About Us

The Strings and Things Podcast Crew

Host: Patrick Grant is a composer living and working in New York City. His works are a synthesis of classical, popular, and world musical styles that have found place in concert halls, film, theater, dance, and visual media over three continents. Over the last three decades, his music has moved from post-punk and classically bent post-minimal styles, through Balinese-inspired gamelan and microtonality, to ambient, electronic soundscapes involving many layers of acoustic and electronically amplified instruments. Known as a producer and co-producer of live musical events, he has presented many concerts of his own and other composers, including a 2013 Guinness World Record-breaking performance of 175 electronic keyboards in NYC. He is the creator of International Strange Music Day (August 24) and the pioneer of the electric guitar procession (Tilted Axes).

Producer: Jocelyn Gonzales is the Director/Executive Producer of PRX Productions, the production studio inside PRX, a non-profit media company specializing in audio journalism and storytelling.  PRX Productions helps develop and produce podcast series for partners such as TEDx, NOVA, WGBH, CBS/Simon & Schuster, Harvard Business School, Religion of Sports, FCB, and more. Before PRX, she was Executive Producer of the Peabody Award-winning program Studio 360, and a longtime freelance audio producer for radio, podcasts, publishing, and visual media. Jocelyn teaches sound design in the Film and Television department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a producer and engineer with Feet In Two Worlds, a non-profit journalism project that covers immigrant communities across the US.

Peppergreen Media is a branch of composer Patrick Grant’s Strange Music Inc., a production company that takes the music a step further. Beyond being an ASCAP publishing affiliate, it produces audio, video, and other contempoary content for the internet. It has set Guiness Book World Records (largest electronic keyboard ensemble) and has created new artforms like Tilted Axes (the electric guitar procession).

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