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Martian Gardens Episode 1235
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
August 8, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (selections)
a. Knee 1 (8:04)
b. All Men Are Equal (4:30)
Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass/Robert Wilson)
Elektra-Nonesuch/1993
a. keyboard: Michael Riesman; chorus; spoken texts: Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton; b. flute: Jon Gibson; flute, bass clarinet: Andrew Sterman; flute: Richard Peck; violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; spoken text: Jasper McGruder (All Men Are Equaal); Einstein on the Beach recorded at the Looking Glass Studio, New York City, January-June, 1993; composition year: 1975; total selections time: 12:34

In memory of Robert Anton Wilson (1941 — 2025)
Portion of Einstein on the Beach performance on YouTube

SET ONE
Susan Botti: Taste
River Spirits
New Focus Recordings/2025
voices: Susan Botti, Mary Bonhag, Katherine Lerner Lee; bass recorder, tenor recorder, zampogna, Irish flutes, sackbut: Dan Meyers; bass clarinet: Tyler Neidermayer; electric viola da gamba: Robert Eisenstein; viola de gamba: John Mark Rosendaal; double bass: Evan Premo; percussion: Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Greenfield Hall, Manhattan School of Music; composition year: 2023; time: 6:42 

Paul Lansky: Threads (selections)
VI. Chorus II (2:26)
VII. Aria III (3:16)
VIII. Recitative III (2:12)
IX. Chorus III (3:17)
Textures & Threads
Bridge Records/2014
(for four percussionists); percussion 1: Gwendolyn Burgett; percussion 2: Svet Stoyanov; percussion 3: Ian Rosenbaum; percussion 4: Ayano Kataoka; recorded at Sprague Hall, Yale University, May 21 & 22, 2012; composition year: 2005; total selections time: 11:13

SET TWO
Peter Van Zndt Lane: (p)neumes
Axils
Neuma Records/2025
Ensemble Vim (flutes, melodica: Nicole Frankel; clarinets, melodica: Ted Gurch; violin: Bob Anemone; cello: Laura Usiskin; percussion, melodica: Mark Demull; piano, melodica: Choo Choo Hu; composition year: 2020; time: 11:00

Joane Hétu: L’habitat
La Femme territoire ou 21 fragments d’humus
Ambiances Magnétiques/2012
La femme territoire ou 21 fragments d’humus: voice, objects, melodica, direction: Joane Hétu; voice, objects: Susanna Hood; voice, accordion, glockenspiel: Alice Tougas St-Jak; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, clarinet, objects: Jean Derome; percussion, objects, voice: Isaiah Ceccarelli; voice, flutes, alto saxophone, keyboards, objects: Jean Derome; recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, 2011; total selections time: 4:20

Hour 2

SET THREE
Peter Cusack: Woodlark
Where is the Green Parrot?
Pieces, Recordings, and In-betweens
ReR Megacorp/1999
bouzouki, field recordings: Peter Cusack; time: 5:31

Chris Watson: Outside the Circle of Fire (selections)
a. Unidentified Pair of Birds (1:30)
b. Woodpigeon (0:10)
Outside the Circle of Fire
Touch Records/1998
field recordings; Chris Watson; a. recorded in the rainforest canopy, Nancite, Costa Rica, February 1995; b. wings in flight recorded at Coille Na Uladh, Glen Alfric, Scotland, July 1995; selections time: 1:40

Ayman Fanous & Frances-Marie Uitti: Rasalased
Negoum
Mode Records/2019
bouzouki, classical guitar: Ayman Fanous; cello: Frances Uitti; recorded at Bias Studio, Springfield, Virginia, February 16, 2011; time: 4:04

Ron Nagorcka: Dawn in the Wombat Forest
Atomic Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
violin: Liza Lim; clavichord, didjeridu, electronics, field recordings (featuring sulpher-crested cockatoos; recorded at the Wombat Forest, Victoria, Australia, 1985): Ron Nagorcka; performance recorded in Melbourne, Australia; composition year: 1985; time: 11:41

SET FOUR
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Le Jardin de Jérôme
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
computer music composed and recorded at the Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music Studios, France; composition year: 2001; time: 111:50

Leah Reid: Jouer
Music from SEAMUS Volume 34 (various artists)
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music United States
New Focus Recordings/2025
soprano saxophone: Kyle Hutchins; electronics: Leah Reid; time: 6:23

SINGLE PLAY
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba X
Desde El Otro Lado (various artists)
Electroacoustic Music from Latin America
O.O. Discs/1998
electroacoustic music: E. Reck Miranda; composition year: 1995; time: 2:40

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Daniel Pesca: Intermezzo I (Three Intermezzos)
Walk with me, my joy
New Focus Recordings/2025
guitar: Dieter Hennings; recorded at Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, January 2024; time: 3:27

Professor Girlfriend: Reading on the Stairs (My Mother in Love)
My Mother in Love/The Summer Sessions
Neuma Records/2025
Professor Girlfriend (composer, lyricist, producer: Anna Weesner; vocals: Charlotte Mundy; guitar, bass guitar, engineer, producer: Charles Mueller); drums: Cameron LeCrone; violin: Jessica Thompson; flute: Laura Cocks; clarinet, bass clarinet: Madison Greenstone; oboe: Sian Ricketts; recorded at Tiny Panther Recording, Brooklyn, New York; time: 3:20

SET SIX
J.K. Randall: Lyric Variations for violin and computer (1st 1/2)
Open Space 5 — Boretz/Randall
Open Space/1993
violin: Paul Zukofsky; composition years: 1965-1968; excerpt time: 10:00

Barry Vercoe: Synapse for Viola and Computer
Computer Works (various composers)
Composers Recordings, Inc./1978
viola: Marcus Thompson; realized at the M.I.T. Experimental Electronic Music Studio, Cambridge, Massachusetts; composition year: 1976; time: 5:37

In memory of Barry Vercoe (July 24, 1937 — July 7, 2025)

SET SEVEN
Elsa Justel: Diálogo con Ana
L’ombre due pont
empreintes DIGITales/2024
(for two-channel fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Mar del Plata, Argentia, 2020; time: 7:29

Ana Foutel: Catamarca
La Memoria Del Agua
VIAJERO INMÓVIL EX]P[RIMENTAL/2020
(for piano and field recordings; sound source: frogs and toads in Catamarca, Argentina); piano: Ana Foutel; time: 4:25

Gonzalo Biffarella: Ça, C’Est Bourges
Mestizaje
La Chant Du Monde/1997
electroacoustic music recorded at the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), Bourges, France, 1996; time: 3:55

SINGLE PLAY
Pas Musique: Going Down Forever
Ether Arrangements
Pas Musique/2024
electronic music: Robert Pepper, Jesse Fairbairn, Michael Durek; created 2020-2022; time: 5:44 

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