Pat Irwin has composed the scores for numerous independent films and cartoons including “Class of 3000”, the Emmy award winning series with Andre 3000 on the Cartoon Network, the classic “Rocko’s Modern Life” on Nickelodeon and the boundary-pushing ABC/Disney show “Pepper Ann.” Pat has written music for such cutting-edge films as “Bam Bam and Celeste,” written, directed and starring Margaret Cho, “But I’m A Cheerleader”, and “My New Gun,” starring Diane Lane and written and directed by Stacy Cochran.

He’s currently composing the score for HBO’s “Bored To Death.”

Pat was a central figure in the New York “No Wave” era and was a founding member of  “The Raybeats” and “8 Eyed Spy,”  formed with Lydia Lunch.  “The Raybeats” recorded several albums as well as unreleased sessions with composer Philip Glass.

He later joined “The B-52s” and recorded and performed with the band for 18 years. Pat played guitar and keyboards with “The B-52’s,” helping tracks like “Love Shack” and “Roam” to become international hits. The band toured relentlessly and Pat recorded and performed with “The B-52’s” through 2007.

Writing in the New York Times, Robert Palmer referred to Pat as a “mercurial presence…the bands he helped found resembled each other only in that they had an aversion to the predictable and the ordinary.” An essay in the Cartoon Music Book refers to Irwin’s music as “astonishing musical cues that hold up with the best Raymond Scott.”

Pat graduated from Grinnell College and is a recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. While on the fellowship he lived in Paris and attended composition workshops and performed with composer John Cage. He has received numerous grants and awards for composition for theater and dance including an NEA, New York State Council For The Arts, Meet The Composer and a grant from the Mary Carey Flagler Charitable Trust. He also studied clarinet with George Zetzer of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.

He currently teaches a seminar in film music composition at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Music Theater Program and has a new band in the works called “Command V” with a cd and digital release scheduled for release on Mush Records.

The ongoing series of recordings “New Sounds From The Lost And Found” are available in the patirwinmusic.com store with Volume 6 scheduled for release in early 2012.