Electronic Music by Dean Crocker
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- 9/4 Ground (1987)
- • Electronic. 4¾′
- Improvisation over a bass line
- Arion Rides the Dolphin (2012)
- • Electronic. 4′
- A dolphin carried a poet from Lesbos safely back to shore
- Avalon (2023)
- • Electronic. 3¾′
- An island in Arthurian legend.
- Brooklyn Rain (1987)
- • Electronic. 23′
- A slow rain in Brooklyn provides a lesson in English bell-ringing
- Chasing the Horizon (2007)
- • Electronic. 26½′
- Inspired partly by Stephen Crane‘s poem I saw a man pursuing the horizon and partly by some very particular horizon-chasing by friends, this piece could use a good choreographer. Anyone interested?
- Cognitive Dissonance (2008)
- • Electronic. 3½′
- Dick Cheney was never impeached
- Collective Effervescence (2008)
- • Electronic. 4′
- The energy of the people creates the beliefs of the people?
- Cultural Dissonance (2008)
- • Electronic. 2¾′
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- Sometimes things just don’t seem to make sense anymore
- Donnybrook Fair (2016)
- • Electronic. 10′
- A bit of a free-for-all
- Drinking Music (1976)
- • Electronic. 9¼′
- Three cheers for that big, old Moog sequencer!
- Droplets in the Cloud (2014)
- • Electronic. 2½′
- It’s almost a memory…
- Elucubration—Élucubrations (2011)
- • Electronic. 6′
- An elaborately wrought fantasia; or mayhap, studious rantings
- Eris sui generis (2022)
- • Electronic. 4′
- A 1975 exercise in computer-assisted algorithmic composition resurfaced and turned into a nice little synthesizer ditty
- Even Bedford Falls Has A Potter’s Field (2013)
- • Electronic. 3′
- A little macédoine before you jump back on that bridge?
- Late Heavy Bombardment, The (2016)
- • Electronic. 8′
- Very early music?
- Marching Machine (2022)
- • Electronic 9½′
- Can you keep a beat? Where?
- Music Film (1975)
- • Electronic. 4′
- A disturbing student score for a disturbing student film
- Orpheus ∶ Morpheus (2015)
- • Electronic. 5′
- When the musicians need a nap…
- Ouroboros (2018)
- • Electronic. 7′
- The worm turns
- Palimpsest (2011)
- • Electronic. 4½′
- A setting of Le Dormeur du val by Arthur Rimbaud
- Pandiculation (2020)
- • Electronic. 5′
- “Stretching and stiffening one‘s self when sleepy, fatigued, or after awakening”
- Paucity of Reason (2022)
- • Electronic. 4′
- Abundance of fallacy?
- Precipitous Perambulation (2019)
- • Electronic. 7½′
- This all began one day walking home from the dentist…
- Raoul 1975a
- • Electronic. 1¼′
- Bleeps, bloops and blops quickly move from one speaker to another!
- Raoul 1975b
- • Electronic. 3¼′
- I have always found this little piece to be suprisingly relaxing. Maybe you will too
- Raoul 1977
- • Electronic. 6½′
- Ah, the Mighty Moog… ☺
- Raoul 1986
- • Electronic. 22¾′
- This was an attempt to write “New Age” music. I was told it was too interesting…
- Rare and Curious Phenomenon, A (original version, 1993)
- • Electronic. 10½′
- Put together with Finale® and a Roland Sound Canvas, this piece eventually became orchestral
- Scintillations (2024)
- • Electronic. 5′35″
- Flashes of brilliance?
- Slow Spring Sprung (1987)
- • Electronic. 2¼′
- Quick little number with no particular purpose
- Snowball Earth (2014)
- • Electronic. 30′
- The original chill
- Spry Mimes on Carabiners (2024)
- • Electronic. 6′30″
- A lively, but tethered, dumb show.
- Study (1987)
- • Electronic. 3½′
- A little number exploring the many possibilities of a Casio CZ-5000, if you can believe that!
- Suite Nothings (2007)
- • Electronic. 10¾′
- Perhaps you would like a little after-dinner suite?
- Synthesizer Madness (1986)
- • Electronic. 4½′
- Some people hate synthesizers. Could this be why?
- Tropistic Daze (2020)
- • Electronic. 8′
- Involuntary realignment based on external stimuli—a song for our time
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