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This website has a sampling of current projects and past works. I have a continued interest in a wide variety of music! If you're looking for something specific and can't find it, please send me a note. I know the site has grown quite a bit.
THIRD PERSON BIO (gotta love it): David A. Graves initially studied electronic music composition at the University of Nebraska. He has composed music for multiple genres, including "neoclassical," ambient, jazz, and rock. He has also scored music for film and theatre, including A Period Piece, performed in San Francisco and New York (1995-1998) and ICON: The Photography of Gordon Parks (2003), a movie by PCTV. In 2003 and 2005, he was a resident composer at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program where he was awarded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellowship. His large-scale ambient piece, tree/sigh, was installed in a redwood canyon during Djerassi's 2003 Open House. The AudioBus collected street sounds from the outside a moving double-decker bus while David modified and merged these with prerecorded works, part of Soundwave>Series ((3)) in summer of 2008. In the past five years, in addition to progressive rock with Science NV and ambient explorations with AmbientBlack, he has been scoring a lot of chamber music, especially in conjunction with the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra. During the 2008-2009 season, he is a returning Emerging Composer-in-Residence with the Berkeley Symphony, the first in its long history. He has studied composition with Alexis Alrich at the Conservatory (2004-7) and Gerald Mueller at the City College of San Francisco (2002-3).
Above photo by Marshall Berman, courtesy Berkeley Symphony Orchestra.
