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Martian Gardens Episode 1266
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 3, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Diego Tedesco: Capriccio
Varietas
New Focus Recordings/2026
(for violin and 13 instruments); violin: Miranda Cuckson; Composers Conference Ensemble, conductor: James Baker; recorded at Wellesley College, June 22, 2017; composition year: 2016; time: 10:15

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

Harold Meltzer: Kreisleriana (selections)
I. (3:11)
II. (3:17)
Songs and Structures
Bridge Records/2018
violin: Miranda Cuckson; piano: Blair McMillen; composition years: 2012-2014; selections time: 6:28

SET TWO
Neil Rolnick: Fiddle Faddle
Shadow Quartet
Innova Recordings/2005
computer interactive violin: Todd Reynolds; recorded at Elff Productions, Brooklyn; composition year: 2003 time: 7:28

Nick Didkovsky: Ice Cream Time Tango
Ice Cream Time
New World Records/2007
electric guitar, laptop: Nick Didkovsky; sampling: Thomas Dimuzio; saxophones: ARTE Quartett; recorded at SRG (Swiss National Radio) Studio 2, Zürich, September 2006; composition year: 2003; selection time: 4:20

Ken Field: Canned Chicken
Pictures of Motion
sFz Recordings/1999
alto saxophone: Ken Field; drums: Eric Paull; acoustic bass: John Styklunas; recorded at Supersonic, Cambridge, Massachusetts; March 1999; time: 4:14

SET THREE
Nick May & Alex Siu Lun Li: White Socks?! (S. Zhang)
You Me Us
Neuma Records/2025
saxophone: Nick May; piano: Alex Siu Lun Li; recorded at Swarthout Recital Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence; July 29-31, 2025; composer: Sebastian Zhang; composition year: 2023; time: 5:54

Brian Eno: Juju Space Jazz
Nerve Net
Opal-Warner Bros/1992
guitar: Robert Fripp; rhythm guitar: Robert Quine; organ, tenor saxophone, bass: Brian Eno; voice: Nell Catchpole; time: 4:26

Hour 2

SET FOUR
Chantal Dumas: The Piano Tuning
Deep Wireless 8 — Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2011
electroacoustic music, voice: Chantal Dumas; text: Fortner Anderson; composition year: 2010; time: 14:20

In memory of Chantal Dumas (1959-2026)

Olivier Messiaen: Amen de la Création
Visions de l’Amen
Bridge Records/2010
piano I: Marilyn Nonken; piano II: Sarah Rothenberg; recorded at Strude Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, Texas, May 2009; composition year: 1943; time: 6:27

SINGLE PLAY
Craig Pepples: Boris Variations
Open Space 43 — Pepples/Takahashi
Open Space/2020
pianos: Ryan McCollough, Andrew Zhou; composition year: 2013; time: 14:11

SET FIVE
Percussia: Variasi Ombak (M. Welch)
a. Kawitan (1:48)
b. Urlar (2:32)
c. Siubahl (2:45)*
d. Gambangan (3:40)*
Murmuration (various composers)
Neuma Records/2025
Percussia (percussion: Ingrid Gordon, Frank Cassara; flute: Margaret Lancaster; harp: Susan Jolles; viola, fadolin: Llova; soprano: Melissa Fogerty); composer: Matthew Welch; composition year: 2008; total time: 10:00

Susan Allen: An die Tueren Will Ich Schleichen (G. Coates)**
Perchance to Dream, Mvt. II (I Shall Quietly Steal from Door to Door)
Postcard from Heaven (various composers)
New World Records/2015
harp: Susan Allen; bowed vibraphone: Colton Lytle; recorded at the California Institute of the Arts, April 20, 2014; composer: Gloria Coates; composition year: 2014; selection time: 6:25

Lou Harrison: Bubaran Robert
6 Pieces for Gamelan Slendro (various composers)
Ensemble 0 and Eklekto
Mode Records/2021
piccolo: Júlia Gállego; gamelan: Júlia Gállego, Alexandre Babel, Maximilen Dazas, Louis Delignon, Julien Garin, Stéphane Garin, Jeanne Larrouturou, Mark Lockett; recorded at Studio Ernest-Ansermet, Geneva, Switzerland, March 29, 2015; composer: Lou Harrison; composition years: 1976, revised 1981; time: 2:15

*Not included on podcast due to restriction by Mixcloud
**Podcast only

Hour 3

SET SIX
Stéphane Roy: Théme Oriental
Appartenances 
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; selection time: 10:53

Chantal Dumas: Ondes sismiques (Seismic Waves)
Oscillations planétaires
empreintes DIGITALes/2019
(stero fixed medium); Oscillations planétaires realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2017-2018, revised 2019; premiered on program Klangkunst, Deutschlandfunk Kulture, July 13, 2018; selection time: 4:23

In memory of Chantal Dumas (1959-2026)

Robert Scott Thompson: Earthquake Weather
Cosmic Fire
Aucourant Records/2008
electronic music: RST; composition year: 1995; time: 4:45

SET SEVEN
Marcin Pączkowski: Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed
Music from SEAMUS Vol. 35 (various artists)
New Focus Recordings/2026
interactive electronics: Marcin Pączkowski; composition year: 2022; time: 11:32

Natasha Barrett: Ghosts of the Children
Toxic Colour
Natasha Barrett’s Bandcamp/2025
field recordings, ambisonics: Natasha Barrett; time: 8:35

SINGLE PLAY
Elżbieta Sikora: Rouge d’été (Red Summer)
Les Saisons 1972 [GMEB] — 2002 [IMEB] (various artists)
IMEB/2002
electroacoustic music on tape: Elżbieta Sikora; realized at IMEB, Bourges, France; composition year: 2002; time: 10:28

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