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Martian Gardens Episode 1225
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
May 1, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Perkins: Go turn the owl around
Thirteen Feet Nine Inches
Live recordings of computer-driven electrosonic works 2023-5
Artifact Recordings/2025
musique concrete techniques, synthesizers, guitar: Philip Perkins; recorded at the composer’s studio, San Francisco; time: 4:40

SET ONE
Heiner Goebbels: Rome and Alba
(Song 1 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: 4:27

Gloria Coates: Aria — Junge Witwe (The Force for Peace in War, Mvt. II)
Indian Sounds
New World Records/2002
(cantata for soprano and chamber orchestra); soprano: Sigune Von Osten; Musica-viva-ensemble Dresden, conductor: Jürgen Wirrmann; text: Charlotte Hagedorn; The Force for Peace in War composition year: 1973; selection time: 5:00

Heiner Goebbels: Dwell Where the Dogs Dwell
(Song 3 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: 4:27

Gloria Coates: Aria — All These Dyings (The Force for Peace in War, Mvt. VIII)
Indian Sounds
New World Records/2002
(cantata for soprano and chamber orchestra); soprano: Sigune Von Osten; Musica-viva-ensemble Dresden, conductor: Jürgen Wirrmann; text: Charlotte Hagedorn; The Force for Peace in War composition year: 1973; selection time: 5:17

SET TWO
Leo Kupper: Sabatrana
Mvt. 4, Rezas Populares do Brasil
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/1999
(for voices and computer processing); mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; bass: Eduardo Janho-Abumrad; realized at Studio de Recherches et de Structurations Electroniques Auditives, Brussels, Belgium; composition year: 1998; time: 5:47

Jorge Antunes: Cromorfonética
No Se Mata La Justicia!
Paulinas COMEP/2003 (orig. LP Sistrum/1981)
(for acapella choir); Coro Pro-Arte Ensemble Graz, director: Karl Ernst Hoffmann; composition year: 1969; time: 5:54

Luigi Nono: Djamila Boupachà*
Voices of Protest
Mode Records/2000
solo soprano: Sofia Boulin; text: Jesus Lopez Pacheco; recorded in Paris; composition year: 1962
*soprano solo from Canti di vita e d’amore: I. Sul ponte di Hiroshima (Nono, 1962)

SINGLE PLAY*
Hugh Davies: Music for Three Springs
Not Necessarily “English Music” (various artists)
A collection of experimental music from Great Britain, 1960-1977
Leonardo Music Journal CD series No. 11
Electronic Music Foundation/2001
music for amplified springs, recorded 1977; time: 5:05
*Podcast only

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Anthony De Mare: selections from Pianos and Voices
a. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (2:32)
b. Nowth Upon Nacht (0:49)
Pianos and Voices (Cage/Monk)
Koch International Classics/1992
piano, voice: Anthony De Mare; recorded at Mastersound, Astoria, Queens, 1991; composer: John Cage; composition years: a. 1942; b. 1984; texts: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake; total selections time: 3:21

SET THREE
Jeffrey Schanzer: Afterture/A Son’s Thoughts
The Past is Present, Part III
The Past is Present
Neuma Records/2025
tenor: Brian McCorkle; bass clarinet: Ned Rothenberg; clarinet: Margot Leverett; violins: Laura Seaton, Joyce Hammann; viola: Ron Lawrence; cello: Mary Wooten; drums: Kevin Norton; The Past is Present texts: Howard Schanzer, Jeffrey Schanzer, Matilda Gruenkraut Schanzer, Rita Schanzer Sharf; recorded live at the Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, New York, April 14, 2024; composition year: 1998; selection time: 9:34

Bernadette Speach: Trio des Trois
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
viola: Lois Martin; cello: David Heiss; piano: Anthony De Mare; Reflections recorded at LRP Studios, New York City, April, 2000 – March 2001; Trio des Trois composition year: 1992; time: 10:56

SET FOUR
Reiko Füting: Chorale (Those driven out will come)
Distant: Violin, Sound
New Focus Recordings/2025
violins: Julia Jung Un Suh, Molly Germer; viola: Lena Vidulich; cello: Thea Mesirow; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, November 14, 2021; composition year: 2021; time: 12:08

Anthony Cheung: All Roads I. Forking Paths
All Roads
New Focus Recordings/2022
piano: Gilles Vonsattel; Escher Quartet (violins: Adam Barnett-Hart and Danbi Um, viola: Pierra Lapointe; cello: Brook Speltz; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, June 4, 2019; composition year: 2018; selection time: 3:30

John Cage: The Seasons Prelude II. Spring
The Seasons
ECM New Series/2000
American Composers Orchestra, conductor: Dennis Russell Davies; recorded at SUNY Purchase Performing Arts Center, Theater A, January 1997; composition year: 1947; selection time: 3:43

SINGLE PLAY*
J.K. Randall: Gap 2 (selections)
a. Part 1 (1:21)
b. Part 2 (1:37)
c. Part 3 (0:37)
d. Part 4 (0:52)
e. Part 5 (2:30)
f. Part 6 (5:45)
Open Space 8: GAP2GAP3
Open Space/1997
piano: Martin Goldray; composition year: 1993; total selections time: 11:39
*Podcast only

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Thomas DeLio: …zwischen den Worten
a. Schwimmhaüte (3:17)
b. Redewände (5:20)
anti-paysage
Neuma Records/2025
texts: Paul Celan; electronic settings: Thomas Delio; reader: Ben Levy; composition year: 2007; total time: 6:37

Paul Lansky: Word Color
More Than Idle Chatter
Bridge Records/1994
computer music: Paul Lansky; texts: Paul Lansky, Hannah MacKay; Walt Whitman (Song of Myself, verse 17); reader: Hannah MacKay; composition year: 12:52

SINGLE PLAY
John Young: Once He Was a Gunner (2nd 1/2)
a. Dov’è la Nuova Zelanda? (0:59)
b. What the heck was his name, now? (0:27)
c. The Wrong Way (1:36)
d. Do you remember in Faenza? (1:33)
e. Friendly Fire (1:21)
f. Senio River — nothing left (2:08)
g. An open door (1:51)
h. After Cassino (2:49)
i. Fond in Chicago (3:05)
j. The Princess (6:15)
k. April 1945 (1:52)
l. Trieste (1:47)
m. Stretto (3:00)
n. Returning (3:23)
Histoires de soldats
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(for stereo fixed medium; interview); interviewee: Alexander Young; realized at the Music, Technology and Innovation Research Laboratory, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK; premiered on the Sound Lounge program, Radio New Zealand Concert, October 3, 2020; composition year: 2020; total selections time: 30:00

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