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Martian Gardens Episode 1248
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 7, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Philip Blackburn: In Praise of Clouds
Another Intensity
Neuma Records/2025
electronics: Philip Blackburn; chorus: Abingdon school choir, 1978 (revised 2025), recorded at Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire, UK; composition year: 2025; time: 9:24

Susan Botti: Listen, It’s Snowing
Listen, It’s Snowing
Composer’s Recordings, Inc./1998
soprano: Susan Botti; piano: Daniel Kirk-Foster; text: e.e. cummings, Him; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, December 4, 1997; composition year: 1990; time: 4:45

Shoushik Barsoumian and Steven Vanhauwaert: Snow Over the Mountains (T. Mansurian)
Armenian Art Songs IV — Tigran Mansurian: Songs from Canti Paralleli
Serenade with a Dandeloion (various artists)
Armenian Chamber Music, Old and New
New Focus Recordings/2024
soprano: Shoushik Barsoumian; piano: Steven Vanhauwaert; recorded at Ostin Music Center, UCLA, August 20-22, 2021; composer: Tigran Mansurian; composition years: 2007-2008; time: 3:22

SET TWO
Paul Lansky: Contemplating Weather (selections)
VII. Cold Front (3:24)
VIII. Clouds III (1:03)
IX. Snow Arithmetic (4:20)
Contemplating Weather
Bridge Records/2015
(for SATB chorus and eleven instruments); Western Michigan University Chorale with Birds On A Wire ensemble, conductor: Kimberly Dunn Adams; recorded at Western Michigan University Dalton Center, Kalamazoo, February 27-28, 2014; text: Jonathan Greene; composition year: 2013; selections time: 8:47

Bernadette Speach: Angels in the Snow
Reflections
Mode Records/2002
piano: Bernadette Speach; recorded at LRP Studios, New York City, 2000-2001; composition year: 1993; time: 5:57

Claude Debussy: Des pas sur la neige — Triste et lent
Footsteps on the snow — Slow and sad
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: 5:00

SINGLE PLAY
Herbert Brün: Sentences Now Open Wide (SNOW)
Wayfaring Sounds
Electronic Music Foundation/1998
(for ensemble and tape); The Performers’ Workshop Ensemble, director: Herbert Brün; tape created at Experimental Studios of the University of Illinois; text: Herbert Brün; composition year: 1984; time: 11:00

Hour 2

SET THREE
Natalia Cappa: Chanson Rouge (F. Llompart)
MP3 file
Natalia Cappa Music/2023
(for female voice and piano); voice: Natalia Cappa; piano: Daniela Compisi; recorded at Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Ciclo 60 x 60, Buenos Aires, July 7, 2018; composer: Facundo Llompart; composition year: 2018; time: 11:00

Jacqueline Humbert: Mosquitolove (S. Ashley)
Chanteuse (various composers)
Songs of a Different Sort
Lovely Music, Ltd./2004
(for voice and electronic processing); voice: Jacqueline Humbert; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts; composer: Sam Ahsley; time: 5:46

Roxanne Turcotte: Tout en rouge (Everything in Red)
Fenêtres intérieures
empreintes DIGITALes/2014
tape collage, electroacoustics: Roxanne Turcotte; realized at RTM Studios, Montreal, 2012-2014; time: 4:33

SET FOUR
George Todd: Wordscapes
a. Word
b. Water Asleep
c. Green Idea
Green Ideas Furiously Asleep
Electronic Music Foundation/1996
Synclavier programming: George Todd, Middlebury College; composition year: 1991; time: 5:35

Mary Lee Roberts: White Writing
a. Bird (1:51)
b. Night Foxes (3:59)
Open Space 9 — Mary Lee Roberts
Open Space/1997
computer music: Mary Lee Roberts; mastered at New York University; total time: 5:50

Gilles Gobeil: Les lointains noirs et rouges
Les lointains
empreintes DIGITALes/2015
electroacoustic music: Gilles Gobeil; sound sources recorded in and around the apartment of Folkmar Hein, Berlin; composition years: 2008 – 2009; time: 10:44

Paul Lansky: Blue Wine
Folk Images
Bridge Records/1995
computer-synthesized blues guitar: Paul Lansky; time: 3:36

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Sten Hanson: Rycyclings
Suite Brasiliera —
a. Apito (1:25)
b. Iemanjá (2:44)
c. Piranha (2:40)
d. Guerra (1:35)
e. Jogo de Bicho (2:55)
f. Samba (2:29)
Sten Hanson — Chrysopée Electronique series
Mnémosyne Musique Media/2001
electroacoustic music realized at the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB), France, 1993; total time: 14:13

SINGLE PLAY
Rodolfo Caesar: Revoluções Industriais (Industrial Revolutions)
Música Eletroacústica Brasileira
LAMI/2021
(fixed medium); digital synthesis, MAX software: Rodolfo Caesar; recorded at the composer’s studio, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, 1993; time: 16:37

SINGLE PLAY
Ensemble Dal Niente: Portrait RE (I. Santos)
Portrait RE – Flux – Pacific Time
New Focus Recordings/2025
(for large ensemble and sampler); performed by Ensemble Dal Niente; composer: Igor Santos; composition year: 2025; time: 16:08

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