Glitchy found-percussion forms the bed for a spacious Chapman Stick accompaniment in my first studio electronic composition since 2008.  Dig it like mulch and let it grow some new things in you!

From Mycelium Music Compilation Volume 4 – a benefit for the Amazon Mycorenewal Project.  100% of proceeds support bioremediation in Ecuador. 

To download this compilation, visit: http://myceliummusic.bandcmap.com

To learn more about the devastation caused by petroleum pollution in one of the most diverse rainforests on Earth and what you can do to help visit:
http://amazonmycorenewal.org

Throwing Sparks

One of my most intricate and realized live performances to date, in the new modality of cyber-acoustic guitar. Preorder the entire album at http://bit.ly/neverland-album

About this release:

The culmination of five years of pioneering sonic alchemy, this hour and a half transmutes acoustic music into electronic hyperspace – a series of performances that stretch the notion of guitar past breaking and transform the world's most familiar instrument into a cybernetic orchestra and celebration of our age's ancient-future paradox. 

Profound and playful, dark and luminous, this album is the score to moments that transcend the boundary between artifice and wilderness, technology and nature, ground and figure. The holy child that is born through human and machine, intention and unconscious, will and inspiration – it's a conversation with the oversoul, and it observes itself as you, dear listener. Enjoy. 

Hopeful (Freestyle Electronic Guitar Looping)

Michael's latest, most accomplished work for "cyberacoustic guitar,” Little Bird & The Eschaton defines the one-man-genre he invented by embedding the warmth of instrumental folk tradition within the visionary ecstasy of futuristic live production methods. 

These tunes are sacraments and explorations of the intimacy between human and machine – collaborations with the future, singing anthems of an age in which the human mind and body are remixed into the networked electronic wilderness of planetary culture. Completely improvised on acoustic guitar, voice, and hardware pedal effects, each track is a site-specific composition, a channeling of place and mood, and a performance of the worldview in which there are no boundaries between the artist, instrument, and venue. 

Listen if you like: Four Tet, The Books, Daniel Lanois, Tortoise, Boards of Canada, Animal Collective, Battles, Ratatat, Zoe Keating, Tim Reynolds, Kaki King

(Two bonus tracks available to buyers when you pay what you want at Bandcamp.)

Michael Garfield: Voice, Guitar, Hardware Effects 
Website: michaelgarfield.net 
Booking: michaelgarfield@gmail.com 

Listen to 'Little Bird & The Eschaton' on Spotify: 
open.spotify.com/album/1ZlZcLTtK9Vc8AC0vRaQq6 

Watch the videos: 
• 'Lambent' youtu.be/sqlePbqcMhI 
• 'Little Bird & The Eschaton' youtu.be/BPPwZvFv_Hs 
• 'Aeon Hand (Part II)' youtu.be/RqkH_jBwCH0 
• Full album listening party and live painting tutorial session: 
www.facebook.com/Acidmathd/videos/931254847020392/

For more, visit Michael's press kit: 
michaelgarfield.blogspot.com/p/musician.html

Little Bird & The Eschaton

Lambent

watch the 360º time-lapse video for "delta pavonis" 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIJFNkIhrh4 

recorded & mixed with ableton live at paradise one 
in byron bay, new south wales, australia on 14 feb 2017 
for an art class led by adam scott miller 

improvised live on stage with the following devices: 
taylor 322e, ebow, nylon brushes, beyerdynamic m88-tg, 
boss tu-3, boss sl-20, boss ps-5, boss dd-500, 
boss pw-3, boss rc-505, boss ev-5 (3x) 

cover art by adam scott miller “feathered pearl” 
adamscottmiller.com 

released under a cc by-nc-sa 3.0 license by 
michaelgarfield.net 

imagination is our greatest natural resource.

Pavo: Music For Mystery

Delta Pavonis

This set at Martian Arts Festival in San Marcos, Texas was a doozy. I did not expect to see a UFO that night – but who does, really? It was my first sighting in ten years. Things shifted. Something opened. I admitted to myself that I have been in Chapel Perilous since then, the place where everything syncs up and all of it unfolds as a conspiracy in which we're implicated and the shapes begin to come together and we notice what they point to. 

It all seems ridiculous. That is my rationality rebelling when I KNOW that something magical occurred that night. A portal opened. Call it what you will. All this music's just an overture to what came next. We never saw it coming. Now it's all that I can do to not grab onto what remains of that extraordinary mystery, to let it be. How does a person live like this, and make of glimpses of perfection, transcendental truth, a way of life, an everyday reality? 

-- 

Edited for time and mastered on a laptop. Otherwise, exactly as it was performed, all live, one take, no post-production mixing. 

Guitar, Voice, Pedals. 

On the eve of mystery. 

Thank You, 

Michael

Obtain this EP & support independent music:

• Bandcamp:
https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/martian-arts-ep

• Spotify:
https://play.spotify.com/album/0NpG8o4jeoR51RtDFgFCKx?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

• iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/martian-arts-ep/id1245873413?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

• Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Michael_Garfield_Martian_Arts_EP?id=Boyqtvyfpiovv7fpe3yixkhgjby

• Groove Music
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Martian Arts V - Valles Marineris

Martian Arts IV - Olympus Mons

Martian Arts III - Solis Lacus

Martian Arts II - Hellas Planitia

Martian Arts I - Syrtis Major

Switched-on instrumental electronic grooves improvised on guitar and hardware effects at La Fuentes (Austin, TX) on 3.24.2012.

