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BruceGremoInBrief.pdf Bruce Gremo was a recipient of the 2005 Interactive Technology Artist in Residence Award at Harvestworks, NYC. In 2003/04, he was a Fellow in the Creative Artist Exchange program, a Japan/US Friendship Commission and NEA sponsored award that enables Fellows to study and work in Japan for six months. He was Composer in Residence at Civitella Rainieri Foundation in Italy in May and June of 2003. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship in Music Composition (2002), he has been a featured composer at New York venues such as Experimental Intermedia, Roulette, Harvest Works and Lotus Studios. He has been Artist in Residence at Steim in Amsterdam (9/2002), Engine 27 in NYC (5-6/02), and Harvest Works, NYC (2000). He has received Meet the Composer grants in 1991, 1995 and 1996. His computer music has been performed around the world.
His work joins improvisation and interactive computer programming. Having emerged out of a graduate academic composition environment, he has also participated in the downtown free improvisation scene in New York since the early 90s. The computer is central to most of his composition formats. These formats are oriented towards live performance. "Interactive computer pieces have been my focus since around 1998. They are both score and instrument, as well as application. Many are conceived to enable acoustic soloists to control computer generated sound using only the musical means available on their instruments. This involves analyzing the acoustic instrument input, deriving continuous control from the analysis, and implementing it in controlling sound generating processes."
As a flutist, he
specializes in extended technique and improvisational formats using the
silver flute, the Japanese Shakuhachi, the Chinese Xun and
others. He has been a soloist at the Lincoln Center Festival with the
Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Wien Modern in Vienna as soloist
with the Austrian Radio Orchestra, the BBC Proms Festival at the Royal
Albert Hall in London as soloist with the Scottish BBC Symphony
Orchestra, the Knitting Factory Jazz Festival under Ornette
Colemans direction where he was as soloist in "Skies of
America, the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival as soloist with Butch
Morris. From 1990 up to 2000, he was frequently employed as
collaborator by Chinese
composer Tan Dun, as improviser, music director, synth programmer,
soloist and orchestra conductor. He has worked with many
choreographers; Sally Gross, Muna Tseng, Yoshiko Chuma, Susan Osberg,
and Simone Forti to name only a few. He works as a studio musican
and freelance multiple-flutist in NYC.
He has Masters degrees in Composition and in Philosophy, and has taught at the university level ("Truth and Music," at the New School, NYC, 1993).
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