Biosphere Dreaming by Michael Garfield

The original soundtrack to Mark Nelson's Biosphere 2 retrospective at the UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute Gallery, curated by Jacob Lillemose, this 46 minutes of music gathers six years of personal field recordings together with an ever-iterating array of hardware and software electronics and acoustic instruments to provide an immersive ambient-yet-dramatic backdrop to Mark's archival photos and texts recounting the adventure and discovery of living together with seven other "biospherians" inside of what might be history's most ambitious (intentional) ecology experiment.

Improvised in-studio over the course of weeks and then layered, mulched, and retextured, these tracks constitute seven different sonic environments just as the seven different biomes of Biosphere 2 were an effort to reproduce the planet Earth in miniature. Like Biosphere 2, and like our interactions with "Biosphere 1" itself, they are the record of a messy, expansive, and uncertain process that challenged conceptual and spatiotemporal horizons. I invite listeners to merge with these musical spaces as Mark Nelson and his colleagues learned to merge with the miniaturized bio/noo/technospheres within their enclosure — to recognize, as they did, the co-imbrication and mutually-dependent arising of all things on Spaceship Earth...

Singer-songwriter, avant-guitarist, and live electronic producer all at once, Michael's dynamic live shows and intricate albums takes listeners on emotional trips spanning folk tradition and the avant-garde.

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