Peter Garland

About the artist

Peter Garland was born in 1952 in Maine. He studied with Harold Budd and James Tenney at Cal Arts and has had long student-mentor friendships with Lou Harrison, Conlon Nancarrow, Paul Bowles and the late Dane Rudhyar. He edited and published "Soundings Press" for twenty years, and has written two books of essays on American music and culture. He has been a lifelong student of Native American musics, and has lived in New Mexico, California, Maine, Michoacan, Oaxaca and Puebla.

Top songs

1. The Birthday Party: III. The Birthday Cake
2. Another Sunrise
3. Walk In Beauty: Lightning Flash
4. Waves Breaking on Rocks: III. Summer, Again
5. The Three Strange Angels
6. Moon Viewing Music (Inscrutable Stillness Studies No. 1): I. Living Alone in the Woods [Ryokan]
7. The Days Run Away
8. A Song
9. The Fall of Quang Tri
10. Nostalgia

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