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Martian Gardens Episode 1277
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
October TBA, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com
Radio: WXOJ, Valley Free Radio, Northampton, MA
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HOUR I
SINGLE PLAY
Lincoln Trio: Fast; with broad sweep (L. Sowerby)
Trio for violin, violoncello, and pianoforte, Mvt. III
Trios from the City of Big Shoulders (Bacon/Sowerby)
Çedille/2021
The Lincoln Trio (violin: Desirée Ruhstrat; cello: David Cunliffe; piano: Marta Aznavoorian); recorded at the Allen Recital Hall, DePaul University, Chicago, summer 2020; composer: Leo Sowerby; composition year: 1953; time: 9:09
SET ONE
Cornelius DuFallo: Suite for Electric Violin (selecions)
a. Carillon (3:16)
b. Passacaglia (3:50)
Dream Streets
Innova Rercordings/2009
electric violin: Cornelius DuFallo; recorded at BiCoastal Music, Ossining, New York; time: 7:06
Guy Barash/Cornelius DuFallo: Minutes (selections)
a. Minute 3 (1:06)
b. Minute 4 (1:01)
Minutes
New Focus Recordings/2026
violin: Cornelius DuFallo; electronics: Guy Barash; selections time: 2:07
Stephanie Lamprea & Georges Aperghis: 14 Récitations (selections)
a. Récitation 2 (2:00)
b. Récitation 11 (5:11)
14 Récitations
New Focus Recordings/2023
soprano: Stephanie Lamprea; recorded at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland, December 2021 – May 2022; composer: Georges Aperghis; composition years: 1977-1978; total selections time: 7:11
SET TWO
Professor Girlfriend: Circular Argument
My Mother in Love/The Summer Sessions
Neuma Records/2025
Professor Girlfriend (composer, lyricist, producer: Anna Weesner; vocals: Charlotte Mundy; guitar, bass guitar, engineer, producer: Charles Mueller); drums: Cameron LeCrone; violin: Jessica Thompson; flute: Laura Cocks; clarinet, bass clarinet: Madison Greenstone; oboe: Sian Ricketts; recorded at Tiny Panther Recording, Brooklyn, New York; time: 3:20
Beverly Johnston: To the Earth (F. Rzewski)
Finding Her Voice (various artists)
Navona Records/2026
voice, clay flowerpots: Beverly Johnston; recorded at the Canterbury Music Company, Toronto, July 29-31, 2025; composer: Frederic Rzewski; text adapted from Homeric Hymn XXX (To Eath/Gaia); composition year: 1985; time: 7:39
Jorge Reyes: El Huarachito
El Costumbre
Extreme Records/1993
flowerpots: Juan Carlos Lopez; flowerpots, metal noises, voice, tarahumara drum; final Zapateado (dance): Regina Quintero; recorded at the composer’s studio, Mexico City; time: 3:50
Bonnie Whiting: HER (L. Campbell)
Through the Eye(s) (various composers)
Neuma Records/2026
speaking percussionist: Bonnie Whiting; project facilitator: Eliza Brown; music, text: Lara Campbell for the Making Music for Percussion and Human Voice project, Indiana Women’s Prison; time: 3:49
SINGLE PLAY
Ernst Bacon: Vivace, ma non pesto
Trio No. 2 for Violin, Cello and Piano
Trios from the City of Big Shoulders (Bacon/Sowerby)
Çedille/2021
The Lincoln Trio (violin: Desirée Ruhstrat; cello: David Cunliffe; piano: Marta Aznavoorian); recorded at the Allen Recital Hall, DePaul University, Chicago, summer 2020; composer: Ernst Bacon; composition year: 1987; time: 4:30
HOUR II
SINGL PLAY
Jin Hi Kim: Alliens Cave
The Jin Hi Kim Collection
Neuma Records/2026
daxophone: Hans Reichel; komungo: Jin Hi Kim; accordion, clarinet: Carl Rüdiger; violin, viola: Carlos Zingao; recorded at the Free Music Production Festival, Berlin, November 6, 1999; time: 10:24
SET THREE
Craig Pepples: Garden
String Quartet #2, Movement 3
Open Space 61 (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; selection time: 9:30
Gerard Pape: Le Fleuve du Desir IX
String Quartet 3
String Quartets
Neos-Music/2025
(for string quartet and 7 pre-recorded string quartets); Neo Quartet (violins: Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka, Pawel Kapica; viola: Michal Markiewicz; cello: Krzysztof Pawlowski; recorded at Hofstelle Tolsefanz, November 24-25, 2024; composition yeas: 1994-2025; time: 12:39
SET FOUR
Arie Shapira: Thus Spake
Different Compositions 1967-2003
Arie Shapira/2005
(for electroacoustic voice); voice: “abused child”; text: Exodus XX, 1-17; time: 6:05
R. Weis: Requiem for a Paperweight (Chapters 3 & 4)
Installed Sound for Exhibitions
A mix of excerpts from five sound scores created for gallery/museum exhibitions
Wormhole World Bandcamp/2022
sound collage: R. Weis; music for installation of Arthur Tress photographs inspired by the stereotype of a Japanese salaryman; University Art Museum, University of California Long Beach, 1994; time: 3:05
Steven Ricks: Beyond the Zero
Mild Violence
Bridge Records/2008
(for electronics and violin); violin: Curtis Macomber; premiered by Curtis Macomber, Friends and Enemies of New Music concert, New York City, April 22, 2005; composition year: 2005; time: 10:55
HOUR III
SINGLE PLAY
Darren Copeland: Residence Elsewhere
Radius #4 (various artists)
What Next–Nonsequitur/1995
(fixed medium — voices, field recordings); voices: Hiro Kanagawa, Trevor Leigh; script, director: Darren Copeland; text: John M. Hull, “Touching the Rock: An Experience in Blindness” (SPCK Publishing, 1990); composition year: 1992; time: 13:41
SINGLE PLAY
James O’Callaghan: Empties-Impetus
Espcaces Tautologiques
empreintes DIGITALes/2016
(4-channel fixed medium — with additional sound diffusion inside the instruments of a string quartet); realized at the composer’s studio, Montreal, and Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM), Paris, 2014-2015; premiered in Paris, January 24, 2015; time: 20:02
SET FIVE
Joel Gressel: In Your Dreams
Genetic Drift
Ravello Records/2020
computer music: Joel Gressel; recorded at the composer’s studio, New York City; Genetic Drift pieces composed between 1999 and 2019; time: 12:18
Godfrey Winham: NP (Two pieces for synthesized sound)
a. NP I (1:23)
b. NP II (1:27)
Computer Generations (various artists)
CRI/1978
(computer music); realized at the Godfrey Winham Laboratory, Princeton University, 1972; total time: 2:51
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