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nEWS
aRCHIVE 2003
23
DEC 03
From WNYC's NEW SOUNDS Radio Program
Surveying the Notable New Releases of 2003
We're very happy that, for the third year in a row, we have had our releases recognized by this great radio show in New York City and on the internet internationally. The CDs "GENOME: The Autobiography of a Species" (CD010) and "Dedication Music for "Sacred Sister" (CD012) have been chosen as two of the notable new music releases of 2003.
Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a great New Year,
- Patrick Grant & Strange Music
08
DEC 03
Patrick
Grant & Strange Music in a Feature Article - "Polyphonic
Lives: Composers Working Behind the Scenes in the Music Industry"
by Jed Distler
Jed
Distler examines how composers have made a difference behind the scenes
in all facets of the music industry in the December issue of NewMusicBox,
the web magazine from the American
Music Center. It is an excellent article. One part of the article refers
to Grant's experience in music
publishing while another part covers his position as one of the composers
who have gone on to form record
labels, in this case, Strange
Music Inc.
27
SEP 03
Film with music by Patrick Grant Wins for Best Documentary at the EuropaCinema Festival
"RESIST,"
a Belgian documentary marking the 50th anniversary of The Living Theatre
by German film makers Dirk Szuszies and Karin Kaper won the Platinum
Award yesterday at the 20th annual
EuropaCinema Festival in Viareggio, Italy. The film also contains music
by Carlo Altomare and Andrea Liberovici. More news is sure to follow as the film
begins its circuit of the international festivals.
17
SEP 03
A new level: August was spent in preparation for the fall season. There were many hardware and software updates in the studio which required the necessary time to learn. The music for Robert Wilson, Clave Molino, was released on CD and will be part of an ad campaign along with yet another new CD release, Imaginary Horror Film and Other Pieces (to be released in early October, just in time for Halloween). A major udpate is scheduled for this web site in that we'll be posting dozens of MP3s for listening. Not just excerpts but entire pieces. It's been long overdue but, here they come. Check back early next month. Finally, stay tuned for news regarding our partnership with a first annual large-scale music Festival which will have many musical events (contemporary, classical, and uncategorical) taking place in the art galleries of Chelsea and alternative spaces of TriBeCa in 2004.
10
AUG 03
Robert
Wilson's 10th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit:
Molino
CUBANO
The
theme of this year's Watermill
Center Summer Benefit was "Molino Cubano" meaning Cuban
Mill. For a second year Robert
Wilson asked me to create some original music for the benefit to be used
in juxtaposition with a creation of one of the Center's artists-in-residence,
under his direction. This year he wanted percussion-instruments-only for an installation
in the Knee Space, itself a missing central building that will eventually
connect the two wings of the Center, through which all the guests would enter
the benefit. The visual part of the installation was created by the Cuban artist
Tania Bruguera and was called "Dated Flesh". It consisted
of live nudes covered in dripping milk standing on shelves built high into the
walls of the space. I created a piece of music (played by the excellent John
Ferrari) that I called "cLAVE mOLINO", a half hour multi-tracked
meditation on abstracted Cuban clave rhythms that were subjected to the textural
processes of my musical architecture. The piece looped for five times in the installation
and had the best sound
possible thanks to the two refrigerator-sized sub-woofers in the basement.
Two widely spaced hi/mid speakers in the installation itself beautifully brought
out the piece's polyphonic dynamics and spatial elements. The installation was
proclaimed a "standout piece" of the evening by John Rockwell in the
New York Times.
The
creation and recording of "cLAVE mOLINO" was made possible through
the generous support of Robert Wilson and the Byrd
Hoffman Water Mill Foundation. Thanks to everyone involved.
PG-NYC
AUG-03
Below,
I've compiled some photos (pardon the newsprint scans) as well as some of the
graphics associated with the event. I'll post more as they come in.
