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MISSIVES TO THE ETHER: David Garland

Feb 08, 2026: 3pm - 4pm
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MISSIVES TO THE ETHER: David Garland

MISSIVES TO THE ETHER: David Garland. (Feb 08, 2026)

Hosted by Cat Tyc.

Interdisciplinary writer/artist Cat Tyc reads tarot for guests on air and plays whatever she wants.

This month's guest is David Garland, who is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer, and has actively been creating a unique body of work since the early 1980s. He has recorded music with Christian Marclay, John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Sufjan Stevens, Sean Ono Lennon, Guy Klucevsek, Vashti Bunyan, Meredith Monk, Iva Bittova, and others.

He is also a visual artist. Since 2022 his photographs of reflected sunlight have been seen in four one-person gallery shows, and daily on Instagram. He has also been a professional illustrator and graphic designer.

He produced and hosted the iconic Spinning On Air, which for 28 years was a radio show of music and interviews on WNYC, New York Public Radio, and then until 2018 was an independently produced podcast. He has been an audio producer, presenter, interviewer, music programmer, writer, editor, engineer, and mixer.

He has released over a dozen albums of music, and, since 2019, eight albums by Garlands, a duo with his son. Listen and purchase on Bandcamp.

Every Monday morning from 8:30 until 10 AM he plays with the improvising ensemble Music for Furniture at Joust Cafe, 365 Main St., Catskill, NY, adding acoustic sounds to the otherwise electronic group.

Cat Tyc is an interdisciplinary writer/artist who has three chapbooks: An Architectural Seance (dancing girl press & studio), CONSUMES ME (Belladonna* Collaborative), and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit). Her most recent writing has been published in Maggot Brain, The Recluse, FENCE, and The American Museum of Paramusicology. She has presented and performed at the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Kassel Fest, and the Synthesis Gallery in Berlin. She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO’s NewNowNext and MTVu. Her first solo exhibition, SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS, was presented at Tanja Grunert Gallery in 2022. She has been granted residencies and fellowships at Signal Culture, The Flaherty Seminar, and Mass MOCA and has received support from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. She lives in Hudson, NY.