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Martian Gardens Episode 1244
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
October 26, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Eunmi Ko + CAMP: Ursus maritimus (H. Hitchen)
12 Views on Life (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
piano: Eunmi Ko; recorded at the University of South Florida, Tampa; composer: Han Hitchen; composition year: 2020; time: 4:36

David Liptak: Canis Major and Canis Minor
Constellations
Innova Recordings/2019
piano: Eunmi Ko; recorded at Barness Hall, University of South Florida, Tampa, December 29-30, 2017; “Constellations composition year: 2010; selection time: 2:40

George Crumb: Mundus Canis (A Dog’s World)
a. Tammy, Elegantly, Somewhat Freely (2:45)
b. Fritzi, Furioso (1:13)
c. Heidel, Languido, un poco misterioso (2:37)
d. Emma-Jean, Coquettish, poco animato, grazioso (1:31)
e. Yoda, Prestissimo possibile (1:32)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 3
George Crumb’s 70th Birthday Album
Bridge Records/1999
guitar: David Starobin; percussion: George Crumb; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, October 1998; total selections time: 9:41

John Cage: And the Earth Shall Bear Again
The Works for Piano 8
The Complete Short Works for Prepared Piano
Mode Records/2007
piano: Philipp Vandré; recorded at the Hessischer Rundfunk Sendesall, Frankfurt, 2001-2002; composition year: 1942; time: 3:25

SET TWO
Jeannine Wagar: Lament
Into the Night
Neuma Records/2025
electronic music: Jeanine Wagar; recorded 2024; time: 7:14

Eleanor Hovda: The Eleanor Hovda Collection (selections)
a. Music from “The Proclamation” (2:13)
b. Dancing in Place (3:27)
The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Innova Recordings/2012
a. flute: David Gilbert; b. harp: Elizabeth Panzer; composition years: a. 1966, revised 1968; b. 1997; total selections time: 5:40

Harry Partch: San Francisco
A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Foggy Night in the Twenties
The Wayward
Bridge Records/2025
voice: John Schneider; cello, voice: Derek Stein; chromelodeon: Aron Kallay; kithara II, voice: Alison Bjorkedal; recorded at Disney Hall/REDCAT, Los Angeles, June 18, 2023; composition years: 1943, 1955; time: 3:06

SINGLE PLAY
Guy Barash: Killdeer (selections)
a. Jesus Knew (5:05)
b. Saint Augustine (4:00)
Killdeer
New Focus Recordings/2023
electronics: Guy Barash; spoken word, texts: Nick Flynn; trumpet: Frank London; guitar: Eyal Maoz; piano: Kathleen Supové; recorded at Dubway Studios, New York City, May 10, 2022; total time: 9:05

Hour 2

SET THREE
Dúo TRoneitor: Un poema no trae arroz pero da sueños (C. Gros)
A poem doesn’t bring rice, but it gives dreams
Residencia TRoneitor (various composers)
Dúo TRoneitor/2025
voice: Natalia Cappa; TRoneitor modular synthesizer, voice: Lucas Werenkraut; recorded at Estudio Puntoar, Montevideo, Uruguay; composer: Cecilia Gros; time: 9:14

Sergio Claros & Oscar Garcia: Es Zas
Desde el Outro Lado — Music from the Other Side (various artists)
Electroacoustic Music from Latin America
O.O. Discs/1998
electroacoustic music for the Octophonic Sound System, remixed for audio release; composition year:1993; time: 1993; time: 10:29

SET FOUR
Elsa Justel: Midi de sable
Mâts
empreintes DIGITALes/2007
(for stereo fixed medium and recorders); alto, tenor, basset, contrabass recorders: Joan Izquierdo; realized at Phonos Fundació Privada, Barcelona, Spain; premiered at Concerts Phnos a Matronòm, Matronòm studio, Barcelona, Spain; composition year: 2000; time: 9:47

Edgar Valcárcel: Invención
Tensions at the Vanguard (various artists)
New Music from Peru (1948-1979)
Pogus Productions/2012
Electronic music on tape; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City; composition year: 1967; time: 5:22

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Computer Piece No. 1
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
computer music on analog tape (sound sources include — Jean Claude Risset: GE 635 computer; four-tone clusters: F.R. Moore; voice: Alice Shields; gong; Bode frequency shifter, EMT reverberation); digital studio: Bell Telephone Laboratories; analog studio: Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center; composition year: 1968; time: 3:42

SINGLE PLAY
Thomas Ciufo: Bardo (The Space Between)
The Rising Moon
Neuma Records/2025
electronic music: Thomas Ciufo; time: 7:15

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Doug Bielmeier: Photo Lab Sanctuary
Ambient Works
Albany Records/2021
computer music: Doub Bielmeier; time: 8:01

Christopher Stark: Fire Ecologies 5: Dypt inne i barkskogen*
Deep in the Conifer Forest
Fire Ecologies
New Focus Recordings/2025
(for ensemble and fixed media); Unheard-of//Ensemble (clarinet: Ford Fourqurean; violin: Matheus Souza; cello: Iva Casian-Lakos; piano: Daniel Anastasio); recorded at Big Orange Sheep studio, Brooklyn; composition year: 2021; selection time: 5:32
inspired by Edvard Grieg, “Peer Gynt”

Aleš Friedl: Chamber 3
Srečni Barvni Splet
Kuku/2025
(trio for piano, trombone, and flute) composition years: 2017, 2018; time: 5:25

SINGLE PLAY
John Forshee: Apokatastasis 
Open Space 48 (Forshee/Boretz)
Open Space/2021
(for ten instruments and computer-generated sounds); flute: Paul Nagem; clarinet: Sergei Vassiliev; bass clarinet: Ian Buckspan; horn: Sarah Ford; trombone: Andrew Freidrichs; percussion: Staci Toma Cotten; piano: Kelly Zuercher; violin: Martha Muehleisen; cello: Amy Kolb; contrabass: Marc Neihof; computer: John Forshee, conductor: Colin McAllister; composition year: unlisted; excerpt time: 24:08

SINGLE PLAY
Chris Brown and the Chromelodia Project: Pulsiazoni
OCCHIO
Artifact Recordings/2021
piano and electronics: Chris Brown; cello, voice: Theresa Wong; oboe: Kyle Bruckmann; poetry: Erika Dagnino; recorded at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, California, September 23, 2021; time: 8:37

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