patrickgrant.com
Patrick Grant - Music for Film, Video & Other Media
10 Waterside Plaza - 6B
New York, NY 10010
pg@patrickgrant.com
http://www.patrickgrant.com/
(646) 359-3856
PATRICK GRANT creates music for concert, stage and visual media. For the stage he has created scores for theatrical visionaries the Living Theatre, Robert Wilson and Gerald Thomas (Brazil). Visual collaborations include compositions for Deitch Projects, the Columbus Museum, the Fort Worth Modern Museum and for the Whitney Biennial. His production company sTRANGEmUSIC Inc. celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
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All titles (c) Strange Music Inc.
and published by silent treatment (BMI) unless otherwise noted
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VIDEO SAMPLES w/ MUSIC & SOUND
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"Evolution" from the Living Theatre's EUREKA!
From the Living Theatre's multimedia stage production. Edited by Evan True & Eric Olson. Original music by Patrick Grant.
Kehinde Wiley - The World Stage
The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar is Kehinde Wiley's (b. 1977) first solo exhibition at The Studio Museum in Harlem and features ten new paintings from his multinational "The World Stage" series. This promotional video was edited by Joe Nanashe and has original music by Patrick Grant.
Children at War - Music for Strings
Live performance by SONYC at Music for a Change, ComposerCollaborative's concert for Make Music New York June 21, 2008
SATCHIDANANDA - 1:02:54
music for a documentary
Click HERE for Windows Media Video - 86 MB - 1hr 1min 59 sec
Click HERE for Quicktime MPG-4 Video - 82 MB - 1hr 1min 59 sec
Web Page
Lonely Ride Coney Island - 7'09"
music for a video installation
Windows Media Video - 46 MB
Quicktime Video - 19 MB
Happy Ride Coney Island - 6'58"
music for video
Windows Media Video - 43 MB
Quicktime Video - 20 MB
Victoriana - 4'41"
music for a video installation
Windows Media Video - 26 MB
Quicktime Video - 9 MB
RESIST! - Trailer - 1'08"
music for a documentary
Windows Media Video - 3 MB
AVI Format - 10 MB
Web Page
IMDB Page
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NEW - "Rockstar Energy Drink Promo"
Here's a capoiera-themed promo by dGoMedia for Rockstar Energy Drink that I worked on last week. Amongst other elements (like recording the traffic on the FDR out of my studio window), that's 18 tracks of me clapping my hands off to match the energy of the featured dancer/athlete/fighters.
Director: Chris Zonnas, Producer: Donn Gobin, Editor: Matt Grzan/DV8R Post
NEW - "Push It" - a version for coloratura soprano
For Windows Media Video (WMV)
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SAMPLE MUSIC TRACKS
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Theme from "Maudie & Jane" - 1'00"
music for theater
Bathing Scene from "Maudie & Jane" - 3'50"
music for theater
Lonely Ride Coney Island - 7'09"
music for video
Victoriana - 4'41"
music for a video installation
Happy Ride Coney Island - 6'58"
music for video
SATCHIDANANDA - Music for a Documentary
various instrumentation
01. Opening - 2:14
02. India to Woodstock - 3:08
03. Flower Power 1 - 1:19
04. Flower Power 2 - 2:16
05. Yoga Itself - 4:13
06. Yoga History Etc. - 2:01
07. Jamananda - 8:49
08. Elephant Parade - 5:24
09. Thoughtful Groove - 5:09
10. The Healing Heart - 6:32
FIELDS AMAZE - 8'35"
music for gamelan and microtonal keyboard
This piece began as an experiment in using the gamelan's pelog tuning (plus one slendro note) and seeing, by finding as many more or less 'consonant' triads and tonal centers as I could, how one could convincingly modulate between them. While not remarkable from a Western point of view, gamelan music (as a tradition) is not known to modulate as such and this seemed to me to be an interesting way to use as a point of entry in writing a new piece. It's also the first time I really took advantage of the tuning functions of my keyboard and was able to tune it to the gamelan. Rhythmically, much is owed to the Afro-Cubano tradition and structurally it could be said to be modeled on many a first movement from the clavier concerti of the Baroque and Classical eras.
