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Martian Gardens Episode 1241
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs, Amherst, Massachusetts
September 27, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Eunmi Ko: Untitled VI (D. Hindman)
Eunmi Ko + CAMP — 12 Views on Life (various composers)
Contemporary Art Music Project
Neuma Records/2024
piano: Eunmi Ko; baritone saxophone: Katherine Weintraub; percussion: Kevin von Kampen; recorded at Barness Recital Hall, University of South Florida, Tampa, December 16, 2023; composer: Dorothy Hindman; composition year: 2022; time: 12:02

SET ONE
Benjamin Boretz: Extract Meanings
Open Space 6
Benjamin Boretz/The Bard College Composers’ Ensemble
Open Space/1994
(from THREE for composers’ ensemble); The Bard Composers’ Ensemble: Tildy Bayar, Benjamin A. Boretz, Sebastian Collett, John Hopkins, Mary Lee Roberts, Catherine Schieve, Chuck Stein, Paul Winkler; recorded April 17, 1992; selection time: 9:50

Pauline Oliveros: Reason in Madness Mixed
Crone Music
Lovely Music, Ltd./1990
accordion, processing: Pauline Oliveros; processing, mixing: Panaiotis; engineer: Connie Kieltyka; recorded at PASS/Harvestworks, New York City; composition year: 1989; time: 7:55
commissioned by Mabou Mines (New York City) for their production of King Lear

SET TWO
Hildegard Westerkamp: Fantasie for Horns I
Klavierklang
Hildegard Westerkamp and Rachel Kyo Iwaasi
Earsay Music/2023
(for fixed medium); sound sources: lighthouse foghorns from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Canada, Canadian train horns, factory and boat horns from Vancouver, BC; composition year: 1978; time: 13:02

Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes
Fog Tropes — Gradual Requiem — Gambuh I
New Albion Records/1988 (org. LP 1984)
(for brass sextet, foghorns, ambient sounds); trumpets: Jim Miller, Tim Wilson; trombones: Mack Kenley, Don Kennelly; French horns: William Klingelhofer, Brian McCarty; conductor: John Adams; tape portion: foghorns and sea sounds; recorded in San Francisco Bay, 1979; falsetto keenings, Balinese flute, electronic processing, tape manipulation; performance: recorded at Tres Virgo Studio, San Rafael, California; composition years: 1979-1982; time: 9:50

Hour 2

SET THREE
Joshua Rubin: Echoes (O. Wilson)
There Never is No Light (various composers)
Tundra-New Focus Recordings/2014
(for clarinet and electronics); clarinet: Joshua Rubin; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York; tape generated at the University of California Berkeley Electronic Music Studio; composer: Olly Wilson; composition year: 1974; time: 11:42

Barney Childs: Pastoral
A Music; That It Might Be
New World Records/2002
(for bass clarinet and electronics); bass clarinet: Phillip Rehfeldt; recorded at the University of Redlands, Redlands, California, 1996; tape generated at the University of North Texas, Denton; composition year: 1983; time: 5:50

SET FOUR
Christopher Stark: Fire Ecologies Scene 1: Terra Incognita
Fire Ecologies
New Focus Recordings/2025
(for ensemble and fixed medium; sound source: California wildfires); Unheard-of//Ensemble (clarinet: Ford Fourquerean; violin: Matheus Souza; cello: Iva Casian-Lakoš; piano: Daniel Anastasio; premiered on a dock at the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn; composition year: 2020; selection time: 14:00

Natasha Barrett: Under the Sea Floor (Coring and Strata)
Sub Terra Cycle
Bouteilles de Klein
empreintes DIGITALes/2010
marine and geological recordings: Natasha Barrett; recorded in a fjord and on a drilling ship at Oslo, Norway;  realized for 10-track tape at the composer’s studio, Oslo, 2007-2008; time: 6:30

SINGLE PLAY
Michael Byron: Music of Steady Light II
Halcyon Days
Cold Blue Music/2023
William Winant Percussion Group (marimbas, xylophones, glockenspiels, vibraphones); recorded at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, January 2022; composition year: 1978; Wselection time: 9:30

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Meehan/Perkins Duo: Observations (T. Perich)
Travel Diary (various composers)
Bridge Records/2011
percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; 1-bit microchip music program: Tristan Perich; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010; composition year: 2008; time: 11:40

SET FIVE
Alvin Curran: Magic Carpet
Source — Music from the Avant-Garde (various artists)
Source Records 1-6, 1968-1971
Pogus Productions/2008
(music from sound installation for strings and chimes); recorded by Alvin Curran at D’Arco Alibert, Rome, 1970; time: 14:50

Crippled Symmetry: Ritual in Four Parts IV
Ritual in Four Parts
Amanita Music/2001
drums, percussion, electronics, piano, shenai, bamboo flute: Joseph Benzola; drums, electronic and acoustic percussion: John Asta; guitar, electronics: Doug Kolmar; recorded in New York City; time: 6:42

SET SIX
Philip Corner: Gamelan COMING & GOING (excerpt)
Gamelan COMING & GOING
Counting for Piano Duet
ANTS Records/2017
piano and counting: Philip Corner and Evan Schwartzman; recorded at the Mason Gross School of Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 27, 1985; excerpt time: 10:00

Gamelan Son of Lion: 9/11 Memorial, Part 1 (B. Benary)
Sonogram (various composers)
Innova Recordings/2009
(for gamelan and glass instruments); Gamelan Son of Lion performers: Barbara Benary, David Demnitz, Miguel Frasconi, Daniel Goode, Patrick Grant, Lisa Karrer, Jody Kruskal, Laura Liben, Denman Maroney, John Morton, David Simmons; GSOL guests: Anna Dembska, Marija Ilić, Joseph Kubera, Bill Ruyle; composer: Barbara Benary; composition year: 2008; time: 2:19

Philip Corner: Gamelan Coming and Going
excerpt reprise (0:15)

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