To download this track for free, visit:
http://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/golden-hour-a-cyberacoustic-summer-daydream

Stay up on the evolving sounds:
http://facebook.com/michaelgarfieldmusic

"A transcendent exploration of what one man can achieve with an acoustic guitar..." 
- Everyday Guitar Gear

Golden Hour (2012.03.24)

Recorded live on 11 and 12 November 2017 in the amphitheater of the legendary Arcosanti, Arizona – an historic experiment in ecologically-integrated architecture – for Convergence, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between visionary architects, artists, and permaculturists. 
Arcosanti is one of the most inspiring places I've ever been and playing there was the fulfillment of a dream I've had since I first visited in 2005. 
The vibe was high, the desert winter beautiful, the crew and venue incomparable. This double album is a landmark record of the sweet, ripe moment when it all came true – if only for a moment.
Listen to the whole album:
https://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-arcosanti

Live at Arcosanti – What If? (Improv)

Download this entire album for free:
http://bit.ly/goldenhourlp

Switched-on instrumental electronic grooves improvised on guitar and hardware effects at La Fuentes (Austin, TX) on 3.24.2012.

"A transcendent exploration of what one man can achieve with an acoustic guitar..." 
- Everyday Guitar Gear

"It takes creativity to make the next step in a newer, more shocking direction, but it takes a visionary to go beyond the breaking point and meet music on the other end of the spectrum. That’s what Michael Garfield does."
- TheUntz.com

http://michaelgarfield.net
http://facebook.com/michaelgarfieldmusic

You're In My Self-Portrait (2012.03.24)

In the moment before acting lies a void
where every future gleams, reflecting every other
every moment a uniquely blooming world.
In the space between two thoughts
where every other instant grows
expanding now into infinity
and every possibility unfurls...

How do you choose your next life?

It may seem your heart has stopped between two beats.
It's not the universe that's ended
but that you're already dead
remembering everything at once
seeing past the limits of your head.

In the seconds it would take to drain
the oxygen from your exquisite brain
a few mere seconds, all your life replays
an intimate refrain.
It isn't just the fireworks of dying neurons firing.
You are slipping from the grip 
of that which kept you in the slow procession.
Now your feathered eyelids open
to behold the whole terrain...

How do you choose your next life?

It may seem your heart has stopped between two beats.
It's not the universe that's ended
but that you're already dead
remembering everything at once
seeing past the limits of your head.

• • • •

Songwriting, Vocals, Guitar by Michael Garfield
http://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com 

Produced by Mitch Mignano
https://facebook.com/mitch.mignano.77 

Cover Art by Randal Roberts
http://allofthisisforyou.com/art/beloved_omega_heart_2018/

Watch the alternate solo ukulele arrangement in 360º video:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g8-ey7q-KKw

Indecision

Improvised live on acoustic guitar, voice, and hardware effects (no software) on 16 November 2012 at Whip In, Austin, Texas.  Featuring eBow synth lines and grain shifted vocals on the Kaoss Pad.

"The only risk we ever run is to leave our bodies before our job is done."

DOWNLOAD THIS TRACK and hours more free cyberacoustic music at
http://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com/track/the-only-risk

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The Only Risk (freestyle cyberacoustic guitar)

Download the entire EP for free:
http://bit.ly/yellowleaves

----- About the Yellow Leaves EP ------
Recorded in a single take at a private backyard concert on Thanksgiving 2012, this 33:33 of improvised "cyberacoustic" instrumentals is my most spacious and poignant yet – evoking big autumn skies, far horizons, and the crunch of fallen leaves by bonfire light – but it defies expectations, remixing the familiar conventions of acoustic music with a fifty-pound pedalboard of beat slicers, filters, delays, and multi-channel loopers, welding fingerstyle technique into a cybernetic bed of live hardware production.

Picking (or often bowing, with an electromagnet) while twisting knobs and DJ'ing live samples with my toes, I perform as an embodiment of my training as an evolutionary biologist and futurist – liberating the organic into the digital, and the idioms of Americana into a new species of transcendental trance. 

Yellow Leaves is a definitive take on the adventurous and visionary musical attitude that earned my tenure as ReverbNation's #1 Experimental Artist in the World.

http://michaelgarfield.net
http://facebook.com/michaelgarfieldmusic

Night Train (2012.11.25)

Marrying the singer-songwriter-guitarist and electronic live producer, Michael's music draws listeners into lush and atmospheric, driving and dynamic spaces spanning folk tradition and the avant-garde. Over a career spanning more than twenty years, three continents, and a thousand performances, Michael's music has found its way into settings everywhere from award-winning documentaries to clinical psychedelic research to birthing centers to underground cave parties.

Singing and playing while warping live samples with his toes, Michael's performances embody his training as an evolutionary biologist and cyberdelic poet-philosopher — liberating the organic into the digital, and the idioms of Americana into a new species of transcendental trance.

"Welcome to the future...Michael is a pioneer exploring the edge realms where the electric and old world meet."
- LostInSound

"It takes creativity to make the next step in a newer, more shocking direction, but it takes a visionary to go beyond the breaking point and meet music on the other end of the spectrum. That’s what Michael Garfield does."
- The Untz

"Monstrously talented...an act the likes of which I have not seen in a long time."
- Willy Porter

Read more and watch videos at http://michaelgarfield.net/p/musician.html

Michael Garfield

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