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Martian Gardens Episode 1239
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
September 13, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
NewBand: Circadian Rhythms (M. Rosenblum)
Circadian Rhythms, Mvt. I
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: 8:54  

Lee Hinkle: Impulse Control I (E. Ziporyn)
Concerto for Drum Set and Wind Ensemble
Modern American Percussion Concerti (various composers)
Ravello Records/2024
drum set soloist: Lee Hinkle; Penn State University Wind Ensemble, conductor: Tonya Mitchell-Spradin; recorded at the Esber Rehearsal Hall, Penn State School of Music, State College, Pennsylvania, April 2023; time: 3:57

Third Coast Percussion: Marimba Duo (P. Manoury)
Le Livre des Claviers, Movement II
The Book of Keyboards/Le Livre des Claviers
New Focus Recordings/2017
Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore), additional performers: Owen Clayton Condon, Gregory Beyer, Ross Karre; recorded at Northern Illinois Recital Hall, DeKalb, Illinois, January 2011; composer: Philippe Manoury; composition years: 1987-1988; selection time: 3:03

John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 5
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
(second version, for 42 vinyl records); realized by Michael Barnhart (Percussion Group Cincinnati); principal composition: 1952; time: 3:07

SET TWO
David Therrien Brongo: Trakadie (M.C. Saint-Marcoux)
Confluence (various composers)
Ravello Records/2023
percussion: David Therrien Brongo; recorded at Domaine Forget, Saint-Irénée, Montreal, November 13–16, 2022; composer: Micheline Coloumbe Saint-Marcoux; composition year: 1970; time: 11:04

Micheline Coloumbe Saint-Marcoux: Contrastantes
Impulsion
empreintes DIGITALes/2001
(stereo fixed medium); realized at a private studio in Paris, February 1971; premiered at the Musée d’art moderne, Paris, April 1, 1971; time: 6:34

SINGLE PLAY
Duncan and Woolf: Native Tongues
Woolf at the Door
Neuma Records/2025
(for beatboxing flute and string orchestra); flute: Emily Duncan; violins: Katherine Kyo Hyeon Lim; Jocelyn Zhu; viola: Jay Jullo; cello: Drake Driscoll; bass: Tyler Vittoria; conductor: Zach Nicely; composer: Randall Woolf; time: 10:56

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Paul Lansky: Stroke (Touch and Go, Part 2)
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; time: 6:51

SINGLE PLAY
Larry Polansky: 22 Sounds
These Are the Generations
New World Records/2020
[for percussion quartet); percussion: Douglas Perkins; recorded in Chicago, October 26, 2016; composition year: 2010; time: 17:12

SET THREE
Anna Rubin: Second Nature
Powehi
MusicStories for voice, piano, and electronics by Anna Rubin
Neuma Records/2025
fixed media piece for choreographer Doug Hamby‘s dance “Second Nature”; premiered at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2017; time: 10:55

Matthew Burtner: The Dreams of Seagrasses
Soundscapes of Restoration
Ravello Records/2023
(for ensemble, field recordings, and sonifications); EcoSono Ensemble (pipa: Siyang Sophia Shen; flute: Kelly Sulick; trumpet: Glen Whitehead; viola: Brian Lindgren; cello: Kevin William Davis); scientific researchers (Virginia Coast Reserve): Peter Berg, Karen McGlathery, Marie Lise Delgard, Pierre Polsenaere, Scott C. Doney, Ameilia C. Berger; composition year: 2023; time: 5:56

Bernard Fort: Étude Forestière (edit)
Earth Ear Radio Sampler, Winter 2002 (various artists)
Earth Ear/2002
(field recordings, musique concrete); principal recordings made in Canada; composed and mixed at the studios of Groupe de musique vivante de Lyon (GMVL), France, 1996; time: 3:51
see also: Bernard Fort, Compositions Ornithologiques

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Aleš Friedl: Summertime II
Srečni Barvni Splet
Kuku/2025
musical narrative — music: Khachaturian: Spartacus ballet, Adagio; Friedl: Pianino 6, pianist: Tina Hauptman; Friedl: Pianino 22, 24, 26, piano: Nika Tkalec; The Black Eyed Peas: Pump It; Plastic Bertrand: Ça plane pour moi; Marjan Kozina: Na svoji zemliji; film/TV music: Taxi, Pulp Fiction, The Simpsons; film/TV samples: Venom, Onedin Line; nature sounds: Bittern bird, crickets, whale song, kites; composition year: 2023; time: 12:50

Noah Creshevsky: Omaggio
Twilight of the Gods
Tzadik/2010
hyperrealistic electroacoustic music; composition year: 2001; time: 7:30

SET FIVE
Charles Dodge: Speech Songs
I. When I am With You (1:38)
II. He Destroyed Her Image (2:02)
III. A Man Sitting in a Cafeteria (1:29)
IV. The Days Are Ahead (2:02)
Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental
New Albion Records/1992
speech synthesis, text: Charles Dodge; created at Bell Laboratories; speech synthesis program developed by Joseph Olive; composition year: 1973; total time: 7:13

Gary Lee Nelson: Jabber
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 37 (various artists)
Music from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music TIMARA Studios
Centaur Records/2008
voice, digital processing: Gary Lee Nelson; text: Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky; composition year: 2006; time: 6:29

Laurie Spiegel; Clockworks
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
computer music: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, March 1975; time: 5:20

SINGLE PLAY
Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 5
The Music of Mario Davidovsky, Volume 3
Bridge Records/2005
(for five percussionists and electronic sound); The Manhattan School of Music Percussion Ensemble, conductor: Jeff Milarsky; recorded February 1, 2004, Borden Auditorium, Manhattan School of Music, New York City; composition year: 1969; time: 8:38

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