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Martian Gardens Episode 1260
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
April 22, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Meredith Monk: Overture and Men’s Conclave
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: 10:00

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Julius Eastman: The Holy Presence of Joan D’Arc
Unjust Malaise
New World Records/2005
(for ten cellos); cellos: Jodi Beder, Sarah Carter, Barry Gold, Julie Green, Christine Gummere, Maureen Hymes, Chase Morrison, Abby Newton, Larry Rawdon, David Sabee; conductor: Julius Eastman; recorded at Third Street Music Settlement, New York City, date unknown; composition year: 1981; time: 20:29

SET ONE
Bryan Hayslett: With the Years (J. La Barbara)
Cello Unlocked (various composers)
Neuma Records/2024
cello, voice: Bryan Hayslett; text: Dorothea Tanning; recorded at UM Maurice Gusman Concert Hall, Frost School of Music, Miami, July 29-30, 2023; composer: Joan La Barbara; composition year: 2020; time: 7:46

Eric Chasalow: The Snow Man
…Arching, reaching, breathless
Music for Strings
New Focus Recordings/2026
cello, voice: David Russell; recorded at Dimension Sound, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; text: Wallace Stevens; time: 5:14

Morton Feldman: Music for Jackson Pollock (selections)
a. Music for Jackson Pollock (2:33)
b. Jackson Pollock Speaks (2:33)
Feldman Editions 2 — First Recordings: 1950s
Mode Records/1999
a. for two cellos; cellos: Helmut Menzler, Michael Sterling (The Turfan Ensemble); b. audio from Hans Namuth’s Jackson Pollock film, 1950; composition years: 1950, 1951; total selections time: 5:06

Hour 2

SET TWO
Mathew Rosenblum: Circadian Rhythms
Circadian Rhythms, Movement 1
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; time: 9:21

Duo Aya: Cycles (selections)
a. Reunion Dance (4:42)
b. Cycles (6:07)
Cycles (various composers)
Neuma Records/2025
Duo Aya: flute: Rachel Woolf; marimba: Makana Jimbu; recorded at The Moroccan Room, The Village Studios, Los Angeles, November 30-December 1, 2023; a. composer: Ney Rosauro; composition year: 2007; b. composer: Evan Williams; composition year: 2023 (commissioned by Duo Aya); total selections time: 10:49  

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Manuel Zurria: Dance #2 (P. Glass)
Again & Again (various composers)
ANTS Records/2020
flutes, field recordings, toy percussion: Manuel Zurria; recorded at MZ @FUN’OM Studios, Rome; composer: Philip Glass; composition year: 1979; arr. Manuel Zurria (orig. Glass piece for organ); time: 16:02

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Gérard Pape: String Quartet No. 3: Le Fleuve du Désir IX
String Quartets
Neos-Music/2025
(for string quartet and tape); Neo Quartet (violins: Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka, Pawel Kapica; viola: Michal Markiewicz; cello: Krzysztof Pawlowski; recorded at Hofstelle Tolsefanz, November 24-25, 2024; composition years: 1994-2025; time: 12:39

Hour 3

SET THREE
Dorota Czerner: 2 Poems
a. St. Andrew’s Night (6:13)
b. Fireflies (4:43)
Open Space 29 (Barkin, Czerner, Boretz)
Open Space/2012
voice, texts: Dorota Czerner (a. 2011/b. 2012); sound: Benjamin Boretz; total time: 10:56

Christopher Cerrone: Beaufort Scales (selections)
a. Interlude I: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1:24)
b. Steps 2 &3: Small and Large Wavelets (4:10)
Beaufort Scales
Cold Blue Music/2024
(for women’s voices and electronics); voices: Lorelei Ensemble; texts; a. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; b. The Beaufort Scale; composition years: 2022-2023; total selections time: 5:34

George Crumb: Sun and Shadow (selections)
Spanish Songbook II
I. Lazy River (Corriente Lenta) (3:53)
IV. Dance of the Moon in Santiago (Danza da Lúa en Santiago) (2:33)
Complete Crumb Edition Volume 16
Voices from the Heartland — Sun and Shadow
Bridge Records/2014
soprano: Ann Crumb; amplified piano: Marcantonio Barone; recorded at Swarthmore College, July 2013; composition year: 2009; total selections time: 6:26

SET FOUR
Christian Bouchard: Birdscape
IV
empreintes DIGITALes/2023
(4-channel fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, 2021-2022; Montreal; premiered at Usine C, Montreal, October 12, 2022; time: 14:16

Squid in Chains: Loosey Goosey
Drifiting
Earsay Music/2024
basset clarinet, electronics: François Houle; bandoneon, saxophone: Douglas Schmidt; synthesizers, samplers, sound processing: John Oliver; recorded at the Canadian Music Centre Creative Residency, Vancouver, 2023-20ó24; time: 5:34

SET FIVE
SUONO MOBILE Argentina: Previo 3, 4 (A. M. Pozzi)
20 años – Volumen X – (2015-2017) (various composers)
VIAJERO INMOVIL EX]P[RIMENTAL/2024
(for flute, clarinet, violin, double bass, piano); flute: Cecilia Ulloque; clarinet: Eduardo Spinelli; violin: Juana Rufail; double bass: Gustavo Aiziczon; piano: Emilio Chavesta; director: Juan Carlos Tolosa; recorded at Universidad Nacional de Córdoba; composer: Agustín Molas Pozzi; composition year: 2017; time: 6:16

Celso Garrido-Lecca: Intihuatana
Tensions at the Vanguard (various artists)
New Music from Peru (1948-1979)
Pogus Productions/2012
(for string quartet); Cuarteto de la Universidad Católica (Santiago, Chile) (violin: Federico Britos; violin: Juan Gonzales; viola: Juan Meneses; cello: Guarieri Rovatti); recorded at Zúñica recording studio, Lima, 1974; time: 10:27

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