NERDFOX RAG for piano and other works by Gary Lloyd Noland

OOLY DROOLY GRUBBLES by GARY LLOYD NOLAND, performed by the PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE (April 18th, 2021).  For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

OOLY DROOLY GRUBBLES

QUIXOTIC SUBVERTISSEMENT by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE (April 20th, 2021). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

QUIXOTIC SUBVERTISSEMENT

LITTLE DEATH BUBBLES by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

LITTLE DEATH BUBBLES

DROID BACCHANAL by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE (Apr. 22nd, 2021). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

DROID BACCHANAL

NAKED TEENAGE GIRLS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

NAKED TEENAGE GIRLS performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE

SENTIMENTAL MISANTHROPOPHILIA by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

SENTIMENTAL MISANTHROPOPHILIA performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE

Ease your anxieties after a hard day's work with this soothful, relaxing music: MURDER HORNET LULLABY by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. Great for putting the young ones to sleep at night. Also good for creating a soft romantic ambience when spending special moments with your significant other under muted candlelight. Performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. Unwind, decompress, lull yourself into a peaceful slumber! Listen & enjoy! For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: http://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

MURDER HORNET LULLABY performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE

HIKIKOMORI - GO - ROUND by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at:

HIKIKOMORI - GO - ROUND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE

VAGINAVENGER VORTEX by GARY LLOYD NOLAND, performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information about the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

VAGINAVENGER VORTEX performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE

SCHMALTZFREUDE by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

SCHMALTZFREUDE

PSEUDODOXES AND CROCODILITIES from 24 INTERLUDES for piano Op. 71, No. 6 performed by the composer. For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

PSEUDODOXES AND CROCODILITIES for piano

SOMETHING ROTTEN from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 6. For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

SOMETHING ROTTEN from ROYAL OILWORKS MUSIC Op. 80, No. 6

SNAKE BLOSSOM from 24 POSTLUDES for piano Op. 72, No. 9 performed by the composer. For more information on Gary Lloyd Noland, please visit his website at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=och-ItLobmc

SNAKE BLOSSOM

NAG TORTURE performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE (May 8th, 2021). I have employed distorted versions of my own voice in this piece in an effort to make it sound as "gender-neutral" as possible (which may, admittedly, appear to be a blatant lie on the author's part in a thinly veiled effort to avoid being lambasted from every quarter for being thought of as not only sustaining but even perpetuating a politically incorrect frame of mind). Nevertheless, it is all but impossible to be un-reminded of this (in)famous quote by Samuel Johnson: "When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles." Perhaps Dr Johnson's apothegm could be more generally applied to bureaucrappic red tape in all its various forms and guises, which, in and of itself, might be perceived as constituting an all-encompassing sort of "nag torture." In the field of music creation, it is called "composus interruptus." Suffice it to say, such interruptions to the flow of one's creativity can be utterly maddening, to say the least, even hazardous to every facet of one's health and well-being. I am confident there are many prodigiously talented and productive artistic creators in the real world who can relate to the aforesaid phenomenon. Listen and enjoy! For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

NAG TORTURE performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE

CELLULITE SIREN SONG by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

CELLULITE SIREN SONG

EXPIRED LOVE LETTER by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

EXPIRED LOVE LETTER

ELEVENTH HOUR LOVE DREAMS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND performed by the PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ELEVENTH HOUR LOVE DREAMS

INELUCTABLE LONGING by Gary Lloyd Noland (May 13th, 2021). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

INELUCTABLE LONGING

ESPRESSO WAGON from 24 INTERLUDES for piano Op. 71, No. 3 performed by the composer. For more information on GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

ESPRESSO WAGON for piano Op. 71, No. 3

NERDFOX RAG for piano Op. 23 (1978, revised 1992). For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: https://composergarynoland.godaddysites.com/

NERDFOX RAG for piano Op. 23

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

NERDFOX RAG for piano and other works by Gary Lloyd Noland

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer