Fredrik Gran is a composer from the Vällingby suburb in Stockholm, Sweden. He is interested in the musical potential of machinic and mechanical processes and in experimenting with new performative strategies. His work covers orchestral, chamber, vocal, electroacoustic and live electronic music, as well as music for installations, dance, digital and visual art. Fredrik's music has been recognized internationally, performed at festivals such as Warsaw Autumn Festival (Warsaw), ISCM (Vancouver, CA), SICMF (Seoul, KR), the Nordic Music Days (Copenhagen, Helsinki, Bodø), Tage Neue Musik (Weimar, DE), ICMC (Belfast, NI), Festival MANCA (Nice, FR), NoiseGate (NYC, US) and has been primed in many competitions such as London Music Society International Composer’s Competition (UK), Codes d’Acces Access Arkea (CA), Eleanor Stubley Recording Award (CA) and CIRMMT Research grant (CA). He studied composition at the Music Academy in Stockholm and at McGill University in Montreal, where his doctoral research is connected to the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT).

Former Military horn player stopped playing for nearly 20 years but started playing again for fun in 2013. All of the parts on the tracks I'm sharing are played by me and recorded by me. I'm using Yamaha's Silent Brass system - basically a practice mute with microphone built in, patched into a computer running Audacity software to record the parts against a click track. The main disadvantage to this system is that I don't have my hand in the bell, so I can't color the sound or make fine pitch adjustments like I usually would. For those who care - playing on a Holton 177 which my folks bought new for me way back in 1979. Hope you enjoy!

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