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Martian Gardens Episode 1238
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
September 3, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
James Dashow: Archimedes goes to Syracuse
Archimedes Act I, Scene IV
Archimedes
A Planetarium Opera
Neuma Records/2021
Archimedes cast: baritone: Michael Kelly as Archimedes; tenor: Martin Bakari as Marcellus; bass: Adrian Rosas as Hieron; soprano: Jennifer Zetlan as Demiurge; tenor: Brian Giebler as Demiurge; soprano: Jennifer Zetlan as Slave Girl 1; mezzo soprano: Toby Newman as Slave Girl 2; child: Madeleine Albus; voice of the Prime Mover: Philip Kerr; Flauti dolci (recorders): Antonio Politano; chorus: Nicholas Isherwood, Brian Giebler, Toby Newman, Adrian Rosas, James Wright, Jennifer Zetlan; libretto: Cary Plotkin, Ted Weiss; electronic music, concept: James Dashow; composition years: 2000-2008; time: 7:24

SET ONE
Jean Eichelberger Ivey: Three Songs of Night
a. The Astronomer
b. I Dreamed of Sappho
c. Heraclitus
Music by Jean Eichelberger Ivey for Voices, Instruments, and Tape
Folkways/1973
soprano: Catherine Rowe; alto flute: Paula Hatcher; clarinet: Suzanne Grenouillou; viola: Kristen Hill; cello: Paula Kiffner; piano: Michael Campbell; conductor: Leonard Pearlman; adapted texts: a. Walt Whitman; b. Richard Hovey; c. Callimachus (tr. William Cory); tape generated at the Peabody Conservatory Electronic Music Studio, Baltimore; composition year: 1973; time: 14:43

Milton Babbitt: Philomel (Part 2. Echo Song)
Philomel
New World Records/1995
Mark II RCA Synthesizer, tapes: Milton Babbitt; soprano: Bethany Beardslee; text: John Hollander (based on Ovid‘s “Philomela”), created at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1964; excerpt time: 3:30

Otto Luening: Moonflight
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
(for flute and tape); flute: Otto Luening; tape generated at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968; time: 2:55

Vivian Adelberg Rudow: Racing Inside the Milky Way
Electroacoustic Music Volume VIII (various artists)
Electroshock Records/2002
electroacoustic music: Vivian Adelberg Rudow; composition year: 1994; time: 3:00

SET TWO
Paul Lansky: Tap (Touch and Go, Part 1)
Touch and Go
Bridge Records/2024
percussion: Gwendolyn Dease: Michigan State University Wind Symphony, conductor: Kevin Sedatole; recorded at Wharton Center Great Hall, East Lansing, Michigan; composition year: 2012; selection time: 6:55

David Therrien Brongo: Chanson au soleil (C. Vivier)
Cinq chansons pour percussion, Part 3
Confluence (various composers)
Ravello Records/2023
percussion: David Therrien Brongo; recorded at Domaine Forget, Saint-Irénée, Montreal, Quebec; composer: Claude Vivier; composition year: 1980; selection time: 7:45

Hour 2

SET THREE
Joel Gressel: Quantitative Easing
Unmeasured Time
Ravello Records/2025
computer music: Joel Gressel; recorded in New York City, March 27, 2025; composition year: 2012; time: 9:42

Squid In Chains: Spheres of Influence
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: 7:42

SET FOUR
Natasha Barrett: Impossible Moments from Venice 3 —
The Other Side of the Lagoon
Toxic Colour
Barret’s Bandcamp/2025
fixed media, field recordings: Natasha Barrett; composition year: 2023; time: 10:02

Aleš Friedl: Oda radosti (Ode to Joy)
Srečni Barvni Splet
Kuku/2025
musical narrative — Beethoven, Symphony 9, mvt. 4 (Ode to Joy); Bach, Cantata BWV 147 (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring); student ensemble Štrom of the First Gymnasium Maribor) Jerko Novak (music), Kejetan Kovič (text), (Maček Muri); Shaolin monk on television; gibbon calls; patriotic music by Stanko Premrl; Friedl’s pianino 19 and pianino 20, piano: Nika Tkalec; Audacity software; time: 8:24

SET FIVE
Shannon Wettstein: Con Grazia (selections)
a. Con Grazia (from Suite No. 5) (1:44)
b. Anamorfosi (2:10)
Con Grazia (various composers)
A Century of Italian Piano Music
Neuma Records/2025
piano: Shannon Wettstein; recorded at Schmitt Music Auditorium, Bloomington, Minnesota, January 2024; composers: a. Giacinto Scelsi; b. Salvatore Sciarrino; composition years: a. 1935; b. 1980; total selections time: 3:54

David Salvage: Moments from Proust (Part 1, I-III)
I. Dreams of Travel and Love (3:09)
II. The Restaurant at Rivebelle (2:03)
III. Saint Loup’s Watch (3:04)
Dreams of Travel and Love
Music for Solo Piano
New Focus Recordings/2025
piano: David Salvage; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, August 1-3, 2024; total selections time: 12:20

Hour 3

SET SIX
Adrian Moore: Audiogentry
Soulignement_
empreintes DIGITALes/2025
(stereo fixed medium, sound source: field recordings from Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield, UK); realized at the composer’s studio, Sheffield, 2019; premiered at From Brooklyn Works to Brooklynism: An evening of Sonic Art and Poetry, Kelham Island Museum, Sheffield, July 17, 2019; time: 6:37

Carey Nutman: Land Below the Wind, Part 3
Land Below the Wind
MPS Music and Video/2011
electroacoustic music: Carey Nutman; recorded at the composer’s studio, Houghton-Le-Spring, UK; time: 3:32

Patrick Reed: Primor D’Aion
Music from SEAMUS Volume 34 (various artists)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2025
electroacoustic music: Patrick Reed; time: 6:50

Elainie Lillios: Au deuxiemé etagé (On the Second Floor)
Miniatures concretès (various artists)
empreintes DIGITALes/1998
(for fixed media); realized at the composer’s studio, Bowling Green, Ohio, 1996; time: 3:00

SET SEVEN
James Newton: Compassion and Mustard Seeds in Perilous Times, Mvt. III
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: 7:39

Florence Price: Dances in the Canebrakes
I. Nimble Feet (2:32)
II. Tropical Noon (3:37)
III. Silk Hat and Walking Cane (3:13)
Project W (various composers)
Works by Diverse Women Composers
Çedille Records/2019
Chicago Sinfonietta, conductor: Mei-Ann Chen; recorded at Wentz Hall, Naperville, Illinois; September, 2017 – March, 2018; arr. William Grant Still; composition year: 1953; time: 11:40

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Jon Fink: Celesta (selections)
a. Cold Pastoral (2:32)
b. Sunless (1:39)
c. Softly Yellowed Moon (1:41)
Celesta
Cold Blue Music/2019
celesta: Michael Jon Fink; recorded at Architecture studio, Los Angeles, September 2018; total selections time: 5:52

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