Guillermo E. Brown pushes music performance to new heights through one-man theater pieces, sound installations, and musical collaborations.
Brown splits his time as a solo performer, under the moniker Pegasus Warning, and as a drummer for bands like Reggie Watts’ KAREN on the Late Late Show with James Corden, and other free jazz ensembles. Works like his Creative Capital project, an evening-length performance Bee Boy demonstrate his expertise in various disciplines, combining experimental musical performance together with a sense of political urgency.
As Pegasus Warning, Brown has released albums such as Try So Hard, and Soul at the Hands of the Machine. As a one-man theater piece, and sound installation artist, his works have been performed at The Kitchen, Harlem Stage, and Luna Stage. He is part of supergroup BiLLLL$, collaborative trio Thiefs, and Vijay Iyer and Mike Ladd’s Holding It Down. He was Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music and Gallatin School, and Artist-In-Residence at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
"Pegasus Warning has a divine ability to shapeshift through many mediums: percussionist, vocalist, writer, producer, performance artist, visionary. His sound similarly takes on the most unlikely of forms, straddling the line between funked-out mutant R&B, experimental rock, stunning to-the-gut soul, “broken electronics, strange textures and pulsing rhythms.”
NPR
"Pegasus Warning’s sound was the right kind of shambles, full of left turns and quick stops and obvious reference points beaten to a pulp, all delivered with a sense of joy in the process of figuring things out. Expertise and tradition are just one kind of instrument.”
NEW YORK TIMES
“Step into a territory that’s been heavily trodden recently – R&B fractured with rock and avant-garde influences – and make it as intimately personal as a fingerprint.”