Kraig Grady
Kraig Grady (born 1952 in Montebello, California) is a US-Australian composer and sound artist who works in just intonation. He studied with Nicolas Slonimsky, Dean Drummond, Dorrance Stalvey and Byong-Kon Kim, and in 1975 met the tuning theorist Erv Wilson, who shaped his direction. He designs and plays acoustic instruments such as metallophones, marimbas, hammered dulcimers and reed organs, tuned to alternative scales. Since 1993 much of his work belongs to the imagined culture of Anaphoria Island. He is acting editor of the online journal Xenharmonikon.
Crow on the Dark Side of Gloss
First recordings of two long microtonal works by Kraig Grady, The Molten Wind and Crow on the Dark Side of Gloss, built from individually recorded single notes played by an international group of soloists in Grady's just-intonation tunings.
Monument of Diamonds
Built on Erv Wilson's Meta-Slendro scale, seventeen pitches to the octave, for an orchestra of brass and woodwind made or adapted for the purpose. The diamonds of the title are shapes that turn up inside the tuning when the intervals are drawn as a lattice.
Our rainy season Nuilagi
“Kraig Grady: composer, metallophone. Jim Denley: bass flute, alto saxophone and wooden flute. Mike Majkowski: upright bass. Erin Barnes: metallophone. Jonathan Marmor: metallophone. 1. Our Rainy Season (49:12) 2. Nuilagi (25:54) The two pieces on this album reflect the sounds and the duality of the experiences of our rainy seasons. The first is an internal reflection sifted through memories. The second is a realization of the very music played by the people of Anaphoria to give thanks …