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CROCKER MUSIC

CROCKER MUSIC

Electronic music by Dean Crocker

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2012

Arion Rides the Dolphin
Electronic. 3′53″
A dolphin carried a poet from Lesbos safely back to shore

2011

Elucubration—Élucubrations
Electronic. 5′57″
An elaborately wrought fantasia; or mayhap, studious rantings
Palimpsest
Electronic. 4′23″
A setting of LE DORMEUR DU VAL by Arthur Rimbaud

2008

Cognitive Dissonance
Electronic. 3′28″
A contradiction between simultaneously held beliefs causes anxiety
Collective Effervescence
Electronic 4′04″
The energy of the people, formed by the energy of the people, creates the behavior or beliefs of the people (or vice versa?)
Cultural Dissonance
Electronic 2′47″
An uncomfortable sense of conflict experienced amidst change in one’s cultural environment

2007

Chasing the Horizon
Electronic 26′35″
Inspired partly by Stephen Crane’s short poem I saw a man pursuing the horizon and partly by some very specific horizon-chasing on my own, this piece could use a good choreographer
Suite Nothings
Electronic 10′42″
Perhaps you will like this little three-movement, after-dinner suite?

1993

A Rare and Curious Phenomenon
Electronic 10′38″
Put together with Finale®, a Roland Sound Canvas and gaff tape

1987

9/4 Ground
Electronic 4′48″
Improvisation over a bass line
Brooklyn Rain
Electronic 23′02″
A slow rain in Brooklyn inspired a lesson in English bell-ringing
Slow Spring Sprung
Electronic 2′10″
Quick little number with no particular purpose
Study (1987)
Electronic 3′28″
A little number exploring the many possibilities of a Casio CZ-5000, if you can believe that!

1986

Raoul 1986
Electronic 22′35″
A failed attempt to write New Age Music. “Too interesting,” they said…
Synthesizer Madness
Electronic 4′27″
Why do some people hate synthesizers? This could be one reason!

1977

Raoul 1977
Electronic 6′37″
Ah, the Mighty Moog…

1976

Drinking Music
Electronic 8′41″
Ah, those big old Moog sequencers! Some thought they could only play eight notes in a row…

1975

Music Film
Electronic 4′07″
A disturbing student score for a disturbing student film. Do you remember the 70s?
Raoul 1975a
Electronic 1′14″
Bleeps, bloops and blops move quickly from one speaker to another!
Raoul 1975b
Electronic 3′20″
I have always found this little piece to be suprisingly relaxing