Peter Grenader
Peter Grenader - synthesist
Person from United States
Genres: electroacoustic, experimental
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About Peter Grenader
Peter Grenader studied composition with an emphasis in electro-acoustic music at the California Institute of the Arts under the guidance of Barry Schrader and Morton Subotnick. In 2002, Grenader's Electrolux won the Periòdic Experimental Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain. Other appearances include an evening performance at the 2003 SEAMUS National Conference, the University of North Texas, California Institute of the Arts, Stony Brook University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, University of Texas at Austin, Georgia State University's Pulse Field, the Florida Electro-Acoustic Music Festival and the 2003 Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival at Dartmouth. His work as been broadcast on KCSN-FM, Los Angeles; CKCU-FM, Ottawa, Canada; WOBC 91.5 FM in Oberlin, Ohio and Resonance FM, London. In 2003, he was a guest host for KCSN-FM's Galactic Voyager radio program for a special edition focusing on Electro-Acoustic Music and more recently was a featured composer at the 17th American Composer's Forum Salon in Venice. In 2006, at the invitation of composer and sound artist Steve Roach, Grenader served as a panel speaker at the fifth annual TapeOpCon in Tucson, AZ along with Dave Wright of Not Breathing. Further palmares include The Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, Holland and GMEB in Bourges, France as well as two wins at the Virginia Commonwealth University Music Festival. A member of the SEAMUS board of directors (Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States - webmaster) and the ACF (American Composers Forum), his playtime deversions include dog parenting and cycling. He is the proud founder of the John S., Waddell Memorial Foundation and designs and manufacturers analog electronic music instruments under the guise of Electro-Acoustic Research (EAR), including custom gear for Nine Inch Nails, Chilli Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, film composer Gary Chang and Steve Roach. Past lives include that as an art director, and the seemingly billions of pieces designed for print over the past 15 years include over 107 CD packages, including Rita Coolidge, Max Weinberg 7, Frank Stallone and most recently Barry Schrader's Lost Atlantis and Fallen Sparrow CDs for Innova Recordings. Peter Grenader's own website is: http://www.buzzclick-music.com/buzzindex.html
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