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PATRICK GRANT
Producer, Composer & Sound Designer
http://www.patrickgrant.com/
http://www.myspace.com/patrickgrantnyc

Artistic & Executive Director Strange Music Inc. - New York City (1998-present) A production company formed in 1998 under which many freelance projects operate. These include recorded music production and the presentation of live music and video events. Of the former, five CDs were noted by WNYC's New Sounds as amongst the notable releases of the years 2000-2004. Of the events, over 40 unique musical productions have been presented ranging in style from Contemporary Classical, Hip-Hop, Experimental, Electronica, Indie Rock to World Music. Worked as Producer, Project Coordinator and PR on all these projects. The web site www.strangemusic.com, self-created and maintained, documents all of these activities in depth.

Sound Design & Editor Radio & Podcast - New York City (2005-present) Working as a freelancer, music and sound design have been heard on Public Radio International’s (PRI) Studio 360 and on the Podcasts of the New York Times (Tech Talk & Book Review). Worked as an editor for XM Satellite Radio's Musicians Radio.

Live Sound Technician Various Venues - mostly in New York City (1990-present) Works freelance setting up everything needed to run and record a live show. This includes everything from the setting up a stage for indie rock bands to large classical ensembles. Possesses an excellent knowledge of microphones and other onstage gear. Operates 24 channel consoles, outboard peripherals, hard disk recording, and integration with video. Venues have included Merkin Concert Hall (Lincoln Center), Maxwell's of Hoboken, the numerous venues booked by Lo-Fi Entertainment and other raw alternative spaces in which the sound system of Strange Music Inc. was rented and brought in.

Musical Director for Special Projects Kehinde Wiley Studios - New York City, Los Angeles, CA, Columbus, OH (2005 - present) Creates Hip-Hop Baroque extravaganzas for the artist and painter Kehinde Wiley in partnership with Deitch Projects, Creative Time, Paper Magazine, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, The Columbus Museum, Artware Editions, and the Modern Museum of Fort Worth, TX. These involve the generation of all scores and parts, the hiring and rehearsing of musicians, technicians and overall project co-ordination.

Composer & Sound Design Film & Video - New York City & Europe (2003-present) He has written and produced the score for Living Yoga: The Life & Teachings of Swami Satchidananda (2008) a documentary by Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar. He is co-composer on the German documentary Resist!, winner of Best Documentary at the San Francisco Film Festival 2003 and in Italy at the Europa Cinema Fest 2003 and composed the scores for three videos by award winning director Gary Beeber about Coney Island in 2005 as well as being composer and sound designer of many other short form videos.

Musical Director and Sound Technician The Living Theatre - New York City, USA, Europe - (2005-present, 1990-1994) His score for 2007 Nobel Laureate for Literature Doris Lessing's Maudie and Jane (2007-08) was heralded as “evocative” and “marvelous” in the press. He has written music and designed sound for German Requiem (1990), The Rules of Civility (1991, 1993), Humanity (1991), The Zero Method (1992) and Anarchia (1994). These resulted in over 300 performances throughout the USA and Europe. During this time produced and presented dozens of independent concerts featuring jazz, rock, experimental and spoken word. For their new space in NYC’s Lower East Side, he designed the Pro-Tools-based sound system which integrates live video.

Educator Tisch School of the Arts, The New School, Cornell University, The Ross School - He was Composer-in-Residence for a millennial music project initiated by The Ross School in East Hampton, in partnership with schools in Stockholm, Sweden and Shanghai, China. Mentors on the project were Quincy Jones and Billy Joel (1999-2000). Was a Visiting Composer at Cornell University in a joint venture of the departments of Digital Music and Ethnomusicology (2002-2003). Has been a substitute teacher at The New School (2006) and will be giving a seminar on the integration of Reason 3.0 within Pro-Tools at The Tisch School of the Arts in 2007/2008. Also has given numerous workshops on Music & Sound in the Theater throughout the USA (Whitney Museum - 2008) and in Europe since 1990.

Director, Writer & Composer The New Media Lab - CUNY Graduate Center - New York City (2003, 2005) Created two live multimedia presentations for the Science and the Arts series: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species based upon the book by Matt Ridley in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA (2003) and BIG BANG: a presentation for narrator, live musicians, electronics and video in collaboration with astronomer Charles Liu and physicist Brian Schwartz.

Composer & Sound Designer The Byrd Hoffmann / Watermill Center Foundation - New York City & Water Mill, NY (2002-2003) Created for the theatrical visionary Robert Wilson a theatrical event The Ladder of Red with the artist Andrey Bartenev (2002), and two art installations, Dated Flesh with the artist Tania Bruguera (2003) and Sacred Sister with the photographer Bettina Witteveen (2003).