Peter Garland (born January 25, 1952 in

Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County. Portland's population was 68,408 in April 2020. The Greater Portland metropolitan area is home to over half a million people, the 104th-largest metropol ...

) is a

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

, writer and publisher of Soundings Press. A student of

James Tenney James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal ...

and

Harold Budd Harold Montgomory Budd (May 24, 1936December 8, 2020) was an American composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave Desert, he became a respected composer in the minimalist and avant-garde scene of Southern California in the l ...

, much of Garland's work could be considered

post-minimal Postminimalism is an art term coined (as post-minimalism) by Robert Pincus-Witten in 1971Chilvers, Ian and Glaves-Smith, John, ''A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art'', second edition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), p. ...

although many of his postminimal works such as "The Days Run Away" (1971) were written in the early 1970s at the same time as the first minimalist works. He is also an expert on

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, and on the music of

Silvestre Revueltas Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez (December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940) was a Mexican composer of classical music, a violinist and a conductor. Life Revueltas was born in Santiago Papasquiaro in Durango, and studied at the National Conservatory ...

. He is the author of ''Gone Walkabout: Essays 1991-''. Garland started his Soundings Press series in 1971 after attending a publishing workshop with

Dick Higgins Dick Higgins (15 March 1938 – 25 October 1998) was an American artist, composer, art theorist, poet, publisher, printmaker, and a co-founder of the Fluxus international artistic movement (and community). Inspired by John Cage, Higgins was a ...

at CalArts.

Discography

*1982 ''Matachin Dances'' (EP, Cold Blue) *1986 ''Peñasco Blanco'' (Cold Blue, reissued on ''Nana + Victorio'', 1993) *1992 ''Border Music'' (¿What Next?, reissued on OO Disc, 2002) *1992 ''Walk in Beauty'' (New Albion) *1993 ''Nana + Victorio'' (

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) *2000 ''The Days Run Away'' (

Tzadik Tzadik ( he, צַדִּיק , "righteous ne, also ''zadik'', ''ṣaddîq'' or ''sadiq''; pl. ''tzadikim'' ''ṣadiqim'') is a title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters. The ...

) *2002 ''Another Sunrise'' (

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) *2005 ''Love Songs'' (

) *2008 ''Three Strange Angels'' (Tzadik) reissue of ''Border Music'' expanded with live recordings *2009 ''String Quartets'' ( Cold Blue Music) *2011 ''Waves Breaking on Rocks'' (

New World The term ''New World'' is often used to mean the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 3 ...

) *2015 ''After the Wars'' ( Cold Blue Music) EP with Sarah Cahill *2017 ''The Birthday Party'' (

) *2018 ''Moon Viewing Music (Inscrutable Stillness Studies #1)'' ( Cold Blue Music) *2018 ''The Landscape Scrolls'' (

Starkland Starkland is an independent record label based in Boulder, Colorado that specializes in alternative classical music. It was founded in 1991 by Thomas Steenland. Starkland's first two CDs offered all the principal 1960s music from the "organized s ...

) *2021 ''Three Dawns and Bush Radio Calling'' ( Cold Blue Music) Compilations * "The Three Strange Angels" (1973), included on ''Cold Blue'' (1984, Cold Blue, CD release 2002) * "Apple Blossom" included on ''Persistence of Past Chemistries'' (2000, The Orchard) * "Dancing on Water" included on ''Dancing on Water'' (2001, Cold Blue) * "Matachin Dances" (1982), included on ''The Complete Ten-Inch Collection from Cold Blue'' (2003, Cold Blue) * "Nights in the Gardens of Maine" included on "Cold Blue Two" (2012, Cold Blue) Other recordings of compositions by Garland * Ensemble Bash – ''Launch'' (1996,

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): "Apple Blossom" (1972) *

William Winant William Winant (born 1953) is an American percussionist. In addition to his work in contemporary classical music—notably performing Lou Harrison's compositions—Winant has worked in a variety of genres, including noise rock, free improvisation ...

, Roy Malan,

Carla Kihlstedt Carla Kihlstedt (born 1971) is an American composer, violinist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist, originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and currently working from a home studio on Cape Cod. She is a founding member of Tin Hat Trio (1997, ...

a.o. – ''Peter Garland: Love Songs'' (Tzadik, 2005): "Matachin Dances", "Coyote's Bones (Last Piece)", "Love Songs"

References

External links

Frog Peak Artist: Peter GarlandOther Minds: Peter GarlandPeter Garland Papers and ''Soundings'' Records
at the

Harry Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center (until 1983 the Humanities Research Center) is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the pur ...

at the

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Garland String Quartets
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