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Martian Gardens Episode 1263
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
May 26, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Morris: Carnatic String Quartet, Mvt. I
Carnatic String Quartet
New World Records/2026
Momenta Quartet (violin: Emilie-Anne Gendron; violin: Alax Shiozaki; viola: Stephanie Griffin; cello: Michael Haas); recorded at Hatch Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York, October 25, 2023; time: 17:01

SET ONE
William Bland: Lento
Piano Sonata No. 15 in E Flat Minor, Movement II
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: 7:30

Christopher Shultis: Devisadero
I. Walking*
II. Wind Blowing
III. Fly Buzzing, Ant Running
IV. Walking Return
V. Bird Chirping, Rustling Leaf
VI. Wind Stopping
Waldmusik (2002-2016)
Neuma Records/2026
piano: Curt Caciappo; composition years: 2002-2007; time: 11:16
* “Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you.” — John 12:35b

SET TWO
Gérard Pape: String Quartet 2: Vortex
a. Movement I. Vortex (3:38)
b. Movement II. Elegy (3:35)
c. Movement III. Variations and Interpolations (3:26)
String Quartets
Neos-Music/2025
Neo Quartet (violins: Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka, Pawel Kapica; viola: Michal Markiewicz; cello: Krzysztof Pawlowski; recorded at Hofstelle Tolsefanz, November 24-25, 2024; composition year: 1989; time: 10:39

François-Bernard Mâche: Éridan, pour quatuor à cordes (excerpt)
Arditti Quartet 1974-1994 (various composers)
Montaigne Auvidis/1994
The Arditti Quartet (violins: Irvine Arditti, David Alberman; viola: Levine Andrade; cello: Rohan de Saram); recorded at St. Michael’s, Highgate, London, February 1990; composition year: 1986; time: 4:08

Hour 2

SET THREE
Lei Liang: Six Seasons — Instrumentation Lab: Solos (selections)
a. Season 3: Sunrise (1:45)
b. Season 4: Migration (7:00)
Six Seasons — Instrumentation Lab
New Focus Recordings/2026
a. loadbang (chamber group); b. trumpet: Andrew Kozar; recorded at the University of California San Diego; composition year: 2022; total selections time: 8:45

Ana Dall’Ara-Majek: Ostinato micromacro
Radiolaria
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, remixed at Studio Blue Spider, Montreal, 2022-2023, time: 13:56

SET FOUR
Matthew Burtner: Oyster Communion
Soundscapes of Restoration
Music, Sonifications, & Field Recordings
Ravello Records/2023
voice: Mari Hahn; EcoSono Ensemble, oyster shells, electronics; field recordings from coastal Virginia; time: 5:22

Sylvia Smith: Pacific Sirens (R. Erickson)
The Year Begins to be Ripe
11 West Records/Smith Publications/2008
timpani: Sylvia Smith; bass flute: Lisa Cella; flute, alto flute: Carrie Rose; voice, bowed gongs, cymbals: Lee Hinkle; additional voices: Bonnie Lander, Lisette Abreu, Megha Jacob; tape of Pacific Ocean sounds: Robert Erickson; composer: Robert Erickson; composition year: 1969; time: 13:52

SET FIVE
Sarah Peebles: Insect Groove
Insect Groove
Cycling ’74/2002
electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; altered electric guitar, Boomerang, Whammy 2, processors; Max software, Sample Cell 1 & 2 editing; Unity DS-1 sampler, shō: Sarah Peebles; time: 6:02

Jin Hi Kim: & Gerry Hemingway: Saturn’s Ring
Pulses
Auricle Records/2010
composition, electric komungo: Jin Hi Kim; percussion, drums: Gerry Hemingway; recorded Shutesbury, Massachusetts, August 18, 2010; time: 3:37

Hour 3

SET SIX
Bonnie Whiting: Nightly Storm (A. Strong)
Through the Eye(s) (various composers)
Neuma Records/2026
speaking percussionist: Bonnie Whiting; text, music: Ashley Strong; composition year: 2019; time: 5:33

Christian Wolff: I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Wolff Volume 2 — Chamber Works
I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman
Mode Records/1998
members of the Barton Workshop (voice: Judith Van Swaay; double bass: Jos Tieman; clarinet: John Anderson; violin: Marieke Keser); recorded at The Hilversum Conservatorium, Hilversum, The Netherlands; text: Susan Griffin; composition year: 1984; time: 6:05

SINGLE PLAY
Robert Scott Thompson: A View from Slemish to the South
Belfast Imagined
Soundscapes
Aucourant/2012
electronics, fixed media: Robert Scott Thompson; time: 17:17

SET SEVEN
David Bird: Ambient Machine
Hinterlands
New Focus Recordings/2026
bassoon: Ben Roidl-Ward; cello: Isidoa Nojkovic; composition year: 2024; time: 6:22

Joseph Klein: Dog (After W.S. Merwin)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 27 (various artists)
Music from CEMI — Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia
University of North Texas, Denton
Centaur Records/1998
(for female voice, bassoon, and intermedia); soprano: Heidi Dietrich Klein; bassoon: Kristin Wolfe Jensen; text: W.S. Merwin, Dogs; recorded in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater, CEMI, Denton, September 1997; composition year: 1997; time: 10:17

SET EIGHT
SUONO MOBILE Argentina: Arché (R. A. Vietto)
SUONO MOBIEL Argentina (various composers)
20 Años – Volumen X (2015-2017)
Viajero Inmovil Ex]p[rimental/2026
SUONO MOBIEL Argentina (flute: Cecilia Ulloque; clarinet: Eduardo Spinelli; violin: Juliana Rufail; contrabass: Gustavo Aiziczon; piano: Emilio Chavesta; composer: Raymi Acebo Vietto; composition year: 2017; time: 5:11

Raul Lafuret Pereyra: Narziss
Anilo en Abril
Goethe-Institut Córdoba/2002
fixed media: Raul Lafuret Pereyra; time: 1:40

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