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Martian Gardens Episode 1227
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
May 20, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

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Sergei Rachmaninoff: The Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)
A Window in Time – Rachmaninoff Performs His Solo Piano Works
Telarc/1998
piano: Sergei Rachmaninoff (recorded on piano rolls by Rachmaninoff c. 1920s); digital processing program: Wayne Stahnke, recorded at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Center, Los Angeles, August 27, 1996; composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan); composition years: 1899-1900; time: 1:16

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Anna Rubin: For the Love of Bees
a. Swarm (3:06)
b. Sting (3:30
c. Solitary (2:49)
d. Myth of the Assassin Bees (5:06)
e. HoneyQueen (2:48)
f. Ode to Bees and Their Keepers (4:43)
Powehi
MusicStories for voice, piano, and electronics by Anna Rubin
Neuma Records/2025
actor: Pamela Fields; piano: Sandrine Erdely-Sayo; premiered at the Piano on the Rocks Festival, Sedona, Arizona, 2019; composition year: 2010, revised 2019; total time: 21:57

SET ONE
Twisted Tutu: Tea Song (G. Klucevsek)
Play Nice (various composers)
O.O. Discs/1999
gopichand (ektārā), vocals: Eve Beglarian; composer: Guy Klucevsek, arr. Eve Beglarian; composition year: 1995; text: adapted from Chinese tea box; recorded at Baby Monster, New York City; time: 4:29

Moondog: Coffee Beans
Round the World of Sound
New World Records/2016
performed by Dedalus & Muzzix, directors Didier Aschour, Christian Pruvost; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville, France, November 2015; music and lyrics: Louis T. Hardin (Moondog); composition year: 1968; time: 2:31

Heitor de Souza Dantas: Tramóia
Deep Wireless 9 — Radio Arts Compilation (online album)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2013
sound collage: Heitor de Souza Dantas; time: 1:38

Ivan Elezovic: Do You Remember?
Wavefields (various artists)
Recently Completed Compositions by Graduate Composers
at the Experimental Music Studios of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Experimental Music Studios University of Illinois/2005
two-channel electroacoustic music (sound source: tambura): Ivan Elezovic; composition year: 2003; time: 5:00

Pamela Z: Other Rooms
A Secret Code
Neuma Records/2021
interview, voice, sound source: Paul David Young; electronics, voice: Pamela Z; composition year: 2018; time: 7:43

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Paddy Kingsland: Sequence
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
tape, electronics: Paddy Kingsland; fir Radio Derby; composition year: 1972; time: 1:24

Hour 2

SET TWO
Dominick Argento: Three Meditations
I. The Last Invocation (2:39)
II. Silver (2:41)
III. Deep in the Heart of the Lake (3:36)
A Few Words About Chekhov
Songs and Cycles of Dominick Argento
Bridge Records/2024
mezzo-soprano: Adriana Zabala; texts: I. Walt Whitman; II. Walter de la Mare; III. Alun Lewis; recorded at The Woods Recording Studio, Woodstock, New York, January 2024; composition year: 2008; total time: 8:56

Stacy Garrop: Terra Nostra (selections)
From Part III: Searching for Balance
a. Darkness (3:57)
b. Earth Screaming (4:32)
c. The World is Too Much with Us (2:54)
Terra Nostra
Oratorio by Stacy Garrop
Çedille Records/2024
a. mezzo soprano: Leah Dexter; women of the chorus; b. tenor: Jesse Donner, baritone: David Govertsen; c. mezzo soprano: Lea Dexter, soprano: Michelle Areyzaga, tenor: Jesse Donner, baritone: David Govertsen; Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Alice Millar Chapel Choir; texts: a. Lord Byron b. Esther Iverem; c. William Wordsworth; recorded at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois, February 6 & 8, 2023; selections time: 11:23

SET THREE
Jeanine Wagar: Into the Night
Into the Night
Neuma Records/2025
electroacoustic music: Jeanine Wagar; time: 4:01

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 (16:00 — 28:00 of 37:19)

Miguel Frasconi: Bittersuite — Across
Out of Running + Longing
Frasconimusic/2020 (orig. cassette/1983)
electronic keyboard, toy pianos, mini toy grand piano; recorded at The Music Gallery, Toronto, 1983; remastered at Well-Weathered Music Lab, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2020; time: 2:44

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Keith Eisenbrey: Another for clavichord and ping pong balls
BENJAMINBORETZ9X9 (various artists)
Open Space/2016
clavichord: Keith Eisenbrey; time: 8:24

Hour 3

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Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass
Voiceless Mass
New World Records/2025
Present Music (flute: Jancie MacDonald; bass clarinet: Zachary Good; clarinet: Bill Helmers; percussion: Carl Stormiolo, Alex Wier, electronics: Marty Butorae; organ: John Orfe; violin: Jeanyi Kim-Mandel, Alex Ayers; viola: Erin Pipal; cello: Adrien Zitoun; bass: Christian Dillingham), conductor: David Bloom; recorded at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; November 21, 2023; composition year: 2021; time: 17:54
Pulitzer Prize

SET FOUR
Georges Forget: Orages d’acier (Storm of Steel)*
Le dernier présent
empreintes DIGITALes/2015
(for stereo fixed media); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2007; premiered at the Music Faculty of the University of Montreal, April 2007; time: 9:17
*French Foreign Legion song: Les oies sauvages (Wild Geese)

Bun-Ching Lam: Wild Geese Descending in Katata (from Omi Hakkei)
Heidelberg Concerts
Mutable Music/2011
flute: Angelika Bender; Dizi, xiao: Wolfgang Wendel; viola: Mariette Leners; erhu: Zhang Zhengfang; zheng: Xu Fengxia; harp: Isabelle Courret; conductor: BCL; recordded at the Portheim Palace of Heidelberg, Germany, October 26, 2009; composition year: 2000; selection time: 2:31

Transambient Communications: They Shoot Geese, Don’t They?
Mauve
C & S Records/1996
keyboards, tape loops, guitar, voice, programming: Anthony Tombling, Jr.; tape loops, programming: David Francolini; recorded at Playhouse Studio, Cornwall, UK; time: 7:40

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Manuel Zurria: Reed Phase (S. Reich)
Again & Again (various composers)
ANTS Records/2020
(arranged for three piccolos and toy percussion); piccolos, percussion: Manuel Zurria; composer: Steve Reich; composition year: 1966; recorded at MZ @FUN’OM Studios, Rome; total selections time: 9:34

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