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Martian Gardens Episode 1259
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 14, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Sean Noonan: The Drummer of Tedworth (selections)
a. Féth Fiata (1:48)
b. Drunken Landlady’s Lawsuit with an Unlicensed Vagrant (7:34)
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

SET ONE
Lukas Ligeti: Intermediate Vector Bosons
Notebook
New World Records/2026
Notebook: saxophone: Dan Blake; synthesizer: Ricardo Gallo; guitar: Tom McNalley, Eyal Maoz, violin: Adriana Mateo; trombone: Rick Parker; conductor: Lukas Ligeti; recorded in Brooklyn, August 2017; composition year: 2014; time: 10:42

Lukas Ligeti: Balarama
Southern Cones – Music From Out of Africa and South America (various artists)
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 10 (M.I.T.)
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
balafon (West African xylophone): Aly Keïta; electronic drums: Lucas Ligeti; recorded at Studios Séquence, Abidjan, Côte D’lvoire; September/October, 1996; time: 4:23

FELEMA: I wish you strength and inner peace
Southern Cones – Music Out of Africa and South America (various artists)
Leonardo Music Journal CD Series Volume 10 (M.I.T.)
Electronic Music Foundation/2000
flugelhorn, vocals: Feya Faku; bass vocals: Monde Lex Futshane; programming: Mark Grimshaw; vocals: Lizo Koni; recorded at Gerald Lapierre Studio, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, April/June 1998; time: 6:20

SET TWO
Lei Liang: Six Seasons — Instrumentation Lab (selections)
a. Season 1: New Ice (trumpet/trombone) (3:35)
b. Season 2: Darkness (piano) (5:56)
Six Seasons — Instrumentation Lab
New Focus Recordings/2026
a. trumpet: Andrew Kozar; trombone: William Lang; b. piano: Stephen Drury; a. recorded at Studio A, University of California San Diego, May 21-22, 2024; b. recorded at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, University of California San Diego, April 15, 2024; composition year: 2022; total selections time: 10:31

Iannis Xenakis: Morisima-Amorsima*
Works with Piano
Mode Records/2010
piano: Aki Takahashi; The Callithumpian Consort: violin: Gabriela Diaz; cello: Benjamin Schwartz; bass: Akiko Kikuchi; conductor: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, June 11, 2008; composition year: 1962 (computer-aided); time: 10:55
*podcast version only

John Cage: The Seasons — A Ballet in One Act (selections)*
a. Spring (2:40)
b. Prelude III (2:18)
The Piano Works 3
Mode Records/1998
piano: Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, March 1993; composition year: 1947; selections time: 4:58
*radio version only

Hour 2

SINGLE PLAY
John Luther Adams: Visible Horizon
Horizon
Cold Blue Music/2026
(for string orchestra); Australian Chamber Orchestra, director: Richard Tognetti; recorded at The Concourse, Chatswood, Sydney, October 14-15, 2025; composition year: 2025; time: 20:23

SINGLE PLAY
Sarah Hopkins: Cello Chi
Austral Voices (various artists)
New Albion Records/1990
cello, voice: Sarah Hopkins; composition year: 1986; time: 13:02

SET THREE
Linda Dusman: Dream Prayer Lullaby
Flashpoint
Neuma Records/2023
violin: Airi Yoshioka; recorded at Linehan Concert Hall, University of Maryland Baltimore County; composition year: 2018; time: 8:30

Meredith Monk: Pine Tree Lullaby
Dolmen Music
ECM New Series/1981
voices: Meredith Monk, Andrea Goodman, Monica Solem, Julius Eastman, Robert Een, Paul Longland; cello: Robert Een; percussion: Julius Eastman; recorded at Hometown Studios, New York City, March 1980; time: 5:14

Robert Een: Dirge for Julius
Mystery Dances
ECM New Series/2002
cello, voice: Robert Een; time: 5:30

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Diego Bermudez Chamberland: Destin//Trouble
Cartografia interior, Movement 2
Cartografia interior
empreintes DIGITALes/2025
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the studio of the Conservatoire de musique de Montreal, composer’s studio, Montreal, 2021-2023, revised 2025; time: 18:12

SET FOUR
Pierre Schaeffer: Objets exposés
from Étude aux objets
L’Œuvre Musicale boxed set
Electronic Music Foundation/1998 (orig. INA-GRM/1990)
musique concrete, Paris, 1959; selection time: 3:35

SUONO MOBILE Argentina: El árbol se deshace (S. Costamagna)
20 años – Volumen X – (2015-2017) (various composers)
VIAJERO INMOVIL EX]P[RIMENTAL/2024
SUONO MOBILE Argentina: flute: Cecilia Ulloque; clarinets: Eduardo Spinelli; violin: Juliana Rufail; contrabass: Gustavo Aiziczon; piano: Emilio Chavesta; percussion: Daniel Halaban, Lucas Luján; electronics: Nicholás Giego; director: Juan Carlos Tolosa; recorded in Córdoba, Argentina; composer: Sofia Costamagna; time: 8:17

Noah Creshevsky: Sequenza (for trombone)
Sleeping Awake
Open Space/2019
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; trombone samples: Monique Buzzarté; composition year: 2004; time: 6:07

In memory of our friend Noah Creshevsky (January 31, 1945 – December 3, 2020)

SET FIVE
José Martinez: Instructions for Stargazing
from Instructions for Playing
Short Stories
New Focus Recordings/2026
(for violin, percussion, and electronics); Hot Second: violin: Dylan Feldpausch; percussion: Rebecca McDaniel; recorded at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago; selection time: 3:55

Mathew Rosenblum: Stargazing
from Circadian Rhythms
Circadian Rhythms
New World Records/2012
Deoro group: cello: David Eggar; percussion: Chuck Palmer; keyboards: Rob Frankenberry; recorded at Carriage House Studios, Stamford, Connecticut, February 21, 2011; composition year: 1989; selection time: 2:47

Otto Luening: Moonflight
Pioneers of Electronic Music (various artists)
New World Records/2006 (orig. CRI/1991)
(for flute and tape); flute: Otto Luening; tape generated at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, 1968; time: 2:55

Lei Liang: Prelude
Six Seasons — Instrumentation Lab
New Focus Recordings/2026
beluga whale call; piano: Stephen Drury; whale recorded in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska; piano recorded at UC San Diego, 2024; composition year: 2024; time: 1:39

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