IMAGINARY HORROR FILM
music for flute, clarinet, trombone, theremin, 2 percussion, piano, 2 synthesizers, viola, cello, e. guitar & e. bass
This thirteen section piece is in manys ways my own paean to all of the truly awful horror films I watched (and thoroughly enjoyed) when I was a kid. At the same it is also a deconstruction of serialist compositional technique (which can said to be a horror in itself). However, all such sections have been written to create a bizarre sense of tonality (and that's a big Luigi "No-No" by twelve-tone standards). In this sense I am indeed a serial killer but, to my ears, I much prefer this twisted take on tonality and all of the genre-hopping it makes possible: harmonically and stylistically. For those of you who keep track of such things, the tuning is not the equal temperment of most 20th century composers but in Werckmeister III, the well-tempered tuning (as opposed to equal) that Bach used. This way, each chord has its own flavor, however subtle, that sets it apart from all others and only adds to the slighty disturbed quality of this piece.
1. Imaginary Horror Film - Part One - 8'48"
2. Imaginary Horror Film - Part Two - 7'45
hIP-hIP eXPERIENCE - Permutations 4 String Quartet+ (Live Recording from Public Radio Podcast)
01. Part 1 - 6:59 - Hey Ya, Crazy-Naughty-Push It Medley
02. Part 2 - 1:44 - My Humps
03. Part 3 - 5:16 - Golddigger-Jesus Walks Medley, Gangsta Medley
Monogram for Gamelan - 4'12"
music for Balinese gamelan
Written for and performed at the wedding of Asher Edelman & Michelle Vrebalovich in Kokor, Palau, Micronesia, in summer 2001.
PDF Score - 27 pp - 1.5 MB
Five Songs from "THE RULES OF CIVILITY" - 5'51"
music for 2 singers, flute, oboe, trumpet, 2 horns, timpani, organ, harpsichord & strings
This is a section from a scene of a chamber opera based upon text by George Washington who, as a teen, wrote 110 Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. The scoring is for 13 period instruments from the 18th century and reflects the highly baroque and antiquated nature of, these often hilarious, rules. These particular five songs are all of the ones that deal with how to eat at the table and, in the opera, are used as a dark counterpoint to a staging that depicts the horrors of war by Hanon Reznikov of the Living Theatre. The singers are Joanie Fritz Zosike, mezzo-soprano, and Robert Hieger, tenor.
PDF Score - 51 pp - 1.8 MB
1. Don't sit at the head of the table unless it is your proper place or if the master of the house wishes it. It is the decent thing to do to give anyone at table a meal. Try to help others unless your master desires it not.2. Pay attention when others talk at the table. Don't lay your arm but only your hand on the table. Keep your fingers clean and when dirty wipe them on a napkin.
3. Don't eat in the street or in the house out of season. Don't eat too leisurely or too hastily. Don't spit, don't scratch, don't cough or blow your nose except when really necessary. Don't cut your bread with a greasy knife.
4. Don't put your food in your mouth with a knife. Don't stare while you are eating. Don't put another bite of food in until the first bite is finished (gone) and do not talk when your mouth is full.
5. Don't get angry at the table no matter what should happen especially if there are strangers present you should put on a cheerful face. Good humor makes one dish of food a feast.
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Some Songs for Kids
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If One Should Happen To Fall - 3'36"
music for new wave band
Text from Roget's Thesaurus
Lisa Karrer - vocals
Two Songs for Two Cats: The Grizzles
Beatlesque songs written for a friend's cats
1. Get Better Oliver - 1'12"
2. Pinky Yer So Stinky - 1'54"====================================
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