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Martian Gardens Episode 1168
Recorded at Max’s home studio,
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 28, 2023
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com 
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Hour 1

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Eric Nathan: Some Favored Nook, Part 2
VI. To see if we were growing (3:19)
VII. War feels to me an oblique place (1:58)
VIII. There suddenly arose (2:45)
IX. Emancipation (2:47)
X. All sounds ceased (2:54)
XI. There came a wind like a bugle (1:54)
XII. Attending to the wounded (2:18)
XIII. That shamed the nation (2:01)
Some Favored Nook
New Focus Recordings/2023
soprano: Tony Arnold; baritone: William Sharp; piano: Seth Knopp; libretto: Mark Campbell, Eric Nathan (texts adapted from the correspondence between Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson; recorded at Sun Hill Studios, Putney, Vermont, August 26-27, 2022; composition year: 2017; total selections time: 20:00

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Tod Machover: Spectres Parisiens
Spectres
Bridge Records/1986
(for chamber orchestra and computer sounds); The Asko Ensemble, conductor: Peter Eötvös; sound director: Tod Machover; sound engineer: Sebastian van Pinkxteren; recorded at Paradiso, Amsterdam, December 16-17, 1984; composition year: 1984; time: 25:45

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Peter Eötvös: Nonsense Songs (Speaking Drums, Mvt. II)
DoReMi/Speaking Drums/Cello Concerto Grosso
Alpha-Classics/2015
(four poems for percussion and orchestra); Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conductor: Peter Eötvös; percussion, voice: Martin Grubinger; texts (Mvt. II): Sándor Weöres (poem 1. Arany Kés Forog; poem 2. Barbár Dal); recorded at Auditorium de Radio France, Paris; November, 2014; composition years: 2012-2013; selection time: 7:18

Hour 2

SET ONE
Philip Perkins: Itza
Undanceable — Musical Sound Scores for Dance 2022-23
Artifact Recordings/2023
all sounds and composition: Philip Perkins; recorded at the composer’s studio, San Francisco; music created for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet; time: 3:01

Joseph Benzola: The Conversation
Dig the New Breed
Amanita Music/1999
all sounds and composition: Joseph Benzola; recorded at the composer’s studio, New York City; time: 10:00

SET TWO
Blind Labyrinth: Synaesthete’s Night Out at Café Oto
MP3
Blind Labyrinth: Kenneth Downey, Robert Gross; spoken word, text: Pauline Sewards; baritone: Brandon Gibson; mezzo soprano: Brooke Clark Gibson; composed and recorded at Gross’ home studio, Denton, Texas, May 18, 2016; time: 16:55

Richard Bone: selections from Vox Orbita
a. Vox (0:34)
b. Noble (4:15)
Vox Orbita
Quirkworks Laboratory/1995
sounds and composition: Richard Bone; vocals, samples: Mary Z, Mary King, Meb Boden; recorded at Quirkworks Laboratory, Greenville, Rhode Island; total selections time: 4:49

SET THREE
Stefania de Kenessey: Mossy
In Her Words
Neuma Records/2022
electronic music Stefania de Kenessey; composition year: 2019; time: 6:09

Electropleinar Sound Diary: selections from The Wind Rises
a. October (1:03)
b. Forest Opera (3:29)
The Wind Rises — Electropleinair Sound Diary 1973, 1985-86
RēR Megacorp/1998 (orig. Krém/1987)
Electropleinair: István Mártha, Endre Szkárosi, Sándor Bernátha; a. ambient sounds (rain, distant thunder); b. flute: Ádam Török; vocal: Tamás Cseh; saxophone: Feró Nagy; vocal: Endre Szkárosi; guitar, vocal, respiration: Sándor Bernáth; Mandel-guartet-Aminida Group; recorded in Hungary, 1987; total selections time: 4:33

Lynn Book: Electric Lady*
Dice 2 [She Says] (various artists)
Ishtar Records/1996
voice, text, composition: Lynn Book; bass: Tatsu Aoki; percussion: Dave Pavkovic; violin: Terri Kapsalis; recorded at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago; composition year: 1995; time: 7:35
*podcast bonus

Hour 3

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Richard Maxfield: Bacchanale
The Oak of the Golden Dreams (Maxfield/Budd)
New World Records/1999
narration, text: Edward Fields; violin: Fahrad Machkat; prepared violin: Robert Block; saxophone: Terry Jennings; underwater clarinet: Nicholas Roussakis; original music recorded at the Five Spot, Manhattan, circa 1962; composition year: 1963; time: 8:14

SET FOUR
Eliane Radique: Onward 38
Vice Versa, etc
Important Records/2009 (orig. reel-to-reel/1970)
(for installation); tapes, feedback, processing: Eliane Radigue; created for exhibition at Galleria Lara Vincy, Paris, 1970; selection time: 4:22

Carol Robinson: Les si doux redoux
The Weather Pieces
Mode Records/2023
(for basset horn and electronics); basset horn, voice, text: Carol Robinson; computer music design: Carl Faia; recorded at Pole Sup ’93, La Courneuve, France, March 1, 2018; composition year: 2015; time: 24:02

SET FIVE
Craig Pepples: String Quartet No. 1
Open Space 42 (Boretz/Pepples)
Open Space/2020
Mivos String Quartet (violins: Olivia De Prato, Maya Bennardo; viola: Victor Lowrie Tafoya; cello: Tyler J. Borden); recorded at Oktaven Audio; composition year: unlisted; total selections time: 8:27

John Cage: Harmony XXXIII (Newburn — Billings)*
The Works for Violin 6 — The String Quartets 4
44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776/Cheap Imitation
Mode Records/2005
The Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings; viola: Dov Scheindlin; cello: Rohan de Saram); recorded at HR Hessischer, Frankfurt, Germany, July 2000; composition year: 1976; total selections time: 0:30
*derived from Apartment House 1776 (for the U.S. Bicentennial), harmonies based on compositions by early American composers William Billings, James Lyons, Andrew Law, Supply Belcher, and Jacob French

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