A BRIEF HISTORY OF ORGANIZED RELIGION IN SOUND

A BRIEF SOLACE FROM RAMPAGING THUGS for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland  (July 28th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A BRIEF SOLACE FROM RAMPAGING THUGS for piano

GAUNTLET JAUNT by Gary Lloyd Noland (August 6th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

GAUNTLET JAUNT

QUINTET OF PAST REGRETS for harp, marimba, glockenspiel, double bass & piano by Gary Lloyd Noland (August 8, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

QUINTET OF PAST REGRETS for harp, marimba, glockenspiel, double bass & piano

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs JACK-IN-THE-BOX NESTING DOLLS by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandomposer.com

JACK-IN-THE-BOX NESTING DOLLS

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs BLARE RAID HELTER-SKELTER, Op. 155, No. 8 by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BLARE RAID HELTER-SKELTER, Op. 155, No. 8

HEIWA TO CHOWA for piano: in memoriam Chizuko Katayama (1929-2024)—composed & performed by Gary Lloyd Noland in memory of his mother-in-law, who passed away peacefully on February 6th, 2024 in Hikone, Japan.

HEIWA TO CHOWA for piano: in memoriam Chizuko Katayama (1929 - 2024)

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs AND THE TENTH CIRCLE IS FOR INTERNET TROLLS by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his websie at: garynolandcomposer.com

AND THE TENTH CIRCLE IS FOR INTERNET TROLLS

The Pimpleton Procrasturbation Ensemble performs A BRIEF HISTORY OF ORGANIZED RELIGION IN SOUND by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

PROVIMP for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland (June 5, 2025)

PROVIMP for piano

VISPROINTIAMO for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynoaldncomposer.ocm

VISPROINTIAMO for piano

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 2 for piano performed and composed by Gary Lloyd Noland (June 7th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.ocm

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 2 for piano

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 3 for piano

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 4 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland (June 8th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his wevbsite at: nolandgarycomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 4 for piano

TOOTHFUL GENTILITIES by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

TOOTHFUL GENTILITIES

CONTAINMENT CORNICLES by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

CONTAINMENT CORNICLES

VISPROINTIAMO No. 6 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO No. 6 for piano

KNURLED VAPORESCENCE by Gary Lloyd Noland (June 17th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

KNURLED  VAPORESCENCE

INFILTRATING THE CONTROLLED OPPOSITION

MAYDAY CALL FOR THE EMERGENCY FAUX PAS CORRECTION AGENCY by composer Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

MAYDAY CALL FOR THE EMERGENCY FAUX PAS CORRECTION AGENCY

HEIWA TO MEIYO for harpsichord: in memoriam Toru Katayama (1927-2025)

HEIWA TO MEIYO for harpsichord—in memoriam Toru Katayama (1927-2025)

VISPROINTIAMO No. 7 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO No. 7 for piano

BIRTHDAY PARADE No. 2 by Gary Lloyd Noland (June 27th, 2025)

BIRTHDAY PARADE NO. 2

VISPROINTIAMO No. 8 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO No. 8 for piano

INSOMNOLESCENT APPARATCHIKI by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

INSOMNOLESCENT APPARATCHIKI

BASKET CASE PROCESSIONAL by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BASKET CASE PROCESSIONAL

NO RECOURSE by Gary Lloyd Noland (July 8th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

NO RECOURSE

PROFESSIONAL FROWN

THRENODY FOR THE DISAPPEARED: in memoriam Isidro Pérez (1950-2025) composed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

THRENODY FOR THE DISAPPEARED: in memoriam Isidro Pérez (1950-2025)

SALLYING FORTH FROM ONE'S SECLUDED CLOISTER INTO A PANDEMONIUM OF RIGHTEOUS FURY by Gary Lloyd Noland (July 14th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

SALLYING FORTH FROM ONE'S SECLUDED CLOISTER INTO A PANDEMONIUM OF RIGHTEOUS FURY

FÉLICITÉ, CONSIDERING… by Gary Lloyd Noland (July 14th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

FÉLICITÉ, CONSIDERING…

VISPROINTIAMO No. 9 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 9 for piano

BOOBUS AMERICANUS by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BOOBUS AMERICANUS

VISPROINTIAMO No. 10 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For Frank Feldman. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO No. 10 for piano

SOUR TOOTH by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

SOUR TOOTH

WISTFUL YEARNING FOR HALCYON DAYS IN FARAWAY LANDS by Gary Lloyd Noland (July 23rd, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

