MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
Martian Gardens Episode 1247
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
November 26, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Russell Platt: Sunday Variations
Mountain Interval
Songs and Chamber Music of Russell Platt
Bridge Records/2025
bassoon: Peter Kolkay; recorded at Samurai Hotel, Mountain Interval recorded Astoria, Queens, April 2 and November 8, 2024; Sunda Variations composition year: 2022; time: 4:17

Peter Kolkay: Slow (Quintet for Bassoon and String Quartet, Mvt. I) (R. Platt)
Red Maple (various composers)
Music for Bassoon and Strings
Bridge Records/2023
bassoon: Peter Kolkay; Calidore String Quartet (violin: Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan; viola: Jeremy Berry; cello: Estelle Choi); recorded at the Concert Hall, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, Red Maple January 17-19, 2022; composer: Russell Platt; composition years: 1996-1997; time: 7:50

Alex Shapiro: Deep
Notes from the Kelp
Innova Recordings/2007
(for contrabassoon and electronics); contrabassoon: Leslie Lashinsky; additional percussion: Dan Morris; electroacoustic sounds: Alex Shapiro; recorded at Dino Falls Studio and Hanifan Productions; Los Angeles, 2004–2006; composition year: 2004; time: 7:35

SET TWO
Tim Hodgkinson: Fighting/Breathing
Sketch of Now
Mode Records/2006
(for bass clarinet and percussion on tape); bass clarinet: Tim Hodgkinson; recorded in concert at Sala de Concerte a Filarmonicii Paul Constantinescu, Ploiești, Romania, October 2003; composition year: 2001; time: 7:40

Brian Belet: Still Harmless [BASS]ically
Sufficient Trouble
Compositions for Computer, Live Instruments, and Voice
Ravello Records/2017
(for Kyma interactive computer processing environment and electric bass); electric bass: Brian Belet; recorded at San Jose State University; composition year: 2000; time: 7:05

SET THREE
Adrianne Munden-Dixon: Disentangling (K. Koochakzadeh-Yazdi)
Vision Mantra (various artists)
Neuma Records/2025
(for violin and electronics); violin: Adrianne Munden-Dixon; recorded at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, California, April 2023; composer: Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi; composition year: 2023; time: 7:54

Eric Chasalow: Dramatic, Deliberate (Trois Espaces du Son, Mvt I)
Feather, Breath, Mirror
Music by Eric Chasalow
Suspicious Motives Records/2014
piano: Ancuza Aprodu; percussion: Thierry Miroglio; recorded at Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, March 2009; composition year: 2004; time: 3:21

Galan Trio + Zacharias Tarpagkos: In the Light of Greece (and the Parthenon sculptures) (Judd)
Embrace (various artists)
Numa Records/2025
flute: Zacharias Tarpagkos; Galan Trio (violin: Babis Karasavvidis; cello: Marina Kolovou; piano: Petros Bouras); recorded at National and Kapodistrian University of Athen, July 2024; composer: Garry D.W. Judd; time: 5:37

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Wayne Slawson: Tints for Milton
Milton Babbitt — A Composers’ Memorial [various artists]
Open Space/2012
computer music: Wayne Slawson; composition year: 2012; time: 6:11

Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizers
New Electronic Music from the Leaders of the Avant-Garde
John Cage – Henri Pousseur – Milton Babbitt
Columbia Masterworks/1967
RCA synthesizer: Milton Babbitt; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City; composition year: 1964; time: 10:37

Barry Vercoe: Synthesism
Computer Music
J.K. Randall – Barry Vercoe – Charles Dodge
Nonesuch Records/1970
RCA synthesizer: Barry Vercoe; recorded at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City; composition year: 1970; time: 4:35

SET FIVE
Per Bloland: Shadows of the Electric Moon
Shadows of the Electric Moon
New Focus Recordings/2025
(for snare drum and sound exciter); percussion: Bill Solomon; composition year: 2013; time: 13:52

CRA: Purism Mulls Grievance
Visceral, Premium Lungs
Comprovise Records/2022
percussion, lo-fi electronics: Ron Coulter; trombone, electronics: Steven Ricks; amplified viola: Christian Asplund; recorded at the Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah, October 8, 2021; time: 8:22

SINGLE PLAY
Steven Ricks: Parismetrobitgroove 1
Available Resonances
Steven Ricks/2012
microphones, electroacoustic sounds: Steven Ricks; time: 1:00

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Denis Smalley: Sommeil de Rameau
Portail
empreintes DIGITALes/2020
(for 8-channel fixed medium); realized at Smalley’s studios in Febrezan, France, and London, UK, 2014-2015; premiered at the Sonorities Festival, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland; time: 15:20

SET SIX
Noah Creshevsky: Sleeping Awake
Sleeping Awake
Open Space/2019
electroacoustic music; Noah Creshevsky; voice, text: Dorota Czerner (text inspired by the painting Dervisci Rotanti by Aldo Mondino); composition year: 2017; time: 4:36

Tim Brady: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
Scenarios
Justin Time/1994
electric guitar and live electronics: Tim Brady; time: 7:59

Peter Gilbert: Upon the Awakening
Burned into the Orange
New Focus Recordings/2021
electronics: Peter Gilbert; Iridium Quartet (soprano saxophone: Paul Nolen; alto saxophone: Marcos Colon; tenor saxophone: Paul Forsyth; baritone saxophone: Eric Lau); recorded at Keller Hall, Albuquerque, New Mexico; composition years; 2017, 2021; time: 5:44

SET SEVEN
Heidi Ross + Rachel Beetz: Egg Play
Somatic Steamed Eggs
Ross + Beetz’s Bandcamp/2025
performer, chef: Heidi Ross; composer: Rachel Beetz; time: 11:29

Delia Derbyshire: Talk Out*
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
tape music: Delia Derbyshire; composition year: 1964; time: 0:24

Negativland: Perfect Scrambled Eggs**
Potatoes — A Collection of Folk Songs from Ralph Records (various artists)
Ralph Records/1987
narration: Graham Kerr; drums, fiddle, stirring bowl: Chris Grigg; acoustic guitar, frying pan: Mark Hosler; tape, voice manipulations: Don Joyce; keyboard, hazelnuts: David Wills; whining butter: Peter Montgomery; time: 2:45

Tom Johnson: Eggs and Baskets**
Correct Music
Populist Records/2012
(for clarinet, viola, and narration); clarinet: Brian Walsh; viola: Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh; narration: Douglas Wadle; recorded at the home of Dr. William Rutherford, Mount Washington, California, 2012; composition year: 1987; time: 6:35

*terrestrial radio version only
**podcast version only

— FIN —