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Martian Gardens Episode 1230
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
June 21, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Galen Trio with Zacharias Tarpagkos: Rain, Water and Life (V. Kennedy)
a. Rain (1:27)
b. Water (1:53)
c. Life (2:22)
Embrace
Neuma Records/2025
flute: Zacharias Tarpagkos; Galen Trio (violin: Babis Karasavvidis; cello: Marina Kolovou; piano: Petros Bouras); recorded at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, July 2024; composer: Vincent Kennedy; total time: 5:42   

Clara Kim: Reliquary
Our Little Matches
New Focus Recordings/2025
violin: Alexander Yakub; viola: Laura Manko Sahin; cello: Molly Aronson; piano: Clara Kim; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, October 26, 2022; composition year: 2019; time: 8:15

SINGLE PLAY
William Bland: Piano Sonata No. 6 in C-Minor (selections)
Bestiary-Con Amore
III. Panther with his head turning to the right (6:22)
IV. Dragon (3:51)
V. “Regard” on the painting ‘The Peaceable Kingdom” by Edward Hicks (4:06)
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: 14:15

SET TWO
Lydia Kakabadse: The Feast of Herod
I. The Veiled Dancer (1:51)
II. Dance of the Harem (1:53)
Kefi
Choral & Chamber Works
Divine Art Recordings Group/2024
bouzouki: Dimitris Gionis; double bass: Leon Bosch; cello: Tim Lowe; violin: Sarah Trickey; viola: Sarah-Jane Bradley; recorded at St. George’s Church, Harrow, UK, November 28, 2023; composition year: 2023; total time: 3:42

Ayman Fanous & Frances-Marie Uitti: Nekkar
Negoum
Mode Records/2019
bouzouki, classical guitar: Ayman Fanous; cello: Frances Uitti; recorded at Bias Studio, Springfield, Virginia, February 16, 2011; time: 4:27

Peter Cusack and Nicolas Collins: A Host, Of Golden Daffodils (extract)
Ghosts and Monsters (various artists)
Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 8
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
guitar, bouzouki, electronics: Peter Cusack; trombone-propelled electronics: Nicolas Collins; recorded at Hamburger Bannhof Museum, Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin, and STEIM, Amsterdam, 1996; time: 3:02

Peter Cusack: Tyne Tunnel Kids
Where is the Green Parrot?
Pieces, Recordings, & In-Betweens
ReR Megacorp/2000
field recording; recorded in the pedestrian tunnel at the Tyne River, Jarrow, UK; time: 2:02

Douglas Doherty: On the Toon in the Toon on the Tyne
On the Edge of Chaos
MPS Music & Video/2012
sounds collected around Newcastle, UK; assembled at the composer’s studio, Newcastle, 1997; time: 3:00

SINGLE PLAY
Timothy Hagen: Tom Robinson (Northern Mockingbird)
Birds of Maycomb, Mvt. III
Convergence (various composers)
Music & Cultural Legacy
Blue Griffin Recordings/2023
Elicio Winds (flute: Virginia Broffitt Kunzer; oboe: Kathleen Carter Bell; bassoon: Conor Bell); recorded at Hinton Hall, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, May 8-10, 2023; composer: Timothy Hagen; composition year: 2021; selection time: 7:13

Hour 2

SET THREE
Anna Rubin: A Storm Event
Powehi
MusicStories for voice, piano, and electronics by Anna Rubin
Neuma Records/2025
(fixed media); music for Yen Ha’s pen-and-ink drawings; poem, reader: Yen Ha; composition year: 2023; time: 10:57

Jean Michel Jarre: Ethnicolor I*
Images
The Best of Jean Michel Jarre
Disques Dreyfus/1998
synthesizers, electronics, computer, samples: Jean Michel Jarre; female vocal sample: Laurie Anderson; recorded at Clinton Recording Studio, New York City; original Ethnicolor rlease on Zoolook (1984); time: 3:42
*abbreviated edit

Laurie Anderson: The Geographic North Pole
The Ugly One with the Jewels
Warner Bros./1995
vocals, electronics, violin: Laurie Anderson (text: “Stories From The Nerve Bible“); recorded at Sadler’s Wells, London, 1994; time: 5:22

SET FOUR
Jeffrey Schanzer: A Mother’s Story — After the War
The Past is Present, Part VI
The Past is Present
Neuma Records/2025
voices: Isabelle Ganz, Thomas Meglioranza, Joyce Hamman; violins: Laura Seaton, Joyce Hamman; viola: Ron Lawrence; cello: Mary Wooten; clarinet: Margot Leverett; bass clarinet; Ned Rothenberg; drums: Kevin Norton; text: Jeffrey Schanzer and family; composition year: 1998; time: 9:30

