p a t r i c k
b r e n n a n
patrick brennan coordinates ensembles, composes & plays the alto saxophone, pursuing a contrarian and independent musical path toward evolving a distinct musical language in relation with the Blues Continuum that explores multidirectional thinking, organization, time, sound, line & rhythm. Recordings include terraphonia (Creative Sources), muhheankuntuk (Clean Feed), which way what, and Sudani (deep dish). He leads the ensembles s0nic 0penings & transparency kestra and performs solo as rōnin phasing. His book Ways & Sounds (2021→), which explores some of the formal implications of music’s internal social interactions for composing & listening, is available from Arteidolia (→) Press .
Wesley Rickert’s film The Border of Utopia – patrick brennan
Adeena Karasick’s Bold Beats In CD Release – Kathleen Reichelt with patrick brennan
Culture War (Film Review: Spaceship Earth) – September 2020
Edge at Eye: Raquel Diaz – December 2019
& beyond the about: IN-TER-WO-VEN @ Westwood Gallery – October 2019
Ghosts of Cathode Childhoods, Fedele Spadafora Review – September 2019Bedfellow Degrees of Separation: Reading Basil King’s History Now – June 2018
Mastry: Kerry James Marshall – December 2016
Reset (Jason Moran @ Luhring Augustine) – June 2016
Revenge! (Wolfgang Beltracchi) — February 2016
.. Sing House .. Amygdala : Jason Kao Hwang at Roulette — December 2015
David Crowell: Polyrhythm Calling — June 2015
Tangled Eloquent (Christopher Wool) — May 2015
Body as Itself (Joan Semmel) — April 2015
Afterword for The African Omnidevelopment Space Complex / We New — March 2015
Macho Meal Breakfast of Champions (Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash) — February 2015
E Pluribus Plures: El Anatsui — January 2015
Verdes Carne, Pelo Negro . . . (Carlos Saura’s Flamenco, Flamenco) — December 2014
Oijen, Wybe, Dele, Tomma Abts — November 2014
Hands in Transit (Connie Crothers) — April 2014
Tone (Jennie C. Jones) – March 2014
Volta at Mercer (Soly Cissé, Willie Cole, Jeffery Gibson, Nao Matsumoto, Mohau Modisakeng, Duhirwe Rushemeza) — March 2014
Material Poet (Richard Tuttle) — February 2014
The Way of Butch Morris — February 10, 2014
The Most Human Sensitive Electronic Instrument You’ve Never Heard Of — January 2014
Vivan los Independientes: Ze Couch Cooks your Ear a Good Meal — January 2014
Music Where Musicians Set the Criteria & Decide Whether it Meets those Criteria — January 2014
(Joe Morris’ Perpetual Frontier)Walking the Serra Torque — December 2013
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