Peter Garland (composer)

Peter Garland (born January 25, 1952, in Portland, Maine) is a composer, writer and publisher of Soundings Press. Garland was a student of James Tenney and Harold Budd. Much of his work could be considered post-minimal, although many of his post-minimal 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 Native American music, and on the music of Silvestre Revueltas. 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 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 (Avant) *2000 The Days Run Away (Tzadik) *2002 Another Sunrise (Mode) *2005 Love Songs (Tzadik) *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) *2015 After the Wars (Cold Blue Music) EP with Sarah Cahill *2017