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Martian Gardens Episode 1256
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
TBA, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Miguel Del Aguila: Pacific Serenade 
I. Cantando, semplice
II. Recitando, molto rubato
Exchange — Latin America [various artists]
CRI/2000
Pacific Serenade Ensemble (clarinet: Gary Gray; violins: Miwako Watanabe, Connie Kupta; viola: Simon Oswell; viola: David Speltz); recorded at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angales, March 15, 1999; composition year: 1998; time: 7:15

Cornelius Dufallo: Three High Places* (J.L. Adams)
a. Above Sunset Pass (3:59)
b. The Wind at McLaren Summit (3:49)
c. Looking Toward Hope (4:20)
Journaling (various composers)
Innova Recordings/2012
violin: Cornelius Dufallo; composer: John Luther Adams; composition year: 2007; total time: 12:08
*In memory of Gordon Wright

SET TWO
Miguel del Aguila: Presto II
Salón Buenos Aires
Bridge Records/2009
Camerata San Antonio (violins: Ertran Torgul, Karen Stiles; viola: Emiliy Watkins Freudigman; cello: Kenneth Freudigman); recorded at the First United Methodist Church, Boerne, Texas, summer 2008; composition year: 1988; time: 4:59

John Luther Adams: Moonset
Three Nocturnes, Movement III
Darkness and Scattered Light
Cold Blue Music/2023
double bass: Robert Black; recorded at Firehouse 12, New Haven, Connecticut, March 25-27, 2023, further production at Dubway Studios, New York City; composition year: 2022; selection time: 4:26

Henry Brant: Whoopee in D
The Henry Brant Collection Volume 8
Innova Recordings/2008
Netherlands Wind Ensemble, conductor: Henry Brant; recorded at the Holland Music Festival, Vredenburg, Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 8, 1984; composition years: 1938, 1984; time: 4:25

Sylvan Winds: Pentalogue IV: Of Mice and Mahler (E. Brown)
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; selection time: 3:13

SINGLE PLAY
Richard Carrick: l’Algérie (selections)
a. Interlude (3:47)
b. Inconnue (2:38)
l’Algérie
New Focus Recordings/2026
Either/Or (oud: Bahar Badieitabar; piano: Richard Carrick; violin: Jennifer Choi; cello: John Popham; percussion: Justin Jay Hines); recorded at Miller Theatre, New York City, October 1, 2024; composition year: 2024; total selections time: 6:24

Hour 2

SET THREE
Patti Cudd: This Bottle Has Notions (K. Hagan)
Cyanotypes
Neuma Records/2026
(for percussion and electronics); percussion: Patti Cudd; recorded at the University of Illinois School of Music Recording Studio, 2025; composer: Kerry Hagan; composition year: 2025; time: 7:11

Depeche Mode: Something to Do (Metalmix)
Shake the Disease (Special Edition 12″)
Mute Records/1985
voice: David Gahan; electronics: Martin Gore, Alan Wilder, Andrew Fletcher; David Gahan; remix: Gareth Jones; recorded and mixed in Germany and England; time: 7:26

SET FOUR
Géerard Pape: Antichrist Fresco
Le Purgatoire/Purgatory
NEOS Music/2024
harmonium: Miroslav Beinhauer; Ensemble New Music Tallinn, conductor: Arash Yazdani; composition year: 2021; time: 12:54

Jocelyn Pook: Masked Ball
Eyes Wide Shut (Music from The Motion Picture) (various artists)
Reprise Records/1999
(for string trio and tape); cello: Sophie Harris; viola: Clare Finnimore; violin: Jacueline Norris; recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London; composition year: 1999; time: 3:43

SET FIVE
Roger Doyle: The Ninth Set, Part 1
The Ninth Set
Passades series, Volume 3
Die Stadt Musik/2007
electronic music: Roger Doyle; recorded at the composer’s studio, Trinity College, Dublin; composition years: 2006, 2007; time: 15:46

Chaya Czernowin: First Orchestral Entrance
Shu Hai in an Orchestral Setting
Shu Hai Practices Javelin
Mode Records/2002
voice: Ute Wasserman (live/recorded); Basel Sinfonietta; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; live electronics: Experimental Studio of Heinrich Strobel Stiftung; SWR, director: André Richard; recorded live at the Dampfcentrale, Bern, Switzerland at the Biennale Bern 2001; composition years: 2000/2001; time: 4:57

Hour 3

SET SIX
Nicolás Giecco: Mc Guffin (Concert Intervals)
I. Mc Guffin
II. Tarabust
III. El corozón de la evidencia
SUONO MOBILE Argentina (2015-2017) (various artists)
20 años Volumen X
Viajero Immovil Ex]P[rimental/2026
(for clarinet, violin, double bass, piano, ad hoc percussion, real-time electronics); performance: SUONO MOBILE Argentina; composition year: 2015-2017; time: 14:32

José Mataloni: La Rueda de la Fortuna VI
La Rueda de la Fortuna
José Mataloni/2003
electroacoustic music: José Mataloni; time: 5:55

SINGLE PLAY
Armando: Balice: Black Garden
Prélude + Noir I + Behind the Rocks + Noir II + –
Yet Still, We Rise + Noir III + Collapse +
Where Are You?
Du noir tout autour
empreintes DIGITALes/2025
(stereo fixed medium; cello sounds: Lola Malique); realized at Ina-GRM, Paris; composer’s studio, Paris, 2018-2019; premiered at the Akousma 2 concert, Auditorium Saint-Germain de la MPAA< Paris, January 19, 2019; time: 21:36

SET SEVEN
Duo AYA: Reunion Dance
Cycles (various composers)
Neuma Records/2025
flute: Rachel Woolf; marimba: Makana Jimbu; Cycles recorded at the Moroccan Room, The Village Studios, Los Angeles, November 30-December 1, 2023; composer: Ney Rosauro; composition year: 2007; time: 4:42

Portland Percussion Group: Whatever was lost never thenceforth mattered (D. Webbon)
Patterns & Form
New Focus Recordings/2026
Portland Percussion Group (Garrett Arney, Jonathan Brown, Brian Gardiner, Sijia Huang, Paul Owen, Brett Paschal, Terry Longshore, Christopher Whyte); recorded at Mountain View High School, Vancouver, Washington, June 2025; composer: Daniel Webbon; time: 5:55

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