Bob Bralove is a
keyboard–synthesizer player who worked as a sound technician with the
Grateful Dead from 1986 to 1995. Throughout his tenure, he performed as an auxiliary musician throughout "Drums" and "Space", the band's signature
aleatoric music segments.[1] Accordingly, he played a key role in their integration of
MIDI technology, first working with drummers
Mickey Hart and
Bill Kreutzmann, keyboardist
Brent Mydland, and later guitarist
Bob Weir and synthesizer/piano player
Vince Welnick. He also co-wrote several songs with Weir and Welnick, including "Picasso Moon" on Built to Last (1989) and "Way to Go Home" and "Easy Answers", which were slated to appear on the band's
unfinished fourteenth studio album. (A live reconstruction, Ready or Not, was ultimately released in 2019 and contains both songs.) Perhaps his most significant project with the band was curating excerpts from "Drums" and "Space" on Infrared Roses, a 1991 compilation album. "Parallelogram" and "Little Nemo in Nightland" are some of his most notable "compositions" from this release.
Bralove was also a member and producer of the Psychedelic Keyboard Trio, along with Welnick and fellow former Grateful Dead keyboardist
Tom Constanten.[2] Bralove and Constanten also collaborated as Dose Hermanos, a showcase for their improvisational keyboard work; since 1998, they have toured irregularly and released five albums under the moniker. Bralove also worked with
Stevie Wonder, setting up and programming Wonder's synthesizers including while he was touring.[3]