Peter Garland is a composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

  best known for publishing Soundings Press, one of the few sources of new music scores and articles while in print. A student of James Tenney

James Tenney

James Tenney was an American composer and influential music theorist.-Biography:Tenney was born in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado. He attended the University of Denver, the Juilliard School of Music, Bennington College and the University of Illinois...

 and Harold Budd

Harold Budd

Harold Budd is an American ambient/avant-garde composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires....

, much of Garland's work could be considered post-minimal 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 American Indian music

Native Americans in the United States

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. He is the author of Gone Walkabout: Essays 1991-.\

Peter Garland started his Soundings Press series in 1971 after attending a publishing workshop with Dick Higgins

Dick Higgins

Dick Higgins was a composer, poet, printer, and early Fluxus artist. Higgins was born in Cambridge, England, but raised in the United States in various parts of New England, including Worcester, Massachusetts, Putney, Vermont, and Concord, New Hampshire.Like other Fluxus artists, Higgins studied...

 at CalArts.

He lives in Maine

Maine

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Discography

• 1992 Border Music [OO Disc]
• 1992 Walk In Beauty [New Albion]
• 1993 Nana + Victorio [Avant]
• 2000 The Days Run Away [Tzadik]
• 2002 Another Sunrise [Mode]
• 2005 Love Songs [Tzadik]
• 2008 Three Strange Angels [Tzadik]
• 2009 String Quartets [Cold Blue]

Compilations

• "The Three Strange Angels" (1973), included on Cold Blue [1984, Cold Blue]
• "Matachin Dances" (1982), included on The Complete Ten-Inch Collection From Cold Blue [2003, Cold Blue]
• "Apple Blossom" included on Persistence of Past Chemistries [2000, The Orchard] and Launch [1996, Sony]
• "Dancing on Water" included on Dancing on Water [2001, Cold Blue]

External links

• New Albion Artist: Peter Garland
• Frog Peak Artist: Peter Garland
• Other Minds: Peter Garland
• Mode Artist Profile: Peter Garland
• Peter Garland Papers and Soundings Records at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
  University of Texas at Austin
  The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...