An afternoon at a coffee shop’s worth of riffing on an idea. Cover from Hendrik Cornelissen on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/-CTAQCf8rUk)!

Instrumentation:

• Arturia Piano V2 – Glass Play It Low
• Arturia Analog Lab V – Dual Arp
• Spitfire BBC Orchestra Core – Violins 1 and 2, Violas, and Cellos (Legato patches); Horn (Cuivre and Muted patches)
• Spitfire Solo Strings – Violin Total Performance, Violin 1st Desk Legato, Viola Legato, and Cello Total Performance
• Spitfire Percussion – Rototoms and Trash Can
• Spitfire Aperture Orchestra – Raptor Titan Long

Logic Pro project: https://cdn.chriskrycho.com/file/chriskrycho-com/music/Trailer%20Music%20Jam.logicx.zip

Trailer Music Jam (Single)

Trailer Music Jam

Some good old-fashioned counterpoint… for an unusual pairing of instruments, in a constructed mode.

Single Movement For Clarinet And Cello

A long-promised, very special version of the Winning Slowly theme (https://soundcloud.com/chriskrycho/winning-slowly). Very. special. version.

Podcast Themes

Winning Slowly 2021

A simple theme with interesting (though not particularly radical) harmonies.

Winning Slowly theme

This is a Sunday morning rehearsal recording! It’s rough. If/when I get a better recording, I will probably put it up on Spotify/etc., but this rough recording is good enough to share here!

A Sanctus (“Holy, holy, holy Lord…”) specifically for Epiphany—and so, joyful! Written for the congregation of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Colorado Springs in January 2024—and so, in a contemporary idiom.

Sanctus for Epiphany

Sanctus for Epiphany (Rough)

An incarnation meditation, written in 2010 on the notion of Joseph holding the son born to his wife—the Son of God.

Joseph Holds the Son of God

The Incarnation was many things; in this piece, I conceived of it in part as an act of war—a shot across the bow of Satan's and sin's rule of the present age.

Enanthropoisis

A Sanctus written to sing during the season of Epiphany—for our congregation at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in northern Colorado Springs. Sung by the choir and congregation.

Sanctus for Epiphany (Single)

Sanctus for Epiphany

Sanctus for Epiphany – HTAC Choir and Congregation

A simple mix of synth and harp—sweet and fun. Logic Pro X.

Theme for Sap.py (no vocals)

A simple mix put together in Logic Pro X for the New Rustacean podcast.

New Rustacean Theme

A processional composed for my youngest sister's wedding (September 3, 2016).

Composed on piano and in Notion for iPad with an Apple Pencil; "produced" (insofar as you can call it that) in Notion for iPad.

Wedding Music

Abi's Processional

Inspired by the various themes for Mass Effect, written in Logic Pro X over an afternoon as the theme for our forthcoming podcast.

Mass Affection Theme

Chris is a composer of contemporary classical music—somewhere between John Williams and John Tavener—with recent works ranging from small chamber pieces written for friends to a fanfare recorded with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra.

Chris began composing in his early teens, and studied music theory and composition while majoring in physics at the University of Oklahoma.

He is also a software engineer, writer, runner, and more.

Chris Krycho

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