WISTFUL YEARNING FOR HALCYON DAYS IN FARAWAY LANDS

A BRIEF SOLACE FROM RAMPAGING THUGS for piano by Gary Lloyd Noland (July 28th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ARISTOBOMBASTIC TRIPE DREAM by Gary Lloyd Noland (July 30th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ARISTOBOMBASTIC TRIPE DREAM

MIDNIGHT VACUUM CLEANING PHRENZY by Gary Lloyd Noland (July 30th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

MIDNIGHT VACUUM CLEANING PHRENZY

FRANTICALLY STRIVING TO FEEL OPTIMISTIC by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

FRANTICALLY STRIVING TO FEEL  OPTIMISTIC

QUINTET OF PAST REGRETS for harp, marimba, glockenspiel, double bass, and piano by Gary Lloyd Noland (August 8th, 2025)

QUINTET OF PAST REGRETS for harp, marimba, glockenspiel, double bass, and piano

Resides in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Berkeley, CA. Born in Seattle.  PhD, Harvard. “Gary Noland is one of the great composers of the 21st century.”—JACK RUMMEL, KGNU 88.5 FM, Boulder CO, “...iconoclastic, stylistic potpourri standards of giddy humor, no holds barred soup to nuts and high spirits.”—ROBERT LEVIN, pianist, musicologist, composer, "...a fleet-fingered, ebullient performer ... bright, witty and engaging.”—CHRISTIAN CAREY, SPLENDID MAGAZINE, “...distinctive, inventive ... subversive ... You can hardly be indifferent to Noland’s music and so I would urge you to try it.” —ROGER BLACKBURN, MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL, “...set in a dizzying harmonic language that loops uncontrollably through a wide-ranging gamut of possible and impossible tonalities ... The general effect is like watching wet paintings of 19th Century musical memorabilia drip into frazzled 21st Century oblivion...” —ALLEN GIMBEL, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “Mr. Noland writes as a ‘time traveler’ in styles long abandoned by most composers as well as styles so new as to not have been imagined but by him. This he accomplishes naturally, convincingly, with originality and true passion. His command of all musical languages and his ability to traverse musical time is nothing less than remarkable. Listen!”—DONALD MARTINO, Pulitzer Prize winning composer, “...mind-bending spiraling of focus which is truly breathtaking ... spectacular...”—CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN, composer, sound poet & radio producer, “I'm amazed at your harmonic skill. Haven't seen or heard anything like it from any one else—except yours truly—certainly not from your generation. It falls somewhere between Strauss and Mahler. Especially like how you are able to slip in and out from the tonal to the atonal—or near atonal...”—GEORGE ROCHBERG, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “...court jester to the classical establishment...”—PAYTON MACDONALD, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...florid and juicy...” —RICHARD BUELL, THE BOSTON GLOBE, “...an incredible aural web ... a great ostinato of American kitsch. Sul pont never sounded so good.”—RUSSELL STEINBERG, composer, conductor of the LOS ANGELES YOUTH ORCHESTRA, “...I am bowled over by the expertise of your music: you use certain elements from the 19th century and from jazz, etc., and just at the moment when I am about to say, OK, what else is new?, you do a number of things, such as speeding up, becoming wildly dissonant, modulating to a distant continent, stopping completely and throwing some kind of total surprise ... you seem to know exactly when to do what and how much. I don’t know anybody else who can do it!” —ANDREW IMBRIE, American composer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, “... remarkable stuff...”
—MAX MORATH, American ragtime pianist, composer, actor & author, “...a loony composer from Oregon...” —MAX SHEA, WMUA 91.1FM, Amherst, MA, “Gary Noland is one of those 21st Century composers seeking to forge a new aesthetic based on older models that do not traffic in serialism or minimalism ... Zany waltzes, ragtime riffs, chorales, toccatas, and much else romp and tear through these depictions of superheroes and villains from his ‘chamber novels’; other pieces spoof serial music ... to grand operas ... and Jewish guilt.” —JACK SULLIVAN, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, “...Paranoid Ravel...”—ALEX DUNN, KZSU FM90.3, Stanford, CA, “...It’s a romantic romp, rhythmically robust yet melodically flirting with the nostalgia of cabaret, minus the sleazy diminution of spilled drinks and smelly ashtrays. Its elegance recalls Elgar, and the serious sides, a synthesis of those strange bedfellows Schubert and Ives. Composers hate it when their music reminds you of someone else’s, but writing within a tradition, Noland has incorporated divergent styles that, woven together, work. Cosmopolitan without snobbery, it’s intelligent, pleasurable and convincing.” —ROCKY LEPLIN, THE BERKELEY VOICE

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