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Martian Gardens Episode 1236
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
August 17, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
James Newton: Compassion and Mustard Seeds in Perilous Times, Mvt. II
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: 8:12

NewBand: Star Gazing (M. Rosenblum)
Circadian Rhythms, Mvt. II
Microtonal Works Vol. II (various composers)
Mode Records/1994
cello: Ted Mook; keyboard sampler, piano: Elizabeth Rodgers; drum set, percussion, cowbells: Jim Pugliese; recorded at House of Sound, Floral Park, New York, March 19, 1990; composer: Mathew Rosenblum; composition year: 1989; selection time: 2:33

SET TWO
Emily Duncan & Randall Woolf: Scott Somebody
Woolf at the Door
Neuma Records/2025
(for fixed media, sound source: voice of Scott Johnson); recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, and Tiny Panther, Brooklyn; composition year: 2024; time: 7:40

Dora Ohrenstein: Confetti of Flesh (Johnson/Cortez)
Urban Diva
Composers Recordings, Inc./1993
soprano: Dora Ohrenstein; violin: Mary Rowell; piano, synthesizers: Philip Bush; marimba, drum set: Jason Cirker; recorded at The Looking Glass Studios, 1993; composer: Scott Johnson; composition year: 1989; text: Jayne Cortez (“I Am New York City“, 1973); time: 10:24

SET THREE
Peter Garland: Stone,/Like Stillness
Plain Songs
Love Comes Quietly (After Robert Creeley)
Cold Blue Music/2025
organ: Carson Cooman; principal recordings: Memorial Church of Harvard University, October 14-15, 2024; composition year: 2024; time: 7:52

Philip Glass/Robert Wilson: Knee 5
Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass/Robert Wilson)
Elektra-Nonesuch/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; women’s chorus; spoken text: Jasper McGruder (“Two Lovers”); text: Samuel M. Johnson; Einstein on the Beach recorded at the Looking Glass Studio, New York City, January-June, 1993; composition years: 1975-1976; selection time: 8:04

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: Ring Around the Moon — A Dance for Here and Now
a. Phase One: Well, bless my soul! (Well, bless my soul!) (2:48)
b. Phase Two: One, two, three, four — X,Y, Zee (2:12)
c. Phase Three: Shake hands now, boys, and at the sound of the bell come out fighting! (2:55)
d. Phase Four: Mumbo jumbo, hocus pocus, hoit toity…(Look out! He’s Got a gun!) (1:26)
[Movement II from Plectra and Percussion Dances — Satyr-Play Music for Dance Theater]
Plectra and Percussion Dances
An Evening of Dance Theater
Bridge Records/2014
PARTCH ensemble (ingredients may include — diamond marimba, Eroica, cymbal: Erin Barnes; voice: Paul Berkoids; kithara: Alison Bjorkedahl; canon, surrogate kiethara, Eroica: Matt Cook; cloud chamber bowls, chromelodeon: David Johnson; saxophone: Ulrich Krieger; percussion: Yumi Lee; canon: Tom Peters; guitars, canons: John Schneider; adapted viola: Derek Stein; bowls, bass marimba, Eroica, fight bell: Nick Terry; bass marimba, voice: T.J. Roy; guitar, canons: Alex Wand); recorded at Disney Hall/Redcat Theatre, Los Angeles, June 9, 2013; composition years: 1949-1950; total time: 9:20 

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

Bengt Emil Johnson: Disappearances
International Electronic Music (various artists)
Composer’s Recordings, Inc./1976
(for piano and electroncs); piano: Mats Persson; tape generated at Fylkingen’s Studio, Stockholm; composition year: 1974; time: 8:55

SET FIVE
Eduardo Reck Miranda: Electroacoustic Samba I
Mother Tongue
Sargasso/2004
vocal sounds, tape splicing: Eduardo Reck Miranda; recorded at the University of York Electroacoustic Music Studio, York, UK; composition year: 1990; time: 7:35

African Head Charge: Belinda
Off the Beaten Track
On-U-Sound/1986
band: Adrian Sherwood, Peter Stroud, Keith Logan, Charles Kelly, Lincoln Valentine Scott, Burnell Ralston Anderson, Skip McDonald; recorded at Southern Studios and The Town House, London; time: 4:22

Third Coast Percussion: Dissonance  (JLin)
from Perspective
Perspectives (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore) recorded at the Chicago Recording Company, May 2021; composer: JLin (Jerrilynn Patton); Perspective composition year: 2020; selection time: 2:47

Life Garden: Everything is Everywhere
Arrythmia II (various artists)
Compilation of Percussion Music
Charnel Music/1993
band: Bill Yanok, David Oliphant, Peter Ragan, Su LIng Heydrich-Oliphant; time: 5:56

Hour 3

SET SIX
Joseph Benzola: Jamie Muir
MP3 file
Amanita Music/2025
solo drum kit: Joseph Benzola; in memory of Jamie Muir, from Benzola’s Portraits of the Dead series; composition year: 2025; time: 5:57

R. Weis: String of Beads
Glass In Your Ear
R. Weis/2019
electroacoustic music (sound sources: broken glass, broken crockery), Machfive Sampling Software and Digital Performer: Robert Weis; recorded at the composer’s studio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; time: 3:08

Annea Lockwood: Dialogue: The Glass World (selections)
a. Two Ribbed Discs (1:56)
b. Water Jars (1:32)
The Glass World
¿What Next? Recordings/1997 (original Tangent LP 1970)
glass objects played by Annea Lockwood from The Glass World concert series 1966-1973; time: 3:28

Deftly Demolition: Mason Jar Meditation
Quantum Sleeper
Love Earth Music/2024
glass noises, electrnics: Deftly Demolotion; time: 6:43

SET SEVEN
Elsa Justel: Déjà vu
L’ombre du pont
empreintes DIGITales/2024
(for 8-channel fixed medium, sound source: glass objects); realized at the composer’s studio, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2019-202; premierd Suena asi series, Radio CASo (Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires; time: 6:54

Robert Scott Thompson: Meadow Reclaims the Ruin
MP3 file
Aucourant Records/2025
electronics: RST; time: 5:42

Squid in Chains: The Persistence of Memory, Part 4
The Persistence of Memory
Earsay Music/2023
bandoneon: Douglas Schmidt; basset clarinet: François Houle; synthesizers: John Oliver; recorded in Vancouver, BC; time: 5:55

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Gross: Chronicles
Chronicles
New Focus Recordings/2021
RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer: Robert Gross; time: 10:08

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