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Martian Gardens Episode 1231
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
July 2, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Elicio Winds: Tom Robinson (Northern Mockingbird) (T. Hagen)
Birds of Maycomb, Mvt. III
Convergence
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, May 8-10, 2023; composer: Timothy Hagen; composition year: 2021; selection time: 7:13
*of Alabama

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

Christopher Trapani: Radio 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, 2024; time: 2:06SI

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Annea Lockwood: Thirst
In Our Name
New World Records/2012
(for interview, soprano, sounds on tape) narrator: Simone Fattal; soprano: Kristin Norderval; bowed gong and piano resonances (on tape): Gustovao Aguilar, Joseph Kubera, and William Winant; other sounds in other places recorded by Annea Lockwood; composition year: 2008; time: 20:00

Recent New York Times article on Annea Lockwood

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Michael Byron: Music of Every Night
Halcyon Days
Cold Blue Music/2023
(for maracas and marimbas); percussion: William Winant; recorded at Architecture studios, Los Angeles, June 2022; composition year: 1974; time: 9:18

Hour 2

SET TWO
Clara Kim: eldorado
our little matches
New Focus Recordings/2025
electronics: Clara Kim; composition year: 2023; time: 2:59

Wendy Carlos: Phobos & Deimos
Digital Moonscapes
East Side Digital/2000 (orig. CBS Masterworks/1984)
LSI Philharmonic (digital synthesizers: Wendy Carlos); composition year: 1984; time: 3:27

James Mobberley: Aspenglow
Music of James Mobberley
CD-R/2010
(for fixed media); voice recordings extracted from the ASPEN (Automated SPeech Exchange Network) telephone messaging system at the University of Missouri-Kansas City; composition year: 1988; time: 4:15

Alwin Nikolais: Pierrot — Dance 3
Electronic Dance Music
Composers Recordings, Inc./1993
synthesizers, sound effects: Alwin Nikolais; composition year: 1986; time: 2:53

Jeannine Wagar: Easy Does It
Into The Night
Neuma Records/2025
electronics: Jeannine Wagar; composition year: 2025; time: 3:57

Val Stephen: The Final Journey
Electrogenesis
Shame File Music/2012
electronics, synthesizers: Val Stephen, M.D.; composition year: c. 1963; time: 2:30

SET THREE
Curtis Roads: Sonal Atoms
CCMIX Paris — Xenakis- UPIC – Continuum (various artists)
Mode Records/2001
computer music on tape, realized at Les Ateliers UPIC (CCMIX), Paris, 1998; 3:41

Curtis Roads: Bubble Chamber
Electronic Music 1994-2021
Elli Records/2025
computer music: Curtis Roads; composition year: 2017; time: 4:30

Kristin Norderval: Digital Surveillance 
Aural Histories
Deep Listening/2012
vocals, electronics: Kristin Norderval; composition year: 2006; time: 4:43

Pas Musique: Black Panther
Either Arrangements
Pas Musique/2024
electronics: Robert Pepper, Jesse Fairbairn, Michael Durek; composition years: 2020-2022; time: 4:15

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Anna Rubin: Late At Night
Powehi
MusicStories for voice, piano, and electronics by Anna Rubin
Neuma Records/2025
(fixed media); ambient sounds, processing: Anna Rubin; voices: Jenny Johnson and Laura Donnelly; principal recordings: The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2016; time: 7:23

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Manuella Blackburn: Kitchen Alchemy
Formes Audibles
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
electroacoustic music (sound sources: kitchen utensils and devices); realized at the electroacoustic music studios of the University of Manchester; premiered at the MANTIS South-North Festival, March 11, 2007; composition year: 2007; time: 11:31

Manuella Blackburn: Cupboard Love
Interruptions
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio Manchester, UK, 2022; premiered at Contemporary Computer Music Competition, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Kyoto, Japan, March 12, 2023; composition year: 2022; time: 7:00

SET FIVE
Jorge Antunes: Estudios Cromofônicos (Three Chromophonic Studies)
a. Estudo para Circulos Verdes e Vermelhos (Study for Green and Red Circles) (2:51)
b. Estudo para Espirais Azuis e Laranjas (Study for Blue and Orange Spirals) (3:26)
c. Estudo para Pontos Amarelos e Violetas (Study for Yellow and Violet Points) (1:41)
Savage Songs — Early Brazilian Electronic Music 1961-1970
Pogus Productions/2003
electronics: Jorge Antunes; recorded at the composer’s studio, Brasilia, Brazil, 1966; total time: 8:58

David Hicks: Experimental Rhythms
Open Space 51 (Hicks/Pepples)
Open Space/2022
synthesizers, software; David Hicks; composition year: 2020; time: 6:52

SET SIX
Javier Alexandro Garavaglia: BTHVN/KTZR und Das Jahr 2020
MP3 FILE
Javier Garavaglia/2020
(stereo fixed medium); acousmatic music dedicated to Beethoven and Georg Katzer; composition year: 2020; time: 8:02

Michael Gordon: Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, Part 1
Dystopia
Cantaloupe Music/2014
Bamberger Symphoniker, conductor: Jonathan Nott; recorded at the Beethovenfest Bonn, September 30, 2006 (world premier); composition year: 2006; selection time: 5:48
modeled after Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

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