Tracks are coming together for Vol.4 of the music being made with the vintage "found" keyboards.

I've just completed the score for "Stags," an independent feature written and directed by Jamie Greenberg and produced by Ben Barenholtz (Requiem For A Dream, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, etc.)

Check out the new Barnacle Boy and Mermaid Man Theme on Spongebob written with Spongebob music editor extraordinaire Nick Carr.

Here's another song from "The Lost And Found." This one is called "Dark Days."

"My New Gun" was recently singled out in the Washington Post as one of the "Top 25 Overlooked Movies Worth Watching." www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/23/AR2009072301375.html

I've composed the music for four large scale animations by artist Marina Zurkow. The work was shown at the Philip Feldman Gallery at the Pacific Northwest College Of Art in Portland, OR, and has moved on to the Beijing Biennale. Check out Marina at www.o-matic-com

Catch the new BBC cartoon "Third And Bird" created and produced by Little Airplane in New York City. Each episode has four songs performed by a live band with lots of great whistling. I composed the songs for episode titled "Beach Branch." Go to the "what's new" page at www.littleairplane.com

Here's a new one from The Lost And Found. This one is called "In Another Time."

Here's another song that I made with the organ that I found on the street. I call this one Swingtime.

I've got some new recordings that I did with Marco Benevento, Marc Friedman and Kevin Norton. "Greenpoint" is Marco's tune. I love the combination of improvised electronics and live playing. When we started it we didn't really know what it was or what it was going to be. "The Show And The Road" was something that we recorded over a vintage Maestro drum machine from the '60's. It's been a while since I recorded music that wasn't written specifically for a cartoon or a movie.

I've got a new collection of music recorded with one of my favorite keyboards, the organ that I found on the street. This is the third collection of songs I've made. I call this one Volume 3, some day I'm going to make this music available. Until then, check out Three Small Words below, and see the music page for more tracks.

Command V is Cynthia Sley (from the Bush Tetras), Rachel Dengiz and Pat Irwin. We're in the middle of mixing and mastering but here are a couple of tracks.

Check out our myspace page that's in the works. Updates coming soon.

"Queen Of Siam" was recorded under the direction of Lydia Lunch just as Eight Eyed Spy was starting to form. Lydia had had enough of Teenage Jesus and was looking for a change. "Queen Of Siam" was recorded with a core band of Pat Irwin, George Scott and Doug Bowne. Bob Quine from Richard Hell and the Voidoids also played some awesome guitar all over and around some big band charts by Billy Ver Planck. At around the same time, Eight Eyed Spy was formed with George Scott from the Contortions, Jim Sclavunos from Teenage Jesus, Pat Irwin and Michael Paumgardhen.

Lydia tells me that "Queen of Siam" will be reissued by Atavistic (U.S) and Cherry Red (Europe and Japan) in April.

Check out Lydia at:
www.lydialunch.org
www.myspace.com/lydialunch

Vernon Gravely has put up a wonderful Raybeats tribute page.

The Raybeats existed from 1979 - 1984 and were an all instrumental band formed from members of the Contortions and Eight Eyed Spy. (George Scott (bass), Jody Harris (guitar), Don Christensen (drums) from the Contortions and Pat Irwin (guitar, keyboards, sax) and George from Eight Eyed Spy. Danny Amis from Los Straitjackets later joined the band on bass) A couple records were released but aren't available on cd, hopefuly that will change in the near future. There's some great info up on this site.

Look for some new recordings soon. I just got out of a great studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where I cut 16 new tracks with Marco Benevento (piano, organ); Marc Friedman, (bass, from The Slip); and Kevin Norton, (drums, vibes, from Anthony Braxton, etc., and just about every cartoon I've ever scored and recorded). I'm on guitar, and Patrick Derivaz did the recording.

Most of the music was composed with some room for improvisation. There's more room in some places than others. A handful of tracks were improvised on the spot. The traditional sounds of guitar, piano, bass, vibes and drums are mixed up with vintage rhythm machines, bent circuits and some customized toys. I'll post some mp3s soon.

A friend sent me this link to a new page on Joe Murray's website. Joe is the creator of Rocko's Modern Life. It's a classic cartoon and Joe gave me a lot of room with the music. I was lucky enough to put together a great live band for a thrilling run.

Pat has been collaborating on writing songs with Cynthia Sley (lead singer of The Bush Tetras). Check out The Scene below, and for more songs see their MySpace music page.

A while back Pat found an old electric organ, abandoned on the street here in NYC. It was full of fantastic built-in beats (like Samba, Rhumba, Jazz Rock I, and of course, Jazz Rock II) and inspired a slew of new music. Check out Last Moonlight below, and see the music page for more tracks.

Catch Drop Back Ten, a film by Stacy Cochran with music by Pat Irwin, when it airs tomorrow evening (January 5th) at 9pm EST/PST on the Sundance Channel. See the announcement poster here.

Look for brand new episodes from the second season of Class of 3000, December 18th on the Cartoon Network. Check listings for exact showtimes in your area.

The Class of 3000 one hour Christmas Special will premiere November 30th on the Cartoon Network. Check listings for exact showtimes in your area.

Bam Bam & Celeste, a film starring Margaret Cho, with music score by Pat Irwin, is now available on DVD. Check it out!

On August 16th, at 10 p.m., PBS will air the documentary short EmS, directed by Jane Nisselson and with a soundtrack by Pat Irwin. Presented as part of the ReelNY Festival.

Welcome to PatIrwinMusic.com, the new home on the web for New York-based composer Pat Irwin.

Season two of Class of 3000, with music score by Pat Irwin, begins today on the Cartoon Network.