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Title
The Music of Gary Gable
Description
Gary's work travels back and forth between orchestral film music, new age, theatrical and pop song structures. Like music for film it evokes visuals and moods. Most relax the listener, opening the mind to suggestion, imagery and emotional impulses. Technically, most are structured as orchestrated songs with imaginary lyrics. As songs, the melodic element is fairly obvious in some pieces, but often is subordinate to rhythm, color and other elements of texture.
Gary Gable was born Gary Grebelsky in Akron, Ohio in 1948. He started exploring the piano when he was five years old during infrequent visits to his great-aunt in Cleveland, the only relative with a piano. Gary started piano lessons at the age of nine with a keyboard made of paper. A very shy child, Gary was recognized as a creatively and intellectually gifted. He studied classical piano on and off for three years before quiting to “learn on his own and create his own music.” During his childhood, he stopped to explore the sound and feel of every piano he encountered, as each seemed to suggest to him its own music. Sitting at each instrument was like meeting and exploring a new friend. For Gary, being a kid in a piano store was better than being a kid in a candy store. At the age of twelve his father bought him a used tape recorder from a pawn shop and Gary began recording some of his music exploration.
Gary graduated from Oberlin College in January, 1971, with a major in Communications for film production and a minor in Studio Art. While in college, he not only enjoyed every piano and organ available in the practice rooms of the conservatory, but he worked as an assistant in a film mix house and recording studio in Cleveland, Ohio, experimenting with the original Moog synthesizer and sixteen-track recording. During college he also received credits from Harvard University in Visual Studies and the Psychology of Creativity. He was especially interested in the notion that creativity occured spontaneously, not only when exploring that which is unfamiliar, but when combining things that ordinarily are not associated or found together. While in Cambridge, he worked part time as a driver and personal assistant for the inventor of Technicolor, an octogenarian with numerous patents who also challenged him to explore his creativity with games like associating words that have no rational connection with each other. Upon returning to Oberlin in Ohio to finish his degree, he was involved in several low budget film projects as producer and actor, including a feature film produced in Los Angeles with assistance from the American Film Institute. For this film he rented a then-state-of-the-art editing machine from Norman Mailer in New York City and trucked it back to Ohio.
