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Artist Information
Biography
Martin Case is a composer, producer, and performing musician. With his company, MartinCaseMusic, Martin creates music for dance, film and other multi-media experiences, both live and in the studio.
In creating music for dance, Martin’s client list includes the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, the
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Paul Taylor Dance
Company, and Prometheus Dance. His expertise with music technologies has gained him international
consulting work with McGraw-Hill, and his multi-media/film works have partnered him with Patriot
Entertainment, Bija Bennett Productions and Tse Tse Fly Productions. Martin’s production work has created
numerous albums with artists such as Zieti and Dwight Graves.
The enduring theme of Martin’s work is to honor the musician’s function to create sacred sonic space for
meditation, now/no-thought, and sensuous enjoyment. These electro-acoustic hybrids offer acoustic
experiences with cutting edge production value.
The nature of this work has taken Martin to the Middle East, West Africa, South America, Europe,
and Asia. In Boston, Martin presently creates music for Harvard University, Boston Ballet, and the
Boston Conservatory.
Instrumentation
Instrumentation and players area considered and chosen in relation to the work at hand.
As a performing artist, Martin plays saxophones, piano, percussion, and various technologies. Saxophones include tenor, alto, and soprano. Piano skills include acoustic, keyboards, the melodica and thumb piano, and samplers. Percussion experience is notably W African, specializing on the djembe and djun-djun. Different technological set-ups (sampler-triggering of theatre, EWI/sampler percussion stations)are created relevant to work.
Discography
Discography:
Beyond East-Jazz/ethnic electronica w/classical overtones 2008
Transitions-Ethnic/electronica soundtrack inspired by 2006
Strength, Stress Reduction, Finding Focus
Turn-Electronica album with ethnic and jazz inflections 2002
Portfolio-Soundtrack for five art gallery openings 2001
Terminal-Experimental electronica album 1999
Visionary/ The Almondoors-17 member diasporic music ensemble 1996
Visionary/ Volume II-Live album 1995
Visionary 1995
Mulit-Media Work (Dance)
Christina Chan, Choreographer, Tetris, Boston 2009.
Liz Bermann, Choreographer, At The Edge of Fogetfulness, Harvard University 2008.
Samantha Cameron, Artist/Choreographer, The Ancestors are Moving Through Us, Davis Museum, 2008.
Min-Tzu Li, Choreographer, Shan-Tzu, Boston, 2007.
Films:
Strength, Stress Reduction, Finding Focus Yogaaway Productions 2004-Present
(A series of Yoga DVDs)
50 Grand Patriot Entertainment Corp. 1997
(a film adaptation of an E. Hemingway novel)
Withdrawn Tse-Tse Fly Productions 1993
Links
Press
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Interview of Martin Case by Martin Cooper
http://martincooperphoto.blogspot.com/2009/04/interview-martin-case.html
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Mark Morris' David Leventhal: Movement to aid Parkinson's patients
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2010/02/01/movement_to_aid_parkinsons_patients/
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"for colored girls who have considered suicide but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows" montage
http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2010/04_2/corner/01/
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Martin Case Resume 2010
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Setlist
Performance set list is relevant to creation of work.