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Martian Gardens Episode 1243
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 17, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

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Tom Johnson: Solution 571
MP3 file
Dean Rosenthal’s Bandcamp/2025
voice: Tom Johnson; woodblock: Dean Rosenthal; recorded at Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland; time: 8:51
Knock on Wood series, Editions 75

SET ONE
Arlene Sierra: Birds and Insects, Book 1
a. Sarus Crane (1:36)
b. Cornish Bantam (1:45)
c. Cicada Sketch (1:25)
d. Titmouse (1:17)
e. Scarab (8:43)
Birds and Insects
Arlene Sierra, Vol. 4
Bridge Records/2025
piano: Steven Beck; recorded in South Salem, New York, 2023-2024; composition year: 2007; 14:46

Olivier Messiaen: Short-toed Lark
Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1 — Birdsong
Centaur Records/2001
piano: Paul Kim; recorded at Patrych Sound Studios, New York City, January 2001; from Catalogue d’Oiseaux, 1956-1958; time: 5:40

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Phillip Schroeder: Avian Fields
Radiance Within
Neuma Records/2025
violin: Margaret Jones; Radiance Within recorded at Architecture Studios 2023-2025; composition year: 2014; time: 12:47

SINGLE PLAY (HOUR 1 58 -MINUTE VERSION)
George Crumb: Black Angels (selections)
a. Threnody 1: Night of the Electric Insects (Tutti) (1:34)
b. Sarabanda de la Muerte Oscura (Trio) (0:59)
b. Threnody III: Night of the Electric Insects (Tutti) (3:35)
d. Ancient Voices (Duo) (0:32)
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 7
Bridge Records/2003
(for electric string quartet); The Miró Quartet (violin: David Ching, Sandy Yamamoto; viola: John Largess; cello: Joshua Gindele); recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 18-19, 2002; composition year: 1970; total selections time: 6:40

SET TWO (HOUR 1 FULL VERSION)
Francis Dhomont: Vol d’Arondes (Flight of the Swallows)
Jalons
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
(for 8-channel fixed medium); electroacoustic music realized at the Métamorphoses d’Orphée multitrack studio of Musiques & Recherches, Ohain, Belgium; premiered at  the 6th International Acousmatic Festival L’Espace du son in the XL Théâtre du Grand Midi, Brussels; November 21, 1999; composition years: 1999, revised 2001; time: 11:25

Tod Dockstader and David Lee Myers: Pterygota
Pond
Pulsewidth/2004
wildlife recordings, electronic processing, composition: Todd Dockstader, David Lee Myers; time: 5:01

Piotr Szewczyk: Cosmic Insects
60 x 60 2004-2005 (various artists)
Vox Novus/2006
computer-processed violin: Piotr Szewczyk; composition year: 2005; time: 1:00

George Crumb: Black Angels (selections)
a. Threnody 1: Night of the Electric Insects (Tutti) (1:34)
b. Threnody III: Night of the Electric Insects (Tutti) (3:35)
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 7
Bridge Records/2003
(for electric string quartet); The Miró Quartet (violin: David Ching, Sandy Yamamoto; viola: John Largess; cello: Joshua Gindele); recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 18-19, 2002; composition year: 1970; total selections time: 5:09

Hour 2

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Claude Vivier: Lonely Child
Lonely Child – Prologue pour un Marco Polo – Zipangu – Bouchara
Phillips/1996
soprano: Susan Narucki; Schönberg Ensemble, conductor: Reinbert de Leeuw; recorded at Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, June 1995; composition year: 1980; time: 16:36

SET THREE
David Therrien Brongo: Cinq chansons pour percussion (C. Vivier)
a. Cinq chansons pour percussion: Chansons de matin (3:35)
b. Cinq chansons pour percussion: Chansons à midi (4:06)
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: 7:41

Philip Corner: GAMELAN (excerpt)
3 Pieces for Gamelan Ensemble
Alga Marghen/1999
performance: Gamelan Son of Lion; gamelan instruments: gamelan Kyai Munjar; recorded at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, February 28, 1981; excerpt time: 10:00

SET FOUR
Bill Alves: Metalloid
Guitars & Gamelan
MicroFest Records/2015
HMC Electronic Music Ensemble (keyboards: Bill Alves, Martin Hunt; clarinet: Steven Berler; electric guitar: Brian Dolphin, Nicholas Herman; drums: Cory Hills; bass guitar: Stephen Jones; saxophone: Jakob Spjut); composition year: 2007; time: 7:56
HMC: Harvey Mudd College

Horatiu Rădulescu: Lux Animae, Op. 97
The Complete Cello Works
Mode Records/2019
cello: Catherine Marie Tunnell; recorded at Hardstudios, Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland, June 28-29, 2018; composition year: 1996; time: 6:26

Hour 3

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Michael Byron: Bridges of Pearl and Dust
Bridges of Pearl and Dust
Cold Blue Music/2019
vibraphone: Ben Phelps; recorded at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, August 2018; composition year: 2011; time: 15:58

SET FIVE
John Bischoff: Level Shift
Bitplicity
Artifact Recordings/2021
electronics: John Bischoff; Bitplicity recorded live at Littlefield Concert Hall, Mills College, Oakland, August 10, 2020 and April 24, 2021; time: 11:07

Jerry Tabor: engaging Causey
Electro-Acoustic Music VI (various artists)
Neuma Records/1999
computer music: Jerry Tabor; composition year: 1996; time: 11:47

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Federico Bonacossa: Tract
I. 1:18
II. 0:57
III. 2:26
IV. 2:23
V. 1:18
VI. 3:47
VII. 1:53
VIII. 0:31
IX. 1:44
Elettroarmonico
New Focus Recordings/2024
percussion: Karlyn Viña; electronics: Federico Bonacossa; recorded at Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Miami; June 3-5, September 29, 2019; composition year: 2024; total time: 14:00

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