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Martian Gardens Episode 1262
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 15, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

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No voices no trees (A Forest Unfolding, Part I)
a. Eric Moe: Native Trees (8:13)
b. David Kirkland Garner: From the Book of Job (2:38)
A Forest Unfolding (various composers)
A Collaborative Cantata Inspired by Trees
New Focus Recordings/2026
(a.) mezzo soprano: Rachel Calloway; (b.) narrator: Richard Powers; flutes: Laura Gilbert; clarinets: Joseph Eller; violin: Eric Pritchard; viola: Jonathan Bagg; cello: Caroline Stinson; piano: Nicholas Susi; texts: a. W.S. Merwin, The Rain in the Trees; b. Job 36; recorded at the University of South Carolina School of Music, Columbia, April 15, 2023; time: 10:51

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Evan Ziporyn: The Ornate Zither and the Nomad Flute
Frog’s Eye
Cantaloupe Music/2006
soprano: Anne Harley; Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Wind Ensemble, conductor: Gil Rose; texts: Li Shangyin, The Ornate Zither, W.S. Merwin, The Nomad Flute; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, November 5, 2005; time: 15:30

SET ONE
Ittai Shapira: Love in Namwon
Chunhyang
Neuma Records/2026
soprano: Hilá Plitmann; violin: Ittai Shapira; Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor: Florin Parvulescu; composition year: 2019; time: 10:23

Formosa Quartet: Four Taiwanese Fok Songs (selections) (W. Lin)
a. Seaport Goodbye (3:24)
b. Hengchung Folksong (1:13)
From Hungary to Taiwan (various composers)
Bridge Records/2018
Formosa Quartet (violins: Jasmine Lin, Wayne Lee; viola: Che Yen Chen; cello: Deborah Pae); recorded at Nichols Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, October, 2017; composer: Wei-Chieh Lin; composition year: 2017; selections time: 4:37

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William Bland: Fantasy
Piano Sonata No. 15 in E Flat Minor, Movement III
Sonata No. 6 and No. 15
Bridge Records/2024
piano: Kevin Gorman; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York; September 2024; composition year: 2004; time: 10:32

Hour 2

SET TWO
Abby Fisher: Continuous Interior (selections) (R. Honstein)
I. Flickering, light (5:47)
III. Urgent, breathless (5:44)
Continuous Interior (Honstein/Mazzariello)
Neuma Records/2026
(for vibraphone and string quartet); percussion: Abby Fisher; the Bergamot Quartet; recorded at Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, New York; composer: Robert Honstein; composition year: 2022; selection time: 5:36

Noah Creshevsky: Orchestral Variations
Hyperrealist Music 2011-2015
EM Records/2015
electroacoustic music: Noah Creshevsky; composition year: 2013; time: 10:11

SET THREE
Philip Perkins: Mr. Scrapeytown
Thirteen Feet Nine Inches
live recordings of computer-driven electrosonic works 2023-25
Artifact Recordings/2025
sounds. processing, engineering: Philip Perkins; time: 4:03

Ekmeles: Forgetting (K. Balch)
Nonsongs (Von Schweinitz/Balch/Lewis)
New Focus Recordings/2026
soprano: Charlotte Mundy; mezzo soprano: Elisa Sutherland; countertenor: Timothy Parsons; tenor: Tomás Cruz; bass: Steven Hrycelak; baritione, director: Jeffrey Gavett; all: ratchets; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, New York, January 18-119, 2026; composer: Katherine Balch; composition year: 2021; time: 6:43

The Scavenger Quartet: How we came ashore?
Whistling for Leftovers
Snowdonia Records/2003
drums, percussion, tuned propane tanks: Doug Gourlay; flutes, saxophones, recorders; bass, conch shells: Joel Peterson; additional noises and instruments, composition: Frank Pahl; time: 5:49

SET FOUR
Raul Lafuret Pereyra: Anillo en Abril (selections)
a. Esteriles Campos (4:09)
b. Montjüic (1:48)
Anilo en Abril
Goethe-Institut Córdoba/2002
fixed media: Raul Lafuret Pereyra; selections time: 6:00

Philip Mantione: Country Inn
Containers
Scattered Music/2000
samples, computer: Philip Mantione; composition year: 2000, for Alysse Stepanian‘s video “Country Inn,” time: 6:06

Sarah Peebles: The Curse of Border Vacuums, part I
Insect Groove
Cycling ’74/2002
computers (Max, Sample Cell, Unity DS-1 software): Sarah Peebles; time: 5:18

Hour 3

SET FIVE
Alvin Lucier: Risonanza
Broken Line
Mode Records/2015
(for resonant objects and optional electronics); sine waves via G2 Nord synthesizer, electric exciters, oil barrel, crash symbol; recorded by Trio Nexus (Erik Drescher, Sebestian Berweck, Martin Lorenz) at Siemensvilla Berlin Lankwitz, Germany, July 2012; time: 13:12

Terumi Narushima: He Resonates Five Toes
Why Record? (various artists)
Life in the Age of Digital Performance
Electronic Music Foundation/2008
(for koto and electronics); koto: Terumi Narushima; recorded by Warren Burt, 2008; time: 2:17

SET SIX
Martin Supper: Fragment
Open Spaces 2005 (various artists)
Music Around Benjamin Boretz
Open Space-Perspectives of New Music/2005
for speaker, two-channel tape, loudspeaker; speaker: Hans Zischler; composition year: 2003; time: 12:35

Philip Corner: Lucinda’s Pastime (I & II)
I. 6:04
II. Andante Cantabile (5:05)
On Tape — From the Judson Years
Alga Marghen/1998
sound sources: kitchen sink, dishware, crockery at Sullivan Street, New York City, apartment via Wollensak tape recorder; for a dance by Lucinda Childs; composition year: 1962; selections time: 11:09

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David Tudor: Pepscillator
The Art of David Tudor 1963 – 1992 (boxed set)
New World Records/2013
(for live electronics); live electronics: David Tudor;  recorded at the Pepsi Pavillion, Expo ’70, Osaka, Japan, 1970; time: 11:37

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