brickyard
Deep Night, Deep Autumn
Starkland/2001
electric guitars, processing: Roger Kleier; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, 1998; composition year: 1998; time: 1:00

SET TWO
Formosa Quartet: Song Recollections (L. Liang)
From Hungary to Taiwan (various composers)
Bridge Records/2018
Formosa Quartet (violins: Jasmine Lin, Wayne Lee; viola: Che Yen Chen; cello: Deborah Pae); recorded at Nichols Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, October, 2017; composer: Lei Liang; composition year: 2016; time: 24:07

Robert Morris: Tête-à-Tête
Open Space 14 — Robert Morris
Open Space/2002
guitars: William Anderson, Oren Fader; composition year: 1998; time: 8:14

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Jonathan Harvey: From Silence
Music of Jonathan Harvey
Bridge Records/1992
(for soprano, violin, viola, percussion, 3 electronic keyboards, computer, and tape); soprano: Karol Bennett; violin: Lucy Stoltzman; viola: Marcus Thompson; percussion: Dean Anderson; electronic keyboards: Kathleen Supové, John MacDonald, Diana Dabby; sound engineer: David Atherton; computers, sound treatments: Brent Koeppel, Ken Malsky, Philip Sohn; conductor: Barry Vercoe; texts: the abbess Of West Malling Abbey; recorded at the M.I.T. Sound Laboratory; composition year: 1988; time: 21:45

SET THREE
David Mahler: Rising Ground
The Voice of the Poet — Works on Tape 1973-1986
Artifact Recordings/1997
electroacoustic music on tape (sound sources: spinning objects — coins, washers, aluminum hoop, Chinese yo-yo); composition years: 1979-1980; time: 10:03

David Dunn: selections from Tabula Angelorum Bonorum 49
a. Segment 1 (4:06)
b. Setment 2 (4:02)
Angels & Insects
¿What Next? Recordings/1992
computer-processed voices on 2 channels of tape: David Dunn (based on the mysticism of John Dee and Edward Kelly); composition year: 1991; total selections time: 8:08

Robert Voisey: selections from Constellations
a. Andromeda (1:00)
b. Aquarius (1:00)
c. Crux (1:00)
d. Dorado(1:00)
e. Draco (1:00)
Constellations
Voisey CD-R/2006
voice, vocal ambient drones: Robert Voisey; composition year: 2006; total selections time: 5:00

Dariusz Mazurowski: 4.5 Billion Years
Non Acoustic Symphony
An Electro-Acoustic Composition in Seven Parts
Neuma Records/2015
(electroacoustic music); recorded at the De eM Studio, Gdansk, Poland, 2011-2013; time: 7:23

Philip Perkins: selections from Drive Time
a. Hotel TV (LA) (1:29)*
b. HG-7 (2:31)
Drive Time
Body Double Records/2013 (orig. Fun Music release/1985)
tapes, arrangement, processing: Philip Perkins; recorded in San Francisco, 1980s; total selections time: 4:00
*Goody Goody (1936, Malneck/Mercer), performers unknown

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Mari Kimura: Kaze (The Wind)
Voyage Apollonian
Innova Recordings/2017
violin, µgic motion sensor, voice, voice processing: Mari Kimura; text: Sei Shōnagon; composition year: 2016; time: 7:15

Michael Hersch: selections Images from a Closed Ward
a. Images from a Closed Ward II (1:23)
b. Images from a Closed Ward III (7:04)
Images from a Closed Ward
New Focus Recordings/2018
(for string quartet); The FLUX Quartet (violin: Tom Chiu, Conrad Harris; viola: Max Mandel; cello: Felix Fan); recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, September 30, 2017; composition year: 2010; total selections time: 8:27

Morton Feldman: The Straits of Magellan
Intermediate Music — Feldman Edition, Volume 4
Mode Records/2001
(for ensemble); The Turfan Ensemble (flute: Thaddeus Watson; horn: John Stobart; trumpet: William Forman; amplified guitar: Volker Höh; harp: Maria Strange; piano: Philipp Vandré; contrabass: Johannes Nied); directors: Phillipp Vandré, Thaddeus Watson; recorded at HR-Sendesaal, Frankfurt; 1996, 1997; composition year: 1961; time: 5:11

SET FIVE
Quasar quatuor de saxophones: Du Souffle (P. Leroux)
Du Souffle
Actuellecd/2016
soprano saxophone: Marie-Chantal Leclair; alto saxophone: Mathieu Leclair; tenor saxophone: André Leroux; baritone saxophone: Jean-Marc Bouchard; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2014-2015; composition years: 1996, 2003; time: 19:10

Michael Byron: Fabric for String Noise, Part 1
Fabric for String Noise
Cold Blue Music/2019
String Noise (violins: Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim-Harris); recorded at Harvestworks Digital Media Center, New York City, May 12, 2018; composition year: 2018; time: 9:06

SET SIX
Joan La Barbara: Flash!
60 x 60 — 2006/2007 [various artists]
Vox Novus/2008
violin: Ariana Kim; composition year: 2008; time: 0:45

Matteo Liberatore: Fisherman
Solos
Innova Recordings/2018
guitar: Matteo Liberatore; mixing, mastering: Elliott Sharp, recorded in Brooklyn, New York; time: 2:27

— FIN —