Luciano Berio: Sequenza III for woman’s voice)
The Complete Sequenzas, Alternate Sequenzas, & Solo Works
Mode Records/2006
mezzo-soprano: Isabelle Ganz; recorded at Lenfell Hall, Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey, October 11, 1996; composition year: 1965; time: 8:46

SET FOUR
Robert Morris: Sung Song
Robert Morris at 70 (various artists)
Compositions and Performances in Celebration
Open Space/2014
soprano: Heather Gardner; text: Blue Cliff Record; recorded in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, January 12, 2014; composition year: 2002; time: 8:34

Richard Carrick: Cartographers
The Atlas
New Focus Recordings/2025
Either/Or (extended piano: Richard Carrick; violin: Jennifer Choi; violin: Pala Garcia; cello: John Poppham; viola: Kal Sugatski; recorded at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City, September 20, 2023; composition year: 2023; time: 6:15

Christopher Trapani: Radiola Prelude
Noise Uprising
A Polystylistic Atlas
New World Records/2024
vocal: Sofia Jernberg; Stroh violin: Johannes Westendorp; text: Miyan Ki Mahlar; Noise Uprising recorded at Studio 3, DE SINGEL International Arts Center, Antwerp, Belgium, May 15-18, 2024time: 2:06

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Benjamin Thigpen: Still II
Flux
empreintes DIGITALes/2017
(5-channel fixed medium); realized at the Visby International Centre, realized at the Visby International Centre for Composers, Visby, Sweden, and EMS, Stockholm, Sweden, 2007-2009; premiered at the Akousma + Live concert, Multiphonies series, Auditorium Saint-Germain of the MPAA, Paris; time: 7:20

Werner Durand: Stehende Wellen I
Schwingende Luftsäulen
ANTS Records/2017
pan-ney, processing: Werner Durand; recorded in Berlin, Germany, 2016-2017; time: 8:36

SET SIX
Delia Derbyshire: Dr. Who (Granier/Derbyshire)
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
quarter-inch mono tape, filtering, processing: Delia Derbyshire; realized at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, 1963; composers: Ronald Granier, Delia Derbyshire; composition year: 1963; time: 2:19

Pete Stollery: Serendipities and Synchronicities*
Scènes
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
(fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2004; premiered at Standing Wave (theater production), Tron Theatre, Glasgow, October 7, 2004; time: 5:48
*inspired by Delia Derbyshire

Peter Garland: Plain Songs Movement 2
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: 6:04

Morton Subotnick: Part IV–Images Will Descend to the Ground
a. The Waves Are Bitter (0:39)
b. Truth Will Remain Simple, and Gigantic Wheels will Ride the Bitter Waves (1:13)
c. And Images Will Descend to the Ground (1:52)
And the Butterflies Begin to Sing
New World Records/1997
digital keyboard, computer: Morton Subotnick; Amernet String Quartet (violins: Kyoko Kashiwagi, Marcia Littley-de Arias; viola: Malcolm Johnston; cello: Javier Arias-Flores); recorded at Corbett Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio; composition year: 1988; total time: 3:42

SET SEVEN
Frank Zappa: Rubber Shirt
Sheik Yerbouti
CBS/1979
electric bass: Patrick O’Hearn; drums: Terry Bozzio; Sheik Yerbouti recorded at several studios in the U.S., UK, and Germany; time: 2:58

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: The Voice of Cheese
Uncle Meat
Bizarre Records/1969
voice: Pamela Zarubica; Uncle Meat (principal recordings); Apostolic Studios, New York City, 1967-1968; time: 0:30

Eric Moe: Rubber Riff
Songs and Dances of the Automobile, Part III
On the Tip of My Tongue
Chamber and Electroacoustic Music by Eric Moe
Centaur Records/1996
electroacoustic music: Eric Moe; recorded at Polymorph Productions, Berkeley, California, February 15, 1988; composition year: 1988; selection time: 2:13

Judy Dunaway: The Balloon Factory
Mother of Balloon Music
Innova Recordings/2006
giant balloon, sampling, processing: Judy Dunaway; recorded at Harsh House, Jersey City, New Jersey; composition years: 2004-2006; time: 5:20

Joseph Byrd: Prelude to “The Mystery Cheese-Ball”
NYC 1960-1963
New World Records/2013
balloons: members of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble; recorded at Mission Sound, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, September 2012; composition year: 1961; time: 3:41

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