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Martian Gardens Episode 1226
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
May 11, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Susan Botti: River Spirits — Prologue
River Spirits
New Focus Recordings/2025
voices: Katherine Lerner Lee, Mary Bonhag, Susan Botti; bass recorder, tenor recorder, zampogna bagpipes, Irish flute, sackbut: Dan Meyers; electric viol de gamba: Robert Eisenstein, John Mark Rozendaal; double bass: Evan Premo; percussion: Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Greenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music; composition year: 2025; time: 15:08

SET ONE
Ingram Marshall: Holy Ghosts
Dark Waters
New Albion Records/2001
oboe d’amore: Libby Van Cleve; live digital delay processing: Ingram Marshall; recorded at St. Casimir’s Church, New Haven, Connecticut, June 14-15, 1998; composition year: 1995; time: 10:33

Anna Rubin: Everything Goes Bees
Powehi
MusicStories for voice, piano, and electronics by Anna Rubin
Neuma Records/2025
Duo della Luna (soprano: Susan Botti; violin: Ari Yoshioka); electronics: Anna Rubin; recorded at the University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 2010, revised 2018; time: 8:04
inspiration: Di Brandt, poem Interspecies Communication

Johanna Beyer: Bees
Sticky Melodies
New World Records/2008
piano: Peter Dumsday; composition year: unknown; time: 0:54

SET TWO
Victoria Fenner: The Queen of Bees
Deep Wireless 3 — Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2006
field recordings, bee sounds; apiological commentary (no time or place of recordings noted); composition year: 2006; time: 6:02

Robert Carl: Songs, Dances, and Laments of the Hive
The Calm Bee in the Busy Hive, Mvt. II
The Geography of Loss
New World Records/2016
solo guitar: Christopher Ladd; guitar 2: Don Hartington; vibraphone: Michael Anderson; flute: Michelle Stockman; clarinet: Brian Nekoloff; trumpet: Jess Turner; harp: Haley Hewitt; piano: Cihan Yucel; violin: Gwyneth Haydock; viola: Laura Krentzman; cello: Haeyoon Shin; conductor: Matthew Aubin; recorded at the Hartt School, Hartford, January 19, 2011; composition years: 2009, 2010; selection time: 8:16

Rain Forest Pygmies: Honey-Gathering Song (field recording)*
Music of the Rain Forest Pygmies of the Northeast Congo
Lyrichord/1992
recorded in the Ituri rainforest by Colin M. Turnbull, 1961; time: 5:23
*podcast only

Hour 2

SET THREE
Paul Lansky: Metal Light
Touch and Go
Bridge Records/2024
(for vibraphone and small percussion set); percussion: Gwendolyn Dease; recorded at Cook Recital Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, September 26, 2023; composition year: 2017; time: 7:30

Steven Mackey: Heavy Light 
Heavy Light
New World Records/2004
electric guitar: Steven Mackey; MOSIAC — flute: Zizi Mueller; cello: Michael Finckel; piano: Emma Tahmizian; percussion: Daniel Druckman; recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, December 2003; composition year: 2001; selection time: 9:23

Philip Perkins: Winter Fog
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 FOUR
Morton Subotnick: Until Spring: Revisited (excerpt)
Volume 3 — Electronic Works
Until Spring: Revisited; 4 Butterflies
Mode Records/2011
(for live electronics, glass harp, and live video); live electronics, glass harp: Miguel Frasconi; composition years: 1976, 2009; excerpt time: 12:00 (00:-00 — 12:00 of 37:19)

Francis Dhomont: Un autre printemps (Another Spring)
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
electroacoustic music realized at the composer’s Studio, Avignon, France, 2000; for Uli Aumüller’s film Mein Kino für die Ohren (My Cinema for the Ears), telecast March 14, 2001, in Europe; concert premiered at the Rien à voir (10) concert series, Montreal, December 15, 2001; time: 6:09

Tod Dockstader and David Lee Myers: Crepitata
Pond
Pulsewidth/2004
amphibian sound recordings, electronic processing, composition: Todd Dockstader, David Lee Myers; time: 5:16

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Maddalena Fagandini: Ideal Home Exhibition
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
tape, electronics: Maddalena Fagandini; composition year: 1962; time: 1:02

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Sascia Pellegrini: AD Two
Against Definitions
The Repository/2025
sounds, processing: Sascia Pellegrini; time: 7:07

Sascia Pellegrini: Waves
Open Space 44 — Pepples/Pellegrini/Takahashi/Boretz
Open Space/2021
electronics: Sascia Pellegrini; composition year: 2020; time: 7:36

Laurie Spiegel: Old Wave Study
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012 (orig. Philo LP/1980)
computer, electronics: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, July 1975; time: 7:16

SET SIX
Ros Bandt: Genesis
Austral Voices (various artists)
New Albion/1990
(for live psaltery, taped psaltery, playback, and subterranean chamber); recorded in a concrete cylinder five floors underground below Collins Place Car Park, Melbourne, Australia; premiered at Paris Autumn Festival, 1983; composition year: 1983; time: 9:27

Ros Bandt: The Tears of Yerebatan Palace
Medusa Dreaming
Neuma Records/2021
(for water drips, percussion, flute call to water, water and glass lachrimae); recorded original glass and clay sculptures: Ros Bandt; Ros Bandt and The Medusa Ensemble: Erdem Helvacıoğlu, Natalia Mann, İzzet Kızıl; recorded live by TRT Turkish Radio in the Yerebatan Sarnici (Basilica Cistern), May 8, 2010; time: 8:02

SINGLE PLAY
Yvar Mikhashoff: Four Piano Pieces — No. 4
Panorama of American Piano Music (various composers)
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composer: Frederic Rzewski; composition year: 1977; time: 9:30

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