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Martian Gardens Episode 1237
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
August 25, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Kyle Jones: Walt Whitman in 1989 (C. DeBlasio)
Dualities (various composers)
Neuma Records/2025
alto saxophone: Kyle Jones; piano: Timothy Jones; composer: Chris DeBlasio; composition year: 1990; time: 4:49

Elliott Carter: Warble for Lilac Time
Music of Elliott Carter Volume 9
Bridge Records/2013
soprano: Tony Arnold; Colorado College Festival Orchestra, conductor: Scott Yoo; recorded at Packard Hall, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 2007; composition year: 1943; text: Walt Whitman; time: 6:49

Stacy Garrop: Terra Nostra (selections)
Three Walt Whitman texts
a. A Blade of Grass (2:06)
b. There was a Child Went Forth Every Day (2:03)
c. A Blade of Grass/I Bequeath Myself (5:20)
Terra Nostra
Oratorio by Stacy Garrop
Çedille Records/2024
a. children, chorus; b. children; c. soprano: Michelle Areyzaga; b. mezzo-soprano: Leah Dester; c. soprano: Michelle Areyzaga, tenor: Jesse Donner; baritone: David Govertsen; children, chorus
Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Alice Millar Chapel Choir; texts: Walt Whitman; recorded at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, Illinois, February 6 & 8, 2023; selections time: 9:29

SET TWO
Aleš Friedl: Summertime I
Srečni Barvni Splet
Kuku/2025
musique concrete, sound sources: Summer, (The Four Seasons) (Vivaldi); Pianino 9, piano: Marjeta Urbanič Rudolf (Fridel); Tour de France, Pianino 1, piano: Mag. Metka Žižek (Friedl); PIanini 14, piano: Marco Petrušič; whale calls, frogs, crickets; Sinjska Alka equestrian competition (TV broadcast), Croatia; beach activities at noon, Croatia; boat race on the Neretva River (TV broadcast), Croatia; Badinerie, Suite No. 2, Movement 7 (BWV 1067, J.S. Bach) taken from the film Incroyable mais vrai (Incredible but True); the patriotic Slovenian song, “Zdaj zaori, pesem o svobodi,” (Song of Freedom); credited Vivaldi performances — violin: Mari Samuelsen: The Four Seasons, Summer; Cynthia Miller Freivogel and the Early Music Ensemble: The Four Seasons, Summer; St. Mark’s Philharmonic Orchestra: The Four Seasons, Summer; The Budapest Strings, conductor: Bela Banfalvi: Anne Sophie Mutter, Mutter Virtuosi Ensemble: The Four Seasons, Summer; violin: Julie Fischer: The Four Seasons; Janine Jansen, Quattro Stagioni: The Four Seasons; time: 12:42

Barry Schrader: Bachahama
a. Figure 0.1
b. Air
c. Figure 0.2
EAM –Electro Acoustic Music
Innova Recordings/2002
(an electronic deconstruction of Bach’s C Minor Fugue, Air on the G String, and Triptych); recorded at the composer’s studio, Valencia, California; composition years: 1986, revised 2000; total time: 7:07

SET THREE
Aleš Friedl: Nokturno 7
Open Space 47 (various artists)
Open Space/2021
piano: Lovorka Nemeš Dular; recorded at the Grosuplje Music School, Slovenia, November 19, 2019; composition year: 3:31

Jihye Chang: Nam-Ok-Lee (E.Y. Lee)
Boston Etudes (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
piano: Jihye Chang; recorded at Distler Hall, Tufts University, Boston, October 2022; composer: Eun Young Lee; composition year: 2020; time: 4:12

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Robert Carl: Splectra, Part 1
Splectra
Cold Blue Music/2019
(for harp and digital processing); harp: Alison Bjorkedal; recorded to Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, July 2019; composition year: 2019; time: 9:04

Gabriel Valverde: El Silencio ya no es el Silencio
Luminar
Mode Records/2001
harp: Sofía Asunción Claro; recorded at DIEM Studio, Copenhagen, 1997; composition year: 1996; time: 6:33

SINGLE PLAY
Elias Gurevich: Terra Infirma (G. Valverde)
300 Años Solo Violin, Vol. 3 (various composers)
Mecenazgo Cultural de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires/2024
(for violin solo); violin: Elias Gurevich; recorded in Buenos Aires; composer: Gabriel Valverde; composition year: 2021; time: 9:41

SET FIVE
Adrianne Munden-Dixon: In a Snowstorm of Moths (G. Peacocke)
Vision Mantra (various composers)
Neuma Records/2025
(for violin and live electronics); violin: Adrianne Munden-Dixon; recorded at Shiny Things Studio, Brooklyn; May 2019; composer: Gemma Peacocke; composition year: 2018; time: 9:23

Olivia De Prato: Fire in the Dark (J. Baker)
I, A.M. (various artists)
Artist Mother Project — New Works for Violin and Electronics
New World Records/2022
(for violin solo); violin: Olivia De Prato; recorded in Vienna, September 3, 2021; composer: Jen Baker; composition year: 2020; time: 8:07

SINGLE SIX
Mari Kimura: Canon élastique
Voyage Apollonian
Innova Recordings/2017
violin, bow motion sensor, computer processing: Mari Kimura; composed and recorded at IRCAM, 2010; time: 3:22

Joane Hétu: Fragment Amour
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: 1:03

Hour 3

SET SEVEN
Åke Parmerud: Heavy Metal
Exomusique
empreintes DIGITALes/2025
(for 16-channel fixed medium, sound source: metal objects); realized at the composer’s studio, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2023; multichannel mix realized at the Metamorphoses d’Orphee of Musique & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium, June 2024; premiered at Lisboa Incomum, Lisbon, 4th Festival Imersivo, March 2024; time: 8:32

Deep Listening Band: Metalorgy
The Ready-Made Boomerang
New Albion Records/1992
small pipes, metal pieces: Stuart Dempster; voice, long tones: Thomas Eckert; small pipes, metal pieces: Pauline Oliveros; large pipes, metal pieces, voice accents: Panaiotis; recorded at the Cistern Chapel, Ft. Worden Cistern, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, February 1990; time: 2:12

Tildy Bayar: The Complexities of the Situation
Open Space 12 — EE²: A Sound Album By Elaine Barkin (various artists)
Open Space/2000
piano, metal rods: Tildy Bayar; composition year: 1989; time: 7:07

SET SEVEN
Julie Kabat: Child and Moon-tree
CDCM Computer Music Series Vol. 7 (various artists)
iEAR Studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Centaur Records/1990
(for vocalist and computer-processed samples, sound sources: Noh theatre music, a Mongolian sheepherder’s chant, glass harmonica, drums, whale songs, musical saw); voice: Julie Kabat; electronics: Neil B. Rolnick; texts: Women Poets of Japan, 1977; recorded at Malcolm Addey Studio, New York City; composition year: 1989 time: 16:57

Tod Dockstader: Two Moons of Quatermass
a. First Moon (4:17)
b. Second Moon (4:37)
Water Music/Quatermass
Starkland/1992
electronic music (tape-manipulated balloon sounds): Tod Dockstader; composition year: 1964; total time: 8:53

Tsippi Fleischer: The Gown of Night
Composing Israel (various artists)
The First Three Generations
Neuma Records/2023
electronic collage, sound source: voices of Bedouin schoolchildren from Rahat; text: Muhammad Ghana’im, The Gown of Night; recorded at the Beer Sheva Conservatory, edited at Yaakov Aviram’s studio, Tel Aviv; composition year: 1988; time: 2:51

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