James Brody

The new CD, Background Count on the Furious Artisans label, available through Amazon,
Barnes and Noble, ArchivMusic.com, Alldirect.com, and CDemusic

Review of CD from the American Record Guide

Interview by Marc Wolf from Sound Collector Magazine on the Furious Artisans website

International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
Friday, September 20, 2002
Performance of Syllepsis - Hommage à Iannis Xenakis

Maxis Festival Programme for April 13, 2002 (10:30 AM)

Music Created with 'Metasynth' available on MetaSynthia 1 Collection

Sonic Circuits Concert, Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, August 13, 2001
(The entire concert is available as a RealVideo streaming file at the Kennedy Center link above; the Brody performance begins at about 20'50")

Franz Kamin Home Page

James Brody (b.1941) studied composition at Indiana University with Iannis Xenakis and Franz Kamin. Brody wrote the liner notes for the original Nonesuch LP of 'Iannis Xenakis - Electroacoustic Music'. He was co-founder of the FIASCO group in Bloomington Indiana and CAPASA in San Antonio (both organizations dedicated to presentation and performances of works by local composers and other artists). In 1970, he taught composition, theory and electronic music at East Texas State University. He has written many electroacoustic and instrumental works. The following works have been presented at the annual International Computer Music Conference(s) (ICMC): Barzakh for tape (1984), 7-1-7…for tape (1996), Background Count, percussion and tape (1998), Syllepsis - Hommage à Iannis Xenakis (2002). Traces for solo woodwinds and brass, piano, harp, percussion and strings was commissioned and performed by the Harrisburg Symphony in 1994. Theta Ticker was performed at the IV Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, August 1997 and the Beckonings series at Stanford University, June 1999. and A Glance into the Garden for flute and tape was played at SEAMUS 2000. Brody was a guest composer at the Electronic and Computer Music Studio of The Peabody Institute and is an active member and past president of the Baltimore Composers Forum. Brody currently resides in Central Pennsylvania. Background Count was recently performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as part of a concert of the SONIC CIRCUITS International Electronic Music Festival. Several of Brody's works are available for audition through the Collective Jukebox Project, now playing at the Mamco (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain), Geneva. Syllepsis was played on a concert at MAXIS, a Festival of Sound and Experimental Music, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England, Spring 2002. DRD4 for flute, clarinet, contrabass and piano, based on the genetic code, was performed by Washington Musica Viva in 2003. Techqua Ikachi!, for four channel electroacoustics, four instrumental groups, chorus, singers and actors with a text by Frederick Schreiner based on the Hopi story of creation, was premiered at York College of Pennsylvania in 2004. Brody was a lecturer at York College of Pennsylvania from 2005-2007. He currently lives in northen New Mexico and is on a team to organize the music program for the Santa Fe Complex.