MIXCLOUD PODCAST: CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
Martian Gardens Episode 1257
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
TBA, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Sean Noonan: The Drummer of Tedworth (selections)
a. Not I Eating Makeup in a Pool of Ketchup (6:18)
b. The Pterodactyls have Landed (6:20)
The Drummer of Tedworth
Neuma Records/2026
percussion, voice: Sean Noon; The London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Jack Sheen; recorded January 18, 2024 & April 14, 2025; composition year: 2025; total selections time: 12:38

SINGLE PLAY
Harry Partch: U.S. Highball
A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip
The Wayward
First Complete Recording
Bridge Records/2025
PARTCH Ensemble, director: John Schneider; recorded at Crean Recital Hall, Chapman University, Orange, California, January 13, 2024; composition years: 1943/1955; time: 25:28

SINGLE PLAY
Luc Ferrari: Éphémère
Éphémère — Luc Ferrari/Brunhild Ferrari/Vincent Royer
Mode Records/2015
tape: Luc Ferrari; viola: Vincent Royer; composition year: 1974 (tape score); revised for tape & viola in 2012 by Brunhild Ferrari; time: 13:08

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
Meredith Monk: On Behalf of Nature (selections)
a. Duet with Shifting Ground (5:22)
b. Environs 2 (0:56)
c. Pavement Steps (2:04)
On Behalf of Nature
ECM/2016
a. voices: Katie Geissinger, Bruce Rameker, Meredith Monk, Allison Sniffin, Sidney Chen, Ellen Fisher; violin: Allison Sniffin; bass clarinet, b-flat clarinet, willow flute: Bohdan Hilash; vibraphone, marimba: John Hollenbeck; harp: Laura Sherman; b. voices (ibid.), rasping stick: John Hollenbeck; c. voices: Sidney Chen, Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Meredith Monk, Bruce Rameker; bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet: Bodan HIlash; keyboard: Allison Sniffin; recorded at Avatar Studios, New York City, June 2015; composition year: 2013; total selections time: 8:22

SET ONE
Stephanie Lamprea & Georges Aperghis: 14 Récitations (selections)
a. Récitation 10 (2:16)
b. Récitation 14 (1:32)
14 Récitations
New Focus Recordings/2023
soprano: Stephanie Lamprea; recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland, December 2021 – May 2022; composer: Georges Aperghis; composition years: 1977-1978; total selections time: 3:48

Stephanie Lamprea & Alistair MacDonald: Ecstatic Visions (selections)
a. The Fiery Life (4:16)
b. O Splendidissima gemma (2:41)
Ecstatic Visions
Neuma Records/2026
(for voice and 10 channels of electronics); soprano: Stephanie Lamprea; electronics: Alistair MacDonald; text: Hildegard Von Bingen; recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, April and July 2025; composer: Alistair MacDonald; composition years: 2023-2025; total selections time: 6:57

Alistair MacDonald: Final Times
Sonic Art from Aberdeen, Glasgow,
Huddersfield, and Newcastle (various artists)
MPS Music & Video/2000
sounds gathered in Glasgow and processed for the BBC by Alistair MacDonald; composition year: 1999; time: 5:01

SET TWO
Patsy Rahn: Trojan Horse
The Aerial # 4 — A Journal in Sound (various artists)
Nonsequitur/1991
voice, text: Patsy Rahn; composition year: 1991; time: 3:40

McLean Mix: A Lecture (Featuring Trevor Wishart)
Modulisme Session 111
Modular Station Bandcamp/2024
8-track tape deck, mixer, vocal processing via Serge system: Barton and Priscilla McLean; voice; Trever Wishart; text: a computer music manual; recorded at the University of Texas-Austin, 1982; time: 4:49+

Stuart Saunders Smith: California Driving
Wind in the Channel
O.O. Discs/1997
reader: Sylvia Saunders Smith; text: Stuart Saunders Smith, adapted from driving manual; recorded at Studio 508, University of Maryland Baltimore County; 1995; time: 8:17

SINGLE PLAY
Laurie Anderson: New Jersey Turnpike
United States Live
Warner Bros./1984
vocals, vocoder, electric violin, various instruments: Laurie Anderson; clarinet: Chuck Fisher; flute: Bill Obrecht, percussion: David Van Tieghem, United States Live recorded live at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York City, February 7-10, 1983; time: 11:20

Hour 3

SET THREE
Maggi Payne: Electric Ice
Experimental Music Studios 1958 — 2008 [various artists]
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University of Illinois
Experimental Music Studios [boxed set]
U. of Ill. EMS/2008
electronics, synthesizers, steam radio: Maggi Payne; recorded at the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios, Urbana-Champaign, 2008; time: 6:31

Steve Peters: Chamber Music X – Airforms
Chamber Music
ANTS Records/2023
(2 or 4 channel sound installation); source recording: Steve Roden; Wallace Neff Bubble House, Pasadena, California, May 2013; time: 7:59

SET FOUR
Jon Christopher Nelson: L’horloge Imaginaire
Compendium International Bourges 2002 (various artists)
IMEB — Chrysopée Électronique Series/2002
clock sounds, eight-channel tape: JCN, realized at Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges, France; composition year: 2002; time: 10:22

Diego Bermudez Chamberland: Chronomundo
Cartografia interior, Movement 1
Cartografia interior
empreintes DIGITALes/2025
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the studio of the Conservatoire de musique de Montreal, composer’s studio, Montreal, 2020-2023, revised 2025; time: 12:43

SET FIVE
Robert Scott Thompson: Star Map
Folio Volume One
Aucorant Records/2011
synthesizers, electronics: Robert Scott Thompson; recorded at the composer’s studio, Roswell, Georgia, composition year: 2011; time: 3:13

Robert Scott Thompson: Between the Past and the Future
Amor Fati
Aucourant Records/2026
electronic music: Robert Scott Thompson; time: 4:12

— FIN —