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Martian Gardens Episode 1249
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
December 17, 2025
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Harry Partch: Ulysses at the Edge
A Minor Adventure in Rhythm
The Wayward
The Music of Harry Partch Vol. 4
Bridge Records/2025
PARTCH Ensemble, director: John Schneider; instruments on Ulysses: trumpet, baritone saxophone, boo, bass marimba, cloud chamber bowls, diamond marimba, voices; recorded at Disney Hall/REDCAT, Los Angeles, June 18, 2023; composition years: 1955, 1962; time: 6:27

The Noonan Trio: Inherit a Memory
Inherit a Memory
Neuma Records/2024
piano: Matthew Bourne; double bass: Michael Bardon; drums, vocals, composition: Sean Noonan; text: Rupert Sheldrake; recorded at TYE Studios, London; time: 4:33

SET TWO
Wang Lu: Voices of the Orchard
The 21st Century Orchestra (various composers)
Music from Brown University
New Focus Recordings/2025
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, director: Gil Rose; recorded at the Lindemann Performing Arts Center, Main Hall, Brown University, October 25, 2024; composer: Wang Lu; composition year: 2024; time: 10:12

Arthur Levering: Il Mare Dentro
Parallel Universe
New World Records/2014
Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, Massachusetts, September 22, 2008; composition year: 2008; time: 9:15

SET THREE
Percussia: On the Street Where I Live (Ljova)
a. The Never-Ending Ambulances (4:04)
b. Help, Somebody (1:35)
c. Gas Nign (Street Tune) (3:17)
d. Desperate Measures (5:02)
Murumuration
Neuma Records/2025
percussion: Ingrid Gordon, Frank Cassara; flute: Margaret Lancaster; harp: Susan Jolles; viola, fadolin: Ljova; soprano: Melissa Fogerty; composer: Ljova; composition years: 2021, 2024; total time: 14:00

Marie-Hélène Breault and Pamela Reimer: Sontatina (J. Rea)
Mes hommages (various composers)
Actuellecd/2020
flute: Marie-Hélène Breault; piano: Pamela Reimer; Mes hommages recorded at Studio 270, Montreal, November 2017; John Rea; composition year: 1965; time: 4:53

Squid in Chains: The Persistence of Memory, Part 1
The Persistence of Memory
Earsay Music/2023
bandoneon: Douglas Schmidt; basset clarinet: François Houle; synthesizers: John Oliver; recorded in Vancouver, BC; time: 6:09

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Margaret Leng Tan: Hymn to Ruin (R. Bolleter)
She Herself Alone — The Art of the Toy Piano 2 (various composers)
Mode Records/2010
ruined toy piano: Margaret Lang Tan; recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, January 7-9, 2010; composer: Ross Bolleter; composition year: 2010 (sic.); time: 7:06

Ross Bolleter: Nallan Void
Austral Voices (various artists)
New Albion Records/1990
ruined piano: Ross Bolleter; recorded at Nallan Sheep Station, Cue, Australia, 1987; time: 11:21

SET FIVE
Vladimir Ussachevsky: Two Sketches for a Computer Piece
a. Sketch 1 (0:57)
b. Sketch 2 (2:11)
Electronic and Acoustic Works 1957-1972
New World Records/2007
realized at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1971; total time: 3:07

Jorge Sad Levi: Esquisse-o-phrenia
Cognitive Rebirth
JSL/2025
(for electronics, flute, and piano); flute: Andrea Escobar; piano: Rodrigo Evangelista; composition year: 2025; time: 7:31

Diane Thome: Anaïs
Palaces of Memory
Electro-Acoustic Music
Centaur Records/1995
(for electronics, cello, and piano); cello: Michael Finckel; piano: Diane Thome; recorded at the Electronic Music Studio at SUNY Binghampton; composition year: 1976; time: 8:50

SET SIX
Yvar Mikhashoff: Streets of Laredo (trad.) (arr. Roy Harris)
American Ballads I
Panorama of American Piano Music (various composers)
from Antheil to Zappa: 1911 to 1991
Mode Records/2013
piano: Yvar Mikhashoff; recorded at Slee Hall, Buffalo, New York, 1991-1992; composer: Roy Harris; American Ballads composition year: 1946; time: 2:28

Robert Morris: Cold Mountain Songs (selections)
a. Cold Mountain is a House (2:32)
b. Piano Interlude (1:37)
c. Dark and Eery (2:09)
Nature, Music, East, West
Open Space/2013
piano: Margaret Kampmeier; soprano: Deborah Norin-Kuehn; texts: Han Shan; total selections time: 6:18

Hour 3

SET SEVEN
Andrew Lewis: Scherzo
Au-delà
empreintes DIGITALes/2013
(stereo fixed medium; sound sources: children’s voices, toys); realized in 1992 and revised in 1993 at the Electroacoustic Music Studio of The University of Birmingham, UK; premiered at the Concert Room, School of Music, University of East Anglia, Norwich, June 29, 1992; time: 8:18

Alvin Curran: Light Flowers Dark Flowers (excerpts from I & II)
Solo Works — The ’70s
New World Records/2010
piano, toy piano, Serge modular synthesizer, tapes, electronics: Alvin Curran; recorded in Rome, 1974; composition year: 1974; total excerpts time: 13:30

SET EIGHT
Adolfo Núñez: Watching Time*
Audios 2003-2021
Viajero Inmóvil Ex]p[rimental/2022
(stereo version); electronics, computer: Adolfo Núñez; recorded at ECIS-CSIPM (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid); composition year: 2021; time: 8:02
*dedicated to Françoise Barrière (1944-2019)

Heidi Ross + Rachel Beetz: Somatic Streamed Eggs Side B (1st 1/2)
Somatic Steamed Eggs
Ross + Beetz’s Bandcamp/2025
performer, chef: Heidi Ross; composer: Rachel Beetz; excerpt time: 9:00

SET NINE
Peter Zummo and Tom Hamilton: Steaming the Envelope
Slybersonic Tromosome
Tom Hamilton’s Bandcamp/2021 (orig. Penumbra Music/1999)
trombone, valve trombone, didjeridu, irrigation hose, mouthpiece extender, superfunnel, beat thing (sic.): Peter Zummo; synthesizer, electronics, beat thing (sic.); time: 4:11

Deep Listening Band + The Long String Instrument:
Epigraphs in the Time of AIDS,* Part 1
Suspended Music
Periplum/1997
Long String Instrument: Ellen Fullman, Elise Gould, Nigel Jacobs; accordion in just intonation, conch, voice, electronics: Pauline Oliveros; trombone, didgeridoo, conch, garden hose, voice, electronics: Stuart Dempster; overtone flutes, ocarina, voice, Long String Instrument, electronics; text: Ione;
*Dedicated to Peter Oliveros

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