Patrick Gleeson

Patrick Gleeson (born ca. 1930) is a musician, synthesizer pioneer, composer and producer, from California, USA.

Gleeson began experimenting with electronic music in the mid-'60s at the San Francisco Tape Music Center using a Buchla synth and other devices. In 1968, "upon hearing Walter Carlos' Switched-On Bach", he bought a Moog synthesizer and opened recording studio Different Fur.^[1]

He worked with Herbie Hancock in the early 1970s, touring with Hancock -- thus pioneering the use of synthesizers outside the studio -- and appearing on the albums Crossings and Sextant.^[1][2] Hancock has credited Gleeson with introducing him to synthesizers and teaching him technique.^[2] Sextant and Headhunters were both recorded in part at Different Fur studios. Gleeson has worked with many other Jazz musicians, including Lenny White, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Earland and Joe Henderson.

Gleeson recorded a number of solo albums, starting with Beyond the Sun - An Electronic Portrait of Holst's "The Planets" in 1976, to which Walter Carlos contributed the sleeve notes. The album was nominated for a "best engineered recording-classical" Grammy in 1976.^[1] Beyond the Sun was followed in 1977 by a more commercial album, Patrick Gleeson's Star Wars.

He worked as an engineer on the 1978 Devo album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, part of which was recorded at Different Fur. He sold his interest in Different Fur in 1985.^[3]

Gleeson has been involved in the scoring of a number of film soundtracks, including The Plague Dogs, Apocalypse Now and The Bedroom Window. He has scored nine television series, including Knot's Landing.

Discography

As leader

• 1976 - Beyond the Sun - An Electronic Portrait of Holst's "The Planets".
• 1977 - Patrick Gleeson's Star Wars
• 1980 - Rainbow Delta, reissued on label Anthology Recordings in 2007
• 1982 - Patrick Gleeson's Computer Realization of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
• 1998 - Driving While Black with Bennie Maupin
• 2007 - Slide, a chamber music album of jazz influenced minimalism
• 2008 - Jazz Criminal with Jim Lang and featuring Bennie Maupin and Wallace Roney

As sideman

With Herbie Hancock

• Crossings (1971)
• Sextant (1972)

With Julian Priester

• Love, Love (ECM, 1973)

With Eddie Henderson

• Realization (Capricorn Records, 1973)
• Inside Out (Capricorn Records, 1974)

With Charles Earland

• Leaving This Planet (Prestige Records, 1974)
• The Dynamite Brothers (Prestige Records, 1974)

With Lenny White

• Venusian Summer (Nemperor Records, 1975)
• Big City (Nemperor Records, 1977)
• Presents The Adventures Of The Astral Pirates (Elektra Records, 1978)

With Joe Henderson

• Black Narcissus (Milestone Records, 1976)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Maygarden, Tony. "Patrick Gleeson". endlessgroove.com. Archived from the original on 2011-11-20. http://www.webcitation.org/63L5Uhksa. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Zussman, John Unger (July 5, 1982). "Jazzing it up at the NCC". InfoWorld. http://books.google.de/books?id=MjAEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA1&dq=patrick%20gleeson%20synthesizer&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=patrick%20gleeson%20synthesizer&f=false. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
3. ^ "Different Fur Studios: History". Different Fur. Archived from the original on 2011-11-20. http://www.webcitation.org/63L33e9AO. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 

External links

Biography portal

• Patrick Gleeson MySpace page
• Patrick Gleeson at discogs.com
• Patrick Gleeson at Allmusic.com
• Patrick Gleeson at the Internet Movie Database
• Danny Sofer and Doug Lynner, Interview with Patrick Gleeson, Synapse Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, January/February 1977 (Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5)

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