Subscribe to new music at http://michaelgarfield.bandcamp.com Michael Garfield writes music for which new words must be invented – intelligent, emotional performances that captivate attentive audiences and reward repeated listening. Simultaneously tender and apocalyptic, chill and energetic, intensely technical yet vulnerable performances that reimagine folk and psychedelic rock alike, updating "solo artist with guitar" to suit an age of existential wonder, cybernetic systems, and emerging planetary consciousness. Born from the musical DNA of Daniel Lanois, raised on the serenades of Jeff Buckley and Fiona Apple, then initiated into the melodic instrumental glitch of Ratatat, The Books, and Four Tet, Michael's music lives somewhere between the singer-songwriter and electronic live producer. Nimbly shifting in between ecstatic instrumental improvs, deftly executed fretboard-tapping etudes, and "Cosmic Americana" songcraft of heart-breaking sweetness, Michael points beyond the genre and the medium to bring his audiences into lush and atmospheric spaces spanning folk tradition and the avant-garde. His dozens of releases keep record of gigs at innumerable festivals and with a dizzying array of artists, including Papadosio, Taylor McFerrin, The Floozies, Random Rab, Rena Jones, members of Beats Antique, Willy Porter, Tim Reynolds, Andreas Kapsalis Trio, DVS*, Zach Deputy, & That 1 Guy. He's also jammed onstage with many more, including Fareed Haque, Entheogenic, Bird of Prey, The Human Experience, Erothyme, and Ayla Nereo. Founder and curator of the groundbreaking Loopers' Night and Paint Jam ATX monthly residencies in Austin, Michael leads an ever-growing cast of artists and musicians into daring and delightful cross-media adventures. His music has been featured in the award-winning PBS documentary series Arts in Context, as well as on numerous podcasts (including Expanding Mind and The Psychedelic Salon). Passionate about interdisciplinary collaboration, he frequently co-improvises with fire dancers, aerialists, live painters, and visual projectionists. At Gratifly Festival 2013, Michael made history as the first musician to stream point-of-view video from Google Glass through a projector on stage, allowing audience members to watch the show through his eyes...just another day in the life of a musician who works tirelessly to dissolve the boundaries between the human and machine, the audience and artist. View Michael's full press kit at http://michaelgarfield.blogspot.com/p/musician.html Social links http://facebook.com/michaelgarfieldart http://twitter.com/michaelgarfield http://instagram.com/michaelgarfield http://plus.google.com/+michaelgarfield ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqkH_jBwCH0

Subscribe to Future Fossils: https://patreon.com/michaelgarfield Learn more about the Psilocybin Summit: https://2021.psilocybinsummit.com/talks/myth-and-mycelium-ecological-embodiment-and-mycelial-storytelling/ • Richard Doyle, PhD, is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State University, where he has taught since 1994. Ever since reading the work of futurist Alvin Toffler at age twelve, Doyle has been on a scholarly and personal quest to understand the effects of information technologies on the evolution of human culture and consciousness. Through personal practice and sheer luck, Doyle, aka mobius, has been healed of severe asthma, nearly whole body eczema and severe depression through the grace of ayahuasca, LSD, psilocybin, chanting and meditation, all of which taught him, and continue to teach him, techniques for letting go of ego and abiding states which transcend the “I”, such as agape or selfless love. The states available to human consciousness through these practices, particularly meditation, are observed by Doyle, after long suffering and much stumbling practice, to be the necessary and sufficient modes of healing ourselves, and by extension humanity and the planet. In the paroxysms of despair and distress now convulsing the planet through the pandemic and global unrest, Doyle has devoted himself to sharing simple, non denominational, free, and open source tactics and guidance for achieving these states on our own, and to do so without taking himself very seriously at all and recognizing his comic and joyful insignificance. • Sophie Strand is a poet, historical-fiction writer, and essayist based in the Hudson Valley with a focus on the intersection of spirituality and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming from Sacred Planet Books (Inner Traditions). Her writing has been published by The Dark Mountain Project, www.poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way Magazine, Creatrix Magazine, and Your Impossible Voice. And you can continue to follow her work and poetry on Facebook or Instagram: cosmogyny. • Dr. Sam Gandy has a PhD in ecological science from the University of Aberdeen and an MRes in entomology from Imperial College London. He has a lifelong interest in nature and wildlife and has been fortunate enough to conduct field research in various parts of the world including the UK, Kefalonia, Almeria, Texas, the Peruvian Amazon, Vietnam, Brazil and Ethiopia. He is a writer and speaker and has experience working within the psychedelic field, as a past scientific assistant to the director of the Beckley Foundation, and is currently working as a collaborator with the Psyc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKsCapIKDFM