Artist Information
Biography
Martin Case is a composer, producer, and performing musician. With his company, MartinCaseMusic, Martin creates music for concert, 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, MIT, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Prometheus Dance. Martin’s production work has created numerous albums with artists such as Zieti and Dwight Graves. 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. His present performing ensemble, Martin Case and The Lee, can be heard here.
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 graduated from Berklee College of Music, and presently creates music for Boston Ballet, Harvard University, and the Boston Conservatory.
Instrumentation
Instrumentation and players are 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
Beyond East-Jazz/ethnic electronica w/classical overtones 2008
Transitions-Ethnic/electronica soundtrack inspired by Strength, Stress Reduction, Finding Focus films 2006
Turn-Electronica album with ethnic and jazz inflections, with emphasis on live performance 2002
Portfolio-Soundtrack for art gallery openings and installations though Crystal Fine Art 2001
Terminal-Electronica album that pushes the technological envelope, exploring computer applications in creating contemporary music 1999
Visionary/ The Almondoors-17 member diasporic music ensemble, West African based 1996
Visionary/ Volume II-Live album 1995
Visionary 1995
Multi-Media Works:
Tetris-Christina Chan, Choreographer, Boston 2009
At The Edge of Forgetfulness-Liz Bermann, Choreographer, Harvard University 2008
The Ancestors are Moving Through Us-Samantha Cameron, Artist/Choreographer, Davis Museum, 2008.
Shan-Tzu-Min-Tzu Li, Choreographer, 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
