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Martian Gardens Episode 1158
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 6, 2023
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com 
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Hour 1

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Roger Reynolds: Sketchbook (for The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
For A Reason
Neuma Records/2023
(for low female voice, piano, and electronic processing); voice, piano: Liz Pearse; text: Milan Kundera; computer enhancement: Paul Hembree; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, June 22-23, 2022; composition year: 1985; time: 24:41

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Seth Parker Woods: Freefucked (T. Hearne)
a. Free fucked (1) (1:45)
b. A Wedding, or What We Unlearned from Descartes (5:16)
c. Free fucked (2) (3:00)
d. The Lion Tamer’s Daughter vs. The Ledge (4:16)
e. After We Ruin (2:18)
Difficult Grace (various composers)
Çedille Records/2023
(for cello, electronics, and voice); cello: Seth Parker Woods; voice, Seth Parker Woods, Ted Hearne; texts: Kemi Alabi; recorded at The Chicago Recording Company, September 2022; vocals recorded at the Unsettlement Studios, Los Angeles, Autumn, 2022; composer: Ted Hearne; composition year: 2022; total time: 16:38

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Scott L. Miller: Exit Velocity
Coincident
Featuring Zeitgeist with Joseph Horton and New Exit
New Focus Recordings/2023
percussion: Heather Barringer, Patti Cudd; bass clarinet: Pat O’Keefe; piano: Nikki Melville; Kyma software: Scott L. Miller; recorded at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota; composition year: 2021; time: 7:55

Hour 2

SET ONE
Walter Zimmermann: selections from Fruende (Schalkhäußer-Lieder)
a. Über das einzelne Weggehen — Going Alone (2:12)
b. Forty Chords for Jon (1:49)
c. Krikel Krakel Scribble-Scrabble (2:00)
d. Sang (3:06)
Voces
Mode Records/2021
voice, piano: Walter Zimmermann; harp, electronics: Gabriel Emde; electric guitar, concertina: Gerd Leibeling; drums, glockenspiel: Guido Conen; texts: a. R.D. Brickmann; b. (instrumental); c. Walter Zimmermann; d. P.C. Hooft (from Love Emblems); mastered from a recording of Carl Stone‘s radio program Imaginary Landscapes, November 16, 1982 (Los Angeles); composition years: 1979-1984 (sic.); total selections time: 9:07

Art Bears: selections from Hopes and Fears
a. On Suicide (1:27)
b. The Dividing Line (4:12)
c. Pirate Song (2:16)
d. Labyrinths (Daedalus, Lamenting) (2:49)
Hopes and Fears
ReR Records/1992 (orig. LP/1978)
Art Bears (drums, electrified drums, percussion, noise: Chris Cutler; guitars, violin, viola, piano, harmonium, xylophone bass; vocals: Dagmar Krause; music, lyrics: a. Bertolt Brecht, Hanns Eisler; b. Cutler, Frith, Cooper; c., d. Cutler, Hodgkinson;); woodwinds, recorders: Lindsay Cooper; piano: Tim Hodgkinson (c.); recorded at Sunrise Studio, Kirchberg, Germany, January, 1978; total selections time: 10:42

SET TWO
Eric Chasalow: Museum in D
Are You Radioactive, Pal?
Suspicious Motives Records/2015
electroacoustic music: Eric Chasalow; composition year: 2004; time: 5:13

Frank Zappa: Lumpy Gravy II
a. Very Distraughtening (1:34)
b. White Ugliness (2:21)
c. Amen (1:33)
d. Just One More Time (0:58)
e. A Vicious Circle (1:12)
f. King Kong (0:42)
g. Drums Are Too Noisy (0:58)
h. Kangaroos (0:57)
i. Envelops the Bathtub (3:42)
j. Take Your Clothes Off (1:52)
We’re Only In It For the Money/Lumpy Gravy
Rykodisc/1986*
(for large orchestra and tape); Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Frank Zappa; orchestra recorded at Capitol Records, Hollywood, February 13 + March 14-16, 1967; dialogue (people inside the piano) recorded at Apostolic Studios, New York City, October, 1967; composition year: 1967; total time: 15:50
* original releases: We’re Only In It For the Money — Verve/1968; Lumpy Gravy — Verve/1968

SINGLE PLAY
J.K. Randall and Benjamin Boretz: selections from Duo 5, Part 1 
a. Tr. 4 (6:27)
b. Tr. 5 (3:35)
JKR BAB DUO 5 OPEN SPACE CD 54
Open Space/2023
piano: James K. Randall; Crumar Orchestrator synthesizer: Benjamin A. Boretz; recorded March 5, 1982; total selections time: 10:02

Hour 3

SET THREE
Helen Thorington: Aphids and Others
MP3 via the Internet Archive
field recordings, narration: Helen Thorington; composition year: 1990; time: 8:00

In memory of Helen Thorington (November 16, 1928 — April 13, 2023)

John Oliver: Forest Spirits
Warfire Welfare
John Oliver’s Bandcamp/2023
synthesizers, electronics: John Oliver; composition year: 2023; time: 3:03

Sarah Peebles: White Powder/The Spiders
Insect Groove
Cycling ’74/2002
field recordings, Max software, electronics, processing, text: Sarah Peebles; narrator: David Toop; time: 6:50

Piotr Szewczyk: Cosmic Insects
60×60 2005/2006 (various artists)
Vox Novus/2007
violin, computer processing: Piotr Szewczyk; composition year: 2005; time: 1:00

SET FOUR
Lei Liang: Season 1 — New Ice
Six Seasons
New World Records/2023
(for improvising musicians and prerecorded sounds*); Mivos Quartet (violins: Olivia De Prato, Maya Bennardo; viola: Victor Lowrie Tafoya; cello: Tyler J. Borden; recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego, October 14-15, 2022; composition year: 2022; selection time: 13:22
* “Hydrophones were placed about 300 meters below the sea surface at a seafloor recording location 160 km north of Point Barrow (Alaska). They capture the sound of sea ice, marine mammals, and the underwater environment throughout an entire year.” — Lei Liang

Natasha Barrett: Displaced:Replaced
a. Fog, Light Wind (2:46)
b. Wet and Gusty (1:42)
c. Gathering Wind (2:50)
Isostasie
empreintes DIGITALes/2002
installation piece realized at Natasha Barrett‘s studio, Oslo, 2001; octophonic spatialization realized at NoTAM, Oslo; commissioned by the Ilios Festival, Harstad, Norway; premiere: February 1-4, 2001, Gallery Nord-Norge, Harstad; total time: 6:18

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Notjustmoreidlechatter
More Than Idle Chatter
Bridge Records/1994
MicroVAX II computer, linear predictive coding (for speech), granular synthesis, stochastic techniques: Paul Lansky; created at Princeton University, 1988; time: 7:57

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