Kraig Grady

Kraig Grady

Kraig Grady is a US-Australian composer. He has composed and performed with an ensemble of microtonal instruments of his own design and also worked as a shadow puppeteer, tuning theorist, filmmaker, world music radio DJ and concert promoter. His works feature his own ensembles of acoustic instruments, including metallophones, marimbas, hammered dulcimers and reed organs tuned to microtonal just intonation scales. His compositions include accompaniments for silent films and shadow plays. An important influence in the development of Grady's music was Harry Partch, like Grady, a musician from the Southwest, and a composer of theatrical works in Just Intonation for self-built instruments.

Born in city|Montebello|California in 1952, Grady began composing while still in his teens. After studies with Nicolas Slonimsky, Dean Drummond, Dorrance Stalvey and Byong-Kon Kim , he produced his earliest compositions. Since meeting tuning theorist Erv Wilson in 1975, he has composed and performed in alternative tunings based on Wilson’s theories, first in 31-tone equal temperament, and eventually in the just intonation resources of Wilson's combination-product sets and meta-slendro. In the early 1980s Grady and filmmaker Keith Barefoot created a number of performances combining live music with silent film. In his 1989 opera "War and Pieces", he used film to project stage settings as well as illustrate the inner thoughts of the live performers.

Since 1993 Grady’s work has been connected to the activities of "The North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island", a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization promoting the culture of this fictional island, which Grady characterizes as a "metaphorical geographical locale". He has produced numerous solo and ensemble works and ten shadow plays representing the "traditional" repertoire of Anaphoria: "Ten Black Eye I-II, Black Eye Meru, Her Stirring Stone, Their Ventures Beyond The Horizons, The Stolen Stars, Frenzy At The Royal Threshold, The Quiet Erow, The Pilgrimage of Mirrors", and "The Follies of Dr. Placebo".

Despite the fact that the size of his instruments make touring difficult, his work has been presented at Ballhaus Naunyn Berlin (Germany), the Chateau de la Napoule (France), the Norton Simon Museum of Art, the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, the Pacific Asia Museum, California Institute of the Arts, Pomona College, Pierce College, Villa Aurora Foundation for European American Relations, the Schindler House, Beyond Baroque, the Brand Library, New Langton Arts, as well as numerous live performances on radio KPFK, KCRW, and KXLU. His work was also presented as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s American Music Weekend as well as New Music America 1985. He has been nominated four times for the LA Weekly Music Awards best uncategorizable artist and was chosen by Buzz Magazine as one of the "100 coolest people in Los Angeles".

ee also

Hexany His "A Farewell Ring" is for the Hexany and he has many other works for Combination product sets

External links

* [http://www.anaphoria.com Anaphoria.com] - Grady's home page
* [http://www.laweekly.com/ink/01/03/features-burk.php LAWeekly.com: Border Garde] Microtonalist Kraig Grady: Outside and in between, by Greg Burk, includes photo.
* [http://www.csulb.edu/~gbach/socalsonickraiggrady.html SO.CAL.SONIC: Kraig Grady]
* [http://www.smh.com.au/news/cd-reviews/beyond-the-windows-perhaps-among-the-podcorn/2007/11/23/1195753288142.html Beyond The Windows Perhaps Among The Podcorn Review]


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