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Martian Gardens Episode 1234
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
July 29, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Philip Perkins: Painwalk
Thirteen Feet Nine Inches
live recordings of computer-driven electrosonic works 2023-25
Artifact Recordings/2025
sounds. processing, engineering: Philip Perkins; time: 4:03

Paul Des Marais: Seasons of the Mind
a. #1, In Tyme… (3:43)
b. #4, O when you were little (3:13)
Open Space 28
Vocal and Piano Music of Paul Des Marais
Open Space/2012
(for SATB. piano 4 hands, celesta); UCLA Madrigal Singers, Don Weiss, conductor; piano, celesta: Paul Des Marais; texts: a. Giles Fletcher the Elder; b. Theodore Roethke; composition year: 1981; total time: 6:56

Morton Feldman: Chords (from Three Voices)
Three Voices for Joan La Barbara
New Albion Records/1989
voices: Joan La Barbara; text: Frank O’Hara (Wind, 1957), recorded in Los Angeles; composition year 1982; time: 2:16

SET TWO
Petr Kotik: She Could Be One Going On Being Living
Many Many Women
Dog W/A Bone/2000
SEM Ensemble with vocal group (soprano: Dora Ohrenstein, Lois Winter; countertenor: William Lyon Lee; tenor: William Zukof; baritone: Albert de Ruiter; bass: Elliott Levine); text: Gertrude Stein, Many Many Women (1909-1912); recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York City, March 17 and 19, 1980; composition years: 1975-1978; time: 9:23

Heiner Goebbels: Stein texts —
a. Different Nations (2:05)
b. On the Radio (1:54)
c. Just Like That (1:52)
d. In the 19th Century (2:50)
e. The Sirens (2:17)
Landschaft mit Entfernten Verwandten*
ECM Records/2007
Ensemble Modern and Deutscher Kammerchor, conductor: Franck Ollu; texts: Gertrude Stein, “Wars I Have Seen” (1945); recorded at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, Nanterre, Paris, October 2004; composition year: 2002; total excerpts time: 11:00
*Landscape with Distant Relatives

SET TWO
Emily Duncan & Randall Woolf: Everything is Green
Woolf at the Door
Neuma Records/2025
flute: Emily Duncan; piano: Kathleen Supové; narration: Rinde Eckert; vocal samples: Sara Wendt; composer: Randall Wolff; text: David Foster Wallace; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, and Tiny Panther Studio. Brooklyn; composition year: 2003; time: 11:55

Hour 2

SET THREE
James Newton: Compassion and Mustard Seeds in Perilous Times, Mvt. I
Compassion and Mustard Seeds in Perilous Times
New World Records/2025
(for string quartet); The Lyris Quartet (violins: Alyssa Park, Shalini Vijayan; viola: Luke Maurer; cello: Timothy Loo; recorded at the Ostin Music Center, UCLA, June 29-July 1, 2022; composition year: 2022; time: 10:01

Margaret Bonds: Three Dream Portraits
I. Minstrel Man (2:01)
II. Dream Variation (2:07)
III. I, Too (1:39)
Dreams of a New Day (various composers)
Songs by Black Composers
Çedille Records/2021
baritone: Will Liverman; piano: Paul Sanchez; texts: Langston Hughes; recorded at Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana, July 22-24, 2020; composition year: 1959; total time: 5:47

SET FOUR
Stéphane Roy: Bestiaire à hauteur d’oreille
Coups de foundre
empreintes DIGITALes/2025
(for Babel table and 4-channel fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Brossard, Quebec, and Productions Totem contemporain, Montreal; premiered by Jean-François Laporte (inventor of the Babel table instrument) at the To Listen To Festival, Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, Turin, Italy, September 26, 2022; composition years: 2022-2024; time: 12:36

Squid In Chains: The Future is Behind Us
Imagined Realities
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: 6:33AWe

SET SIX
TriAngular Bent: Set 2
TriAngular Bent
TriAngular Bent Records/2016
computer and electronics: Don Preston, Philip Mantione; bent circuits: Jeff Boynton; time: 8:06

Maddalena Fagandini: Interval Signal
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
synthesizers: Maddalena Fagandini; composition year: 1960; time: 1:40

Hour 3

SET SIX
Philip Schroeder: Shed the Pedestrian
Radiance Within
Neuma Records/2025
5-string electric violin: Margaret Jones; piano: Phillip Schroeder; gongs: Alan Zimmerman; Radiance Within recorded 2023-2025, Los Angeles; Shed the Pedestrian composition year: 2019; time: 4:12

Richard Carrick: Journey Through the Spheres
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: 6:45

Johanna M. Beyer: Music of the Spheres
Women in Electronic Music — 1977 (various artists)
New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media
New World Records/2007 (orig. 1750 Arch LP/1977)
(for three electrical musical instruments, or strings, triangle and lion’s roar); The Electric Weasel Ensemble (music easel synthesizers: Allen Strange, Stephen Ruppnthal, David Morse; pulse control: Brenda Hutchinson; frequency shifting, mix: Brenda Hutchinson; triangle: Charles Amirkhanian; recorded by Robert Shumaker, 1750 Arch Studios, 1977; composition year: 1938; time: 5:59

SET SEVEN
Christian Wolff: Jasper
a. 5:18
b. 2:06
c. 6:58
d. 1:49
Look She Said
Complete Works for Bass
Mode Records/2002
(for bass and violin); bass: Robert Black; violin: Robin Lorentz; Look She Said recorded 1999-2000, location unlisted; composition years: 1975, revised 1996; total time: 16:11
dedicated to Jasper Johns

George Crumb: Perilous Night* (from Metamorphoses, Book I)
Metamorphoses, Books I & II
(20 fantasy-pieces after celebrated paintings for amplified piano)
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 20
Bridge Records/2021
amplified piano: Marc Antonio Barone; Metamorphoses recorded at Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Book I October 17 & 18, 2019; Book II June 10-11, 2021; selection time: 3:01
*after Jasper Johns’ 1990 painting

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: What You Say
a. Introduction by John Cage (0:38)
b. Cage Reads Jasper John’s Text (1:23)
c. What You Say (10:34)
John Cage performs John Cage: The Text Pieces I
The Artist Pieces
(The Complete John Cage Edition Volume 20)
Mode Records/1990
Speaker: John Cage; recorded at Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt, Germany; November 1, 1987; total time: 12:35

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