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Martian Gardens Episode 1254
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 5, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

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Gerard Pape: Strange Emergence
Le Purgatoire/Purgatory
NEOS Music/2024
(for electric viola and ensemble of 8 electric violas); electric violas: Maurizio Barbetti; composition year: 2019; time: 18:02

SET ONE
Ensemble Dal Niente: Flux* (G. Lewis)
Portrait RE – Flux – Pacific Time
New Focus Recordings/2025
(for orchestra); performed by Ensemble Dal Niente; composer: George Lewis; composition year: 2025; time: 11:13
*Inspired by Jeff Donaldson’s paining Jampact Jellitite (for Jamila)

Musicians of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company:
a. Event — December 14, 2004, New York City (3:54)
b. Event — December 18, 2004, New York City (6:35)
Music for Merce 1952–2009 (boxed set)
New World Records/2010
a. laptop, violin, psalter: David Behrman; electric guitar, live electronics: John King; trombone, laptop: George Lewis; b. electric guitar, live electronics: John King; trombone, laptop: George Lewis; total time: 10:29

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David Behrman: QSRL
My Dear Siegfried + QSRL-Five Pieces
XI Records/2005
performer: Jon Gibson; live computer music; Live, The Kitchen, New York City, March 1998; time: 7:59

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Morton Feldman: Out of ‘Last Pieces’
Feldman Edition 9
Composing by Numbers: The Graphic Scores 1950-1967
Mode Records/2005
The Barton Workshop, conductor: Jos Zwaanenburg; Feldman Edition 9 recorded at the Hilversum Conservatorium and De Hoop, Dieman, The Netherlands, October 1993 – February 2001; Out of ‘Last Pieces’ composition year: 1961; time: 9:16

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Earle Brown: Times Five
Selected Works 1952-1965
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1974)
flute Govert Juriaanse; trombone: Aurthur Moore; harp: Teresia Tieu; violin: Jaring Walta; cello: Harro Ruijsenaans; four channels of tape sound; conductor, Earle Brown; recorded in Amsterdam, 1974; composition year: 1963; time: 14:59

SET TWO
Benjamin Boretz: Group Variations II for computer
Open Space 5 (Boretz/Randall)
Open Space/1998
(computer music); realized by Benjamin Boretz at Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton University; 1967-1970; remastered by Paul Lansky, 1993; time: 12:00

Paul Lansky: Heavy Set
Ride
Bridge Records/2000
computer music: Paul Lansky; composition year: 1998; time: 14:13

Hour 3

SET THREE
Daniel Leduc: Die Winterreise (The Winter’s Journey) (selections)
a. Im Dorfe (In the Village) (3:16)
b. Der Stürmische Morgen (The Stormy Morning) (1:21)
c. Täuschung (Illusion) (1:27)
d. Der Wegweiser (The Signpost) (1:42)
e. Das Wirthaus (The Inn) (3:09)
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: 10:45

Jorge Sad Levi: Si, habíamos dicho alamedas*
Cognitive Rebirth
Jorge Sad Levi’s Bandcamp/2025
clarinet: Javier Mariani; flute: Gonzalo Ariel Juan; electric guitar: Emmanuel Graglia; guitar: Javier Bravo; Martín Devoto, conductor; recorded in Buenos Aires; composition year: 2021; time: 8:09
*Yes, we had tree-lined avenues

SET FOUR
Stephanie Lamprea/Alistair MacDonald: Letras para cantar (A. Negrón)
Ecstatic Visions
Neuma Records/2026
soprano: Stephanie Lamprea; electronics: Alistair MacDonald; recorded at the Royale Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow; text: para cantar; composer: Angélica Negrón; composition year: 2019; time: 11:08

Patricia Spencer: Narcissus (T. Musgrave)
Narcissus/Kairos (Musgrave/Shatin)
Neuma Records/1997
flute with digital delay: Patricia Spencer; recorded at Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, November 28-29, 1995; composer: Thea Musgrave; composition year: 1987; time: 15:42

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