photo by Sabrina Ramos
Brendan Glasson (b. Providence, RI) is a composer living and working in Oakland, CA.
He is interested in detail, texture, and slowness as launching points for a kind of augmented experience of duration and listening.
His collection of work, “The Reality of People” and Other Works for Reed Organ (Debacle Records), focuses on finding tone clusters that activate resonances in the organ, creating a pulsing, throbbing music of limited gesture.
Brendan collaborates in several projects—Risa with Mitch Stalhmann, a duo with Sally Decker, and he plays synthesizers in Chris Cohen’s touring band. He is part of an Oakland-based composer’s collective that presented a three-day festival at the Lab in 2023.
Brendan holds an MFA from Mills College, where he worked for as Technical Director for the Center for Contemporary Music before the school closed.