Michael Garrison (born November 28, 1956 in Roseburg,

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, died on March 24, 2004 in Bend, Oregon) was a synthesist from

, United States.

Life and career

Michael Earl Garrison was born in

Roseburg, Oregon Roseburg is a city in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is in the Umpqua River, Umpqua River Valley in southern Oregon and is the county seat and most populous city of Douglas County, Oregon, Douglas County. Founded in 1851, the population was 23,683 a ...

, on November 28, 1956 to William Garrison and Sharon (Walker) Curry. His father worked as a banker and his mother was a homemaker. Michael Garrison died on March 24, 2004 in Bend, Oregon, of massive liver failure from prolonged overuse of alcohol. Garrison graduated from

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in 1975 and attended the

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where he served as the president of the Central Oregon chapter of the University of Oregon Duck Athletic Club. While studying music and psychology at the University of Idaho, he started to form the basis for his first release on his own label, ''Windspell Records'', later known as ''Garrisongs Music''. The original work was titled ''In The Regions of Sunreturn'' (se

and was created under the impression of the Voyager program, Voyager missions. Later he signed with

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in 1980, the sleeve design was altered. When re-issued on CD through Windspell in the early 1990s, the title was changed to ''In The Regions of Sunreturn and Beyond'' since there were some extra tracks included with the album. He was influenced by the European innovators of electronic music, like

Klaus Schulze Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and The Cosmic Jokers ...

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, and

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Discography

Albums

* ''In the Regions of Sunreturn'' (1979) * ''Prisms'' (1981) * ''Eclipse'' (1982) * ''Point of Impact'' (1983) * ''Images'' (1986) * ''Aurora Dawn'' (1988) * ''An Earth-Star Trilogy'' (1989) * ''The Rhythm of Life'' (1991) * ''Live: Volume 1'' (1995) * ''Live: Volume 2'' (1995) * ''Brave New Worlds'' (1998)

Best of compilations

* ''A Positive Reflecting Glow'' (1992) * ''Tranquility Cove'' (1992)

Compilation contributions

* ''Wolkenreise: Zwischen Traum und Phantasie'' (1985)

Tribute album

* ''To the Sky and Beyond the Stars: A Tribute to Michael Garrison'' (2005)

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Garrison, Michael American keyboardists 1956 births Ambient musicians American male composers New-age musicians 2004 deaths People from Roseburg, Oregon 20th-century American composers 20th-century American male musicians