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Martian Gardens Episode 1258
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
March 28, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Sean Noonan: The Drummer of Tedworth (selections)
a. The Arachnids Go So Wild (3:26)
b. Chewing Pith (5:56)
The Drummer of Tedworth
Neuma Records/2026
percussion, voice: Sean Noonan; The London Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Jack Sheen; recorded January 18, 2024 & April 14, 2025; composition year: 2025; total selections time: 9:22

Seth Parker Woods: Difficult Grace (F. Gifford)
Difficult Grace (various composers)
Çedille Records/2023
(for cello, voice, and live electronics); cello, voice: Seth Parker Woods; text: Dudley Randall; recorded at the Chicago Recording Company, August 2022; composer: Fredrick Gifford; composition year: 2019; time: 6:23

SET TWO
Bernard Rands: Memo 5
Piano Music (1960 – 2010)
Bridge Records/2013
piano: Ursula Oppens; recorded at Purchase College, Purchase, New York, March – October, 2013; composition year: 1975; time: 10:48

Pierre Boulez: Une page di d’éphéméride
Complete Music for Solo Piano
Bridge Records/2015
piano: Marc Ponthus; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, 2012/2014; composition year: 2005; time: 3:54

SINGLE PLAY
Gérard Pape: Being Beauteous
Le Purgatoire/Purgatory
NEOS Music/2024
soprano: Angelika Luz; piano: Cornelius Witthoefft; text: Arthur Rimbaud; composition year: 2018; time: 18:31

Hour 2

SET THREE
Matthew Burtner: Virginia Ghost Forest Soundscape
Listening to Climate Change and Resilience, Part 2
Soundscapes of Restoration
Music, Sonification, & Field Recordings
Ravello Records/2023
ecosonic recordings: Matthew Burtner; time: 2:29

Jorge Antunes: Voyelles
Rimbaudiannisia MCMXCV, Part 2
¡No se Mata la Justicia!
Sistrum/2003
(for child solo singers, children’s chorus, and orchestra); Choeur La Maîtrise de Radio France; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, conductor: Arturo Tamayo; text: Arthur Rimbaud, “Voyelles,” translated by Iannis Xenakis; recorded in Paris, 1994; composition year: 1994; selection time: 10:03

SINGLE PLAY
Luigi Nono: Contrappunto dialettico alla mente
a. Introduction
b. The Pleasant Modern Crime (start time: 0:36)
c. Masquerade of the Little Old Men (start time: 4:59)
d. Interlude of the Breath-Sellers (start time: 8:51)
e. The Scatterbrains Sing a Madrigal (start time: 10:05)
f. Uncle Sam Tells a Story (start time: 14:36)
g. The Pleasant Modern Crime – reprise (start time: 18:27)
Como una ola de fuerza y luz (and other works)
Deutsche Grammophon/1988
(for tape, soprano, actors, and choir); soprano: Liliana Poli; voices: Cadigia Bove, Marisa Mazzoni, Elena Vicini, Umberto Troni; Chamber Choir of the RAI (Radiotelevisione italiana), director: Nino Antonelli; texts: Sonia Sanchez, “Malcolm,” (b,g), Nanni Balestrini (c,d,e); pamphlet distributed by the Harlem Progressive Labor Club (f); composition year: 1968; total time: 19:51

SET FOUR
Chaya Cernowin: Shu Hai in an orchestral setting — Second Vocal Entrance
Shu Hai Practices Javelin
Mode Records/2002
voice (live, recorded): Ute Wassermann; Basel Sinfionetta; conductor: Johannes Kalitzke; live electronics realized at Heinrich Strobel’s Experimental Music Studio, Southern German Radio (SWR), Freiburg, director: Andre Richard; composition years: 2000-2001; text: Zohar Eitan; time: 13:59

Abel Ehrlich: The Dream About Strange Terrors
Composing Israel (various artists)
The First Three Generations
Neuma Records/2023
flutes: Elizabeth Brightbill, Deanna Matthews Kilbourne; premiered at the New Music from Israel Concert, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, 1987; composition year: 1986; time: 3:00

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Shutterspeed Duo: Ropes
All-American Futurity Trials
New Focus Recordings/2026
electric guitar, electronics: Erich Barganier; clarinets, electronics: Ford Fourqurean; recorded at Figure 8 Recording, Brooklyn; time: 5:11

Lucas Werenkraut/TRoneitor: Persecución. Captura. Ejecución
Degradación Irreversible
Lucas Werenktraut/TRoneitor Bandcamp/2025
TRoneitor modular synthesizer: Lucas Werenkraut; time: 6:03

SINGLE PLAY
Armando Balice: Empty Garden
From Nothing+Noir I+In Front of the Stones+Noir II+In the Ground+
Noir III+Strange Immobility+This is Black and Light
Du noir tout autour
empreintes DIGITALes/2025
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Paris, 2020; premiered at the Futura 20 Festival, Crest, France, August 22, 2020; time: 21:06

SET SIX
Daniel Schachter: Fuga Tras un Objeto Oculto (for Pierre Schaeffer) (revised)
Travesía
VIAJERO INMOVIL EX]P[RIMENTAL/2024
musique concrete (including the voice of Pierre Schaeffer interviewed on French television, 1973); composed for the Bourges Institute of Electroacoustic Music, premiered at the Synthèse International Festival concert “Tombeau de Pierre Schaeffer”; revised for the Monaco Electroacoustic Festival, 2016; revised version premiered at the Théâtre de Varieté, Monaco, May 4, 2017; time: 6:05

Pierre Schaeffer: Objets exposés
from Étude aux objets
L’Œuvre Musicale [boxed set]
Electronic Music Foundation/1998 (orig. INA-GRM/1990)
musique concrete; composition year: 1959; time: 3:35

Christopher Stark: Fire Ecologies Scene Two — Jeux d’eau
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; time: 7:01

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