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Martian Gardens Episode 1267
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
July 13, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Ursula Mamlok: Breezes
I. Slow (2:24)
II. ♩ = ca. 52 (2:54)
Ursula Mamlok Volume V
Bridge Records/2016
Musicians of the Spectrum Concerts, Berlin (clarinet: Lars Wouters van den Oudenweijer; violin: Alexander Sitkovetsky; viola: Hartmut Rhode; cello: Jens Peter Maintz; piano: Naomi Niskola); recorded at Kammermusiksaal, Berliner Philharmonie, April 2015; composition year: 2015; total time: 5:18

SET ONE
Matthew Burtner/Chris Chafe: The Metered Tide, Refrain 1
Soundscapes of Restoration
Music, Sonifications & Field Recordings
Ravello Records/2023
EcoSono Ensemble (pipa, piano: Siyang Sophia; flute: Kelly Sulick; soprano saxophone: Matthew Burtner; trumpet: Glen Whitehead; viola: Brian Lindgren; cello: Kevin William Davis); time: 3:37

Robert Honstein: The Great Marsh (selections)
I. Salt Hay (5:25)
IV. Estuary (7:37)
Horizon Line
New Focus Recordings/2026
violins: Alyssa Wong, Kiyoshi Hayashi; viola; Beste Tiknaz Modiri; cello: Jacques Lee Wood; recorded at Futura Recordings, Boston, January 15, 2025; composition year: 2016

Matthew Burtner/Chris Chafe: The Metered Tide, Refrain 2
Soundscapes of Restoration
Music, Sonifications & Field Recordings
Ravello Records/2023
EcoSono Ensemble (pipa, piano: Siyang Sophia; flute: Kelly Sulick; soprano saxophone: Matthew Burtner; trumpet: Glen Whitehead; viola: Brian Lindgren; cello: Kevin William Davis); time: 3:35

SET TWO
Iman Habibi: Sulfuric Rivers
Project Encore, Vol. 2 (various composers)
Neuma Records/2025
alto and soprano saxophones: Timothy McAllister; piano: Liz Ames; Project Encore recorded at Britton Recital Hall and Stamps Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 20-24, 2024; composition year: 2024; time: 3:33

John Luther Adams: Dark Wind
Adams Cox Fink Fox
Cold Blue Music/2002
bass clarinet: Marty Walker; vibraphone, marimba: Amy Knoles; piano: Bryan Pezzone; recorded at Architecture Studio, November 2001; composition year: 2001; time: 13:20

Catherine Likhuta: Moment of Impact
Project Encore, Vol. 2 (various composers)
Neuma Records/2025
alto and soprano saxophones: Timothy McAllister; piano: Liz Ames; Project Encore recorded at Britton Recital Hall and Stamps Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 20-24, 2024; composition year: ?; time: 2:42

Hour 2

SET THREE
Diego Tedesco: Portrait #2 (for Dan Lippel)
Varietas
New Focus Recordings/2026
(for guitar and electronics); guitar: Dan Lippel; recorded at Oktaven Audio, Mt. Vernon, New York; composition year: 2020; time: 5:57

Mario Davidovsky: Synchronisms No. 10
Flashbacks
Bridge Records/2000
(for guitar and electronic sounds); guitar: David Starobin; composition year: 1992; time: 9:25

SET FOUR
Luis Tabuenca: Insula Dulcamara
Naturstudium
Mode Records/2023
homemade percussion instruments: Luis Tabuenca; recorded at the Phonos Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, 2018; time: 10:46

Charles Amirkhanian: Pianola (Pas de mains) (selections)
a. Walzer Provarollo (5:27)
b. Antheil Swoon (2:14)
Loudspeakers
New World Records/2019
Kurzweil KS 2500 X, studio equipment: Charles Amirkhanian; Bösendorfer Disklavier player piano, piano rolls: Rex Lawson; recorded at studios Arts Plural, El Cerrito, California; Ballagio Electroacoustic Music Studio (BEAMS), Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Italy; Bösendorfer Imperial Grand programmed at Dulwich College, London, 1997; total selections time: 7:41

SET FIVE
Philip Perkins: You Wash Your Face and Smile at Me
Choral Works & The Apsaras
Artifact Recordings/2005
sounds recorded in various locations (a church near Port Moresby, Tabubil, Kiunga, the Highlands, the Fly River) in Papua New Guinea; time: 4:33

Aleš Friedl: Oda radosti (Ode to Joy)
Srečni Barvni Splet
Kuku/2025
musical narrative — Beethoven, Symphony 9, mvt. 4 (Ode to Joy); Bach, Cantata BWV 147 (Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring); student ensemble Štrom of the First Gymnasium Maribor) Jerko Novak (music), Kejetan Kovič (text), (Maček Muri); Shaolin monk on television; gibbon calls; patriotic music by Stanko Premrl; Friedl’s pianino 19 and pianino 20, piano: Nika Tkalec; Audacity software; time: 8:24

Madjid Tahriri: Tombak
Deep Wireless 7
Radio Arts Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2010
stereo fixed medium (sound source: Tombak): Majid Tahriri; composition year: 2007; time: 4:51

Hour 3

SET SIX
Sascia Pellegrini: The Second White
White
The Repository/2025
electronics, processing: Sascia Pellegrini; time: 10:22

Thomas Buckner & Tom Hamilton: Segment J
Jump the Circle, Jump the Line
Mutable Music/2001
voice: Thomas Buckner; electronics: Tom Hamilton; recorded at Engine 27, New York City, December 1, 2000; time: 9:27

SINGLE PLAY
Stephanie Lamprea and Alistair MacDonald: Ellipsis (W. Bartley)
Ecstatic Visions (various composers)
Neuma Records/2026
soprano: Stephanie Lamprea; electronics: Alistair MacDonald; recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, April-July, 2025; composer: Wende Bartley; composition year: 1988; time: 14:29

SET SEVEN
Barry Truax: Solar Ellipse
Digital Soundscapes
Cambridge Street Records/1987
computer music: Barry Truax; time: 11:14

Martin Bédard: Topographie de la noirceur
Topographies
empreintes DIGITALes/2012
(stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2005; premiered at Les machines a communiquer concert, La Chapelle, Montreal, April 29, 2006; composition years: 2004, 2005; time: 3:54

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