Other Minds Festivals ➔ Peter Garland, head and shoulders portrait, head turned towards camera, Woodside CA, (2000)

A portrait of Peter Garland, taken during his retreat at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside CA, prior to his participation in the 6th Other Minds Music Festival in March of 2000.  Peter Garland was born in 1952 in Maine. He studied with Harold Budd and James Tenney at Cal Arts and has had long student-mentor friendships with Lou Harrison, Conlon Nancarrow, Paul Bowles and Dane Rudhyar. He edited and published Soundings Press for twenty years, and has written two books of essays on American music and culture. He has been a lifelong student of Native American music, and has lived in New Mexico, California, Maine, Michoacan, Oaxaca and Puebla.