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Martian Gardens Episode 1273
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 21, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com
Radio: WXOJ, Valley Free Radio, Northampton, MA
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Hour 1

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Ingram Marshall: September Canons
September Canons
New World Records/2009
violin, electronic processing: Todd Reynolds; a lamentation on the events of September 11, 2001; composition year: 2002; time: 13:13

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Eric Chasalow: Second Quartet
…arching, reaching, breathless
Music for Strings
New Focus Recordings/2026
Lydian String Quartet (violins: Andrea Segar, Judith Eissenberg; viola: Mark Berger; cello: Joshua Gordon); recorded at Dimension Sound, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; composition year: 2019; time: 15:20

SET ONE
Galan Trio: Far Beyond (J.P. Oliveira)
Kinesis, Vol. 3 (various composers)
Neuma Records/2026
Galan Trio (piano: Petros Bouras; violin: Babis Karasavvidis; cello: Marina Kolovou); Kinesis 3 recorded at National Kapodistrian University of Athens, May 2024 — January 2025; composer: Joao Pedro Oliveira; composition year: unlisted; time: 8:34

Hilary Kleinig: Tomorrow Will be Fair
Alone : Together
Navona Records/2026
cello, electronics: Hilary Kleinig; recorded at Wizadtone Studios, Adelaide, Australia; composition year: unlisted; time: 4:37

Horatiu Rădulescu: Lux Animae, Op. 97
The Complete Cello Works
Mode Records/2019
cello: Catherine Marie Tunnell; recorded at Hardstudios, Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland, June 28-29, 2018; composition year: 1996; time: 6:26

Hour 2

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Jin Hi Kim: Monk Dance
The Jin Hi Kim Collection
Neuma Records/2026
New Haven Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Jong Ho Pak; standing bulks: Jin Hi Kim; recorded at Woolsey Hall, New Haven, Connecticut, March 24, 2007; composition year: 2007; time: 10:16

SET TWO
Meredith Monk: Songs of Ascension (selections)
a. Autumn Variation (2:48)
b. Fathom (4:37)
Songs of Ascension
ECM New Series/2011
a. violins: Todd Reynolds, Courtney Orlando; viola: Nadia Sirota; cello: Ha-Yang Kim; alto saxophone: Bohdan Hilash; percussion: John Hollenbeck; b. vocals, shruti box: Meredith Monk; recorded at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, November 2009; selections time: 7:25

Meredith Monk: I Don’t Know
Do You Be
ECM/1987
voice, piano: Meredith Monk; Do You Be recorded at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany, and Clinton Studios, New York City, June 1986 and January 1987; time: 3:31

Diego Tedesco: De los sos ojos
Varietas
New Focus Recordings/2026
soprano: Natalia Cappa; recorded at Estudio Puntoar, Buenos Aires, composition year: 2023; time: 11:37

SET THREE
James Dashow: Soundings in Pure Duration No. 8
Soundings in Pure Duration, Vol. 2
Ravello Records/2022
(for bass baritone and octophonic electronic sounds); bass baritone: Nicholas Isherwood; text: Stephen Dobyns, “Art et. Al.” composed and recorded 2014-2017; time: 14:36

Malcolm Goldstein: Configurations in Darkness
Soweto Stomp
Mode Records/2016
violin: Malcolm Goldstein; recorded at Hotel2Tango, Montreal, February 2015; composition year: 1995; time: 5:22

Hour 3

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Extradition Ensemble: Music Art Ideal (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: 2021; time: 10:55

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Hildegard Westerkamp: Türen der Wahrnehmung (excerpt)
Doors of Perception
Radius #4 (various artists)
What Next–Nonsequitur/1995
(stereo fixed medium); field recordings, sound curation: Hildegard Westerkamp; composition year: 1989; time: 21:00 (orig. Austrian Radio broadcast 30:00)

SET FOUR
Benjamin Thigpen: pulse ii
Pulse
empreintes DIGITALes/2017
(5.2-channel fixed medium); Pulse realized at EMS, Stockholm, Visby International Centre for Composers, Sweden, and GRM, Paris, 2011-2015; selection time: 8:56

John Oliver: Ocean Spirits I
Warfire Welfare
John Oliver’s Bandcamp/2023
synthesizers, electronics: John Oliver; composition year: 2023; time: 2:53

George Crumb: Sea Nocturne (…for the end of time)
Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale)
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; time: 4:36

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