Author: Paul Brody

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 […]

The Fringe Sound of Berlin:
NPR Special

The Fringe Sound of Berlin What is the sound of Berlin? How does the mentality of the city of upheaval effect its artists? How do the artists hear their city? Production, writing, composition: Paul Brody

Four Families Listening: transmediale 2014/NK

Four Families Listening An Eavesdropping Installation Technical support by Daniel Dorch Listening has become a dirty word, especially in Berlin. In the early 90’s, when I arrived here it was mostly used while describing East Germans who had been spying on their neighbors and Russians and Americans spying on each other. Today it’s possible to […]

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 […]

Southern Discomfort: WDR

Exploring the crossroads of Yiddish and American Southern culture through a road trip with bassist, storyteller, singer, Mark Rubin.

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,

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 […]