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| 10/29/06 9 Episodes for Xun and 2 Computers
Choshi Variations for Shakuhachi and 2 Computers, concert length version
Choshi Variations for Shakuhachi, Sho and 2 Computers
New Old Song 2 for Shakuhachi and 2 Computers
Plateaus for Jane Rigler - flute and computer
Plateaus for Mari Kimura - violin and computer
Plateaus for David Cossin - vibraphone and computer
Aura for Shakuhachi and 3 Power Books
Aura for Shakuhachi and 3 Power Books
New Old Song for solo Shakuhachi
Risk Management
Plateaus 1-4 for Vibraphone and Power Book
solo concert at Experimental Intermedia, NYC
improvisation with Anne LaBerge at Kraakgeluiden in Amsterdam
16-channel Spatializing Improvisation with Hans Tammen and Dafna Naphtali
Drone and Koan (for solo Computer)
Drone and Koan (for ManYee)
Duo improvisation with two interacting computers
risk management: improvisation with two computers and electronics
Duo improvisation with two interacting computers and electronics
Duo improvisation with interacting computers and electronics
Duo improvisation with two interacting computers
Duo improvisation for two musicians and interacting computers
Duo improvisation with interacting computers
Trio improvisation with interacting computers
Drone & Koan
Other Flutes with guest flutist Anne LaBerge- improvisation with interactive computers
Skies of America
Quartet improvisation with interacting computers and electronics
Quartet improvisation with interacting computers
Pathos 3
Conduction #44: Ornithology
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| 1979 Honors Bachelor of Music in Composition - Wilfrid Laurier University
1981 Master of Music in Composition - University of Victoria
1991 Master of Arts in Philosophy - New School for Social Research Thesis title: The Topology of Music - Advisor: Reiner Schurmann
Spring 1993 Eugene Lang Fellowship - Eugene Lang College at the New School for Social Research
Sustained Shakuhachi Study
1988 to 92 Assistant Editor
2006 Oxford Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
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| 2004 -
Interactive Technology Artist
in Residence Award at
Harvestworks, NYC. 2003/04 - Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship, a Japan/US Friendship Commission and NEA sponsored award that enables Fellows to study and work in Japan for six months. May and June 2003 - Composer in Residence at Civitella Rainieri Foundation in Italy. 2002 - NYFA Fellowship in Music Composition. 9/02 - Artist in Residence at Steim in Amsterdam 5-6/02 - Artist in Residence at Engine 27, NYC 2000 - Artist in Residence Award at Harvest Works, NYC 1991, 1995 and 1996 - Meet the Composer grants. |
| CDrs A new series of CDrs are soon about to be released. They will go hand in hand with the applications soon to be found on the 'interactive' page of this site. Ensemble CDs Talking Harp is Elizabeth Panzer on harp, Ed Ware on drums, and Bruce Gremo on multiple flutes. The CD is "You Are Here" published by White Tigers. Group composer CDs 'Pathos 3,' Brue Gremo. On "Tangled Roots." Salablu Records. Soloist on CDs "On Taoism," Tan Dun. KOCH International GmbH SCHWANN / 3-1298-2 "2000 Today," Tan Dun. BBC under exclusive license to Sony Classical SK 89149 "Bitter Love," Tan Dun. Sony Music Entertainment Inc. / SK 61658 "Paper Music," Tan Dun. 1994 Parnassus Productions. |
| I have
had the pleasure to collaborate with so many fantastic
improvisers in acoustic/ad hoc electronic and/or computer performances,
as well as orchestral performances. Allow me to list just a few some of
whom I have ongoing projects, and others with whom I have had a
memorable relationship. Risk Management Free improv max/msp-ing duo with Hans Tammen, master of the endangered guitar. http://www.tammen.org/ David Cossin The hippest and saviest percussionist I know. Too many projects over too long a time to list. http://www.davidcossin.com/ Tom Hamilton One of the finest synthesists I know. http://www.kalvos.org/hamilto.html Rene Beekman Rene and I have collaborated several times performing video and sound. A really fantastic experience playing music and creating images as though I was a real time abstract expressionist painter, using my flutes rather than a brush! http://www.xs4all.nl/~rbeekman/ Other Flutes Ricardo Arias, flute, and Muriel Vergnaud, flute and alto fl. Extended technique maestro Robert Dick coined the expression, the other flute. I hope we managed to up the ante on the definition. Talking Harp Harpist Elizabeth Panzer brought Ed Ware (drums), and myself together for this trio. A great musical learning experience. Tibeten Singing Bowl Ensemble Raphael Mostel, is the composer, founder and director. This goes back some time and the ensemble is unfortunately no longer active. There were only two performances while I was part of the ensemble; at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center 6/13/94 and Florence Gould Hall, 10/28/90. It introduced me to a new way of listening and performing, and was unexpectedly formative. |
| Ornette
Coleman is an icon. I
learned a great deal listening and watching him direct his piece.
