pb (at) patrickbrennansound (dot) com
New York City based composer, saxophonist & bandleader patrick brennan is a participant in the Blues Continuum who’s pursued a contrarian and independent musical path for over 40 years. He formed his long term, rhythm-section-centric ensemble s0nic 0penings in 1979, a project that interfaces flexibly jointed compositional matrices with polyrhythm & collective improvisation. He’s initiated the Sudani Project, a collaboration with Gnawi Ma’alem Najib Soudani of Essaouira, Morocco and U.S. percussionist and singer Nirankar Khalsa. He further explores his multilinear orchestral conceptions via the solo saxophone project rōnin phasing and has sustained monthly NYC performances of his a modularly organized large ensemble transparency kestra since 2014. His book Ways & Sounds (2021), which explores some of the formal implications of music’s internal social interactions for composition & listening, is available from Arteidolia Press. His new s0nic 0penings recording, tilting curvaceous, is now available on Clean Feed.
