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Martian Gardens Episode 1278
Recorded at Max’s Shabby Digs
Amherst, Massachusetts
November TBA, 2026
Contact Max Shea: martiangardensmax@gmail.com
Radio: WXOJ, Valley Free Radio, Northampton, MA
Global Community Radio
HOUR I
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John Luther Adams: Prophecies of Fire (1st 1/3)
Prophecies of Fire
Cold Blue Music/2026
Sandbox Percussion (Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, Terry Sweeney) (instrumentation: 4 large bass drums, 4 small bass drums, 8 timpani, 4 floor tom-toms, 4 tom-toms, 4 tenor drums, 4 snare drums, 4 large tam-tams, 4 small tam-tams, 4 sets of orchestra bells); recorded at Griswold Hall, Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore, November 24-25, 2025; composition year: 2023; excerpt time: 12:00
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David Felder: November Sky
Music of David Felder
Bridge Records/1995
flute, alto flute, bass flute, piccolo: Rachel Rudich; computer music: David Felder; computer processing engineered at at SUNY Buffalo and Banff Centre, Alberta; recorded at the University of California San Diego; 1992; composition year: 1992; time: 16:33
SET ONE
Paul Des Marais: Desert Music — Pillar
Open Space 28
Vocal and Piano Music of Paul Des Marais
Open Space/2012
piano: Paul Des Marais; composition year: 2008; time: 8:09
Phillip Schroeder: Stillness at Night
Residence Within
Neuma Records/2025
piano: Phillip Schroeder; composition year: 2022; time: 7:33
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Leo Sowerby: Comes Autumn Time
Organ Music by Frank Ferko and Leo Sowerby
Çedille Records/2021
organ: David Schrader; recorded at St. Ita’s Catholic Church, August 2020; composition year: 1916; inspired by poem “Autumn” by Bliss Carman; time: 6:39
HOUR II
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Miya Masaoka: Botanical Life #1
Botanical Life
The Complete String Quartets
New Focus Recordings/2026
Mivos Quartet (violin: Olivia De Prato; violin: Maya Bennardo; viola: Victor Lowrie Tafoya; cello: T.J. Borden); recorded at 4Tune Audio Productions, Vienna, Austria, March 2-3, 2026; Botanica Life quartets composition year: 2013-2026; time: 10:00
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Alice Shields: Vegetable Karma
Part One: Descending Raga (00:00 – 2:56)
Part Two: Entry of the Drums and “Voice” (2:56 – 9:42)
Part Three: Loud Mixed Voices (9:05 – 10:45)
Part Four: Ending — Ascending Pitches (11:00 – 14:36)
Shenandoah
Three Electronic Works
Albany Records/2004
fixed media (Pro-Tools): Alice Shields (source: hip-hop beats transformed into Todi raga pitches); premiered at the International Electronic Music Festival, Brooklyn College, November 7, 1999; composition year: 1999; total time: 14:36
SET TWO
Extradition Ensemble: Swell Piece No. 2 (J. Tenney)
Extradition Plays James Tenney: The Swell Pieces
Extradition’s Bandcamp/2026
members of the Extradition Ensemble; composer: James Tenney; composition year: 1971; time: 14:55
Extradition Ensemble: One More Useless Idea (P. Corner)
Extradition Plays Corner, Parte II
Extradition’s Bandcamp/2026
members of the Extradition Ensemble; recorded at Philip Corner Film + Muzik, Leaven Community Center, Portland, Oregon, September 12, 2025; composer: Philip Corner; time: 3:47
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Neil Rolnick: Balkanization
Messages
Neuma Records/2026
(for MIDI performance system); synthesizers, MIDI keyboard, software programming: Neil Rolnick; recorded at Wittenberg Studio, Bearsville, New York, August 12, 1991; composition year: 1988; time: 7:41
HOUR III
SET THREE
Tom Hamilton & Bian Chase: Repeat Repeat Themselves
Texture + Motion
DVD1ST/2026
Nord Modular Keyboard: Tom Hamilton: Drumset: Brian Chase; recorded at Chaikin Records Studio, Brooklyn; mixed The Pickle Factory, New York City; time: 8:06
Hypercube: Speaker for the Dead (C. Rudig))
Trace
New Focus Recordings/2026
Hypercube (saxophone: Erin Rogers; guitar: Jay Sorce; piano, accordion: Andrea Lodge; percussion: Chris Graham), sounds processed via Casio SK-1 keyboard sampler; Trace recorded at Adelphi Performing Arts Center, Garden City, New York, and Purchase College Performing Arts Center, Purchase, New York; compose: Charles Rudig; composition year: 2023; time: 9:32
SET FOUR
Sarah Belle Reid & David Rosenboom: Pluck Ping Scatter
Nows
Ravello Records/2022
instrumentation on Nows — Sarah Belle Reid: Quarter tone flugelhorn, piccolo, C trumpets, Buchla modular synthesizer, voice, MaxMSP, no-input mixer, Make Noise Strega, Eurorack modular synthesizer, field recordings, bowed metal, and amplified household objects; David Rosenboom: NS five-string elecric violon, Buchla 200 series modular synthesizer, Eurerack modular synthesizer, Make-Noise 0-Coast and 0-Ctrl, voice, tuning forks, ocarina, Aboriginal clap sticks, lizard rattle, herald trumpet, rawhide and wood drum, monkey drum, tambourine jingles, numerous original samples used in Soundhack Morphagene, field recordings, other sounding objections; Nows recorded at the composers’ studios in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Valencia, California, 2021; time: 6:12
Roxanne Turcotte: Attractions (selections)
a. Attractions 6 — Tour de terre (2:22)
b. Attractions 5 — Souffles et Alizés (2:43)
c. Attractions 4 — Profondeurs (3:30)
Désordres
empreintes DIGITALes/2011
(5.1-channel fixed medium); realized at Studio Séducson, Montreal, for the installation “Attractions,” presented at the Café of the Monument-National, Montreal, 2005; total selections time: 8:30
SET FIVE
Daniel Koppleman/Duo Runedako: On the Nature of the Modern Age (M. Applebaum)
Escapement DVD (various composers)
Everglade/2008
(for piano duo and live electronics); pianos: Duo Runedako (Daniel Koppelman, Ruth Neville); recorded at PINK, July 23, 2007; composer: Mark Applebaum; composition year: 2005; time: 8:53
Jeffrey Hall: Fom the Winds of Avalon
Earmovie II
Ravello Records/2023
digital instruments in Csound: Jeffrey Hall; recorded at the composer’s home studio, Diamond Bell Ranch, Tucson, Arizona; time: 6:32
John Oliver: Ocean Spirits II
Warfire Welfare
John Oliver’s Bandcamp/2023
synthesizers, electronics: John Oliver; composition year: 2023; time: 5:33
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