Arnold Dreyblatt collaboration
The collaboration with world Arnold Dreyblatt involved creating a score for his sound-composition and conduction in the video shoot. See description below.
Author: Paul Brody
Guest: Daniel Kahn & the Painter Bird (2009)
Hajnal Németh collaboration
The music/video installation and live performance of Fear of Music, Trust in Twelve will be announced soon. Brody’s involvement was as a composer and producer in the studio recording. More information to come!
Ensemble Work
Ensembles as leader, composer, soloist: Paul Brody’s Sadawi (Tzadik and Enja Records since 2007) (Six albums!) Bern, Brody & Rodach (2013-2015) (www.bernbrodyrodach.com) Detonation Orchestra featuring David Moss (2005-2011) Tango Toy (1997-2004) Paul Brody Octet (1987-2001) Brody has been part of the following ensembles or performed with: (Selection) The Berkeley Promenade Orchestra (Director: Kent Nagano) San Francisco Repertory […]
Southern Discomfort: WDR
Exploring the crossroads of Yiddish and American Southern culture through a road trip with bassist, storyteller, singer, Mark Rubin.
Deutschland Radio/Prix Europa
Talking Melody-Singing Story An Operatic Sound Installation by Paul Brody The installation has been selected as a radio art feature for DEUTSCHLAND RADIO and for the PRIX EUROPA – The European Broadcasting Festival – Europe’s largest annual tri-medial festival. Talking Melody-Singing Story was originally created as a sound installation for Brody’s 2016 Artist in Residence project for the Munich […]
Grundgesetzland: WDR
Was bedeutet es den Deutschen, in einem Land mit Grundgesetz zu leben? Bekommt das Wort “Würde” eine andere Bedeutung, je nachdem in welcher Kultur man aufgewachsen ist? Der amerikanische Komponist Paul Brody befragt Menschen, die in Deutschland zu Hause sind, nach ihrer Sicht auf die ersten fünf Artikel des Grundgesetzes. -Von WDR 3 Hörspiel: Autor, […]
Most Wanted Poets: WDR
What are the effects of learning art in the harsh conditions of prison? (English version)
Growing Hope: Alabama Prison Arts & Education Project
Growing Hope is an extension of another WDR (West German Radio) documentary, Most Wanted Poets. While visiting prison classes with Kyes Stevens, the head of the education program, I was moved by many of the talks with both students and teachers, and found them to be a valuable resource for those interested in learning about […]
Welpe Wo! (Music examples)
Welpe Wo!Eine Klanggeschichte Von Paul Brody Diese Geschichte wurde für traditionelle und moderne Formate konzipiert: als Buch, Buch mit CD, Hörspiel und interaktiv. Nike lebt in einer musikalischen Traumwelt. Die englischen Lieder, die in ihrem Kopf entstehen, lenken sie vom Unterricht ab, und so wird sie schnell gehänselt. Nikes deutsche Mutter ist Froschforscherin, und ihr […]
Living Arts Theater, Munich Walk with Robert Johnson
Music/Video Sound Installation by Paul Brody and Michael Grossmann Premiered at the HochX Living Arts Theater in Munich, Germany (2020) Music & Text: Paul Brody Video: Michael Grossmann The inspiration for Slow Walk with Robert Johnson came from Alvin Lucier’s 1970 milestone sound installation I Am Sitting in a Room, in which Alvin Lucier records […]
Daniel Barenboim Foundation: Pierre Boulez Saal 2018 Sound Installation Commission
Daniel Barenboim Foundation: Pierre Boulez Saal Webern from the Inside and Outside- Composition/sound installation More info in English and German: https://boulezsaal.de/webern-installation-paul-brody Additional composition and performance event in 2018 – 2020 Munich Kammerspiele remake of Bellini’s opera, La Sonnambula directed by David Marton. (Composer and performer) The Munich Kammerspiele premier of On the Road directed by […]
WDR & Prix Europa Festival Nominierung
Deutsche Fassung: In den 1990ern zieht der amerikanische Jazztrompeter Paul Brody nach Berlin. Trotz jüdischer Eltern versteht er sich selbst nicht als Jude. Erst die Klezmer-Musik bringt ihn dazu, sich mit seiner Familiengeschichte zu beschäftigen. Als Paul Brody in den 1990er Jahren von Boston nach Berlin kommt, stellt er sich als kalifornischen Dada-Jazztrompeter vor. Denn […]
Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin Art Accompanying Noise
Art Accompanying Noise (2016) is a pivotal work because it explored the sounds around each artist working while he or she talks about creative process. The sounds of work reflect the materials used, and tell their own narrative. The artist discussing their work and the results of the work are secondary to the noises, which are […]
Voices of Help Exhibit: Youth Museum Berlin
Voices of Help (2016-2917) is a three room documentary sound installation in the Jugend Museum Berlin. The piece explores concepts of help through interviews with community and social workers around a post socialist-communist area of Berlin. (Rote Insel.) The recording of each voice received and instrument that brought out the personal qualities of the […]
5 Voice Melody-Portraits: Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin Catalogue Text in English: 5 EASY PIECES (Surround sound installation) I admit, as a musician I have a bias towards sound. But when I think about Jewish culture, it seems to me that music and storytelling long played a critical role in transporting Jewish traditions. For one thing, visual culture encounters […]
Narrative Threads of Immigrant Culture
Mending clothes brought across an ocean, working endless hours in sweat shops, religious and group belonging, combining fabric from two continents, new fashions that start out of necessity in ghettos
Music Children’s series for WDR & SWR
Between 2007 and 2010 I produced a series of children’s shows by interviewing young musicians from around the world. My goal was to inspire young listeners to get enjoy culture and play their own music.
Theater
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,
Women Biking
This heartfelt story of a Berlin woman teaching Arabic refugee women to ride bikes reflects a huge cultural dialogue.