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Martian Gardens Episode 1252
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
January 14, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Harry Partch: The Letter
A Depression Message from a Hobo Friend
The Wayward — Music of Harry Partch Vol. 4
Bridge Records/2025
intoning narrator: John Schneider; PARTCH Ensemble; recorded at Disney Hall/REDCAT, Los Angeles, June 18, 2023; composition years: 1943, 1955; time: 2:26

Moondog: Be a Hobo
Round the World of Sound
New World Records/2016
performed by Dedalus & Muzzix, directors Didier Aschour, Christian Pruvost; recorded at La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville, France, November 2015; music and lyrics: Louis T. Hardin (Moondog); composition year: 1951; time: 1:18

Beth Anderson: Ocean Motion Mildew Mind
Peachy Keen-O
Pogus Productions/2003
voice, poem: Beth Anderson; percussion: Wharton Tiers; composition year: 1979; time: 1:28

Amy Denio: TRIFEKTA
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Spoot Music/20255
voice, engineer: Amy Denio; Jovino Santos Neto’s Quinteto (piano: Jovino Santos Neto; bandoneon: Ben Thomas; electric bass: Tim Carey; percussion: Jeff Busch; drums: Max Holmberg); recorded at the composer’s studio, Seattle, 2025; composition year: 2025; time: 4:08

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Christopher Stark: This is Not a Story
I. Inner Dialogue with Bells (5:52)
II. Sorting Out Beethoven (2:01)
III. Cecelia Sings the Music in Her Heart; Captain Leighton Bids Farewell (5:31)
Seasonal Music
Bridge Records/2019
clarinet: Scott Andrews; Calyx Piano Trio — violin: Catherine French; cello: Jennifer Lucht; piano: Nina Ferrigno; recorded at E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall, St. Louis, Missouri, December 11, 2018; composition year: 2017; total time: 13:24

SET TWO
Christopher Stark: Fire Ecologies Scene Three —
Louange à l’éternité de Mère Nature
Fire Ecologies
New Focus Recordings/2025
Unheard-of//Ensemble (clarinet: Ford Fourqurean; violin: Matheus Souza; cello: Iva Casian-Lakoš); recorded at Big Orange Sheep, Brooklyn; composition year: 2021; timSte: 10:11

Orchestral Manœuvres in the Dark: Sealand
Architecture & Morality
Virgin/1983 (orig. LP Dindiscs/1981)
voice, electric bass, synthesizers: Andy McCluskey; synthesizers, electronics: Paul Humphreys; keyboards, electronics; percussion: Malcolm Holmes; recorded in England, 1980-1981; time: 7:47

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Christopher Cerrone: Beaufort Scales (selections)
a. Prelude: Sea Like a Mirror (3:27)
b. Step 1: Ripples and Scales (2:34)
c. Interlude 1: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1:24)
Beaufort Scales
Cold Blue Music/2024
(for women’s voices and electronics); voices: Lorelei Ensemble; texts: The Beaufort Scale; b. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; composition years: 2022-2023; total selections time: 7:25

Hour 2

SET THREE
Christopher Shultis: Circlings
Waldmusik 2002-2016
Neuma Records/2026
(for video, gayageums, percussion, and electronics); gayageum zithers: Gyeonggi Gayageum Ensemble; percussion: Christopher Shultis; recorded at Eum Studios, Seoul, South Korea, July 2013; composition year: 2010; time: 10:43

Christopher Shultis: Friends
An Illusion of Desire
Neuma Records/2016
voice, text: Christopher Shultis; piano: John Bartlett; crotales: Douglas Nottingham; composition years: 1990, 1991; time: 9:04

SET FOUR
Pamela Z: Bone Music
A Delay is Better
Starkland/2004
voice, percussion (empty five-gallon water bottle), delay loops: Pamela Z; composition year: 1992; time: 7:13

