Biosphere Dreaming
by Michael Garfield
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Biome 1
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Biome 2
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Biome 3
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Biome 4
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Biome 5
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Biome 6
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Biome 7
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about
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...
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...
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released April 27, 2023
Michael Garfield: Acoustic Six-String Guitar, Electric Eight-String Guitar, Boss RC-505, Boss PS-5, Boss DD-200, Boss SL-20, Boss PW-3, Boss VE-5, Ebow, Kalimba, Voice, Beyerdynamic M88-TG, Scarlett FocusRite 4i4, iPad Software Synthesizers, KME K-Board-C, Zoom H2n, Pixel Watch, Macbook Pro, Ableton Live, Adobe Photoshop
michaelgarfield.substack.com
patreon.com/michaelgarfield
For more information on the exhibition, visit:
qi.ucsd.edu/gallery-exhibit-on-1990s-social-environmental-experiment-biosphere-2-opens-at-the-uc-san-diego-qualcomm-institute/
Watch our presentations and panel discussion from the opening:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T87vT_flc6g
Photos © The Institute of Ecotechnics:
ecotechnics.edu
More about Mark Nelson:
marknelsonbiospherian.com
More about Jacob Lillemose:
archive.transmediale.de/content/jacob-lillemose
Historical videos about Biosphere 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWKghqOajDo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4vbMK93WIY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0K8gOngjJ0
Michael Garfield: Acoustic Six-String Guitar, Electric Eight-String Guitar, Boss RC-505, Boss PS-5, Boss DD-200, Boss SL-20, Boss PW-3, Boss VE-5, Ebow, Kalimba, Voice, Beyerdynamic M88-TG, Scarlett FocusRite 4i4, iPad Software Synthesizers, KME K-Board-C, Zoom H2n, Pixel Watch, Macbook Pro, Ableton Live, Adobe Photoshop
michaelgarfield.substack.com
patreon.com/michaelgarfield
For more information on the exhibition, visit:
qi.ucsd.edu/gallery-exhibit-on-1990s-social-environmental-experiment-biosphere-2-opens-at-the-uc-san-diego-qualcomm-institute/
Watch our presentations and panel discussion from the opening:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T87vT_flc6g
Photos © The Institute of Ecotechnics:
ecotechnics.edu
More about Mark Nelson:
marknelsonbiospherian.com
More about Jacob Lillemose:
archive.transmediale.de/content/jacob-lillemose
Historical videos about Biosphere 2:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWKghqOajDo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4vbMK93WIY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0K8gOngjJ0
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Michael Garfield Santa Fe, New Mexico
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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