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Martian Gardens Episode 1269
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 9, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Portland Percussion Group: The Fabric of Form (La Trama de la Forma) (A. Viñao)
Patterns & Form, Part III
Patterns & Form (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2026
piano: Yoko Greeney; Portland Percussion Group (Garrett Arney, Jonathan Brown, Brian Gardiner, Sijia Huang, Paul Owen, Brett Paschal, Terry Longshore, Christopher Whyte); recorded at Mountain View High School, Vancouver, Washington, June 2025; composer: Alejandro Viñao; composition year: 2024; time: 10:31

Meehan/Perkins Duo: Travel Diary (selections) (P. Lansky)
a. Leaving Home (5:01)
b. Arrived, Phone Home (6:27)
Travel Diary (various composers)
Bridge Records/2011
percussion: Todd Meehan, Douglas Perkins; recorded at Jones Concert Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 2010; composer: Paul Lansky; composition year: 2007; selections time: 11:28

SET TWO
Jin Hi Kim: Refracted Confluence
The Jin Hi Kim Collection
Neuma Records/2026
komungo: Jin Hi Kim; Max/Thunder computer system: David Wessel; recorded at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, January 7, 1991; composition year: 1991; time: 12:29

Timeless Pulse: track two
Live at CNMAT
Deep Listening/2002
accordion: Pauline Oliveros; electronics: David Wessel; percussion: George Marsh, Jennifer Wilsey; recorded live at CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, Berkeley, California), March 10, 2002; time: 10:24

SINGLE PLAY
Emma Carlé: Go Go Gadget Arms
Open Space 16 [various artists]
Open Space/2004
violins: Chris Van der Zee, Anna Broadbent, Eleanor Ryan; bonang barung Javanese gongs: Jo Hilder; composition year: 1999; time: 4:40

Hour 2

SET THREE
Schanzer/Speach Duo: Improvisation
Live in Brooklyn 1992-2002
Neuma Records/2026
Drumfolk Riddim Specialist: Dr. David Pleasant; guitar: Jeffrey Schanzer; piano: Bernadette Speach; recorded at LaFayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, June 14, 1997; time: 10:47

Big Black: Afro-Cuban Lullaby
Ethnic Fusion
Mutable Music/2001 (orig. 1750 Arch LP/1982)
tumbas, bongos: Big Black (aka Danny Rey); guitar: Anthony Wheaton; recorded at 1750 Arch Studios, Berkeley, California, 1981-1982; time: 7:27

Lou Harrison: Infinite Canon
Serenade suite, song 3
Por Gitaro
Suites for Tuned Guitars
Mode Records/2008
National Steel Guitar: John Schneider; percussion: Gene Sterling; recorded at the Harrison House, Joshua Tree, California, July 5, 2004; composition year: 1978; time: 2:27

SET FOUR
Giacinto Scelsi: Moderato
Hispania — Triptyque Pour Piano, Mvt. II
Scelsi Edition Volume 8– The Piano Works 4
Mode Records/2010
piano: Stephen Clarke; recorded at Teldex Studios, Berlin, Germany, October 29 and November 5, 2007; composition year: 1939; time: 10:33

Ben Johnston: Sonata for Microtonal Piano (selections)
a. Movement I (2:44)
b. Movement III (3:56)
Sound Forms for Piano (various composers)
New World Records/1995 (orig. LP/1976)
piano: Robert Miller; recorded at Columbia Recording Studios, New York City; composition year: 1964; selections time: 6:40

SET FIVE
Marcelle Deschênes: Lux (excerpt B)
petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
electroacoustic music composed with Alain Thibault for a multimedia presentation by Renée Bourassa; realized in 1985 at the Bruit Blanc studio in Montreal; premiered at (S)pace – SMCQ, Spectrum, Montreal; December 5, 1985; excerpt time: 5:55

Sarah Boothroyd: Forest to Desert
Deep Wireless 6 — Radio Art Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
electronics, sampling: Sarah Boothroyd; composition year: 2008; time: 2:34

Dick Mills: Major Bloodnok’s Stomach
BBC Radiophonic Workshop — A Retrospective (various artists)
BBC Music/2008
sound effects from the Goon Show, 1961; time: 0:10

Hour 3

SINGLE PLAY
Noah Meites: Fracture Mechanics
Counting
New Focus Recordings/2026
(for saxophone quartet); New Thread Quartet (soprano saxophone: Jonathan Hulting-Cohen; alto saxophone: Noa Even; tenor saxophone: Erin Rogers; baritone saxophone: Zach Herchen); recorded at the Ostin Music Center, Los Angeles, January 29, 2023; composition year: 2022; time: 10:42

SET SIX
Crippled Symmetry: Ritual in Four Parts I
Ritual in Four Parts
Amanita Music/2001
drums, percussion, electronics, piano, shenai, bamboo flute: Joseph Benzola; drums, electronic and acoustic percussion: John Asta; guitar, electronics: Doug Kolmar; recorded in New York City; time: 14:57

Marcelle Deschênes: Moll (excerpt C)
Moll, opéra lilliput pour six roches molles
petits Big Bangs
empreintes DIGITALes/2006
(for 2 clarinets, 3 trombones, 3 percussions, toys, and fixed media); clarinets: Pierre Langevin; trombones: Réjean Marois; percussion, toys: Robert Leroux, René Joly, Raynald Lévesque, Robert Pelletier; electroacoustic music realized at Laval University, Quebec City, 1976; premiered at Pollack Hall, McGill University, Montreal, March 18, 1976; this recording made by Jean Corriveau, Studio Jean Sauvageau, Montreal, 1978; remastered by Dominique Bassal, 2005; excerpt time: 3:06

SET SEVEN
Alain Savouret: Refus d’été
Les Saisons 1972 [GMEB] — 2002 [IMEB] (various artists)
IMEB/2002
electroacoustic music: Alain Savouret; composition year: 2002; time: 13:25

Scott Smallwood: Variations on a Door (No Sigh) (selections)
a. Door 1 (1:49)
b. Door 3 (1:29)
Desert Winds
Deep Listening/2002
field recordings, processing: Scott Smallwood (sound source: restroom door at the International Computer Music Conference, August 2000, Berlin); composition year: 2000; selections time: 3:18

Ingram Marshall: Cell Doors 
Alcatraz
New Albion Records/1994
electronic music: Ingram Marshall; composition years: early 1980s; time: 2:51

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