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Martian Gardens Episode 1159
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 16 2023
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com 
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Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Elliott Carter: Piano Concerto
I. 10:23
II. 13:00
Music of Elliott Carter, Volume 9
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Charles Rosen; Basel Sinfonietta, conductor: Joel Smirnoff; recorded at Stadtcasino, Basel, Switzerland, April 3, 2001; composition years: 1964-1965; total time: 23:23

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Subotnick: Preludes for Piano
a. The Blind Owl (6:08)b
b. The Feast (2:21)
c. Prelude IV (6:12)
Morton Subotnick, Volume 4 — Complete Works for Piano
Mode Records/2018
piano: SooJin Anjou; recorded in New York City, May 2014; I. for solo piano; composition year: 1957; for solo piano; composition year: 1961; IV. for piano and electronics; composition year: 1966; total time: 14:41

SET ONE
Robert Fleisher: Altro Alfresco
Ilta (Fleisher, Maki, Xenakis)
Neuma Records/2022
(for fixed media and percussion); percussion: Thomas Loretto; recorded at Camp Douglas, Wisconsin; composition years: 1970, 2010; time: 5:49

John Cage: Child of Tree
The Works for Percussion 3
Mode Records/2014
amplified plant materials: D’Arcy Philip Gray; recorded at Sutton United Church, Sutton, Quebec, July 2008; composition year: 1975; time: 8:11

Hour 2

SET TWO
Vânia Dantas Leite: L’Indien et L’Ovni (The Indian and the UFO)
Fios da Trama, Vol. 1 (various artists)
Berro/2021
for electronics, sound collage, and female voice; recorded at the composer’s studio, Rio de Janeiro; composition year: 1986; time: 14:12

Annette Vande Gorne: Exil, Chant II (excerpts)
a. Excerpt A (3:12)
b. Excerpt B (3:57)
Exils
empreintes DIGITALes/2008
(for fixed media); electroacoustic music realized at Métamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Musiques & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium; text: Exil, Saint-John Perse, “Faisceaux”, reader: Annette Vande Gorne; premiered at Café-théâtre Stalker, Brussels, June 30, 1983; composition year: 1983; excerpt time: 6:09

SET THREE
Lee Weisert: Recesses II
Recesses
New Focus Recordings/2023
saxophone: Matthew McClure; modular synthesis: Allen Anderson; electronics, guitar, percussion, piano: Lee Weisert; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York; time: 15:05

Jon Christopher Nelson: Waves of Refraction
Electro-Acoustic Music III
Neuma Records/1994
(for guitar and tape); guitar: William Bunocore; computer-generated tape produced at Florida International University Electronic Music Center, Miami; composition year: 1992; time: 7:56

SINGLE PLAY
Helen Thorington: Oil Pumps
via the Internet Archive
(for Texas oil pumps and violin); violin: Aurora Manuel; composition year: 1982; time: 2:26

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Christian Bouchard: Montréal-mafia
IV
empreintes DIGITALes/2023
(for 8-channel fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2013-2014; premiered at the Électrochoc 3: Christian Bouchard concert at the Studio multimédia, Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, December 1, 2016; time: 15:01

SET FOUR
Lei Liang: Season 1 — Darkness
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: 9:44
* “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

Charlie Morrow: Windsong
Toot!
XI Records/2011
ambient arctic sounds: Charlie Morrow; composition year: 1997; time: 3:28

Audrey Churgin: Arctic Sun Arctic Wind
Deep Wireless 2 — Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
voice, recordings: Audrey Churgin; drum dance and song: Rosalie Pissuk and son; composition year: 2004; time: 4:46

SET FIVE
Judith Exley: The Cave of Tidal Sound
Open Space 16 (Barkin/Carle/Exley/Helmuth)
Open Space/2004
(electronic music on two-channel tape); field recordings made at Makara Beach, Wellington, New Zealand; realized at the Electronic Music Studio of the Victoria University School of Music, Wellington, New Zealand; commissioned by Rose Beauchamp, for her puppet play “Storytelling,” composition year: 1993; time: 9:17

Annea Lockwood: Floating World, Part 1
Thousand Year Dreaming/Floating World
Pogus Productions/2007
Floating Worlds 1-3 — field recordings: Shell Beach, Point Reyes, California, by Maggi Payne; Chimaya, New Mexico, by David Dunn; Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy, by Larry Austin; the New York Public Library reading room by Chris Mann; Swallow Hollow, Georgia, by Sorrel Hayes; oak tree branches, Sandia Crest, New Mexico, by Steve Peters; sonogram of jugular, Flathead Lake, Montana, by Ruth Anderson; Patarau Beach, New Zealand (microphone buried in gravel) by John Cousins; Gannets, Cape Kidnappers, New Zealand, by Philip Dadson; Peebles Island, Mohawk River, New York, by Warren Burt; Canal Spillway, Delaware River, Pennsylvania, by Brenda Hutchinson; editing, composition: Annea Lockwood; composition year: 1999; selection time: 6:02

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