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Martian Gardens Episode 1261
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 3, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

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Lukas Ligeti: Color Gradations
Notebooks
New World Records/2026
synthesizer: Ricardo Gallo; guitar: Tom McNally; violin: Adrianna Mateo; trombone: Rick Parker; recorded in Brooklyn, New York, 2017; composition year: 2015; time: 12:56

SET ONE
John Cage: A Flower
The Works for Percussion 4 — Music for Speaking Percussionist
Mode Records/2017
voice, percussion: Bonnie Whiting; recorded at Theater A, University of California San Diego, May 2011; composition year: 1950; time: 3:40

Bonnie Whiting: Lost in the Fog (E. Brown)
Through The Eye(s) (various composers)
Neuma Records/2026
speaking percussionist: Bonnie Whiting; project facilitator: Eliza Brown; text: Marjorie Woods; composition year: 2019; time: 3:34

Abby Fisher: Continuous Interior II: Languid, Dreamy (R. Honstein)
Continuous Interior (Honstein/Mazzariello)
Neuma Records/2026
(for vibraphone and electronic feedback); percussion: Abby Fisher; recorded at Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, New York; composer: Robert Honstein; composition year: 2022; selection time: 5:36

Robert Honstein: Fast Notes, Long Tones
An Economy of Means
New Focus Recordings/2018
vibraphone: Doug Perkins; recorded at Shirk Studios, Chicago; composition year: 2016; selection time: 7:17

SET TWO
George Crumb: Sun and Shadow (selections)
Spanish Songbook II
II. The Fly (Mosca) (2:29)
III. The Interrupted Concert (El Concierto Interrumpido) (3:10)
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: 5:39

Meredith Monk: Gotham Lullaby
Dolmen Music
ECM New Series/1981
voice, piano: Meredith Monk; recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany, January 1981; composition year: 1975; time: 4:15

Codona: Codona
Codona Trilogy
Don Chery, Nana Vasconcelos, Collin Walcott
ECM/2009
flute: Don Cherry; hammered dulcimer, tabla: Colin Walcott; recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany, September 1978; time: 6:14

Hour 2

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John Luther Adams: True 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

SET THREE
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  

Eric Chasalow: The Wings that Bear the Night Away
…arching, reaching, breathless
Music for Strings
New Focus Recordings/2026
(for violin and electronics); violin: Mari Kimura; recorded at Dimension Sound, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; composition year: 2022; time: 9:46

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Jennifer Koh: Tocar (K. Saariaho)
Saariaho X Koh
Çedille Records/2018
violin: Jennifer Koh; piano: Nicholas Hodges; recorded at Studios Ferber, Paris, November, 2017; composer: Kaija Saariaho; composition year: 2010; composition year: 2010; time: 6:51

Hour 3

SET FOUR
Chris Brown: Obelisk
Retrospectacles
Foclesmusic/2018
(for piano and interactive computer); piano, computer: Chris Brown; recorded at Whitney Studios, Glendale, California, June 11, 2015; time: 7:54

Sascia Pellegrini: Waves
Open Space 44
Pepples/Pellegrini/Takahashi/Boretz
Open Space/2021
electronics: Sascia Pellegrini; composition year: 2020; time: 7:36

SET FIVE
Jorge Sad Levi: Maror
Música Para (Seres) Parlantes
Jorge Sad Levi’s Bandcamp/2020
(for violin and electronics) composition year: 2012; time: 10:25

Yves Daoust: Lily (Mixed Version)
Docu-Fictions
empreintes DIGITALes/2022
(for accordion, violin, and 4-channel fixed medium); accordion: Joseph Petric; violin: Lynn Ko; realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2014-2018; fixed media realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2011-2012; Mixed Version premiered at the concert Serie Hommage José Evangelista: Par 5 chemins, Studio-théâtre Alfred-Laliberté, University of Quebec, Montreal, March 23, 218; time: 13:26

SET SIX
İlhan Mimaroğlu: Swift Feet
Coucou Bazar — Music for Jean Dubuffet
Jean Dubuffet’s Bandcamp/2017
electronic Music for Jean Dubuffet’s Coucou Bazar exhibit, Guggenheim Museum, May-July, 1973; time: 4:06

Vladimir Ussachevsky: Suite from ‘No Exit’ (selections)
a. Part 2 (2:17)
b. Part 6 (2:42)
Film Music
New World Records/1990
electronic music realized at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, New York City; composition year: 1962 (for the film No Exit by Tad Danielewski and Orson Welles); total selections time: 4:59

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