ENTROPIC DOMAIN OF APATHIZING BARNACLES AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BRETHREN and other compositions by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ENTROPIC DOMAIN OF APATHIZING BARNACLES AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BRETHREN

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF DARRELL GRANT Op. 117, No. 11 (May 14th, 2022). This is the first in my series of musical portraits of an individual I don't happen to know as well as the ten others whose portraits I have composed (à la Virgil Thomson) in the past year and a half or so. I was asked by Bonnie Miksch, Professor of Composition at Portland State University, to compose a piece to honor her colleague, jazz pianist and composer Darrell Grant, whom I have not yet met at the time of this writing. I have  listened to excerpts of Darrell Grant's music and some talks of his online. Thus, this piece may be likened to a quick sketch as might be drawn by a portrait artist at a county fair or an amusement park (for naught but a pittance, if that). It is only a quick abstract impression, which might be totally off the mark. This, then, is a musical gesture to celebrate Darrell Grant's sixtieth birthday (May 30th, 2022). All best birthday wishes, Darrell Grant! Hope to meet you in the near future!

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF DARRELL GRANT Op. 117, No. 11 (May 14th, 2022)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs WITH ALL DUE DESPECT, YOUR SIR - REVERENCE… (Op. 133, No. 3) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information about the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

WITH ALL DUE DESPECT, YOUR SIR - REVERENCE… (Op. 133, No. 3)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs FLAMBIVALENCE (Op. 133, No. 1) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

FLAMBIVALENCE (Op. 133, No. 1)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs CEREMONIAL FANFARE FOR THE ROYAL WATERBUG BRIGADE (Op. 134, No. 3) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

CEREMONIAL FANFARE FOR THE ROYAL WATERBUG BRIGADE (Op. 134, No. 3)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs ENTROPIC DOMAIN OF APATHIZING BARNACLES AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BRETHREN (Op. 133, No. 6) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ENTROPIC DOMAIN OF APATHIZING BARNACLES AND THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BRETHREN (Op. 133, No. 6)

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

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

GAUNTLET JAUNT

VISPROINTIAMO No. 11 for piano, composed and performed by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

VISPROINTIAMO NO. 11 for piano

A HOST OF CONFLICTING AGENDAS by Gary Lloyd Noland. To read more about the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A HOST OF CONFLICTING AGENDAS

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

PROMENADING PLUTOCRATIC MORONS

AMBIENT MUSIC FOR NEUROTICS by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

AMBIENT MUSIC FOR NEUROTICS

DEI MADRIGAL for mixed choir by Gary Lloyd Noland (Sept. 18th, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

DEI MADRIGAL for mixed choir

F*CK THE SYSTEM! for mixed choir, two pianos, and objects that can be hit, thrown & banged by Gary Lloyd Noland (September 21st, 2025). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

F*CK THE SYSTEM! for mixed choir, two pianos, and objects that can be hit, thrown & banged

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

MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF DARRELL GRANT Op. 117, No. 11 (May 14th, 2022)

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer

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