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Martian Gardens Episode 1268
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
July TBA, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

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Noah Creshevsky: Free Speech
60 x 60 2006-2007 (various artists)
Vox Novus/2008
voice, text: Chris Mann (“Any Questions”); clarinet samples: Al Margolis; trombone samples: Monique Buzzarte; composition year: 2006; time: 1:00

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Roger Reynolds: Sketchbook 
(for The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
For A Reason
Neuma Records/2023
(for low female voice, piano, and electronic processing); voice, piano: Liz Pearse; text: Milan Kundera; computer enhancement: Paul Hembree; recorded at Conrad Prebys Hall, University of California San Diego, June 22-23, 2022; composition year: 1985; time: 24:41

Happy 92nd Birthday, Roger Reynolds! (b. July 18, 1934)

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Lukas Ligeti: Kaleidoscopic Point
Notebook
New World Records/2026
Lukas Ligeti’s Notebook (saxophone: Dan Blake; synthesizer: Ricardo Gallo; electric guitar: Tom McNalley, Eyal Maoz; drums, glockenspiel, pre-recorded piano, whistling, conductor: Lukas Ligeti); recorded at Brooklyn Recording; mixed at Greyfade Studio, Brooklyn; time: 23:37

Hour 2

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Jeannine Wagar: Over There
Into the Night
Neuma Records/2025
electronic music: Jeannine Wagar; recorded 2024; time: 6:23

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Robert Scott Thompson: Metanoia
Shadow Gazing
Aucourant Records/1994
computer music: RST; Shadow Gazing composition years: 1988-1994; time: 18:16

SET ONE
Margaret Anne Schedel: Metanoia
Music from SEAMUS, Vol. 35 (various artists)
The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
New Focus Recordings/2026
(for electronics and clarinet); clarinet: Ford Fourqurean; composition year: 2023; time: 7:47

Margaret Anne Schedel: The Beautiful Don’t Lack the Wound
Stony Brook Soundings Volume 2 (various artists)
Bridge Records/2010
táragató, interactive electronics: Esther Lamneck; recorded at Harvestworks, New York City, May 2008; composition year: 2008; time: 11:41

SET TWO
Jeff Anderle: Mara’s Lullaby (M. Mellits)
Tight Sweater, Part 3
Warp & Weft
New Focus Recordings/2026
bass clarinet: Jeff Anderle; marimba: Haruka Fujii; piano: Kate Campbell; recorded at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco; composer: Marc Mellits; composition years: 2005, 2016; selection time: 4:32

Mara Helmuth: Mountain Wind
Mara Helmuth–Sound Collaborations
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 36
The Composer in the Computer Age XI
Centaur Records/2007
pipa: Ming Ke; flute: I-Yin Tu; alto flute: Carlos Velez; bassoon: James Massol; violin: Timothy O’Neil; cello: Kaylie Duncan; computer: Mara Helmuth; recorded at College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati; composition year: 2003; time: 7:25

Hour 3

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Corte Lippe: Music for Clarinet and ISPW
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 24 (various artists)
The Composer in the Computer Age — VII
Centaur Records/1997
(for The IRCAM Signal Processing Workstation and clarinet); clarinet: Esther Lamneck; recorded at the New York University Music Technology Studios, January 1996; post-production Harvestworks, New York City, Spring 1996; composition year: 1992; time: 18:00

SET THREE
Lindsey Goodman: For the Fallen (J. Shatin)
Returning to Heights Unseen (various composers)
New Music for Flute
Navona Records/2018
(for amplified flute and electronics); flute: Lindsey Goodman; recorded at Tuff Sound Recordings, Pittsburgh, September 15, 2017; composer: Judith Shatin; composition year: 2017; time: 7:11

Martin Bédard and Marie-Hélène Breault: Replica
Lames de Fond
empreintes DIGITALes/2022
(stereo fixed medium, sound source: flute); flute: Marie-Hélène Breault; composed and produced at the composer’s studio, Montreal, 2012-2013; premiered at the Mixed Spaces II concert, Salle Multi de Méduse, Quebec City, March 13, 2013; time: 14:33

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Henri Pousseur: Litanie du miel vesperal
Works for Flute
Mode Records/2019
bass flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; recorded in Florence, Italy, 2014; composition year: 1984; time: 8:55

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