COCOONED CONNOISSEURMUDGEONS

The PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs COCOONED CONNOISSEURMUDGEONS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Members of the ensemble are ORLAN DOY GLANDLY, DARNOLD OLLY YANG, LON GAYLORD DYLAN, DOLLY GRAY LANDON, ARNOLD DAY LONGLY, and the composer himself. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Ukrainian pianist Polina Chorna performs Two-Part Invention in D Major Op. 81 by Gary Lloyd Noland. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

TWO-PART INVENTION in D Major Op.81 (2006)performed by pianist POLINA CHORNA

My FUNFARE FOR SANITY (Op. 129, July 1st, 2022) for brass quintet (two trumpets, horn, trombone). I started composing this piece in the early days of June, 2022 in anticipation of submitting it for consideration by a committee for a possible performance on a Cascadia Composers concert by a local brass quintet. After several days of intensive work in an effort to meet the deadline (which was about a week thereafter) I learned that I was ineligible to submit it on account of having already had a piece of mine performed on the previous Cascadia Composers concert a month earlier, which was just as well, since this quintet still needed work. I would have called it "FANFARE FOR SANITY" but didn't like the assonance in its title, thus: "FUNFARE," which is, perhaps, more evocative of its festive mood. I could be wrong, but assume that where one encounters "sanity," one also tends to encounter peace, harmony, and justice—all conditions of which are sorely needed in these troubled times. Prithee listen and enjoy!. Responses from listeners are more than welcomed. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

FUNFARE FOR SANITY for Brass Quintet (Op. 129)

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs BEER GARDEN BANTER, Op. 139, No. 8, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BEER GARDEN BANTER, Op. 139, No. 8

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs RUN-O'-THE-NIL SHENANTICS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND, Op. 139, No. 7 (October 18th, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

RUN- O'-THE-NIL SHENANTICS, Op. 139, No. 7

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs ANNOYING CREATURES THAT UNDERSTAY THEIR WELCOME, Op. 139, No. 6, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (October 19th, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

ANNOYING CREATURES THAT UNDERSTAY THEIR WELCOME, Op. 139, No. 6

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs PIERRE BOULEZ CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AT WALMART, Op. 139, No. 5, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (October 20th, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com.

PIERRE BOULEZ CHRISTMAS SHOPPING AT WALMART, Op. 139, No. 5

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs THE MINI-MALL MAHLER, Op. 139, No. 4, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (October 22nd, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

THE MINI-MALL MAHLER, Op. 139, No. 4

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TILL EULENSPIEGEL INTO A WAR - PROFITEERING OLIGARCH'S FOOT - BOY, Op. 139, No. 3, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TILL EULENSPIEGEL INTO A WAR - PROFITEERING OLIGARCH'S FOOT - BOY

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs SCATHING EXCORIATIONS OF ROMANTIC ESCAPISTS AND THEIR CASTLE-BUILDING SIDEKICKS, Op. 139, No. 2, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

SCATHING EXCORIATIONS OF ROMANTIC ESCAPISTS AND THEIR CASTLE-BUILDING SIDEKICKS, Op. 139, No. 2

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs BEEHIVES OF BUMBLEDOM, Op. 139, No. 1, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BEEHIVES OF BUMBLEDOM, Op. 139, No. 1

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs GRANDILOQUENT LUGUBRIOSITÉ, Op. 139, No. 11, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (October 28, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

GRANDILOQUENT LUGUBRIOSITÉ, Op. 139, No. 11

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs FESTERING OLD FARLEY FEELS FIT AS A FLEA IN HIS CREEPY OLD AVANT-GARDEN-VARIETY CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND, Op. 139, No. 12, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

FESTERING OLD FARLEY FEELS FIT AS A FLEA IN HIS CREEPY OLD AVANT-GARDEN-VARIETY CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs PUKESCENT CORNBALL BARFIES, Op. 139, No. 13, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

PUKESCENT CORNBALL BARFIES, Op. 139, No. 13

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE PHOTO MONTAGE for Piano & Electronics (sans piano), Op. 130 by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Composed for pianist Lukas Huisman. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE PHOTO MONTAGE for Piano & Electronics (sans piano), Op. 130

Pianist MARINA PIEROVA performs BAGATELLE, Op. 1, No. 2 (1983) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

BAGATELLE for piano, Op.1  No.2 (1983)

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs A MOTLEY CAVALCADE OF HIGH - STRUNG, HO - HUMMING HIPSTER - DIPSTERS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A MOTLEY CAVALCADE OF HIGH - STRUNG HO - HUMMING HIPSTER - DIPSTERS

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs KAFKA IN DESIGNER JEANS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

KAFKA IN DESIGNER JEANS

THE PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs MACHIAVELLIAN PATHOGENS, Op. 140, No. 4, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (December 1st, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

MACHIAVELLIAN PATHOGENS, Op. 140, No. 4

Pianist Randall Hodgkinson performs HUMORESQUE Op. 3 by Gary Lloyd Noland (1985). This was recorded at the New England Conservatory in 1988. It appears on the CD SELECTED MUSIC FROM VENGE ART. For more information on composer Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

Selected Music From Venge Art

HUMORESQUE for piano Op. 3

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

COCOONED CONNOISSEURMUDGEONS

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer