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Martian Gardens Episode 1198
Recorded at Max’s shabby digs,
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 11, 2024
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com 
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Hour 1

SET ONE
Bandwidth: 7 Signs You Might Be Living in a Capitalist Hellscape
a. That hobby you used to love has turned into joyless side hustle (1:48)
b. You’re still waiting for that economy to trickle down (1:40)
c. Your co-worker uses the word “synergysms” unironically (1:14)
d. You often find yourself delirious after deliberating the delineation of deliverables (1:29)
e. You can spot that gaslight ignite from a mile away (0:49)
f. No amount of self-care can can patch your soul back together (2:34)
g. You know that supply chain pain all too well (2:39)
Where Songs Go Out At Night
Neuma Records/2024
flute: Cobus Du Toit; oboe: Kemp Jernigan; clarinet: Romie de Guise-Langlois; saxophone: Jonathan Hulting-Cohen; horn: Joshua Michal; bassoon: Rémi Taghavi; recorded at Bezanson Recital Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, January 23-24, 2023; composer: Annika Socolofsky; composition year: 2022; total time: 12:00

Denman Maroney Quintet: Covid Variations (selections)
a. No Justice? No Peace (5:51)
b. For Every Tatter (3:34)
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; selections time: 9:25

SINGLE PLAY
William Horne: Sonata for French Horn and Piano
I. Passionately (5:36)
II. Gently (6:35)
III. Quick, Energetic (6:18)
Chamber Music of William Horne, Volume Three
Blue Griffin Recording, Inc./2024
French horn: Mollie Pate; piano: Xiting Yang; recorded at Blue Griffin Studio, The Ballroom, Lansing, Michigan; May 29-30, 2023; composition year: 2021; total time: 18:29

SINGLE PLAY
David Liptak: Serenade for Alto Saxophone and Strings (selections)
II. Sankt Hans Fire (2:51)
III. A Midsummer Night’s Fairytale (4:03)
IV. Stella’s Dance (2:29)
V. Evensong (5:46)
Music of David Liptak
Bridge Records/2005
alto saxophone: Chien-Kwan Lin; Eastman Philharmonia, conductor: Bradley Lubman; recorded at Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, April 17, 2004; composition year: 2001; total selections time: 8:23

Hour 2

SET TWO
Federico Bonacossa: Like Flowers in the Sky
Elettroarmonico
New Focus Recordings/2024
cello: Jason Calloway; electronics: Federico Bonacossa; Elettroarmonico recorded at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Miami, Florida, 2019; composition year: 2014; time: 12:57

Jenn Kirby: Play All Parts
Explorations: Cello and Electronics
Jenn Kirby’s Bandcamp/2020
cello, electronics: Jenn Kirby; time: 5:45

SET THREE
John Luther Adams: Velocity Waves
Waves and Particles
Cold Blue Music/2024
The JACK Quartet (violins: Christopher Otto, Austin Wulliman; viola: John Richards; cello: Jay Campbell); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, June 2, 2023; composition year: 2021; time: 9:07

Steve Reich: Different Trains, Part 1 — America Before the War
Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint (Reich/Metheny/Kronos Quartet)
Elektra-Nonesuch/1989
(for string quartet and tape); Kronos Quartet (violins: David Harrington, John Sherba; viola: Hank Dutt; cello: Jean Jeanrenaud); pre-recorded sounds sourced from train whistles, railroad sounds, Virginia (Reich’s governess), and Lawrence Davis (a Pullman porter); recorded at Russian Hill Recordings, San Francisco, summer 1988, composition year: 1988; selection time: 8:58

SET FOUR
Third Coast Percussion: Metamorphosis No. 1 (P. Glass)
Perspectives (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore) recorded at the Chicago Recording Company; May 2017; composer: Philip Glass (arr. TCP); composition year: 1988; time: 9:33

Philip Glass: Metamorphosis III
Metamorphosis I-V
Orange Mountain Music/2019
piano: Olivia Belli; composition year: 1988; time: 5:13

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Joseph Benzola: Metamorphosis
Odds and Sods 2020-2024
Amanita Music/2024
percussion: Joseph Benzola; time: 9:11

Emma Margetson: Gestört
Contemplations
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for stereo fixed medium); composed at the electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Biala Noc – Kino Dzẃieķu: To the BEASTiary at the Przejsćie in the Instyut im Jerzego Grotowskiego, Wroclaw, Poland, May 23, 2015; composition years: 2014-205; time: 4:16

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Polansky: Psaltery (for Lou Harrison)
The Theory of Impossible Melody
New World Records/2009
(electroacoustic music on tape, sound source: 51 pitches, made from tape-manipulated recordings of one
string of a hand-held bowed Appalachian psaltery); recorded at Experimental Music Studios, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1978; time: 16:41

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

SET SIX
Lou Harrison: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel
Por Gitaro — Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; guitar: John Schneider; recorded at Harvey Mudd College, Pomona, California, May 6, 2007; composition year: 1991; time: 6:21

Bill Alves: Concerto for Guitar and Gamelan (Movements II & III)
II. 6:27
III. 6:23
Guitars & Gamelan
MicroFest Records/2015
HMC American Gamelan, director: Bill Alves; just intonation guitar: John Schneider; composition year: 2004; total selections time: 12:50

John Schneider/Amy Schulman: Study on Olympos’ Pentatonic* (H. Partch)
Just West Coast (various composers)
Microtonal Music for Guitar and Harp
Bridge Records/1993
guitar: John Schneider; harp: Amy Shulman; composer: Harry Partch; composition years: 1946, 1950; time: 1:14
*from Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales

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