Drew Whiting: Four Movements for Cello and Delays (Mvts. 1 & 2) (P. Z)
a. Three Loops (5:00)
b. Gradual Quartet (4:08)
All In (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
baritone saxophone: Drew Whiting; electronic delays: Pamela Z; composer: Pamela Z (arr. for baritone sax by Drew Whiting); total selections time: 9:08

Thomas Buckner: 1923 (Night and Fog, Part 3) (A. Lockwood)
Full Spectrum Voice (various composers)
Lovely Music, Ltd./1991
(for baritone saxophone, percussion, and pre-recorded sound); baritone: Thomas Buckner; percussion: Michael Pugliese; baritone saxophone: J.D. Parran; text, part 3: Osip Mandelstam; composition year: 1987; selection time: 4:05

SET FIVE
Christopher Trapani: Honolulu
Noise Uprising — A Polystylistic Atlas
New World Records/2024
vocals, dictaphones: Sophia Burgos, Sofia Jernberg; ZWERM (ukulele: Kobe Van Cauwenberghe; baritone guitar: Toon Callier; lap steel guitar, omnichord, backing vocals: Christopher Trapani; retuned zither, backing vocals: Johannes Westendorp); text: King David Kalākua, Koni au i ka wai; recorded at Studio 3, DE SINGEL, International Arts Center, Antwerp, Belgium, May 2024; time: 6:17

Chris Brown: Talking Drum (selections)
a. Hawaii Bird Park (Kipuka Puaulu, Hawaii) (1:14)
b. Honda Bay, Palawan, Philippines (2:40)
Talking Drum
Pogus Productions/2005 (orig. Sonore/2001)
field recordings: Chris Brown; total selections time: 3:54

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Richard Pinhas: Greenland*
Iceland
Cuneiform Records/1992 (orig. LP Polydor/1979)
electronics, guitar, mix: Richard Pinhas; Mini Moog: Jean-Phillippe Goude; mix: Roger Roche; recorded at the Heldon Electronic Studio and Ramses Studio, Paris; time: 8:56
*Dedicated to F. Scott Fitzgerald

SET SIX
Daniel Leduc: Die Winterreise (The Winter’s Journey) (selections)
a. Frühlingstraum (1:17)
b. Einsamkeit (0:38)
c. Die Post (2:35)
d. Der Greise Kopf (0:54)
e. Die Krähe (1:01)
f. Letzte Hoffnung (1:42)
Le voyage d’hiver
empreintes DIGITALes/1999
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, and the Secteur électroacoustique of the Faculty of Music of the Université de Montréal; text: Wilhelm Müller; composition years: 1995-1997; total selections time: 8:12

James Andean: Maledetta*
Assemblance(s)
empreintes DIGITALes/2019
(stereo fixed medium); realized at Studio Erkki of Sibelius Akatemia, Helsinki, 2011; premiered in Helsinki, October 20, 2011; time: 6:08
*inspired by the opera Medea (Médée) by Luigi Cherubini

SET SEVEN
Daniel Schachter: Metales de Nava
Three Acousmatic Studies on Metal Sculptures by Enrique González de Nava
a. Estudio 1: De Rituales (4:37)
b. Estudio 2: Gamelan (4:03)
c. Estudio 3: Filosa Fa (4:17)
Travesía — Composiciones 2016-2024
VIAJERO INMOVIL EX]P[RIMENTAL/2024
electroacoustic music sourced from sounds produced with De Nava’s metal sculptures; developed at CEPSA (Center for Studies in Sound and Audivisual Production), National University of Lúnus, Argentina, 2019-2023; total time: 13:00

Craig Pepples: Batik
Open Space 51 (Hicks/Pepples)
Open Space/2022
synthesizers: Craig Pepples; software design: David Hicks; composition year: 1992; time: 5:32

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Philip Corner: Pulse Polyphony
Gong+
Alga Marghen/2002
(string piano to bell-tree); performers: Brian Dallow, Carole Weber, Daniel Goode; recorded at The Kitchen, New York City, 1974; time: 10:39

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