NY Times: PG with guest at Watermill 2003
Left:
The entrance from the street / Right: Robert Wilson (center) with guests
The
walkway leading up to the Knee Space (the installation area is defined by left
and right walls and the two scrims).
L
to R: Entrance, dancers, nude prior to milk, Nkisi Nkonde the mudman (photos by
Mary
Barone)
Under
the tent: two shots before the public arrived, and one just before the dancing
began.
A
draft of the cover for the upcoming CD of "cLAVE mOLINO".
It is a map of Water Mill, NY where I substituted its colors for the blue, white,
and red of the Cuban flag. The star is where the entrance to the Watermill Center
is located.
Part
of the wonderful thank you note that I received from Bob.
The
invitation to the event (which was sponsored by Louis Vuitton).
The
Watermill Center, with the Einstein Chair from Einstein on the Beach" in
the foreground, as photographed by Christian Wassmann.
Many more photos from the benefit can be found by clicking HERE
17
JUL 03
"Some
ASSEMBLY" Premiere Makes Front Page News in Northern Michigan
all
above photos: Valdo Calvert
12 JUL 03
Oddfellows Benefit Performance Covered in Dan's Papers & Easthampton Star
Maria
Pessino-Rothwell and Tom Rothwell hosted an intimate dinner dance at their home
in Amagansett to benefit Oddfellows Playhouse with an enthralling performance
by the Patrick Grant Group. The Oddfellows Players will perform Systole &
Diastole on September 13 at LongHouse Reserve. Conceived and directed by Ms. Pessino-Rothwell,
this promises to be a must-see happening, so plan ahead.
1.
Artistic Director Maria Pessino-Rothwell, Patrick Grant. 2. Artists Siv Cedering,
Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Marilyn Salenger.
3. Irving Benson, Margaret Schaffner,
Tom Rothwell, Board of Directors. 4. Evan Frankel, Rivalyn Zweig.
5. Patrick
Grant Group: Patrick Grant, Marija Ilic, John Ferrari, Kathleen Supové.
Above
photos and text by Barry Gordin
27 JUN 03
Music by Patrick Grant in a New Documentary Film
A
50 Year Living Theatre Retrospective in Naples, Italy called: "LABYRINTHS
of the IMAGINARY"
(nei LABIRINTI della IMMAGINAZIONE) presented
by the Fondazione Morra
will have screenings of
A film by Dirk SZUSZIES & Karin KAPER
"RESIST!
To be with the LIVING"
with Judith MALINA
and the Living THEATRE
On July 6 and July 21
2003, in color, 90 min.
Music:
Carlo ALTOMARE, Patrick GRANT, Andrea LIBEROVICI
Production:
YC ALIGATOR FILM
Italian press release about the retrospective
Information in English here
Click
here or on
the graphic below for the events calendar:
04
JUN 03
Patrick Grant Group will give a concert performance
at
the Annual Benefit Party for the
ODDFELLOWS
PLAYHOUSE
Maria Pessino, artistic director
artwork
by Dominique de Cock
On July 12, 2003 in Amagansett, NY
More details TBA soon on the iNFO page
30
MAY 03
Meet the Composer awards PG a Grant
The Composers Performance Fund Grant has been awarded for PG's apperance with the Cadillac String Association for the premiere of its commission Some ASSEMBLY for Strings and Percussion on July 18, 2003.
29
MAY 03
The
"GENOME" CD gets reviewed in NewMusicBox
"...Outfitted with 3 keyboard players and a percussionist, the 23-part Genome uses synthy organ and reed patches along with Fender Rhodes, piano and percussive sounds to propel through various syncopated episodes. Complex hocketing, occasional polyrhythms, and chord clusters sporadically turn up and pique the ears."
- NewMusicBox SoundTracks
Read the review online here
What others are saying about the GENOME CD:
"Fascinating...unusual...good results!" - WNYC's New Sounds
"It's
great!" - Robert Wilson,
artist and theatre director
09
MAY 03
sTRANGE
MUSIC acquires the domain PATRICKGRANT.COM
From this date on, the domain of PATRICKGRANT.COM will point to the webpages of sTRANGEmUSIC.com and PATRICKGRANT.NET, functioning as three simultaneous portals to the same content, information and news for greater accessibility.
