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Martian Gardens Episode 1223
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
April 10, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
William Bland: Piano Sonata No. 6 in C-Minor (selections)
Bestiary-Con Amore
I. Bear Dance (4:09)
II. Song of the Great Hawk (5:28)
Sonata No. 6 & No. 15
Bridge Records/2024
piano: Kevin Gorman; recorded September 17 & 18, Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York; composition year: 2001; total selections time: 9:37

Nils Vigeland: Piano Sonata (Mvt. 1)
Perfect Happiness
Piano Music of Nils Vigeland
New Focus Recordings/2025
piano: Jing Yang; recorded April 22 & June 29, 2024 at Oktaven Studios, Mount Vernon, New York; composition years: 1979, 2008; time: 12:10

SET TWO
Shawn E. Okpebholo: Asko or Glasgow (A Chaconne)
Songs in Flight
Çedille Records/2025
countertenor: Reginald Mobley; soprano: Karen Slack; baritone: Will Liverman; piano: Paul Sánchez; text: Crystal Simone Smith; recorded at Amerding Center for Music and the Arts, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois; composition year: 2022; time: 2:54

Heiner Goebbels: So that the blood dropped to the earth
(from from The Horatian — Three Songs)
Surrogate Cities
ECM Records/2000
vocal: Jocelyn B. Smith; text: Heiner Müller; vocals recorded in Frankfurt, 1999; music recorded at Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, conductor: Peter Rundel; recorded at Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich, 1996; time: 6:34

Philip Glass & Allen Ginsberg: Jahweh and Allah Battle
Hydrogen Jukebox, Part One, Song #2
Hydrogen Jukebox
Elektra-Nonesuch/1993
The Philip Glass Ensemble, conductor: Martin Goldray (keyboards: Martin Goldray; flute: Carol Wincene; soprano saxophone, bass clarinet: Andrew Sterman; percussion: Frank Cassara, Jim Pugliese); vocal ensemble (soprano: Elizabeth Futral, Michele Eaton; mezzo-soprano: Mary Anne Hart; tenor: Richard Fracker; baritone: Gregory Purnhagen, Nathaniel Watson); libretto, narrator: Allen Ginsberg; piano: Philip Glass; composition year: 1990; selection time: 3:40

George Crumb: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (from Songbook IV)
Complete Crumb Edition, Vol. 13
American Songbook II: A Journey Beyond Time
American Songbook IV: The Winds of Destiny
Bridge Records/2008
soprano: Barbara Ann Martin; Orchestra 2001, conductor: James Freeman (piano: Marcantonio Barone; percussion: William Kerrigan, Susan Jones, David Nelson, Angela Nelson); song: The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory), arr. Crumb; lyrics: Julia Ward Howe, music: William Steffe, published 1862, The Atlantic Monthly; time: 7:45

Hour 2

SET THREE
Jeremias Schwarzer: Recorder Concerto (D. Fujikura)
New Recorder Concertos (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2025
tenor, sopranino, Bassett recorders: Jeremias Schwarzer; Bamberg Symphony, conductor: Jonathan Stockhammer; recorded in Bamberg, Germany, March 9, 2021; composer: Dai Fujikura; composition year: 2010; time: 12:52

Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet: FreeZzz (A. Brouwer)
Time Signals (various composers)
Recorder Music from The Netherlands
Radio Netherlands/2001
(for recorders and electronics); recorders: Daniel Bruggen, Bertho Driever, Paul Leenhouts, Karol Van Steenhoven; recorded at Williborod Studios, Veenendaal, Netherlands, November 22-24, 1999; composer: Anke Brouwer; composition year: 1998; time: 8:28

SET FOUR
Manuel Zurria: Svarstyklés — The Scales (excerpt) (R. Mažulis)
Fame di Vento (various composers)
ANTS Records/2023
(for six flutes) flutes: Manuel Zurria; Fame di Vento recorded at BigCardo, Rome and Catania, Italy, 2020-2023; composer: Rytis Mažulis; arr. Zurria; composition year: 2020; excerpt time: 7:00 (00:00 — 7:00 of 27:57)

Pierre-Yves Artaud: Traits Suspendus (P. Méfano)
Contemporary Flute Music (various composers)
Neuma Records/1992
(for amplified contrabass flute); contrabass flute: Pierre-Yves Artaud; recorded at the Paris Conservatory, January 1991; composer: Paul Méfano; composition year: 1980; time: 4:20

James Tenney: Fabric for Ché
Selected Works 1961-1969
New World Records/2003
(for computer-generated tape); realized at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; tape sequences generated at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey; composition year: 1967; time: 9:50

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Thomas DeLio: a content/of echo
Anti-Paysage
Neuma Records/2025
electro-acoustic music: Thomas DeLio; composition year: 2023; time: 15:22

SET FIVE
Negativland: Crumpled Farm
Free
Seeland/1993
Negativland personnel: Mark Hosler, David Wills (aka “The Weatherman”), Peter Conheim, Jon Leidecker (aka “Wobbly”); time: 4:23

Art Bears: Freedom
Winter Songs/The World as It Is Today
ReR Megacorp/1988
vocals: Dagmar Krause; drums, electric drums, noises: Chris Cutler; guitar, keyboards, violin, viola: Fred Frith; words, music: Cutler, Frith; recorded at Sunrise Studios, Kirchberg, Germany, summer 1980; time: 3:24

Noah Creshevsky: Jacob’s Ladder*
Hyperrealism
Mutable Music/2003
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 1999; time: 7:52
*dedicated to Marco Oppedisano

SINGLE PLAY
Dominique Bassal: Choraal: frontière Nord
Poupées Mathématiques
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
(7.1 channel fixed media); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2012; premiered at Électrochoc 3 concert, Studio multimédia of the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, December 5, 2013; time: 9:31

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