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Martian Gardens Episode 1232
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
July 11, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) (selections)
I. Nocturnal Sounds (The Awakening) (5:44)*
II. Wanderer-Fantasy (4:51)**
III. The Advent (7:13)***
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 4
Bridge Records/2001
(for two amplified pianos and percussion); Quattro Mani (pianos: Susan Grace, Alison Rybak; percussion, slide whistles: John Kinzie, David Colson); recorded at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, August 2000; composition year: 1974; total selections time: 17:46
*Magical, Suspenseful
**Calling, Echoing
***Very Slow; Majestic, Like a larger rhythm of nature; “Hymn for the nativity of the Star-Child.”

SET ONE
Sascia Pellegrini: Sabbaticus
Exquisite
The Repository/2025
solo voice, processing: Sascia Pellegrini; time: 3:42

Jody Diamond: Sabbath Bride
In That Bright World
New World Records/2009
voice: Jody Diamond; Musicians from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta, Central Java; recorded July 2001; composition year: 1982; revised 1996; time: 15:59

SET TWO
Zack Clarke and Chris Irvine: Dancing on Fumes
Stereotaxi
New Focus Recordings/2025
piano: Zack Clarke; cello: Chris Irvine; recorded at Samurai Hotel Astoria, Queens, New York, December 6, 2021; time: 4:54

Ursula Mamlok: Stray Birds (selections)
I. In a Sustained Mood (3:31)
II. Majestic (2:37)
Music of Ursula Mamlok, Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
soprano: Phyllis Bryn-Julson; flute: Harvey Solberger; cello: Fred Sherry; text: Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 325 Epigrams; Ursula Mamlok, Vol. 3 recorded at Deutschlandfunk Köln Kammermusickal and Radiostudio Zurich; composition year: 1963; total selections time: 6:06

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Hildegard Westerkamp and Rachel Kyo Iwaasa: Klavierklang
Klavierklang
Earsay Music/2023
piano, narration: Rachel Kyo Iwaasa; two-channel audio: Hildegard Westerkamp; text, composition: Hildegard Westerkamp; composition year: 2017; time: 14:27

SET THREE
Hildegard Westerkamp: Cricket Voice*
Transformations
empreintes DIGITALes/2010 (orig. 1996)
cricket song and environmental sounds recorded in the “Zone of Silence” in the desert of Northern Mexico; completed at Westerkamp’s Studio, Vancouver, BC, 1987; composition year: 1987; time: 10:55
*Dedicated to Norbert Ruebsaat

Sarah Peebles: Summer (Tomoé, Part 3)*
Suspended in Amber
Innova Recordings/1996
shō, mouth organ: Hiromi Yoshida; perucussion, Midi Katcontroller, noise-makers: Ikuo Kakehashi; MIDI keyboard, sampled sound, electronics, shō, noise-makers: Sarah Peebles; recorded at Shukoji, Kawasaki , Main Hall, September 25, 1993; composition years: 1991-1993; time: 4:59
*Tomoé: Revolving Life, Version 4

Curtis Roads: Organic (from Clang-Tint)
Electronic Music 1994-2021
Elli Records/2025
(fixed media based on sounds of ancient instruments and computer-generated sounds); premiered at Kunitachi College of Music, Tokyo, April 1994; commissioned by the Japan Ministry of Culture and Kumitachi College; Clang-Tint composed 1991-1994; Organic time: 3:33

SET FOUR
Gerard Pape: Le fleuve du désir III
CCMIX, Paris (various artists)
Xenakis/UPIC/Continuum
Mode Records/2001
(for string quartet and UPIC); The Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, Graeme Jennings; viola: Garth Knox; cello: Rohan de Saram; recorded at CCMIX, Paris; composition year: 1994; time: 12:41

Arditti Quartet: Tetras (excerpt) (I. Xenakis)
Arditti Quartet 1974-1994 (various composers)
Montaigne Auvidis/1994
The Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, David Alberman; viola: Levine Andrade; cello: Rohan de Saram); recorded at St. Michael’s, Highgate, London, February 1990; composer: Iannis Xenakis; composition year: 1983; time: 2:52

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Georg Katzer: Aide-Memoire
Seven Nightmares from the Thousand Year Night
CMCD (various artists)
Six Classic Concrete, Electroacoustic and Electronic Works: 1970-1990
ReR Megacorp/1991
(musique concrete); tapes mixed at Rundfunk der DDR Studio, East Berlin; engineers: Dietmar Nauk, Lothar Huebner; composition year: 1983; time: 14:00

Christopher Clarino: Jeu de timbres (T. DeLio)
Parlando
Neuma Records/2025
orchestra bells, non-pitched percussion instruments: Christopher Clarino; recorded at Singing Serpent Studios, San Diego, California, March 21, 2024; composer: Thomas DeLio; composition year: 2010; time: 6:04

SET SIX
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: In Darkness Let Me Dwell (J. Dowland)
MP3 FILE
Malted Media/1978
(for SATB recorders and voice); recorders: Nil Conscire Sibi Antiqua; voice: Linda Kay; composer: John Dowland; arr. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz; published: 1610; Kitsz arrangement: 1978; time: 4:47

Jeremias Schwarzer: Madjnun (S. Odeh-Tamimi)
New Recorder Concertos (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2025
recorders: Jeremias Schwarzer; Munich Chamber Orchestra, conductor: Alexander Liebreich; recorded live at Prinzregententheater, Munich, November 19, 2009; composer: Samir Odeh-Tamimi; composition year: 2009; time: 14:34

SET SEVEN
Trevor Wishart: Two Women* (selections)
a. Sirens (Margaret Thatcher quoting St. Francis of Assisi) (3:26)
b. Stentor (Ian Paisley inveighing against Margaret Thatcher) (2:27)
Voiceprints
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
voice processing, sounds: Trevor Wishart; premiered at the Parachialkirke, Berlin, in a concert commemorating the 50th anniversary of Musique Concrete, September 1998; composition year: 1998; total selections time: 5:53
*refers to the subjects Margaret Thatcher and Lady Diana

Old Castle: Horses Straw
Artwork 51
Zoharum/2022
sounds, processing: Robin Storey, Robert L. Pepper, Shaun Sandor; time: 4:43

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