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David Garland (born December 17, 1954) is a singer-songwriter, composer, instrument designer, illustrator, graphic designer, journalist, and former New York city radio personality.

Early life and education

Garland attended the Rhode Island School of Design from 1972-1976, and graduated with honors.

Music projects

A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Garland has recorded with Christian Marclay, John Zorn, Shelly Hirsch, Ikue Mori, Sufjan Stevens, Arto Lindsay, Sussan Deyhim, Sean Lennon, Guy Klucevsek, Michael Gira, Karen Mantler, Brian Dewan, and Meredith Monk, among others. He has performed at New York City’s Knitting Factory, The Kitchen, and Carnegie Hall, in Europe, on WNYC’s New Sounds and other venues, and has recorded several albums of his music. In 1993 he released an album, I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times, which features Garland, along with accompanists Ikue Mori and Cinnie Cole, interpreting songs by Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. His most recent album, Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton, released in 2012, features guest appearances by Vashti Bunyan, and Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl of the band Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger.

Radio

Garland hosted the radio show Spinning On Air on station WNYC in New York City for 28 years, and served as the weekend evening host on WQXR, New York City. He continues to produce Spinning On Air as an independent podcast. He hosted two additional programs on WQXR, Movies On The Radio, which focused on recorded film scores, and Old School, which focused on early music from the 11th to the 18th centuries. Prior to broadcasting at WQXR and WNYC, Garland hosted programs at WKCR, the radio station of Columbia University, New York.

Visual arts

He has designed album covers for the Improvising Artists record label, and for his own music releases.

Journalism

Garland served as editor, writer, and co-art director for EAR Magazine from 1979 to 1982. He wrote a cover story on composer Philip Glass for the December 1983 issue of Down Beat magazine, and penned liner notes for Brain in a Box: The Science Fiction Collection, issued by Rhino in 2000. He has written a number of pieces for NPR Music, including stories about Van Dyke Parks, Mark David Ashworth, Laura Marling, and Will Stratton, and for the musicians forum Talkhouse

Discography

Albums issued as David Garland

• 1987: Control Songs
• 1993: I Guess I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times: David Garland Performs Brian Wilson
• 1999: Togetherness (Control Songs, Vol. 2)
• 2000: My Vortex Camera (Control Songs, Vol. 3)
• 2004: The Other Side of the Window
• 2006: Reveal
• 2007: The Noise in You
• 2012: Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton
• 2018: Verdancy

Albums issued under the band name Garlands (including other family members and outside collaborators)

• 2019: Vulneraries Vol. 1
• 2019: Vulneraries Vol. 2
• 2020: Vulneraries Vol. 3 Mortality
• 2020: Vulneraries Vol. 4
• 2020: Vulneraries Vol. 5
• 2021: Vulneraries Vol. 6

References

1. Biography at WXQR.org
2. "Biography at DavidGarland.com". Archived from the original on 2016-02-09. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
3. David Garland at Discogs.com
4. Conversations with the Cinnamon Skeleton reviewed at FolkRadio.co.uk
5. Spinning on Air at WNYC.org
6. https://spinningonair.org/ Spinning On Air Podcast home page
7. Movies on the Radio program description, WQXR.org
8. Old School program description, WQXR.org
9. "Biography at DavidGarland.com". Archived from the original on 2016-02-09. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
10. Index of David Garland's stories at NPR.org
11. David Garland Talks Deradoorian’s The Expanding Flower Planet, August 26, 2015.

External links

• DavidGarland.com — official website

• 1954 births
• Living people
• American artists
• American male journalists
• American male composers
• 21st-century American composers
• American male singer-songwriters
• Classical music radio presenters
• Musicians from Lexington, Massachusetts
• Radio personalities from New York (state)
• Rhode Island School of Design alumni
• 21st-century American male musicians
• Rhode Island School of Design alumni in music