And
then on the same bill was the reunion set of his trio with Charlie
Haden and Billy Higgins. Great bonus. Skies of America Ornette Coleman -composer, director Bruce Gremo - flute soloist Knitting Factory Jazz Festival 6/1/2000 I never realized I lived almost next to Charlie Parker's old home on Avenue B until I found my way into one of Butch Morris' Conduction pieces, and then played across the street in Thompkins Sq. Park. Really a lot of fun. Only regret was that there was not more. Conduction #44:Ornithology Butch Morris, conductor-composer Bruce Gremo - flute soloist Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, NYC 8/28/94 From 1990 until April of 2000, I worked regularly with composer Tan Dun. Everything I did for him drew on my abilities as an improviser and composer. There were numerous fantastic opportunities in this time working as orchestra and chamber soloist, conductor, music director, and synthesizer programmer to name a few. I am grateful to him for those opportunities. They were great learning experiences. There are far too many occasions to warrant listing. Some of the personal highlights for me were the following. The Peony Pavilion - Peter Sellars, director - runs internationally throughout 1998 until March of 1999, in Vienna, London, Paris, Rome, and Berkeley CA Bruce Gremo - synthesizer programmer, ensemble musician Wien Modern - Xun soloist in Orchestra Theater 1: Xun Conductor 2 in Orchestra Theater 2: Re Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra 11/15/99 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center - flutist in 7 new works by Asian composers Tan Dun and the New Generation East 7/27/96 The Pink - Muna Tseng, Choreographer - productions running from 9/1993 to 10/23-26/95, in Yellow Springs PA, Henry St. Settlement, DIA Foundation, The Kitchen and LaMamma in NYC, Haverford PA, Chicago IL, Hong Kong, Lexington KY, and Tallin Estonia Proms Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall - Xun soloist in Orchestra Theater 1: Xun BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra 8/8/95 |
| 3/4-7/04 ahha - CD
X(Angels)Reconsidered
Angels you may not have considered
4/23-26/1998 Attractions Etranges
Thirteen and Quicksilver
Improvisation
Clouds of the 19th century
Attractions Etranges
Shadows
Jo Ha Kyu
The Pink Muna Tseng, choreographer. Tan Dun , composer. Bruce Gremo, music director,multiple flutist and instrumentalist. Productions ran in Yellow Springs PA, Henry St. Settlement, DIA Foundation, The Kitchen and LaMamma in NYC, Haverford PA, Chicago IL, Hong Kong, Lexington KY, and Tallin Estonia 5/8-9/1993 Improvisation
Improvisation
Jo Ha Kyu
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| 9/20/2003 Butterfly Dreams - CD International Festival of Puppetry
Butterfly Dreams - CD
Butterfly Dreams
8/31-9/3/2001 Butterfly Dreams
13-16/12/2000 Talkative Gods Talkative Gods is a text based, multi-media, four computer work which in performance, uses the softwares Max/MSP and nato. It interfaces an acoustic musician, a computer video (nato) artist, and an actress. As Artist in Residence 2000 at Harvest Works, NYC, several recordings of it were made (Dec. 2000). There were also four NYC performances at suddensite in the same month, NYC. This project was the first implementation of the Route project. Bruce Gremo - composer, performer, programmer Rene Beekman - computer video operator, programmer Kyle deCamp - actress suddensite, NYC 1/1998 - 3/1999 The Peony Pavilion Peter Sellars, director - Tan Dun, composer There were runs in Vienna, London, Paris, Rome, and Berkeley CA. I was synthesizer programmer, dizi and EWI player. 12/1994 - 1/1995 America Dreaming Michael Mayers, director - Chiori Miyagawa, playwright Produced by the Vineyard Theater, NYC. I was co-composer with Tan Dun, as well as music director and multi-instrumentalist. 3/9/1995 - 10/11/1995 NYC site specific music theater work conceived and directed by Lee Ellickson, at: the Hudson Grill, Angel Orantz Foundation, United Nations Chapel, 10 Greeen St., Knitting Factory, and The General Society Library of Mechanics and Tradesmen. |
| 6/15/04-7/10/04 Release Remaining - live performance and CD installation
Cistern Chapel computer sound installation with installation artist Charles Goldman
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| 10/2002 performances of Route (see below) at Steim and Kraakgeluiden in Amsterdam, Worm in Rotterdam, Nadines in Brussels
5/5/2001 Mutable Surface, This was an instrument, which enabled real time performance of images as well as audio, and enabled the inter-routing of control so that the musician could move and process images at will using only musical means, and the video operator could do something similar in reverse. It was a development of Route, described below. Bruce Gremo - composer, performer, programmer Rene Beekman (Amsterdam) - computer video operator, programmer Roulette, NYC 9/ 8-9/2000 Route Bruce Gremo and Rene Beekman have created a multiple computer instrument, 'route,' on which they improvise with concrete and synthetic audio and projected video materials, using many digital-processing strategies. They control these processes using shakuhachi and flute, EWI (electronic wind instrument), and wacom tablet. The audio and the visual computers require and generate streams of control data. A third computer allows the two performers to route their respective data streams back and forth to each other, e.g., pitch from the flute to chroma in the image. The theme of this duo could be , 'computer video as musical instrument,' or 'how to play the surface of a sound.' From another angle, the players improvise with the sources and destinations of their control data. Imagine a fantastic air traffic controller who improvises with the design of runways and approaches in real time. sponsored and presented by the World Wide Video Festival Bruce Gremo - musician, programmer Rene Beekman - computer video operator, programmer Melkveg, Amsterdam |
| 4/2006 Cilia: a flute controller driven dynamic synthesis system
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