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Martian Gardens Episode 1274
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
September 28, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com
Radio: WXOJ, Valley Free Radio, Northampton, MA
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Hour 1
SINGLE PLAY
Aleš Friedl: Largo, Andante
String Quartet #4
Open Space 61 — String Quartets: Pepples, Friedl
Open Space/2026
violins: Darragh Morgan, David Alberman; viola: Matt Jones; cello: Tim McGill; recorded at Potton Hall, Saxmoundham, Suffolk, UK, October 16 & 17, 2025; composition year: 2024; time: 15:21
SET ONE
Schanzer/Speach Duo: Improvisation (Lake/Schanzer/Speach)
Live in Brooklyn 1992-2002
Neuma Records/2026
alto saxophone: Oliver Lake; guitar: Jeffrey Schanzer; piano: Bernadette Speach; recorded at LaFayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, June 11, 1993; time: 7:21
Oliver Lake: Montana Grass Song (trad.; arr. Lake)
Oliver Lake Quartet Live
Passin’ Through Records/2006
vocals, Native American wood flute: Mary Redhouse; drums: Gene Lake; acoustic bass: Santi Debriano; Oliver Lake: alto sax, sopranino sax, spoken word; recorded at the Knitting Factory, New York City, May 19, 2001; time: 7:22
SET TWO
Ken Field: Cinders (Live) (Field/Rieman/Stackpole)
Iridescence
Ravello Records/2021
prepared piano: Eric Glick Rieman; gongs: Karen Stackpole; recorded at Tom’s Place, Berkeley, California, February 19, 2019; time: 8:15
José Martinez: Coalescencia
Short Stories
New Focus Recordings/2026
(for marimba de chonta, electronics); marimba de chonta: José Martinez; recorded at Atavismo Studio, Cali, Colombia; time: 10:06
Hour 2
SET THREE
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
Extradition Ensemble: Emily Listening #258 (P. Corner)
Extradition Plays Corner, Parte II
Extradition’s Bandcamp/2026
members of the Extradition Ensemble (soprano: Stephanie Lavon Trotter; cello: Colin Oldham); text: Emily Dickinson, There’s a Certain Slant of Light; composer: Philip Corner; composition year: 2021; time: 6:05
James Tenney: Beast
Postal Pieces
New World Records/2004
contrabass: Jos Tieman (Barton Workshop); Postal Pieces recorded in the Netherlands by the Barton Workshop, 2003; Beast composition year: 1971; time: 7:05
SET FOUR
Christopher Shultis: Wissahickon, Pulpit Rock, French Creek
Waldmusik (2002-2016)
Neuma Records/2026
piano: Ashley Oakley; percussion: Douglas Nottingham; composition year: 2008-2009; time: 11:55
Laurie Spiegel: Appalachian Grove III
The Expanding Universe
Unseen Worlds/2012
computers, synthesizer: Laurie Spiegel; recorded at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey, May-June 1974; composition year: 1974; time: 3:12
SET FIVE
Morton Subotnick: Butterfly No. 1
Volume 3 — Electronic Works
Until Spring: Revisited; 4 Butterflies
Mode Records/2011
composition for 4-channel tape (original mix 1973; new mix 2011); time: 7:46
Lindsey Goodman: Butterfly Within I & II (M. Helmuth)
a. Butterfly Within I. Serenity (3:34)
b. Butterfly Within II. I Am Radioactive (1:01)
Etereo (various composers)
New Music for Flute
Navona Records/2020
(for flute and fixed media); flute, fixed media: Lindsey Goodman; recorded at Weigel Hall Auditorium, The Ohio State University School of Music, Columbus, May 2019; composer: Mara Helmuth; composition years: 2006, 2012-2014; selections time: 4:34
Hour 3
SET SIX
Lindsey Goodman: Butterfly Within I & II (M. Helmuth)
a. Butterfly Within III. From Inside (2:01)
b. Butterfly Within IV. Seeing Within (1:31)
Etereo (various composers)
New Music for Flute
Navona Records/2020
(for flute and fixed media); flute, fixed media: Lindsey Goodman; recorded at Weigel Hall Auditorium, The Ohio State University School of Music, Columbus, May 2019; composer: Mara Helmuth; composition years: 2006, 2012-2014; selections time: 3:32
Hideko Kawamoto: Night Ascends from the Ear Like a Butterfly
Deep Wireless 2 — Radio Art Compilation (various artists)
New Adventures in Sound Art/2005
electroacoustic music: Hideko Kawamoto; inspired by Haruo Shibuya’s poem Coliseum in the Desert; composition year: 1999; time: 8:12
SET SEVEN
Annie Mahtani: Aeolian
Racines
empreintes DIGITALes/2020
(24-channel fixed medium; sound sources: wildlife sound recordings, College Valley, North Northumberland, England); realized at EMS, Stockholm; Electroacoustic Music Studios, University of Birmingham, UK, 2015-2016; premiered at the BEAST FEaST Festival, Birmingham, April 30, 2016; time: 12:57
Chris Watson: The Lapaich (1st 1/2)
Weather Report
Touch/2003
(field recordings; source: Scottish Highlands glen, September-December); audio recordings, processing, mixing: Chris Watson; excerpt time: 9:00 (of 18:00)
SET EIGHT
Frances White: Walk Through Resonant Landscape 5.2
In the Library of Dreams
Pogus Productions/2012
Electronic soundscape for Resonant Landscape installation; equipment: NeXT workstation, MIDI-controlled mixing console, two DAT tape players, and a sound system; time: 10:35
Lei Liang: Coda
Six Seasons — Ensemble
Six Seasons: Instrumentation Lab
New Focus Recordings/2026
[nec]shivaee ensemble (Viola: Nicholette Sullivan-Cozza; cello: Kei Otake; contrabass: Mark Abramovski; electric guitar: Kai Burns, Evan Haskins; piano: Jessica Yuma, Ranfei Wang, Stephen Drury; recorded at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, October 1, 2024; composition year: 2023; time: 4:14
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