Guillermo E. Brown

Guillermo Enrique Brown (born May 3, 1976), also known as Pegasus Warning, is an American drummer, vocalist, performer, and record producer whose works include Soul at the Hands of the Machine,<ref name="discogs.com">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Beat Kids' Open Rhythm System and Sound Magazine,<ref name="discogs.com1">Template:Cite web</ref> Black Dreams 1.0,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> ...Is Arturo Klauft, Handeheld, Shuffle Mode, WOOF TICKET EP,<ref name="discogs.com2">Template:Cite web</ref> PwEP2, forthcoming full-length album Dream&Destroy and performance piece Bee Boy.<ref name="creative-capital.org">Template:Cite web</ref> His one-man theater piece, Robeson in Space, premiered at Luna Stage (2005).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Additional work includes sound installation cracked unicorns<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> at The Studio Museum in Harlem, performance pieces Postcolonial Bacchanale (Harlem Stage), SYRUP (The Kitchen), supergroup BiLLLL$,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the collaborative trio Thiefs, and sound installation for She Talks to Beethoven<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> by Adrienne Kennedy directed by Charlotte Brathwaite at JACK NYC.

Biography

A graduate of Wesleyan University (B.A.) and Bard College (M.F.A.), Brown was adjunct professor at New York University's Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music and Gallatin School from 2006 to 2008 and Artist-in-Residence at Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2010. He is a recipient of a 2016 Creative Capital Award in Performing Arts for Bee Boy,<ref name="creative-capital.org"/> a recipient of Harvestworks New Works Residency (2001)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Van Lier Fellowship (2002), and a residency at MIT's Center for Art, Science, and Technology (2016–2017).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Most recently he appears as the drummer in the house band (called Melissa) of The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS, with band leader Reggie Watts. In addition he is featured on over 45 recordings, and has appeared live, recorded and as drummer/vocalist/collaborator with Vijay Iyer, Mike Ladd, David S. Ware, William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Rob Reddy, Roy Campbell, Spring Heel Jack, Anti-Pop Consortium, Anthony Braxton, DJ Spooky, El-P, Carl Hancock Rux, Vernon Reid, DJ Logic, Latasha Diggs, Dave Burrell, George E. Lewis, Mendi & Keith Obadike, Victor Gama, David Gunn, Arto Lindsay, Gordon Voidwell, Tecla, Jahcoozi, Robot Koch, Das Racist, Jamie Lidell, Saul Williams, CANT, Mocky, Twin Shadow, Busdriver, Grisha Coleman, and Wangechi Mutu among others.

Discography

• Pegasus Warning, Woof Ticket EP, (Plug Research), 2013<ref name="discogs.com2"/>
• Thiefs' full-length LP, drums/voice, (Melanine Harmonique), 2013<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Mocky's Graveyard Novelas, voice, (Heavy Sheet), 2013<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Vijay Iyer/Mike Ladd/Maurice Decaul's Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project, (Pi Recordings), 2013<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Tecla's We Are The Lucky Ones, co-producer, (Mayimba Music), 2013<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Lucky Paul, Demonspawn, voice, (somethinksounds), 2011<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• CANT, Dreams Come True, (Terrible/Warp), 2011<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Andrew Lamb, Rhapsody in Black, (NoBusiness Records), 2011<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Jahcoozi's, Barefoot Wanderer, voice, (Bpitch Control), 2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Das Racist's "Don Dada" from Shut Up, Dude, composer/producer, (Michka/Greedhead), 2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• William Parker, I Plan to Stay a Believer, (Aum Fidelity), 2010<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Shuffle Mode, (Melanine Harmonique later licensed to Cleveland Tapes), 2009<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• David S. Ware Quartet, Live in Vilnius, (NoBusiness), 2009<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Guillermo E. Brown/Matthew Shipp Duo, Telephone Popcorn, (Nu Bop Records), 2008<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Crosstalk: American Speech Music, curated by Mendi + Keith Obadike (Bridge Music), 2008<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• David S. Ware Quartet, Renunciation, (Aum Fidelity), 2007<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Vijay Iyer + Mike Ladd, Still Life with Commentator, (Savoy Jazz), 2007<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Colorform, Fragments of Youth, (Bonanzagram), 2007<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• George Lewis, SEQUEL, (INTAKT), 2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Dave Burrell's DB3, Momentum, (High Two Records), 2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• David S. Ware, BalladWare, (Thirsty Ear), 2006<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Guillermo E. Brown, Handeheld, (Melanine Harmonique Records), 2005<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Guillermo E. Brown, ...is Arturo Klauft, (Melanine Harmonique Records), 2005<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Mike Ladd's Negrophilia, (Thirsty Ear), 2005<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• David S. Ware, Live in the World, (Thirsty Ear), 2005<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Guillermo E. Brown's Black Dreams 1.0, (Melanine Harmonique Records), 2004<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• El-P, High Water, (Thirsty Ear), 2004<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Matthew Shipp Trio, The Trio Plays Ware, (Splasc(H)), 2004<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• DJ Spooky, celestial mechanix, (Thirsty Ear), 2004<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Creative Trans-Informational Alliance, Atrospect Sound 1: An Opera in Four Acts, (CTIA), 2004<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Guillermo E. Brown's The Beat Kids, Open Rhythm System, (7H/Uncle Junior ), 2003<ref name="discogs.com1"/>
• Antipop Consortium, Antipop vs. Matthew Shipp, (Thirsty Ear), 2003<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• David S. Ware String Ensemble, Threads, (Thirsty Ear), 2003<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, Spontaneous, (Splasc(H)), 2003<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• DJ Wally, Nothing Stays the Same, (Thirsty Ear), 2003<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• DJ Spooky, Dubtometry, (Thirsty Ear), 2003<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Guillermo E. Brown's Soul at the Hands of the Machine], (Thirsty Ear), 2002<ref name="discogs.com"/>
• DJ Spooky's Optometry, (Thirsty Ear), 2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Matthew Shipp's Nu Bop, (Thirsty Ear), 2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• David S. Ware, Freedom Suite, (Aum Fidelity), 2002<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Rob Reddy's Honor System, Seeing by the Light of My Own Candle, (Knitting Factory), 2001<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Spring Heel Jack, Masses, (Thirsty Ear), 2001<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• Roy Campbell, It's Krunch Time, (Thirsty Ear), 2001<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• David S. Ware, Corridors & Parallels, (Aum Fidelity), 2001<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• William Parker and The Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, The Raincoat in the River Vol. 1, (Eremite), 2001<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• David S. Ware, Surrendered, (Sony/Columbia), 2000<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Education

• M.F.A., Music/Sound, The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2005
• B.A., Music, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1998

Residencies

• Office Hours, The Kennedy Center's REACH, 2022, Washington, DC
• FORM Arcosanti, 2019, Arcosanti, Arizona
• Artist-in-Residence, Pacific Northwest College of Art, 2010, Portland, Oregon
• Future Places Festival, 2009, Porto, Portugal
• Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Workshop, 2004, Sardinia, Italy
• Van Lier Residency, Harvestworks, 2002–2003, New York City
• Artist Fellowship Harvestworks, 2000–2001, New York City