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Martian Gardens Episode 1246
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 17, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE LAY
Haydée Schvartz: Music by Arvo Pärt
Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka
a. 1:10
b. 1:04
c. 0:57
d. 0:29
e. 0:21
f. 0:33
g. Für Alina (1:43)
New Piano Music from Europe and the Americas (various composers)
Mode Records/1993
piano: Haydée Schvartz; recorded at Slee Hall, SUNY Buffalo, January 1992; composer: Arvo Pärt; composition years: 1977, 1976; total selections time: 5:57

SET ONE
Shannon Wettstein: Wasserklavier (L. Berio)
Congrazia (various composers)
A Century of Italian Piano Music
Neuma Records/2025
piano: Shannon Wettstein; recorded at Schmitt Music Auditorium, Bloomington, Minnesota, January 2024; composer: Luciano Berio; composition year: 1965; total time: 2:07

Arlene Sierra: Hermit Thrush (Birds and Insects, Book 2)
Birds and Insects
Arlene Sierra, Vol. 4
Bridge Records/2025
piano: Steven Beck; recorded in South Salem, New York, 2023-2024; composition year: 2018; time: 4:11

John Luther Adams: Wood Thrush
Songbird Songs
Mode Records/2012
The Callithumpian Consort, director: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music; Songbirdsongs recorded October 3, 2006 and September 30, 208; composition years: 1974-1979, 2006; selection time: 4:35

SET TWO
Ron Nagorcka: Grey Butcherbird
Artamidae–A suite celebrating a family of Australian Songbirds
Atom Bomb Becomes Folk Art
Pogus Productions/2014
fretless electric guitar, mandolin: Larry Polansky; trombone; Joe Cook; flute, piccolo: Jennie McDonald; clarinet, bass clarinet: Karlin Love; MIDI keyboard, didgeridoo: Ron Nagorcka; conductor: Marta Mumford; composition year: 2012; time: 4:31

Leo Kupper: Annazone
Ways of the Voice
Pogus Productions/1999
mezzo-soprano: Anna Maria Kieffer; electronics: Leo Kupper; composition year; 1985; time: 8:51

Xikrin people: Nhiok (field recordings, village of Cateté) (trad.)
a. Nhuiti ngrere I
b. Min ngrere
c. Nhuiti ngrere II
Ritual Music of the Kayapo-Xikrin, Brazil
Traditional Music of the World 7
Smithsonian Folkways/1995
Ritual Music of the Kayapo-Xikrin instruments: chorus, guord rattle, hand-clapping, kora ba, sticks; recorded in Brazil, 1980s; Kayapo-Xikrin peoples, Pará, Brazil; time: 6:54

Bill Anda Nunggulmarra: Rain-making song (trad.)
Australia — Aboriginal Music
Smithsonian Folkways/1977
vocal, percussion: Bill Anda Nunggulmarra; recorded in Australia, 1970s; time: 1:01

SINGLE PLAY
Kay Rhie: After the Dazzle of the Day
I Hear the Sound of Trees, Movement I
Cereus — Chamber Music by Kay Rhie
New Focus Recordings/2025
soprano: Leela Subramaniam; alto sax: Rachel Wolz; piano: Andreas Foivos Apostolou; text: Walt Whitman; recorded at Ostin Music Center, Los Angeles; composition year: 2007; excerpt time: 3:39

Hour 2

SET THREE
Dúo TRoneitor: Sonata NUM (N. Ciravolo)
Residencia TRoneitor (various composers)
Dúo TRoneitor/2025
voice: Natalia Cappa; TRoneitor modular synthesizer, voice: Lucas Werenkraut; composer, electronics: Néstor Ciravolo; recorded in Buenos Aires; time: 11:30

Jorge Antunes: Pequena Peça Para Mi Bequadro e Harmônicos
Short Piece for E Natural and Harmonics
Savage Songs
Early Brazilian Electronic Music
Pogus Productions/2002
sawtooth wave generator, tape recorders: Jorge Antunes; recorded at the composer’s home, Rio De Janeiro, 1961; time: 3:46

Cesar Bolaños: Intensidad y Altura
Peruvian Electroacoustic Music (1964-1970)
Pogus Productions/2012
magnetic tape: Cesar Bolaños; recorded at the Electronic Music Laboratory (CLAEM) at the Institute for Higher Studies in Music of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1964; composition year: 1964; time: 5:02

SET FOUR
D.J. Sparr: Percussion Quartet — Compass Chrome
Hard Metal Cantüs
Innova Recordings/2020
Third Coast Percussion (David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, Sean Connors); recorded at Scoring Stage, Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, California; composition year: 2012; time: 9:20

James Newton: The Image of the Invisible — Movement 1
Compassion and Mustard Seeds in Perilous Times
New World Records/2025
The Lyris Quartet; recorded at the Ostin Music Center, UCLA, summer 2022; time: 9:02

SET FIVE
Percussia: Moiré (W. Clark)
a. Fast but Relaxed (2:45)
b. Slow (3:50)
c. Flowing (2:25)
Murmuration (various composers)
Neuma Records/2025
percussion: Ingrid Gordon, Frank Cassara; flute: Margaret Lancaster; harp: Susan Jolles; viola, fadolin: Ljova; soprano: Melissa Fogerty; recorded at Bunker Studios, Brooklyn, January 2023; composer: Bill Clark; composition year: 2011; total time: 9:00

Susan Allen: Allegretto (A. Tcherepnin)
Four Diatonic Caprices, Movement II
Postcard from Heaven (various composers)
New World Records/2015
harp: Susan Allen; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts, September 16, 2014; composer: Alexander Tcherepnin; composition year: 1973; selection time: 1:20

Hour 3

SET SIX
Alden Jenks: Martin Put That Gun Away
MP3 file
Jenks Bandcamp/2021
MetaSynth: Alden Jenks; composition year: 2000; time: 9:52

Martin Bartlett: Electronic Recalcitrant
Anecdotal Electronics: Live experiments & other recordings
Arc Light Editions/2019
electronic music: Martin Bartlett; time: 1:40

Barry Truax: Wave Edge
Digital Soundscapes
Cambridge Street Records/1987
computer music: Barry Truax; composition year: 1983; time: 9:16

SET SEVEN
Denis Smalley: Debussy’s Cathedral (Febrezan Preludes)
Portail
empreintes DIGITALes/2020
(for 8-channel fixed medium); recorded at Smalley’s studios in Febrezan, France, and London, UK, 2015-2016; premiered at Denis Smalley’s 70th Birthday Concert, Coylyer-Fergusson Hall, Canterbury, UK, May 21, 206; time: 7:10

Claude Debussy: La Cathédrale engloutie: Profondément calme
The Submerged Cathedral: Deeply Calm
Claude Debussy Books 1 & 2
Mode Records/2020
piano: Haydée Schvartz; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, June 30 — July 2, 2003; composition year: 1910; time: 7:25

Claude Debussy: Poissons d’or (Goldfish)
Bestiary on Ivory — Hsiang Tu, Piano (various composers)
Bridge Records/2020
piano: Hsiang Tu; recorded at Virginia Tech’s Recital Salon, Blacksburg, Virginia, June 2020; a. composition year: 1907 (from Images Book II); time: 4:13

SINGLE PLAY
Daniel Strong Godfrey: Adagio poco rubato
Recordanza-Speranza, Movement I
Toward Light — Three Quintets
New Focus Recordings/2025
piano: Ursula Oppens; Cassatt String Quartet; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, March 17, 2011; composition year: 2006; time: 6:54

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