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Martian Gardens Episode 1222
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
April 3, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Patterns (In wood and metal)
Touch and Go
Bridge Records/2024
(for mallet quartet–two marimbas, two vibraphones, metal and wooden toys); percussionists: Gwendolyn Dease, Ji Hye Jung, Jisu Jung, Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Wharton Center Great Hall, East Lansing, Michigan, September 25 & 27, 2023; composition year: 2011; time: 12:07

SET ONE
Juan J.G. Escuadero: Underland A20
Ice Door
Neuma Records/2024
electronics: Juan J.G. Escuadero; time: 9:04

Christopher Trapani: Zanzibar (Taarah)
Noise Uprising
A Polystylistic Atlas
New World Records/2024
vocal: Sofia Jernberg; tambourine: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe; guembri: Toon Callier; darbuka, melodica: Christopher Trapani; cümbüş: Johannes Westendorp; time: 2:52

Shawn E. Okpebholo: In Flight (a quiet song)
Songs in Flight
A Song Cycle for Soprano, Countertenor, Baritone, and Piano
Çedille Records/2025
soprano: Karen Slack; baritone: Will Liverman; piano: Paul Sánchez; text: Tsitsi Ella Jaji; recorded at Armerding Center for Music and the Arts, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois; March 2024; time: 6:29

SET TWO
David Shapiro: Substance — Giant Megalopolis
Sumptuous Planet
A Secular Mass
New Focus Recordings/2023
The Crossing vocal ensemble, conductor: Donald Nally; recorded at St. Peter’s Church in the Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsylvania, January 2-6, 2023; time: 4:48

Stacy Garrop: Terra Nostra (selections)
a. The Want of Peace (4:18)
b. The Child said, What is the grass? (2:59)
Terra Nostra
Oratorio by Stacy Garrop
Çedille Records/2024
Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Alice Millar Chapel Choir; texts: a. Wendell Berry; b. Walt Whitman; recorded at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois, February 6 & 8, 2023; selections time: 7:17

Hour 2

SET THREE
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

Luis Tabuenca: The Growth of the Night Plants*
Naturstudium
Mode Records/2023
homemade percussion instruments: Luis Tabuenca; recorded at the Phonos Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, 2018; composition year: 2018; time: 3:03
*Paul Klee painting

David Rosenboom: Desert Night Touch Down
Future Travel
New World Records/2007 (orig. Street Records/1981)
Buchla Touché, 300 Series Electric Music Box, piano, violin, percussion, lyrics: David Rosenboom; vocal: Jacqueline Humbert; recorded at Zoetrope Studios, San Francisco; composition year: 1981; time: 5:10

Brian Eno: In Dark Trees
Another Green World
EG Editions/1987 (orig. Island LP/1975)
rhythm generator, percussion, electric guitar: Brian Eno; recorded at Island Studios, London, Summer 1975; time: 2:29

SET FOUR
Paul Rudy: Degrees of Separation, “Grandchild of Tree”
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 33 (various artists)
Toys in the Attic: Electroacoustic Music from the UMKC iMPACT Center  
Centaur Records/2002
(for amplified cactus, digital effects, tape); cactus: Nathan David; recording engineer: Paul Rudy; recorded at the University of Missouri Kansas City; composition year: 1999; time: 10:01

Annie Gosfield: Cranks and Cactus Needles
Almost Truths and Open Deceptions
Tzadik Records/2012
(for flute, piano, violin, and cello); The Pearls Before Swine Experience (violin: George Kentros; flute: Sara Hammarstrom; cello: Mats Olofsson; piano: Marten Landstrom; composition year: 2000; time: 7:32

SINGLE PLAY
Elaine Barkin: Violin Duo
Open Space 24 (Barkin/Czerner)
Open Space/2009
(for two violins), MIDI realization: David Frank Long, 2008; composition year: 2007; time: 9:13

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Sofia Gubaidulina: Vivente-Non Vivente (Alive and Dead)
Музыкальное Приношение (Musical Offering) (various artists)
Cold Spring/2023
ANS Synthesizer: Sofia Gubaidulina; recorded in Moscow; composition year: 1970; time: 10:44

In memory of Sofia Gubaidulina (October 24, 1931 — March 13, 2025)

Edison Denisov: The Singing of the Birds
Electroacoustic Music Volume IV (various artists)
Archive Tapes Synthesizer ANS 1964-1971
Electroshock Records/1999
(for the ANS photoelectronic synthesizer); composition year: 1969; time: 5:05

Alfred Schnittke: Steam
Electroacoustic Music Volume IV [various artists]
Archive tapes from the Synthesizer ANS 1964-1961
Electroshock Records/1999
performed on ANS Synthesizer, Moscow; composition year: 1964; time: 5:50

SET SIX
Andrew Lewis: Time and Fire
Au-delà
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(electroacoustic music); realized at the Electroacoustic Music Studio of the University of Birmingham (UK), 1987-1990; premiered at the International Computer Music Conference, Stevenson Hall of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, September 12, 1990; time: 13:45

Mark Wingate: Welcome to Medicare!
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 21 (various artists)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2023 (orig. SEAMUS/2012)
electronics: Mark Wingate; composition year: 2007; time: 12:23

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