Concert by Music for Furniture at 6pm during Hudson’s Winter Walk! Music for Furniture is an experiment in attentive listening. David Garland, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Jimmy Garver, Kenji Garland, and Dan Kirkhus pool their musical perspectives to create spontaneous soundscapes using synthesizers, electronics, and woodwinds.
David Garland has worked and collaborated with the likes of Patti Smith, Sean Ono Lennon, Yoko Ono, Meredith Monk, Sufjan Stevens, John Zorn, and many more.
With his multi-instumental scorings and innovative collaborators, Garland has issued a dozen unique recorded albums from the 1980s and on, both under his own name as well as with the bands Garlands and Music for Furniture.
What people are saying about David Garland's music:
“David Garland has quickly become one of my favorite contemporary composers. Like many great songwriters before him, he pushes the limits of acceptable harmony and dissonance, yet never at the expense of beauty. He is able to take the listener through what might otherwise be quite perplexing musical architecture, and guide them along as if floating effortlessly on a cloud. The fact that Garland is not more known is an indication that much of the world has forgotten why it is we make and listen to music in the first place. If it’s not possible for popular music to reach the heights of the great classical masters, it seems no one has told David Garland.”
—Sean Ono Lennon
“Garland is a superb, crazily imaginative songwriter. Singing through a Synclavier or banging on a piece of Styrofoam, he’ll sing about how insane the nightly news is, how painful true love is, how scary getting to know other people is, and it all quietly creeps up and hits you right where you live.”
—Kyle Gann, Village Voice
“Mr. Garland [is] an accomplished pop baritone and determinedly self-choreographed dancer… His lyrics mix droll directness and evocative ambiguity, and he sets them to catchy tunes. His persona — a fallible character trying to make sense of his life — is unpretentiously appealing.”
— New York Times