Douglas O'Grady Music
Doug O'Grady is a composer, percussionist, electronic musician, and college music professor.
Here is the studio recording of Images du Nombre d’Or, with yours truly on percussion.
This piece utilizes various expressions of the “golden ratio” ( 1 to 1.618) as structural elements in several aspects of the composition; form, rhythm, and timbre. These expressions can be heard at times as rhythmic groupings of Fibonacci numbers such as 1 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 7, where the ratio of adjacent numbers approximates the golden ratio. Throughout the piece, either Fibonacci numbers or ratios of durations (in seconds) govern the number of repetitions of certain figures. Timbre is used to express the golden ratio through frequency modulation synthesis techniques in which the ratio of carrier to modulator frequency is the golden ratio. Finally, the artwork in the video component of the work was created using several artificial intelligence algorithms to visually express the golden ratio, Fibonacci numbers including the “Fibonacci Spiral,” and fractal algorithms.
09/12/2022
Wednesday I premiered my latest composition for percussion and fixed digital media titled Images du Nombre d'Or
Images du Nombre d'Or Images du Nombre d'Or, by Douglas O'GradyPremier performance at the Western Connecticut State University Electronic Music RecitalDecember 7, 2022
03/02/2022
Now available on Apple Music and Spotify!
https://music.apple.com/us/album/infinity-mirror/1608085819?i=1608085821
Infinity Mirror by Doug O'Grady Listen to Infinity Mirror by Doug O'Grady on Apple Music. 2022. Duration: 4:17
20/01/2022
What if I sat in my studio, picked up my old Peavy guitar, and made a track in the spirit of Ozric Tentacles? The result would be Infinity Mirror.
https://dougogrady.bandcamp.com/track/infinity-mirror
Infinity Mirror, by Doug O'Grady track by Doug O'Grady
20/02/2021
Anxiety Nation - a track I co-wrote with Edward Dzubak
https://soundcloud.com/dogrady-1/anxiety-nation
Anxiety Nation (Main) With Ed Dzubak
04/02/2021
This is my first attempt at writing trailer music. Let me know what you think!
https://soundcloud.com/dogrady-1/summon-the-storm-trailer-music
Summon the Storm - Trailer Music A tense, moody beginning with an echoed piano and ticking clock. Hits and brass build interest under a distant military drum. Tension builds to a mini climax, then everything disappears but the clock.
28/01/2021
https://soundcloud.com/dogrady-1/man-on-a-mission-full-mix
Man On A Mission (Alt. No Melody) Listen to Man On A Mission (Alt. No Melody) by Doug O'Grady on
23/11/2020
“There is a theory which states, that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for, and why it is here, it will instantly disappear, and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another which states that this has already happened.”
-Douglas Adams
“We live on a very insignificant world among many.” -Carl Sagan
“Maybe our Universe is just one of those things that happens, from time to time.” -Sean M. Carroll
https://youtu.be/F1lWjbcVoto
Universal Theory (2019) - Douglas O'Grady Universal Theory, for fixed electronic media Douglas O'Grady “There is a theory which states, that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for,...
12/11/2020
THROWBACK THURSDAY!
This album was released in 2012, and it contains THREE of my original compositions:
• Improvisation No. 1, for solo trombone
• 11-Dimensional Supergravity, for flute, trombone, and electronics
• Moe's Bit o'Blues, for trombone and electronics
I. Whirling, Swirling Blue Spectra
II. Nantucket Sleighride
III. It Ain't Easy Bein' Moe
Both 11-Dimensional Supergravity and Moe's Bit o'Blues were commissioned by my good friend, Maureen Horgan and she is the trombonist on this recording. Lisa Hanson Bartholow is the flautist.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/moes-bit-oblues/590284697
Moe's Bit o'Blues by Maureen Horgan Album · 2012 · 13 Songs
03/11/2020
Take a 9-minute meditation for yourself each day, and listen to Ecstatic Abyss while you do it!
Ecstatic Abyss is a meditative, ambient work. An original sequencer pattern drives the work, first by serving as a source for a vocoder processing a harmonically-dense pad, and later as the featured element of the work. A simple drum pattern emerges to drive the piece without drawing attention away from the complex of sequencer patterns as they slowly unfold.
Now available on:
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/1p9uUQZXpfZ0lu4HxRL2js...
Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Ecstat.../dp/B08MCQTXPZ/ref=sr_1_5...
Apple iTunes
https://music.apple.com/.../ecstatic-abyss-single/1538290039
Ecstatic Abyss Doug O'Grady · Single · 2020 · 1 songs.
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