Peter Grenader

Peter Grenader (born in 1957) studied music composition at the California Institute of the Arts under the influence of Barry Schrader and Morton Subotnick. During that tenure he was fortunate to have taken lectures by Pril Smiley, John Cage, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Milton Babbitt, Lou Harrison, LeMonte Young, Charles Dodge, Aaron Copeland and performed with Gordon Mumma.

In 2002, Grenader's "Electrolux" won the Periòdic Experimental Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain. Other appearances include an evening performance at the "SEAMUS National Conference", the University of North Texas, California Institute of the Arts, Stony Brook University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, University of Texas at Austin, Georgia State University's "Pulse Field", "the Florida Electro-Acoustic Music Festival" and the "2003 Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival" at Dartmouth. His work as been broadcast on "KCSN-FM", Los Angeles; "CKCU-FM", Ottawa, Canada; "WOBC-FM" in Oberlin, Ohio and "Resonance FM", London. Further palmares include The Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, Holland and GMEB in Bourges, France as well as two wins at the "Virginia Commonwealth University Music Festival".

In 2003, he was a guest host for KCSN-FM's "Galactic Voyager" radio program for a special edition focusing on Electroacoustic music and in 2006 was a featured composer at the "17th American Composer's Forum Salon" in Venice. Also in 2006, at the invitation of composer and sound artist Steve Roach, Grenader served as a panel speaker at the fifth annual "TapeOpCon" in Tucson, Arizona along with Dave Wright of Not Breathing.

A member of the SEAMUS board of directors and the ACF (American Composers Forum), he is the founder of Plan B Synthesizers and their primary designer. Along with Plan B, custom instrument design includes work for Nine Inch Nails, Red Hot Chill Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, Guns N' Roses keyboardist Chris Pitman, Gary Chang and Steve Roach.