A LUMINOUS SMUDGE OF SORABJI FUDGE for piano, composed and performed by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A LUMINOUS SMUDGE OF SORABJI FUDGE for piano

MORTESQUE for piano, Op. 31—in memoriam Stephen Albert (1941-1992) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (1993).

MORTESQUE for piano, Op. 31—in memoriam Stephen Albert

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs LI'L PEEWEE POINDEXTER MISLAYS HIS ENCEPHALOPHAGUS AT SODOM & SCALY'S NINE-RING CIRCUS OF CONFUSIASM by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

LI'L PEEWEE POINDEXTER MISLAYS HIS ENCEPHALOPHAGUS AT SODOM & SCALY'S NINE-RING CIRCUS OF CONFUSIASM

A CERTIFIED LOON'S COCOON

STOCHASTIC CULTURE RUBBLE

Ukrainian pianist  MARINA PIEROVA performs GRIMPROVISATION Op. 38 (1994) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

GRIMPROVISATION for piano, Op. 38 (1994)

SYMPHONY OF IMAGINARY RUINS, Op. 134, No. 2

A ONCE PROUD CIVILIZATION

For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

INDUSTRIAL ROMANCE

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs PAINTING THE TOWN A SICKLY CHARTREUSE by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

PAINTING THE TOWN A SICKLY CHARTREUSE

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 IN THE THROES OF JAZZ SPAZZ PIZZAZZ by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (August 7th, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer .com

IN THE THROES OF JAZZ SPAZZ PIZZAZZ

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs DEATH STINKS (Op. 131, No. 10) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (August 14th, 2022). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

DEATH STINKS (Op. 131, No. 10)

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE PHOTO MONTAGE for piano & electronics (Op. 130, August 15th, 2022)was composed by GARY LLOYD NOLAND for Belgian pianist LUKAS HUISMAN. Presented here are the electronic musical segments that are meant to act as musical backdrops to the extemporized piano segments of the piece. This work is designed for a pianist who is eminently versatile at the art of improvisation.  The composer has not yet determined a specific set of guidelines for this work. That will, presumably, happen following an adequate period of trial-and-error experimentation. The music was inspired, in part, by photographs of the universe taken recently by the James Webb Space Telescope. For more information on composer GARY LLOYD NOLAND, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE PHOTO MONTAGE for piano & electronics (sans piano) Op. 130

Pianist POLINA CHORNA performs WALTZ Op. 1, No. 6 by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

WALTZ for piano, Op.1, No.6

FUNFARE FOR SANITY for Brass Quintet, Op. 129 by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

FUNFARE FOR SANITY for Brass Quintet Op. 129

A LUMINOUS SMUDGE OF SORABJI FUDGE for piano (Op. 133, No. 4), composed and performed by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A LUMINOUS SMUDGE OF SORABJI FUDGE for piano (Op. 133, No. 4)

Pianist John Zeff performs MORTESQUE for piano, Op. 31 (1993): in memoriam Stephen Albert (1941-1992) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. "I spent an afternoon with composer Stephen Albert at his home (in Newton, MA, if I remember correctly) back in ca. 1984. It looked as if we had hit it off pretty well. I felt I had a new friend in Stephen but got so bogged down with my work as a Harvard graduate student at the time, I was, unfortunately, never able to see Stephen again. I learned he had won the Pulitzer Prize about a year later and was shocked when I read of his tragic death in an automobile accident in December, 1992. I composed the MORTESQUE in his memory, which I completed at 6:15 pm on March 28th, 1993 in Eugene, Oregon. I used to play this piece but never found the occasion to perform it publicly. Pianist John Zeff's recording is the official world premiere of this work.

MORTESQUE for piano: in memoriam Stephen Albert (1941-1992)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs: LI'L PEEWEE POINDEXTER MISLAYS HIS ENCEPHALOPHAGUS AT SODOM & SCALY'S NINE-RING CIRCUS OF CONFUSIASM (Op. 133, No. 5)  by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs A CERTIFIED LOON'S COCOON (Op. 134, No. 5) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A CERTIFIED LOON'S COCOON (Op. 134, No. 5)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs STOCHASTIC CULTURE RUBBLE by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

Ukrainian Pianist MARINA PIEROVA performs GRIMPROVISATION, Op. 38 (1994) by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. This piece was composed on New Year's Day, 1994. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

SYMPHONY OF IMAGINARY RUINS by GARY LLOYD NOLAND (Op. 134, No. 2). For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

SYMPHONY OF IMAGINARY RUINS (Op. 134, No. 2)

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs A ONCE PROUD CIVILIZATION, Op. 135, No. 4, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

A ONCE PROUD CIVILIZATION, Op. 135, No. 4

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs INDUSTRIAL ROMANCE, Op. 135, No. 2, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

INDUSTRIAL ROMANCE, Op. 135, No. 2

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs PAINTING THE TOWN A SICKLY CHARTREUSE, Op. 135, No. 5, by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

PAINTING THE TOWN A SICKLY CHARTREUSE, Op. 135, No. 5

The PIMPLETON PROCRASTURBATION ENSEMBLE performs THE MYSTERIOUS INNER WORKINGS OF A SUPERCOMPLICATION MECHANICAL POCKET WATCH by GARY LLOYD NOLAND. For more information on the composer, please visit his website at: garynolandcomposer.com

THE MYSTERIOUS INNER WORKINGS OF A SUPERCOMPLICATION MECHANICAL POCKET WATCH

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

THE MYSTERIOUS INNER WORKINGS OF A SUPERCOMPLICATION MECHANICAL POCKET WATCH

Gary Lloyd Noland, composer