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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.
justin andriessen crowell justincrowell chewbacules quintet pennsylvania
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.
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Classical • Contemporary
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Peak #31
Peak in subgenre #12
Author
Music: Justin Crowell, Words: Kate Debolt
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Justin Crowell
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June 24, 2007
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MP3 5.5 MB • 128 kbps • 5:59
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Picture a girl and a boy, cold, alone together in a strange new city. (The blossoming knife-edged night takes hold, redrawing the world in its tracery.) Mercy. Now every moment is harder to sidestep than last: lessons learned. Shy glances. Ardor. “You’re always saying the past isn’t dead.” “It isn’t, you know, just under glass.” Moon trips upward. The train is late. Fine. When it comes a choir of ghosts & angels will bring it to the gate. “Go to sleep now; the woods are burning.” The last two souls alive in the state.
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Numi Who
Sep 12, 2008
nice modern poem of painted vagaries and elusive emotions of displaced souls; the music is proficient, but emotionless and academic- it is a 'sounds like' piece, like, "write something that sounds like..." for an atonal piece to "work", it must transmit something magical (as with any art); perhaps more dynamics in this one would help bring out the human theme of the poem (and obviously romantic- see what I mean about 'girl' and 'guy' art?)... personally, I think an artist need his/her heart broken a dozen times before their art can be imbued with that ultimate component- human triumph and tragedy...