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Martian Gardens Episode 1242
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 6, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Gamelan Son of Lion: Telling Time (M. Frasconi)
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: Miguel Frasconi; composition year: 2008; time: 10:18

The Glass Ensemble: Verillon 9 (excerpt)
Tales from Siliconesia EP
Frasconimusic/2013 (orig. 1981)
Eric Cadesky, Miguel Frasconi, Paul Hodge: glass instruments; recorded in Toronto, 1981; time: 6:46

SET TWO
Harry Partch: Barstow
Eight Highway Inscriptions from a Highway Railing, Barstow, California
I. Today I am a man
II. Gentlemen
III. Considered pretty
IV. A very good idea
V. Possible rides
VI. Jesus was God in the flesh
VII. You lucky women
VIII. Why in hell did you come?
The Wayward
First Complete Recording
Bridge Records/2025
members of the PARTCH Ensemble (voice: John Schneider; boo, voice: Nick Terry; chromelodeon: Aron Kalley; diamond marimba, voice: Erin Barnes; surrogate kithara, voice: Alex Wand); recorded at REDCAT Theater, Disney Hall, Los Angeles, June 18, 2023; composition years: 1941, 1954, 1968; total time: 10:03
ABOUT PARTCH AND PARTCH INSTRUMENTS

Ben Johnston: The Many Wines
Ruminations – Settings of Rumi & Billie Holiday 
MicroFest Records/2014
voice, microtonal guitar: John Schneider; text: Rumi; composer: Ben Johnston; composition year: 1998; time: 3:15

Ben Johnston: Quietness
In memory of Salvatore Martirano
String Quartets Nos. 6, 7, & 8
New World Records/2016
voice: Ben Johnston; Kepler Quartet: violin: Sharan Leventhal, Eric Segnitz; viola: Brek Renzelman; cello: Karl Lavine; text: Rumi; recorded at Tanner/Monagle Studios, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 15, 2012; composition year: 1996; time: 2:18

Salvatore Martirano: SalMar at IRCAM (excerpt)
Experimental Music Studios 50th Anniversary (1958-2008)
School of Music, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign/2008
SalMar Construction: Salvatore Martirano, IRCAM (Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music), Paris; composition year: 1984; time: 5:54

SET THREE
Aaron Jay Myers: Late Night Banter
Late Night Banter
Neuma Records/2023
flute: Sarah Brady; clarinet: Amy Advocat; tenor saxophone: Phillip A. Stäudlin; trumpet: Andrew Kozar; trombone: Alexis Smith; cello: Lev Mamoya; contrabass: Will Yager; piano: Sarah Bob; percussion: Greg Simonds; drum set; Aaron Trant; conductor: Matt Sharrock; recorded at Futura Productions, Roslindale, Massachusetts, January 9, 2022; composition years: 2011, revised 2015; time: 9:06

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: The Transformation of Oz
Dawn of the Cycads
The Complete Ace of Hearts Recordings (1983-1987)
Cuneiform Records/2009 (orig. Ace of Hearts Records/1983)
piano, percussion, keyboards: Roger Miller; synthesizers, rhythm machines; percussion: Erik Lindgren; keyboards, synthesizer, piano, percussion: Rick Scott; guitar percussion: Martin Swope; additional percussion on Oz: Michael Cohen; recorded at Downtown Recorders, Boston, 1981-1982; time: 2:20

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Seth Parker Woods: Difficult Grace (F. Gifford)
Difficult Grace (various composers)
Çedille Records/2023
(for cello, voice, and live electronics); cello, voice: Seth Parker Woods; text: Dudley Randall; recorded at the Chicago Recording Company, August 2022; composer: Fredrick Gifford; composition year: 2019; time: 6:23

Rhonda Rider: Meditations on Impatience (I. Gottlieb)
The Petrified Forest Project (various composers)
Ravello Records/2024
cello: Rhonda Rider; recorded at Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, Massachusetts, Fall 2023; composer: Ian Gottlieb; composition year: 2016; time: 3:07

Yu Hui Chang: Alter Ego I: Affectionate
Mind Like Water (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
cello: Rhonda Rider; recorded at Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis, University, Waltham, Massachusetts; composition year: 2019; selection time: 5:30