26
APR 03
REVIEW
in THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Jenkins
Choreographs 30 Years of Magic into Spectacle"
by Octavio Roca
Chronicle
Dance Critic
The sTRANGEST and most ravishing dance of the year, as well as the most original local dance spectacle in recent memory, opened Thursday night at the Herbst Pavilion in Fort Mason. The dance is "Fractured Fictions," choreographed by Margaret Jenkins to an original score by Patrick Grant and premiered by the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. It was only a small part of an amazing program called "3 Decades of Dance" that celebrates the first 30 years of San Francisco's oldest and most exciting dance troupe.
(This section of the review goes on to describe the entire evening, the dances, the dancers and the music, and it concludes...)
...This panorama of three decades' worth of dances left little uncertainty in its wake. That is not a bad thing.
Nowhere was this uncertainty more vibrant, more touching and human than in Jenkins' new "Fractured Fictions." If here somewhere was truth, then it was reflected in the broken shards of a funhouse mirror. When all coalesced briefly in unison phrases, there was a convergence of desires made flesh onstage. When they barely touched or when they pulled apart at improbable angles, settling in unlikely balances, the feeling of real life was inescapable.
Scene after tiny scene, moment by precious moment -- buoyed by Grant's futuristic electronic gamelan sounds -- dances and dancers added up to a process but never to a resolution.
The temptation is great to single out "Fractured Fictions" as a valedictory statement of sorts, given the new dance's place of honor in the program (opening the second half). Yet it is better to think of this as just another Jenkins dance, one more in a repertory that now spans a generation.
Read
the complete review here
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company in Fractured Fictions. Photo by Bonnie Kamin
...AND
ANOTHER REVIEW in THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY 
Click here
"This
dance should be around for years." - The Voice of Dance
01
APR 03
Selections
from "GENOME" Were Played on WNYC's
NEW SOUNDS Hosted by
John Schaefer March 31st.
You
can listen to it on WNYC's website here.
RealPlayer
is required.
Performance
Photos 
Patrick
Grant performing GENOME at the
Annina Nosei Gallery 28 FEB
photo ©
2003 Laurie Lambrecht
Patrick
Grant Group performing GENOME at the
City University of New York Grad Center
28
MAR - (L to R: M. Ilic, J. Ferrari, P. Grant, K. Supové)
Patrick
Grant performing GENOME at the
City University of New York Grad Center
28
MAR - - (L to R: M. Ilic, J. Ferrari, K. Supové, P. Grant)
03 MAR 03
Patrick
Grant's "GENOME" WNYC Soundcheck Interview
is Archived on
the Web
You
can listen to it on WNYC's website here.
RealPlayer
is required.
05
FEB 03
A
world permiere choreography will be performed to
music by Patrick Grant
Margaret
Jenkins Dance Company
30th
Anniversary Season
In
Association with the Fort Mason Foundation
Presenting Three Decades of Dance
A
fusion of music, movement and mind-bending thought
APRIL 24-26, 27, 29-30, 2003 at the
Fort
Mason Center's Herbst Pavilion
Marina Blvd At Buchanan St
San
Francisco, CA 94123
29 JAN 2003
Grant
Receives Commission from Youth Orchestra
The Cadillac String Association of Cadillac, Michigan has commissioned Patrick Grant to write a piece for string orchestra and percussion to be performed at the Cadillac Arts Festival on July 18, 2003.
As part of the festival, Grant will also be performing a solo concert for the public and will be discussing this and other works on Interlochen Public Radio on the morning of July 17 at 8:00 AM..
17 JAN 03
Photos from Patrick Grant Group's January 12th event at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery. On exhibit are the encaustic wax works of Sheila Berger.
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