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Martian Gardens Episode 1233
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
July 21, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Stray Birds (selections)
III. Very Airy (0:53)
IV. In a Melancholy Mood (2:27)
V. Still, With Utmost Simplicity (5:02)
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: 8:22

SINGLE PLAY
George Crumb: Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) (selections)
IV. Myth (5:17)*
V. Music of the Starry Night (11:56)**
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: 17:11
*Adagio isoritmico; lonely, bleak
**Fantastic, oracular; “Song of Reconciliation,” joyous, ecstatic, with a sense of cosmic time

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Anna Rubin: Powehi — The Darkest Heart of the Galaxy
a. Prelude (1:04)
b. Gravity (3:05)
c. Dark Matter (1:47)
d. Dark Energy (1:58)
e. Black Holes (2:24)
f. Gravitational Waves (4:03)
g. Powehi (4:47)
Powehi
MusicStories for voice, piano, and electronics by Anna Rubin
Neuma Records/2025
actor: Pamela Fields; pianos: Sandrine Erdely-Sayo, Cynthia Raim; text: Anna Rubin; commissioned by Piano on the Rocks International Festival, Sedona, Arizona, 2022; composition year: 2022; total time: 18:55

SINGLE PLAY
Desmond Briscoe: Quatermass and the Pit (Effects)
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
synthesizer, tape: Desmond Briscoe; composition year: 1958; time: 0:36

Hour 2

SET ONE
Kerem Ergener: In Praise of Shadows*
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 34 (various artists)
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music United States
New Focus Recordings/2025
(for fixed media and trio); flute: Lea Beumert; percussion: Chase Gillett; violin: Aaron Gonzales; composition year: 2023; time: 9:16
*inspired by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki‘s novel In Praise of Shadows

Robert Scott Thompson: Fading Light on Wonderview (In Memoriam David Lynch)
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Aucourant Records/2025
electronic music: RST; time: 8:38

SET TWO
Squid In Chains: Tango Lies
Drifiting
Earsay Music/2024
basset clarinet, electronics: François Houle; bandoneon, saxophone: Douglas Schmidt; synthesizers, samplers, sound processing: John Oliver; recorded at the Canadian Music Centre Creative Residency, Vancouver, 2023-2024; time: 10:11

Deep Listening Band: Hi Bali, Hi
Sanctuary
Mode Records/1995
trombones, didjeridu, garden hose: Stuart Dempster; just tuned accordion, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; organ, overtone flutes, electronics: David Gamper; Expanded Instrument System; recorded at Trinity Methodist Church, Kingston, New York; 1994; composition year: 1994; time: 10:42

SET THREE
Peter Garland: Movement Three (Lament on the Death of Charlemagne)
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: 4:54

Brian Eno: Music for Films (selections)
a. Sparrowfall 1 (1:11)
b. Sparrowfall 2 (1:45)
c. Sparrowfall 3 (1:23)
Music for Films
Editions EG/1978
synthesizers, keyboards, piano: Brian Eno; recorded in UK, 1975-1976; total time: 4:19

Hour 3

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Eric Moe: Songs and Dances of the Automobile
I. Mambo (1:25)
II. Nocturne (3:56)
III. Rubber Riff (2:13)
IV. Lullaby with Variations (4:14)
V. Piston Fling (1:32)
On the Tip of My Tongue
Chamber and Electroacoustic Music by Eric Moe
Centaur Records/1996
FM synthesis electronic music: Eric Moe; recorded at Polymorph Productions, Berkeley, California, February 15, 1988; composition year: 1988; total time: 13:43

SET FOUR
Elainie Lillios: Backroads
a. Shoe Factory (3:51)
b. Tree Tunnel (3:29)
c. Elevator (3:31)
Entre Espaces (Between Spaces)
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
stereo fixed medium realized at the composer’s studio, Bowling Green, Ohio; premiered at Rien à voir (12) concert series presented by Réseaux at Espace GO, Montreal, September 13, 2002; composition year: 2002; time: 10:51

Noah Creshevsky: Highway
The Tape Music of Noah Creshevsky
EM Records/2004
tape collage (various media): Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 1979; time: 8:53

SET FIVE
Benjamin Boretz: “…the sun poured molten glass on the fields…” *
Open Space 40 — bab-jkr-erb (Boretz/Randall/Barkin)
Open Space/2019
piano: Andrew Zhou; composition year: 2014; time: 7:11
*for Bob Morris at 70; title from Malclm Lowry, “Under the Volcano” novel, 1947

Mara Helmuth: Meeting the Free Dreamer
a. 1:37
b. 7:33
Open Space 16 (Barkin/Carlé/Exley/Helmuth)
Open Space/2004
computerized piano sequences: Mara Helmuth; composition year: 1992; total time: 9:04

Mara Helmuth: Where is My Voice?
University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios (various artists)
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University of
Illinois Experimental Music Studios (1958–2008)
U. of Il. EMS/2008
fixed media: Mara Helmuth; speaker/text: Steve Sunderland; composition year: 2008; 5:55

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