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Martian Gardens Episode 1229
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
June 12, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Philip Perkins: Mbeer What
Thirteen Feet Nine Inches
live recordings of computer-driven electrosonic works 2023-25
Artifact Recordings/2025
sounds. processing, engineering: Philip Perkins; time: 3:51

Mark Applebaum: Integrity (from Sum=Parts)
56 1/2 FT.
Innova Recordings/2005
percussion: Elyssa Shalla, Justin DeHart; piano: Liam Viney; recorded at Skywalker Sounds, Nicasio, California, Sum+Parts composition years: 2000-2002; time: 6:06

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Voices and Instruments 2
We, Like Salangan Swallows… (various composers)
A Choral gallery of Morton Feldman and his contemporaries
New World Records/2018
(for three female voices, flute, piccolo, two cellos, double bass); solo voices (The Astra Choir): Catrina Seiffert, Jenny Barnes, Louisa Billeter; flute, piccolo: Greg Lee; cello: Chien Hsui Ong; double bass: Nicholas Synot; conductor: John McCaughey; recorded at Carmelite Church, Middle Park, Melbourne, Australia, May 27, 2016; composition year: 1972; time: 15:40

SET TWO
Paul Lansky: Hop
Touch and Go
Bridge Records/2024
marimba: Gwendolyn Dease; violin: Yvonne Lam; recorded at Murray Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, September 30, 2022; composition year: 1993; time: 10:07

Eric Moe: down the stream, merrily
Strange Exclaiming Music
Naxos/2009
marimbas: DoublePlay Percussion Duo (Dominic Donato, Stephen Paysen); recorded at the Academy of Arts and Letters, April 22, 2007; composition year: 2002; time: 2:11

Daniel Pesca: Gestures of Grace (selections, 3 of 5)
I. Gestures of Grace: Twirling (2:15)
II. Gestures of Grace: Flowing (2:35)
III. Gestures of Grace: Hinting (1:45)
Walk with me, my joy
New Focus Recordings/2025
flute: Sarah Frisof; piano: Daniel Pesca; recorded at Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York; January 2024; composition year: 2022; time: 6:30

SINGLE PLAY
Delia Derbyshire: Chronicle
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
electronics: Delia Derbyshire; composition year: 1969; time: 0:21

Hour 2

SET THREE
Joseph Byrd: Animals
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
prepared piano: Timothy Andres; violin: Caleb Burhans; violin: Caroline Shaw; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: Clarice Jensen; marimba: Chihiro Shibayama; vibraphone: Chris Thompson; recorded at Mission Sound, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 2012; composition year: 1961; time: 10:00

John Cage: Sonatas and Interludes (selections)
a. Third Interlude (2:38)
b. Sonata IX (4:19)
c. Fourth Interlude (2:32)
Sonatas and Interludes
For prepared piano — First recording using the original Steinway “O” piano
Mode Records/1996
prepared piano: Phillip Vandré; recorded at Hessinger Rundfunk, Frankfurt, December 17 & 18, 1994; composition years: 1946-1948; total selections time: 9:39

SET FOUR
Peter Garland: Plain Songs “Love Comes Quietly” Mvt. 5: The Maze of Longing
Plain Songs “Love Comes Quietly” (After Robert Creeley)
Cold Blue Music/2025
organ: Carson Cooman; recorded at Memorial Church of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; October 14-15, 2024; composition year: 2024; time: 5:08

John Cage: Souvenir
The Works for Organ
Mode Records/2013
pipe organ: Gary Verkade; recorded at the Nederluleå Church, Gammelstad, Luleå, Sweden, 2007; composition year: 1983; time: 6:50

Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion (excerpt)
Philip Glass Introduced by Philip Glass (promotional album)
Elektra-Nonesuch/1993
electric organs: Philip Glass, Steve Chambers, Arthur Murphy; soprano saxophones: Dickie Landry, Jon Gibson; flute: Robert Prado; composition year: 1969; time: 7:39

SINGLE PLAY
J.K. Randall: Gap 2 (selections)
a. Part 7 (3:29)
b. Part 8 (1:46)
Open Space 8: GAP2GAP3
Open Space/1997
piano: Martin Goldray; composition year: 1993; total selections time: 5:13

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Anna Rubin: Automaton Monk
Powehi
MusicStories for voice, piano, and electronics by Anna Rubin
Neuma Records/2025
(fixed media); readers: Norma Walker, Douglas Fox, Douglas Paisley; text: Rebecca Morgan Frank; composition year: 2021; time: 9:57

Pas Musique: Time Waits for No One
Come Follow Me
Alrealon Musique/2023
electronics, voice, lyrics: Robert L. Pepper; time: 6:43

John White: Boschwalzer
Electric Music
Music composed and performed in London, 1980 — 1995
ANTS Records/2021
cassettes restored and remastered by Andrea Rocca at Baby Microbe Studios, London, 2019-2020; time: 4:49

SET SIX
Elsa Justel: Ce monde et ailleurs
L’ombre du pont
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(8-channel fixed medium); recorded at the composer’s studio, Mar Del Plata, Argentina; premiered at Futura 19: Concert II, Sall des Moulinges, Espace Soubeyran, Crest, Drôme, France; August 23, 2019; composition year: 2019; time:10:21

Roger Cochini: Chansons de gestes
Eva Ou Les Yeux Fermés
Mnémosyne Musique Média/1995
(electroacoustic music); recorded at Groupe de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (GMEB), 1977; time: 9:55

SINGLE PLAY
Pierre Schaeffer: Impromptu (Le trîedre fertile)*
L’Œuvre Musicale (Schaeffer/Henry)
Electronic Music Foundation/1998 (orig. INA-GRM/1990)
musique concrète: Pierre Schaeffer; recorded at GRM, France; composition year: 1975; time: 3:38
*EMF version

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