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Martian Gardens Episode 1265
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
June 21, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Eric Chasalow: Third Piano Trio: Rock Hill Variations
…arching, reaching, breathless
New Focus Recordings/2026
violin: Clara Lyon; cello: Hannah Collins; piano: Steven Beck; recorded at Slosberg Music Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; composition year: 2022; time: 8:53

Ursula Mamlok: String Quartet No. 2
I. With Fluctuating Tension (3:44)
II. Larghetto (5:02)
III. Joyful (3:59)
Ursula Mamok Volume 3
Bridge Records/2011
Sonar String Quartet (violin: Kirsten Harms; violin: Susanne Zapf; viola: Nikola Schlierf; cello: Cosima Gerhardt; recorded at Deutschefunk, Köln, November 10, 2010; composition year: 1998; total time: 12:45

SET TWO
Carrie Rose: Legacy Variations #1 (S.S. Smith)
Books of Flutes (various composers)
11 West Records/2008
(for any three treble sustaining instruments); flutes: Lisa Cella, Carrie Rose, Kathie Trahan; composer: Stuart Saunders Smith; composition year: 1972; time: 6:53

Third Coast Percussion: Reflections on the Nature of Water III & IV (J. Druckman)
III. Tranquil (2:45)
IV. Gently Swelling (2:09)
Paddle to the Sea (various composers)
Çedille/2017
marimba (III): Robert Dillon; marimba (IV): David Skidmore; recorded at Electrical Audio, Chicago, December 2016; composer: Jacob Druckman; composition year: 1986; total selections time: 4:55

Bonnie Whiting and Eliza Brown: Fortitude (L. Johnson)
Through the Eye(s) (various composers)
Neuma Records/2026
speaking percussionist: Bonnie Whiting; project facilitator: Eliza Brown; music, text: LaDawn Johnson for the Making Music for Percussion and Human Voice project, Indiana Women’s Prison; time: 2:44

SET THREE
Luka Ligeti: Uncommon Notion
Notebook
New World Records/2026
Notebook group (saxophone: Dan Blake; synthesizer: Tom McNalley; guitar: Eyal Moaz; drums: Lukas Ligeti; violin: Adrianna Mateo; trombone: Rick Parker); recorded in Brooklyn, August 2017; composition year: 2017; time: 11:39

Tim Brady: As Softly Sounds
Go
Ambiances Magnétiques/2006
electric guitar: Tim Brady; time: 3:12

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Blind Labyrinth: Synaesthete’s Night Out at Café Oto
MP3
Blind Labyrinth: Kenneth Downey, Robert Gross; spoken word, text: Pauline Sewards; baritone: Brandon Gibson; mezzo soprano: Brooke Clark Gibson; composed and recorded at Gross’ home studio, Denton, Texas, May 18, 2016; time: 16:55

Yao Hsiao: Daiyu
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 35 (various artists)
New Focus Recordings/2026
voice, iPad: Yao Hsiao; time: 4:24

SET FIVE
Zack Browning: Cosmic Changes*
Rock Galaxy
Neuma Records/2025
flute: Elisa Moles; harp: Molly O’Roark; recorded at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, June 2025; composition year: 2022; time: 11:51
*planetary magic squares.

Susan Allen: In a Landscape (J. Cage)
Postcard from Heaven (various composers)
New World Records/2015
harp: Susan Allen; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts, January 13, 2014; composer: John Cage composition year: 1948; time: 8:43

SINGLE PLAY
John Cage: Third Construction
The Works for Percussion 2
Mode Records/2012
(for four percussionists and numerous percussion instruments and percussed objects); Third Coast Percussion (Owen Clayton Condon, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore); recorded at Boutell Memorial Concert Hall, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb; June 2011; composition year: 1941; time: 10:17

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Stéphane Roy: Appartenances (selections)
a. Théme celte (6:08)
b. Théme latin (10:05)
Migrations
empreintes DIGITALes/2003
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2003; premiered at the Rien à Voir (13) concert, Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, March 2003; total selections time: 16:13

SET SIX
Rajmil Fischman: And I Think to Myself…
…a ‘wonderful’ world
Electronic Music Foundation/2007
fixed media, 2001

Abel Ehrlich: The Dream About Strange Terrors
Composing Israel (various artists)
The First Three Generations
Neuma Records/2023
flutes: Elizabeth Brightbill, Deanna Matthews Kilbourne; premiered at the New Music from Israel Concert, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, 1987; composition year: 1986; time: 3:00

SET SEVEN
Diego tedesco: Portrait #1 (for Miranda Cuckson)
Varietas
New Focus Recordings/2026
(for violin and fixed media); violin: Miranda Cuckson; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York, January 18, 2023; composition year: 2020; time: 8:45

Miranda Cuckson and Blair McMillen: Allegro giusto (W. Lutoslawski)
Partita for Violin and Piano, Movement I
Bartok/Schnittke/Lutoslawski
ECM New Series/2016
violin: Miranda Cuckson; piano: Blair McMillen; Auditorio Stelio Molo Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, Switzerland, January 2015; composer: Witold Lutoslawski; composition year: 1984; time: 4:11

Harold Meltzer: Kreisleriana, Movement II
Songs and Structures
Bridge Records/2018
violin: Miranda Cuckson; piano: Blair McMillen; composition years: 2012, 2014; time: 3:17

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