Brendan Murray
Brendan Murray is a self-taught musician living in Somerville, MA. Murray began playing music as a rock drummer, but has been working as a solo electronic-music composer since 1999. Early compositions were made using little more than phrase samplers, but has since added analog synths, digital software, and (most recently) guitar to his vocabulary.
Murray regards his music as a balance between spontaneous sound making and compositional rigor, with an emphasis on drones and repetition. He records and processes instruments and tapes until all traces of instrumentality are blurred, leaving only large blocks of pure sound. He is actively involved with long distance collaborations with musicians and sound artists such as Seth Nehil (as the duo Sillage), Richard Garet and Chuck Bettis (as the duo Hell Hoarse). He is also a founding member of the group Ouest, with longtime friends and collaborators Jay Sullivan and Howard Stelzer.
Other activities include playing drums and guitar in the rock band Paper Summer, composing music for film and occasionally presenting a concert series in the Boston area.
