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Martian Gardens Episode 1270
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
August 20, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

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Joseph Franklin: Elasticity (The Horror of the Avant-Garde(s), Movement I)
The Horror of the Avant-Garde(s)
New Focus Recordings/2026
piano soloist: Marc Hannaford; flutes: Satoshi Takeishi, Laila Engle; clarinets: Luke Carbon; oboe, cor anglais: Jasper Ly; double-bell trumpet: Callum G’Froerer; double-bell bass trombone: Benjamin Anderson; percussion: Louise Devenish; harp: Melina Van Leeuwen; violins: Joseph Fanklin, Sophia Kirsanova; viola: Phoebe Green; cello: Anna Pokorny; conductor: Elliott Gyger; recorded at Prudence Myer Studio, University of Melbourne, Australia, August 18, 2023; composition year: 2023; time: 13:29

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Raven Chacon: Voiceless Mass
Voiceless Mass
New World Records/2025
Present Music (flute: Jancie MacDonald; bass clarinet: Zachary Good; clarinet: Bill Helmers; percussion: Carl Stormiolo, Alex Wier, electronics: Marty Butorae; organ: John Orfe; violin: Jeanyi Kim-Mandel, Alex Ayers; viola: Erin Pipal; cello: Adrien Zitoun; bass: Christian Dillingham), conductor: David Bloom; recorded at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; November 21, 2023; composition year: 2021; time: 17:54
Pulitzer Prize

SET ONE
Schanzer/Speach Duo: The Villager (L. Bowie)
Live in Brooklyn 1992-2002
Neuma Records/2026
trumpet: Lester Bowie; guitar: Jeffrey Schanzer; piano: Bernadette Speach; recorded at LaFayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, May 7, 1994; time: 9:02

Roscoe Mitchell: 1999/2002
Tech Ritter and the Megabytes
Solo (3)
Mutable Music/2003
flute and percussion cage: Roscoe Mitchell; recorded at Audio for the Arts, Madison, Wisconsin; time: 8:46

Hour 2

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Jin Hi Kim: Eternal Rock II
The Jin Hi Kim Collection
Neuma Records/2026
drum soloist: Gerry Hemingway; The Boston Modern Orchestra Project, conductor: Gil Rose; recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, March 10, 2006; composition year: 2006; time: 18:54

SET TWO
Lei Liang: Listening for Blossoms
Bamboo Lights
Bridge Records/2014
The Cicada Chamber Ensemble (flute: Wendy Stern; harp: Barbara Allen; violin: Shelby Yamin; viola: Xin-yi Xu; contrabass: William Blossom; piano: Heidi Upton); recorded at Greenville Community Church, Scarsdale, New York, December 16, 2013; composition year: 2011; time: 10:56

Lei Liang: Season 6: Sunrise
Six Seasons — Instrumentation Lab
New Focus Recordings/2026
ensemble [nec]shivaree (viola: Nicolette Sullivan-Cozza; cello: Kei Otake; contrabass: Mark Abramovski; electric guitars: Kai Burns, Evan Haskin; pianos: Jessica Yuma, Ranfei Wang, Stephen Drury); recorded at Jordan Hall, Boston, October 1, 2024; composition year: 2022; time: 8:48

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Elsa Justel: L’ombre du pont (selections)
a. C’est lui (3:11)
b. Wessen (7:23)
L’ombre du pont
empreintes DIGITALes/2024
a. (stereo fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Paris, 2008; premiered at Hommage aux 80 and de Francis Dhomont, Brussels, October 21, 2006 (sic.); b. (8-channel fixed medium); realized at the composer’s studio, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2017 (tribute to Beatriz Ferreyra); selections time: 10:34

Hour 3

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Beatriz Ferreyra: La ba-balle du chien-chien à la me-mère
IMEB Compendium International 2001 Bourges (various artists)
Mnémosyne Musique Média/2001
electroacoustic music realized at IMEB, Bourges, France, 2001; time: 11:17

SET THREE
Mark Kirschenmann: Return to Sender
Return to Sender
Neuma Records/2026
no-input mixer, trumpet: Mark Kirschenmann; time: 6:06

John Bischoff: Surface (selections)
a. Five Segments #3 (3:04)
b. Five Segments #1 (3:07)
Surface
Artifact Records/2022
electronics: John Bischoff; recorded at the composer’s studio, Berkeley, California, 1994-1995; time: 6:11

The Hub: Crybaby
Wreckin’ Ball
Artifact Records/1994
samples (sound sources: wah-wah pedals, monster truck engines, heavy metal guitar solos), signal processing: The Hub (John Bischoff, Mak Trayle, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Phil Stone); composer: Mark Trayle; time: 4:33

SET FOUR
Pauline Oliveros: Team and Desecrations Improvisation (excerpt)
Reverberations
Tape & Electronic Music 1960 -1970
Imprec/2012
tape, processing: Pauline Oliveros; recorded at the University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, 1966; excerpt time: 10:00

Richard Maxfield: Night Music
New Sounds in Electronic Music [various artists]
Odyssey/ 1967
tape music: Richard Maxfield; composition year: 1960; time: 9:05

Sarah Peebles: 10 Below
Deep Wireless 8
Radio Arts Compilation
New Adventures in Sound Art/2009
electronics: Sarah Peebles; time: 0:59

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