Paul Brody

Paul Brody (born in 1961 in Seattle) is an American sound installation artist, composer, trumpeter, and writer based in Berlin. His work explores the relationship between spoken word and melody through radio art, Sound installation, composition, and performance.

Paul Brody's father was the son of a Ukrainian immigrant and his mother was a Jewish refugee from Nazi-era Vienna.

Brody spent most of his youth in San Leandro, California, where his struggles with dyslexia led him find his voice in music and poetry. He studied composition, poetry, and trumpet at San Francisco State University and Boston University and Third stream music at the New England Conservatory of Music. As a writer and performer, Brody was active in the Boston's lively poetry and experimental music scene. At Boston University he produced a series of inter-disciplinary events with the actors, dancers, poets and musicians, which he called Un-recitals. He learned from such poets as Denise Levertov, Bill Knot, Derek Walcott and Charles Simic and was often invited to read for literary events. Before receiving a bachelor in music performance he won two prizes from Boston University's literary magazine, Ex Libris. After earning a master's degree in Third stream music from the New England Conservatory of Music, Brody toured with various ensembles before settling in Berlin to pursue a career as a composer, performer, and sound artist.

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