Dear Visitor,
My work often focuses on the sonic terrain between music and spoken word. A melody is a story and a story is a melody. I consider this a sub-genre. That’s why this new website is divided into three main categories: sound Installation, radio, and music/performance, which includes composer commissions, performances, and recordings. Enjoy carousing through the listening samples and broadcasts!
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Potsdam concert based on diaspora themes: August 27th, 2022 jazzoffensive goes future: Diaspora, Migration & Identität https://fabrikpotsdam.de/event/804 Film composition...
This music-theater composition is based on the voices of the translators who worked at the Nurnberg Trials. More information...
Orchestral-electo compositions based on archive recordings of shakespearian actors. This theater production is in German but the melodic material...
Composition based on the voice-patterns of selected debates in German parlaiment. See youtube for more info. Interview with director,...
5 MINI OPERAS IN ORDINARY LANGUAGE just won a prize from the Association of Visual Artists in Germany. It...
Webern from the Inside and Outside A Sound Installation by Paul Brody Videos and Explanation: Video 1: Artist’s Talk...
The Music of Yiddish Blessings and Curses installation was a collaboration with the Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto. Paul Brody interviewed Yiddish...
Music/Video Sound Installation by Paul Brody and Michael Grossmann Premiered at the HochX Living Arts Theater in Munich, Germany...
The David Marton group is a collective of musicians and actors who explore the intersection of music and theater. Currently the group has two productions at the Munich Kammerspiele, a Marcel Duchamp inspired version of La Sonnambula, and a stage adaptation Kerouac's On the Road. The 2019 production will take the Marton Ensemble to the Vidy Theater in Lausanne, Switzerland. The premier is at the Vienna Theater Festival, with following performances in Paris, Belfort, Vélizy, und Montreuil, Weimar. More dates are being planned.
1. Composer/soloist selected recordings including Paul Brody's Sadawi (Tzadik and Enja Records. 2002-2017)
2. Composer/producer selected recordings: Children's CD productions in English for Oetinger publishing.
3. Ensemble player and guest. Selected recordings on Piranha, Orient, Laika, Jazzwerkstatt, Traumton, Potomak, Traumton, Virgin, EMI records.
The Fringe Sound of Berlin What is the sound of Berlin? How does the mentality of the city of...
Exploring the crossroads of Yiddish and American Southern culture through a road trip with bassist, storyteller, singer, Mark Rubin.
Talking Melody-Singing Story An Operatic Sound Installation by Paul Brody The installation has been selected as a radio art...
Was bedeutet es den Deutschen, in einem Land mit Grundgesetz zu leben? Bekommt das Wort “Würde” eine andere Bedeutung,...
Growing Hope is an extension of another WDR (West German Radio) documentary, Most Wanted Poets. While visiting prison classes...
Awards & Grants
University of Virginia, Artist in Residence in music, German studies, Jewish Studies. 2018
Prix Europa – The European Broadcasting Festival. Talking Melody-Singing Story. 2017
Schoeneberg Neighborhood Arts Fund Grant (Kiezfond): Rote Insel Geschichten. (Collecting stories and images of the Red Island neighbourhood) Photography & story collecting project with youth and jazz musicians. 2016
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