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Martian Gardens Episode 1245
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 7, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
The Crossing: Zealot Canticles (selections) (L. McLoskey)
a. The dog in dogma (2:13)
b. I am right, you are dead (6:03)
c. I shall place werepe on every tongue (2:14)
Zealot Canticles — An Oratorio for Tolerance
Innova Recordings/2018
The Crossing choral ensemble, director: Donald Nally; texts, commentary: Wole Soyinka; recorded St. Peter’s Church in the Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsylvania, March 17-18, 2017; composer: Lansing McLoskey; composition year: 2016; total selections time: 10:30

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Dominick Argento: A Few Words About Chekhov (selections)
IV. Duo (3:17)
V. Solo (Olga) (2:48)
VI. Solo (Anton) (2:37)
VII. Duo (4:52)
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: 13:36

SET ONE
Anna Rubin: Karina’s Journey
Powehi
MusicStories for voice, piano, and electronics by Anna Rubin
Neuma Records/2025
(for fixed media and voice); voice: Karina Aquihautl Villagran (a young immigrant woman from Mexico); composition year: 2019; time: 9:41

Laura Tyler: Maple Memory
Deep Wireless 5 (various artists)
Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2008
fixed media (sound source: Quebec City streets, tourists interviewed); time: 7:42

Amy Denio: English as a Second Language
Chickenhawks Ought Not
Spoot Music/2002
voice, live processing, Line6 Delay Modeler: Amy Denio; recorded at Spaciouser Spoot Studios, Seattle; time: 1:16

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David Shapiro: Suffering
Sumptuous Planet
A Secular Mass
New Focus Recordings/2023
The Crossing, director: Donald Nally; recorded at St. Peter’s Church, Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsylvania, January 2-6, 2023; premiered at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; texts: Richard Dawkins; composition year: 2023; selections time: 4:29

Hour 2

SET TWO
Philip Blackburn: An Illegible Stone
Another Intensity
Neuma Records/2025
cello: Madeleine Shapiro; percussion: Patti Cudd; electronics: Philip Blackburn; recorded at the New York City Electronic Music Festival, Sheen Center for Though and Culture, New York City, June 16, 2024; composition year: 2024; time: 9:27

Madeleine Shapiro: The Song of Songs (K. Tanaka)
Electricity — Works for Cello and Electronics (various composers)
Albany Records/2004
(for cello and computer); cello: Madeleine Shapiro; recorded at Adrian Carr Music Designs, New York City; composer: Karen Tanaka; composition year: 1996; time: 8:20

Zeitgeist: Tight Tie Size Try (D. Geers)
Here and Now (various composers)
Celebrating Thirty Years of Zeitgeist
Innova Recordings/2011
percussion: Patti Cudd; percussion: Heather Barringer; woodwinds: Pat O’Keefe; piano: Shannon Wettsein; recorded at Wild Sound Studio, Minneapolis; composer: Douglas Geers; composition year: 2008; time: 2:11

SET THREE
Elisabeth Curbelo: Epulos
Resonance Unbound
Neuma Records/2024
(for double bass and fixed media); prepared double bass: Tommy Babin; recorded at UCSD Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, 2018; composition year: 2018; time: 11:42

Iannis Xenakis: Theraps
Xenakis Edition 6 — Works for Strings
Mode Records/2005
contrabass: John Eckhardt; Works for Strings recorded in Frankfurt and Köln; Theraps composition years: 1975-1976; time: 13:37

SINGLE PLAY (Radio version)
Laurie Anderson: Frames for the Pictures
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: 1:07

SINGLE PLAY (Podcast version)
Marie-Hélène Breault: Les Vêpres de la Vierge: Envol, Mvt. 1 (G. Tremblay)
Marie-Hélène Breault and Pamela Reimer — Mes hommages (various composers)
Actuellecd/2020
flute: Marie-Hélène Breault; Mes hommages recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, November 2017; composer: Gilles Tremblay; composition year: 1986; time: 8:43

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Martin Bédard and Marie-Hélène Breault: 𝄆 Extensio:Warm:Up 𝄇
Lames de fond
empreintes DIGITALes/2022
(for flute, processing, and 8-channel fixed medium); flute: Marie-Hélène Breault; realized at Bédard‘s studio, Montreal, 2015-2017; premiered at the Murmurations sur la ville concert, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, May 4, 2017; time: 17:20

SET FOUR
Coil: Paradisiac
Gold is The Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)
Threshold House/1988 (orig. vinyl LP Threshold House/1987)
Gold is the Metal music by: John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Stephen Thrower, Otto Avery; recorded in the UK at various locations; Paradisiac time: 2:27

Dúo TRoneitor: Deja que ocurra (M.A. Rodriguez)
Let it happen
Residencia TRoneitor (various composers)
Dúo TRoneitor/2025
voice, radio: Natalia Cappa; TRoneitor modular synthesizer, voice: Lucas Werenkraut; recorded in Buenos Aires; composer: Marcelo A. Rodriguez; time: 6:27

Old Castle: Stars that Move
Artwork 51
Zoharum/2022
sounds, processing: Robin Storey, Robert L. Pepper, Shaun Sandor; time: 6:51

SET FIVE
David Hicks: Sequence III (Seven Sequences)
Open Space 53 — Pepples/Hicks
Open Space/2022
computer music: David Hicks; composition years: 1990s; total selections time: 2:44

Joel Gressel: Breaking News
Unmeasured Time
Ravello Records/2025
computer music: Joel Gressel; recorded in New York City, March 27, 2025; composition year: 2012; time: 10:48

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