Justin Crowell
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Tahitian Terror Tahitian Terror
Sound Collage with samples drawn from Tahitian music as well as a classical symphony (which I will not name).
FEED THE BIRDS FEED THE BIRDS
Created as the soundtrack for a Zombie-themed comic book advertisement.
Panned Ghosts Panned Ghosts
This piece is constructed from a sampled piano line and a toy keyboard, both of which I recorded. The contrasts between acoustic and electronic sounds as well as registrally differentiated melodic lines are highlighted by the use of panning.
Sonnet 3 Sonnet 3
for vocal duet is my interpretation of a poem written by Kate Debolt. The piece moves rapidly through multiple keys, giving it a backdrop of atonality contrasted with moments of tonal color.
Parallel Conversations for brass quintet Parallel Conversations for brass quintet
This piece takes advantage of the homogenous sounds made possible by the timbral similarities in the brass quintet to create minimal textures. The piece is clearly tonal, but dissonance is nearly always present, casting a varied degree of shadow.
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I am a composer of contemporary classical music, as well as a producer of various types of electronic and jazz musics. Aesthetically, I enjoy experimenting with minimal textures in conjunction with fleeting tonality and coloristic settings. Panned Ghosts is my most significant experiment to date in the synthesis of electronic and classical musics.Your musical influences
Alban Berg, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Louis AndriessenContact
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Why all my comments? You were next to me in the charts; beyond that I don't know! But I do know that commenting helps us reason through things, verbalize notions, and come to understand ourselves; so my comments are for me as much as they are for you... besides, I'm not new to commenting- I've 6500 or so on the writing site I'm at...!
give me two hundred of these, and I'll pick the best 12 to make an album... and I'll edit if I have to, if there are a dearth of quality moments! I'm not one to create harmony or dissonance for their own sake, they are tools to serve a higher purpose, which is missing in this piece...
I hear heart and career determination and persistence in the soprano's voice; the rest I don't hear much, no story, no feeling, it seems like rote performing to elitist avant-garde ghosts of the past... on the other hand, if you had to master this style to to become an 'accomplished composer', you can be satisfied... at around 6:10, when the piano is hitting steady quarter notes, I envisioned that the keyboard could have been written to really taken off gymnastically there (to give the piece technical credibility)
For something like this, I'd recommend improvising while recording for at least a hour, eight hours if you can manage it (owing to your rusty playing!) then editing together the best passages... for I find that the best passages are those where the performer's mind is elsewhere, and that cannot be done on que, but must be captured...
by your titles, age, and background I anticipate a variety of fare- this time it was a difficult choice as what to listen to next- the Tahiti piece, the brass quintet, vibrations, or guitar piece... this one is interesting, not much yet, but a good base for future elaboration... I think you should add to your influences contemporary Hollywood composers in general- there have been a lot of great scores in the last 10 years, and I detect their influence in your works...
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