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Martian Gardens Episode 1271
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
August, 29, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SET ONE
Susan Narucki & Kirsten Ashley Wiest: Come Sempre (R. Hirs)
New Music for Two voices (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2026
soprano: Susan Narucki; coloratura soprano: Kirsten Ashley Wiest; recorded at Conrad Prebys Concert Hall, University of California San Diego, March 16-19, 2026; composer: Rozalie Hirs; composition year: 2025; time: 7:41

Judith Shatin: Three Summers Heat (selections)
a. It’s Midsummer and Too Hot to Walk (3:29)
b. Light Clothes! Few Clothes! (2:00)
CDCM Computer Music Series Volume 29 [various artists]
Music from VCCM: Virginia Center for Computer Music University of Virginia
Centaur Records/1999
soprano: Susan Narucki; text: Tzu Yeh (Chin Dynasty); recorded at Taplin Auditorium, Princeton University, August, 1998; composition year: 1989; total selections time: 5:29

Jeffrey Holmes: Myrkriða, Ljósleiðá (selections)
Rider of Darkness, Path of Light
a. Ljósleida II (Path of Light II) (3:00)
b. Myrkrida III (Rider of Darkness III) (3:28)
Rider of Darkness, Path of Light
MicroFest Records/2021
soprano, percussion: Kirsten Ashley Wiest; flute, alto flute: Tara Schwab; percussion: Yuri Inoo; guitar, percussion: Michael Kudirka; percussion, conductor: Jeffrey Holmes; recorded in Los Angeles; composition year: 2016; selections time: 6:28

SET TWO
James Lyon: Déjate Caer (C. Heredia)
Turning
Neuma Records/2026
violin: James Lyon; recorded at the Duderstadt Center, University of Michigan, 2012; composer: Carolina Heredia; time: 6:27

SUONO MOBILE Argentina: El Ojo de la Cerradura
SUONO MOBIEL Argentina (various composers)
20 Años – Volumen X (2015-2017)
Viajero Inmovil Ex]p[rimental/2026
SUONO MOBIEL Argentina (flute: Cecilia Ulloque; clarinet: Eduardo Spinelli; violin: Juliana Rufail; contrabass: Gustavo Aiziczon; piano: Emilio Chavesta; composer: Raymi Acebo Vietto; composer: Manuel Esteban; composition year: 2017; time: 6:27

Barney Childs: Sonata for Solo Clarinet, Movement I
Heaven to Clear When the Day Did Close
New Focus Recordings/2016
clarinet: Philip Rehfeldt; recorded at the University of California Redlands, January, 2001; time: 3:57; composition year: 1951; time: 3:27

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: One on One
Open Space 60
Group Variations/Partita/One on One
Open Space/2026
clarinet: Hideko Kikuchi; composition year: 2017; time: 14:17

Hour 2

SET THREE
Kyle Grimm: Twist, Then Pull (A. Wyanski)
Forever Eve
Neuma Records/2026
(for double bass and fixed media); double bass, electronics: Kyle Grimm; composer: Aaron Wyanski; composition year: 2023; time: 7:12

Robert Carl: Splectra, Part 2
Splectra
Cold Blue Music/2019
(for harp and digital processing); harp: Alison Bjorkedal; recorded to Architecture Studios, Los Angeles, July 2019; composition year: 2019; time: 6:33

SET FOUR
George Crumb: Music of the Starry Night
from Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III)
Complete Crumb Edition, Volume 4
Bridge Records/2001
(for two amplified pianos and percussion); Quattro Mani (pianos: Susan Grace, Alison Rybak; percussion, slide whistles: John Kinzie, David Colson); recorded at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, August 2000; composition year: 1974; time: 11:56

Hypercube: Western Music (M. Castro-Lima)
Trace (various composers)
New Focus Recordings/2026
Hypercube (saxophone: Erin Rogers; keyboards: Andrea Lodge; electric guitar: Jay Sorce; percussion: Christopher Graham); Trace recorded at Adelphi Performing Arts Center, Garden City, New York and Purchase College Performing Arts Center, Purchase, New York; composer: Marcel Castro-Lima; composition year: 2022; time: 7:27

SINGLE PLAY
NakedEye Ensemble: Punching the Clock (R. Woolf)
Storylines Crossing (various composers)
Starkland/2018
(for chamber ensemble and pre-recorded media); NakedEye Ensemble; recorded at Kinsey Audio, Lancaster, PA, and Right Coast Recording, Columbia, PA; composer: Randall Woolf; composition year: 2015; time: 13:58

Happy birthday, Randy Woolf (b. August 23, 1959)

Hour 3

SET FIVE
João Pedro Oliveira: N’vi’ah
Metamorphoses 2024 (various artists)
Influx/2025
fixed media, 8 channels: João Pedro Oliveira; composition year: 2022; time: 11:00

Sophie Delafontaine: Tout ça à cause de Junon (All because of Juno)
Accord ouvert
empreintes DIGITALes/2019
electroacoustic music in stereo medium; text: Ovid; realized at the composer’s studio, Brussels, 2013; premiered at the Concert de clôture “Mondialité” of the Journées nationales de l’électroacoustique 2013, Auditorium Henri Dutilleux, Amiens, France, December 4, 2013; time: 9:52

SET SIX
Robert Gross: Hexagonal Labyrinth II
(WAV file)
electronics: Robert Gross; Blank Experiment — oboe: Ava Wirth; clarinet: Michelle Cusick; tenor saxophone: Andrew Hosler; bassoon: Maya Grossman; harp: Danielle Kuntz; recorded at the Cleveland Institute of Music, August 2023; electroacoustic content recorded at the composer’s home studio; composition year: 2024; time: 10:35

Hilda Paredes: Páramo de voces
Señales
Mode Records/2016
(for piano and tape); piano: Alberto Rosado; recorded at Teatro Liceo de Salamanca, Spain, January 13, 2015; composition year: 2000; time: 13:37

SINGLE PLAY
Olly Wilson: A City Called Heaven, Part I
Music for Chamber Ensemble (various composers)
Neuma Records/1992
The Boston Musica Viva (flute: Renée Krimsier; clarinet: William Wrzesien; violin: Nancy Cirillo; viola: Katherine Anderson; cello: Ronald Lowry; piano: John McDonald),  conductor: Richard Pittman; recorded April 1989 (world premier); composition year: 1988; time: 6:00

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