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Martian Gardens Episode 1272
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 11, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com

Hour 1

SINGLE PLAY
Benjamin Boretz: Group Variations
Open Space 60
Group Variations/Partita/One on One
Open Space/2026
Ensemble NOMAD, conductor: Norio Sato; composition years: 1964-1967; time: 14:44

SET ONE
Florence Price: Piano Sonata in E Minor: Mvt. 1. Andante-Allegro
Piano Sonata and Other Works
Navona Records/2026
piano: Michael Clark; recorded at JMG Studios, Houston, Texas, August 29-31, 2025; composition year: 1932; time: 11:16

Walton Lott: Four Pieces for Piano, Part 1 (F. Rzewski)
Dreamlike: Violent, Impulsive
Impulses
Neuma Records/2026
piano: Walton Lott; composer: Federic Rzewski; composition year: 1977; time: 9:43

SET TWO
Lincoln Trio: Aqua (S. Okpebholo)
City Beautiful*, Movement I
Trios from Contemporary Chicago (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
The Lincoln Trio (violin: Desirée Ruhstrat; cello: David Cunliffe; piano: Marta Aznavoorian); recorded at Nicholas Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, March 2022; composer: Shawn E. Okpebholo; composition year: 2022; selection time: 3:21
*City Beautiful Movement; Aqua Tower; Prairie style; Daniel Burnham

Olly Wilson: A City Called Heaven, Mvt. 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

Hour 2

SET THREE
Olly Wilson: A City Called Heaven, Movements 2 & 3
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; total time: 14:15

Lincoln Trio: City Beautiful*, Movements 2 & 3 (S. Okpebholo)
a. Prairie (4:43)
b. Burnham (3:09)
Trios from Contemporary Chicago (various composers)
Çedille Records/2022
The Lincoln Trio (violin: Desirée Ruhstrat; cello: David Cunliffe; piano: Marta Aznavoorian); recorded at Nicholas Hall, Music Institute of Chicago, March 2022; composer: Shawn E. Okpebholo; composition year: 2022; selection time: 7:52
*City Beautiful Movement; Aqua Tower; Prairie style; Daniel Burnham

SET FOUR
Extradition Ensemble: 12-Tone Fluxus (P. Corner)
Extradition Plays Corner, Parte II
Extradition’s Bandcamp/2026
Extradition Ensemble (Extradition on EPC, Part II — cello: Colin Oldham, bass: Shao Way Wu; voice: Stephanie Lavon Trrotter; piano, turntable, electronics, voice, objects: Juniana Lanning; trombone, euphonium, voice, objects: Annie Gilbert; tenor and soprano saxophone: Ben Cohen-Chen; voice, electronics, piano, objects: Anthony Stillabower; electric and classical guitars: Gilly Ann Hanner; piano, voice: Jennifer Wright; percussion, objects: Matt Hannafin; percussion, objects: Loren Chasse; violin: Sam Klapper; oboe d’amore: Catherine Lee; flute: Maxx Katz; alto saxophone: Reed Wallsmith; guest musicians — glass instruments: Miguel Frasconi; pipe organ, piano, electronics: Mark Hannesson; alphorn, voice: Hilary Jeffery; viola: Noel Kennon; dobro: Casper Sonnet; bass VI: James Boulton; drums, electric guitar: Steph River Darensbourg); composer: Philip Corner; composition year: unlisted; time: 12:33

Beltline Bones: Wet Psalm (E. Beglarian)
Technological Eclipse
New Focus Recordings/2026
Beltline Bones trombone quartet, electronics, violin (trombones: Cole Bartels, Justin Coyne, Zach Bethel, Adam Nissenbaum), violin: Matheus Garcia Souza; composer Eve Beglarian; text: Linda Norton; composition year: 2008; time: 6:45

SET FIVE
Ken Field: Inside (Live)
Iridescence
Ravello Records/2020
sopranino saxophone, flute, percussion: Ken Field; percussion, gongs: Karen Stackpole; recorded at Tom’s Place, Berkeley, California, February 19, 2019; time: 4:34

Emily Hay: Liturgy of Sound
Like Minds
pfMentum/2005
flute, voice: Emily Hay; electronics, bass: Lisle Ellis; percussion, field recordings: Marcos Fernandes; recorded at Hit Single Studios, San Diego, California, 2004; time: 5:40

Hour 3

SET SIX
Adrian Moore: Voices in the Dark
Soulignment_
empreintes DIGITALes/2025
(stereo fixed medium); recorded at the composer’s studio, Sheffield, 2023; time: 5:25

Ricardo Dal Farra: …Due Giorni Dopo
Travels of the Spider (various artists)
Electroacoustic Music from Argentina
Pogus Productions/1998
composed and produced at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of Padova’s University, Italy, 1988; premiered at Centro Cultural Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 1988; composition year: 1988; time: 3:12

Stephanie Lamprea & Alistair MacDonald: Post-Singularity Songs
(selections) (R. Laidlow)
a. Creation Myth 1: In the Beginning (6:05)
b. Creation Myth 2: The Kingdom of Dust and Decay (4:14)
Ecstatic Visions
Neuma Records/2026
(for soprano and electronics); soprano: Stephanie Lamprea; text: Robert Laidlow via organic and artificial intelligence; Ecstatic Visions recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, April-July 2025; composer: Robert Laidlow; composition years: 2023-2024; selections time: 10:19

SET SEVEN
Aldo Clementi: Parafrasi 2
Works with Flutes
Mode Records/2010
(for alto flute and electronics); alto flute: Roberto Fabbriciani; electronics: Alvise Vidolin; recorded at Labratorio di Acustica Musicale e Architettronica, Foundazione Scuola di San Giorgio, Venice, Italy, April 2005; composition year: 2004; time: 10:25

Lindsey Goodman: Prowl (R. McClure)
Transporting Bright (various composers)
Navona Records/2025
(for alto flute and electronics); alto flute: Lindsey Goodman; recorded at PearlArts Movement & Sound, Braddock, Pennsylvania, May 15, 2025; composer: Robert McClure; composition year: 2024; time: 8:14

SET EIGHT
Anne La Berge: [sic] sauce
Blow
Frog Peak Music/1994
(for amplified flute and HMSL-driven computer); flute, computer: Anne La Berge; recorded at STEIM (Studio for Electro-Acoustic Music), Amsterdam; composition year: 1990; time: 7:46

George Crumb: Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) (selections)
a. Vocalise (…for the beginning of time); Variations on Sea-Time (4:36)
b. Sea Theme (1:18)
Complete Crumb Edition Vol. 12
Bridge Records/2008
members of ICE, The International Contemporary Ensemble (flute: Claire Chase; cello: Kivie Cahn-Lipman; piano: Jacob Greenberg; composition year: 1971; selections time: 5:54

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