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Martian Gardens Episode 1255
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
February 11, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Joseph Celli & Jin Hi Kim: Valentine Ashes
No World (Trio) Improvisations
O.O. Discs/1992
violin: Malcolm Goldstein; komungo: Jin Hi Kim; oboe: Joseph Celli; time: 10:40

Elliott Carter: Finally a Valentine (Poems of Louis Zukofsky III)
Elliott Carter Volume Eight
16 Compositions (2002-2009)
Bridge Records/2010
soprano: Lucy Shelton; clarinet: Charles Neidich; recorded at LaFrak Concert Hall, Queens City College, New York City, October 4-5, 2009; composition year: 2008; time: 0:45

SET TWO
Sylvan Winds: Pentalogues (E. Brown) (selections)
a. Pentalogue: I. Prologue (2:50)
b. Pentalogue: II. Procession (1:43)
c. Pentalogue: III. Walking and Waltzing (2:10)
Resonant Worlds (various composers)
Albany Records/2025
Sylvan Winds (flute: Anna Urrey; oboe: Kathy Halvorson; clarinet: Nuno Antunes; bassoon: Gina Cuffari; horn: Zohar Schondorf); Resonant Worlds recorded at Reservoir Studios, New York City, summer 2025; Pentalogues composer: Elizabeth Brown; composition year: 2025; total selections time: 6:33  

Eva-Maria Houbens & Paul Beaudoin: a clarinet within an organ space (excerpt)
a clarinet within an open space
sirr-ecords/2026
organ: Eva-Maria Houbens; B-flat clarinet: Paul Beaudoin; excerpt time: 9:00

SET THREE
Russell Platt: Madrigal
Mountain Interval
Songs and Chamber Music of Russell Platt
Bridge Records/2025
DuoKrom (alto flute: Molly Barth; violin: Inés Voglar Belgiqu)e; recorded at the Hallowed Halls, Portland, Oregon, May 5, 2023; composition years: 1991, 2022; time: 3:44

Peter Garland: Stone,/Like Stillness
Plain Songs
Love Comes Quietly (After Robert Creeley)
Cold Blue Music/2025
organ: Carson Cooman; principal recordings: Memorial Church of Harvard University, October 14-15, 2024; composition year: 2024; time: 7:52

Philip Glass/Robert Wilson: Knee 5
Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass/Robert Wilson)
Elektra-Nonesuch/1993
violin: Gregory Fulkerson; keyboard: Michael Riesman; women’s chorus; spoken text: Jasper McGruder (“Two Lovers”); text: Samuel M. Johnson; Einstein on the Beach recorded at the Looking Glass Studio, New York City, January-June, 1993; composition years: 1975-1976; selection time: 8:04

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Formosa Quartet: Rain Night Flower (from Four Taiwanese Fok Songs) (W. Lin)
From Hungary to Taiwan (various composers)
Bridge Records/2018
Formosa Quartet (violins: Jasmine Lin, Wayne Lee; viola: Che Yen Chen; cello: Deborah Pae); recorded at Nichols Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, October, 2017; composer: Wei-Chieh Lin; composition year: 2017; selection time: 4:25

Zack Browning: Fate and Fusion
Rock Galaxy
Neuma Records/2025
vibraphone: Francisco Ribeiro; marimba: Rui Camoes; recorded at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, June 9-11, 2025; composition year: 2017; time: 8:37

SET FIVE
Iannis Xenakis: Mélanges (Pléïades, Mvt. I)
Percussion Works
Mode Records/2006
(for percussion sextet; Sixxen); ensemble red fish blue fish, director: Steven Schick; recorded at Warren Studios, University of California, San Diego; composition year: 1978; time: 8:52

Phillippe Manoury: Le Livres des Claviers VI: Sixxen
The Book of Keyboards
New Focus Recordings/2017
Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore); recorded at Northern Illinois University Recital Hall, January 26-27, 2011; composition year: 1988; selection time: 6:37

SINGLE PLAY
Gerard Pape: String Quartet 4
Textures Turbulentes et Formes Émergentes
String Quartets
Neos-Music/2025
Neo Quartet (violins: Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka, Pawel Kapica; viola: Michal Markiewicz; cello: Krzysztof Pawlowski; recorded at Hofstelle Tolsefanz, April 12, 2022; composition years: 2016-2022; time: 15:08

SINGLE PLAY
Peter Garland: Living alone in the woods…(Ryokan)
Moon Viewing Music (Inscrutable Stillness Studies #1)
Cold Blue Music/2018
gongs, tam-tam: William Winant; recorded at Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, August 2017; composition year: 2016; time: 4:21

Hour 3

SET SIX
Christopher Shultis: One Far Noise
Waldmusik
Neuma Records/2026
(for tam-tam and electronics); tam-tam: Simone Mancuso; composition year: 2016; time: 10:51

Ken Ueno: …a.m…
Wavelengths
New Focus Recordings/2026
(for percussion quartet and other sounds); The Up:Strike Project (Karen Yu, Samuel Chan, Emma Ng, Eugene Kwong); recorded at the Multimedia Theatre, School of Creative Music, City University of Hong Kong, July 22, 2024; composition year: 2022; time: 19:49

SET SEVEN
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No. 4, “March No. 2”
The Works for Percussion I
Mode Records/2011
(for 12 radios, first version); CCM Percussion Ensemble, conductor: James Culley; recorded at Werner Concert Hall, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati; May 25, 2006; composition year: 1942; time: 4:26

Dúo TRoneitor: ¿Dónde está el espacio para el eufemismo del amor?
Residencia TRoneitor
Dúo TRoneitor’s Bandcamp/2025
voice: Natalia Cappa; TRoneitor modular synthesizer, voice: Lucas Werenkraut; electronics: Ana González Gamboa; composer: Ana González Gamboa; recorded in Buenos Aires; time: 9:59

Diane Labrosse: Le réveille-matin a tic-tac (Ticking Alarm Clocks)
Musique pour objets en voie de disparition
Music for Objects on the Verge of Extinction
Actuellecd/2007
(for electric guitar and alarm clocks); electric guitar: Bernard Falaise; recorded at Studio 270 and Studio Le 2e, Montreal; time: 5:35

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