Morton Feldman: Intersection IV
Feldman Edition 9: Composing by Numbers — The Graphic Scores 1950-67
The Barton Workshop plays graphic scores
Mode Records/2005
cello: Taco Kooistra; Composing by Numbers recorded in the Netherlands, 1993-2001; composition year: 1953; time: 3:10

SET FIVE
Eunmi Ko + CAMP: i am going mad(libs) (A.R. Green)
12 Views on Life (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
piano, voice: Eunmi Ko; composer: Anthony R. Green; composition year: 2020; time: 4:26

Natalia Cappa: Kenkos (A. Crespo)
Una (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2024
(for soprano and electronics); soprano: Natalia Cappa; recorded at Estudio PuntoAr, Buenos Aires, Argentina; composer: Agustina Crespo; composition year: 2022; time: 7:14

Martin Alejandro Fumarola: El Peregrinar de la Araña
Travels of the Spider (various artists)
Electroacoustic Music from Argentina
Pogus Productions/1998
tone generator, sequencers, computer: Martin Alejandro Fumarola; realized at the Laboratorio de Música Electroacústica, National University of Córdoba, Argentina, 1995; time: 4:10

SET SIX
Jocy De Oliveira: Estória II
Estórias Para Voz, Instrumentos Acústicos e Eletrônicos
Blume/2018 (orig. Fermata/1981)
(for tape, percussion, and voice); percussion: Rich O’Donnell; voice: Rozalyn Wykes; principal recordings: Electronic Music Studio, Washington University, St. Louis; Technosonic Studios, St. Louis; composition year: 1981; time: 9:34

Tom Hamilton: Crimson Sterling Mvt. II
Pieces for Kohn/Formal & Informal Music
Kvist Records/2009
ARP 2500 synthesizer: Tom Hamilton; percussion: Rich O’Donnell; wind instruments: JD Parran; recorded at Technisonic Studios, St. Louis, 1977; time: 3:06

Hour 3

SET SEVEN
Robert Carl: A Clean Sweep
From Japan
New World Records/2012
shakuhachi: Elizabeth Brown; fixed media: Robert Carl; recorded at Riverview Recording Studios, Gill, Massachusetts; June 26 and July 3, 2010; composition year: 2005; time: 13:02

Hans Tutschku: Remembering Japan — Part 1: Immersion
Remembering Japan
empreintes DIGITALes/2022
(for fixed media, sound sources: musicians, daily life, ceremonies, nature, and culture from around Japan); recorded at the Studio PANaroma de Música Eletroacústica da Unesp, Sao Paulo; premiered at T-Son 92: Adagio agitato concert, Teatro Maria de Lourdes Sekeff, Institutode Artes da Unesp, Sao Paulo, June 2, 2016; composition year: 2014; time: 9:47

SET EIGHT
Judith Exley: The Cave of Tidal Sound
Open Space 16 (Barkin/Carle/Exley/Helmuth)
Open Space/2004
(electronic music on two-channel tape); field recordings made at Makara Beach, Wellington, New Zealand; realized at the Electronic Music Studio of the Victoria University School of Music, Wellington, New Zealand; commissioned by Rose Beauchamp, for her puppet play “Storytelling,” composition year: 1993; time: 9:17

Eleanor Hovda: Coastal Traces (selections)
a. Coastal Traces Tidepools 1 (10:58)
b. Shehnai Sky (1:50)
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
grand piano innards: Eleanor Hovda; waterphone: Jack Vees; shehnai: Libby Van Cleve; total selections time: 12:48
originally released on Coastal Traces, O.O. Discs, 1997

Elaine Barkin: Octopus
Open Space 16 (Barkin/Carle/Exley/Helmuth)
Open Space/2004
from Elaine Barkin’s Four Songs; soprano: Maurita Phillips Thornburgh; harp: Susan Allen; text: Sue DeVale; recorded at UCLA; composition year: 1995; time: 0:30

Laurie Anderson: Running Dogs
United States Live
Warner Bros./1984
interlude, instruments unspecified; United States Live recorded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, February 7-10, 1983; selection time: 0:38

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