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Martian Gardens Episode 1240
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
September 21, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Elaine Barkin: Three Rhapsodies
a. Rhapsody (1:19)
b. Rhapsody in Black & White (3:36)
c. Rhapsody on a Rhapsody (3:15)
Open Space 16 — Barkin, Carlé, Exley, Helmuth
Open Space/2004
flute, piccolo: Sue Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin; alto flute: Susan Gall; clarinet: Ian Greitzer; recorded at UCLA, composition year: 1986; total time: 8:10  

Ruth Lomon: Tributary
Ruth Lomon at 80
Ruth Lomon’s shop/2011
flutes: Jesse Begelfer, Jill Dreeben, Emily Krainer; recorded at the Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University, November 14, 2010; composition year: 2001; time: 8:42

SET TWO
Shannon Wettstein: Quaderno Musicale di Annalibera (L. Dallapiccola)
I. Simbolo (2:51)
II. Accenti (0:27)
III. Contrapunctus Primus (1:12)
IV. Linee (0:40)
V. Contrapunctus Secondus (0:22)
VI. Fregi (0:59)
VII. Andantino Amaroso e Contrapunctus Tertius (1:03)
VIII. Ritmi (1:22)
IX. Colore (1:01)
X. Ombre (2:05)
XI. Quartina (1:33)
Con Grazia (various composers)
Neuma Records/2025
piano: Shannon Wettstein; recorded at Schmitt Music Auditorium, Bloomington, Minnesota, January 2024; composer: Luigi Dallapiccola; composition year: 1952; total time: 14:00

Luigi Dallapiccola: Tartiniana Seconda IV — Variazioni
a. Decisamente (0:26)
b. Maestoso (0:56)
c. Tranquillo (1:10)
d. Doloroso (Canon per Augmentationem, Contrario Motu) (1:01)
e. Alla Sarabanda (Canon Cancrizans) (1:00)
f. Deciso; Duramente (Canon ad Hypodiapason/g. Con Gagliardia (0:52)
Musica Da Camera (Dallapiccola/Petrassi)
Ensemble Dissonanzen
Mode Records/2006
piano: Ciro Langbardi; violin: Danielle Colombo; recorded at Teatro delle Palme, Napoli, Italy, February 21-23, 2005; composition year: 1956; total time: 6:25

SINGLE PLAY
Dominick Argento: A Few Words about Chekhov (selections)
I. Duo (3:02)
II. Solo (Olga) (3:16)
III. Solo (Anton) (3:03)
A Few Words about Chekhov
songs and cycles of Dominick Argento
Bridge Records/2024
mezzo-soprano: Adriana Zabala; baritone: Jesse Blumberg; piano: Martin Katz; recording at The Woods Recording Studio, Woodstock, New York, January 2024; composition year: 1996; total selections time: 9:21

Hour 2

SET THREE
Jeremias Schwarzer: Whistle Blower (I. ter Schiphorst)
New Recorder Concertos (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2025
recorder: Jeremias Schwarzer; Ensemble Resonanz, conductor: Peter Rundel; recorded at Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, June 2, 2021; composer: Iris ter Schiphorst; composition years: 2020-2021; time: 15:30

John Cage: Inventions from Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment*
a. Invention No. 4 (0:37)
b. Invention No. 5 (1:28)
c. Invention No. 6 (1:46)
John Cage Edition 38: The Number Pieces 4
Mode Records/2007
recorders: Trio Dolce; recorded at Maria Minor Church, Utrecht, The Netherlands, February 1, 1998; composition years: 1933-1934; total selections time: 3:41
*full title: Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions on the subject of the solo

SET FOUR
Rhonda Rider: Verklaertes Holz (Transfigured Wood) (E. Moe)
a. daybreak to nightfall (4:20)
b. flood (2:27)
c. erosion (2:40)
The Petrified Forest Project (various composers)
Ravello Records/2024
cello: Rhonda Rider; recorded at the Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, Massachusetts, Fall 2023; composer: Eric Moe; composition year: 2015; total time: 9:27

Aznavoorian Duo: Petrified Dance (V. Sharafyan)
Gems from Armenia (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
cello: Ani Aznavoorian; piano: Marta Aznavoorian; recorded at the Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, August 2021; composer: Vache Sharafyan; composition year: 2005; time: 5:15

Romanos Melikian: Armenian Art Songs II
a. Glowing in the Garden (1:44)
b. Weep Not (3:27)
Serenade with a Dandelion (various artists)
Armenian Chamber Music, Old and New
New Focus Recordings/2024
soprano: Shoushik Barsoumian; piano: Steven Veanhauwaert; recorded at Ostin Music Center, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, August 20-22, 2021; total time: 4:41

SINGLE PLAY
Natalia Cappa: La Culor dil Tiempu (J.S. Levi)
I. Si me Dabas tus Ojos (if you gave me your eyes)
II. La Pared mi Sta Mirandu (the wall is staring at me)
III. Knosornos!
Una (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for voice and live electronics); voice: Natalia Cappa; text: Clarisse Nicoïdski, Jorge Sad Levi; composer: Jorge Sad Levi; composition year: 2023; time: 6:22

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Jocy De Oliveira: Raga na Amazônia
Raga na Amazônia
Discos Nada/2021
synthesizers: Jocy De Oliveira; reeds, piri, veena: Joseph Celli Ajeng; voice: Sang Won Park; composition year: 1987; time: 11:39

Robert Dick & Steve Gorn: DTR (Downtown Raga)
Steel and Bamboo
O.O. Discs/1993
bansuri; harmonium (shruti box drone): Steve Gorn; flute: Robert Dick; recorded at NRS Studio, Hurley, New York, October 1992; time: 10:26

SET SIX
Gilles Gobeil: Un cercle hors de l’arbre (A Circle Outside the Tree)
Promenades
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(stereo fixed medium); realized at Studio PANorama de Música Electroacústica da Unesp (São Paulo State University), São Paulo, Brazil, 2014, and the composer’s studio, Drummondville, Quebec, 2015; time: 10:30

Aleš Friedl: Neo
Srečni Barvni Splet
Kuku/2025″
musical narrative — processed streamed content, October 1, 2023; sources: Wonderwheel (2017), Soutien de Famile (2022); Handel in Italy, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Uroš Lajovic time: 3:13

Leon Harrell: Heaven and Earth are not Kind
Measures of Change (various artists)
U. of Ill. EMS/2011
(5.1 stereo fixed medium); University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios, Urbana-Champaign; composition year: 2011; time: 6:30

SINGLE PLAY
Martin Daigle: Incubation: haine en Larsen (from La Rage, Part III) (P.A. Tremblay)
Drum Machines (Tremblay/Pohu)
Ravello Records/2023
drums: Martin Daigle; recorded at the Centre d’Experimentation Musicale, Chicoutimi, Quebec, November 2021; composer: Pierre Alexander Tremblay; selection time: 2:42

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