"As if the madness exceeds one's own absorption capacity"

“Gloomy takes people on a journey, from the dark into the light.
Those enlightened can and do journey into the dark, but do so from an enlightened perspective. The dark manipulates and distorts reality for the innocent, unsuspecting and naive. Whatever we learn and however we learn it, that is how we needed to learn it. We could not learn it any other way.” M@

"Dark Dance or dance floor food for those who are not averse to a club with dirty tiles, broken lamps, trance, black walls and electronica with a punk attitude such as KLF." Source: Limbomania Guide 2007. 

Here is  a list  of free promomixes. Make sure you read the titles well and spread The Message far:

https://messagefromone.blog/2023/08/28/gloomys-free-promomixes/
You can download all of his tracks in high quality on: https://gloomer2000.bandcamp.com/music

Do you want DJ Gloomy to play your best tracks on Radio Bullet? Send me a pm.

--音声 Spoken--
Contact ✉️ :  spoken.music.contact@gmail.com

composer/audiovisual artist/filmmaker/percussionist/improviser/dj
i also make house-adjacent music from time to time
curated musical experiences for maximum enjoyment and such
Oberlin/Columbus OH

"You know, life can be challenging and sad, or fraught with illness or things. But music is the easy part. That’s the fun part. That is the thing that I love doing more than anything else. I don't fuss over things too much; I just let this [music] be what it wants to be, and that is a real release for me."---Annie Clark

Based in Colorado

Oberlin College, Philosophy, 20'

Hi! I'm Jake Berran (b. 2002), a composer from Minnesota currently studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. I believe that music has a magical, captivating power to say what is hard to articulate with other forms of expression. To that end, I love making each new creative process a completely different path through the vast expanse of human emotion and thought, resulting in a unique, multifaceted style. I enjoy writing for any instrumentation but feel most at home with piano, percussion, concert band, and choir. My current compositional interests include exploring humor, juxtaposing aesthetically incongruent material, working with various forms of text, and using electronics in enticing ways.

A passionate musical storyteller, composer-performer Oliver Kwapis (b. 1997) draws inspiration from a variety of music, visual art, and literature in order to create works that are narratively rich and sonically adventurous. Equally inspired by avant-garde opera and Renaissance polyphony, plunderphonics, pop, and musical theater, Kwapis endeavors to find a unique and fresh musical pallet for each of his works.

Kwapis has composed orchestral, chamber, vocal and electronic pieces which have been performed and recorded by a diverse range of ensembles and artists, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic (through the LA Phil’s Composer Fellowship Program), National Children’s Chorus, Wet Ink Ensemble, Calder Quartet, Atlantic Brass Quintet, Jacobs School of Music Concert Orchestra, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, and pianist Eric Huebner. His work has been heard at venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and The Broad Stage (Santa Monica, CA), and has been featured at NSEME, Fresh Inc Festival, June in Buffalo, the Mostly Modern Festival Institute, and the soundSCAPE Composition and Performer Exchange.

Recently, his master’s thesis, Dreams of Flight, was selected as a winner of the IU Jacobs School of Music’s New Voices for Orchestra Competition, his solo piano work, Approach to Zion, was selected as a finalist for the 2021 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, and his string sextet, My Mad Dances, was named as a finalist for Delirium Musicum’s 2019 Call for Scores and received an Honorable Mention from the Boston New Music Initiative’s Fifth Annual Young Composers Competition.

From 2015-2017, Kwapis was a fellow with Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship Program during which he studied with Sarah Gibson, James Matheson, and A.J. McCaffrey and wrote works for the LA Phil, members of the LA Phil and LA Master Chorale, and the Calder Quartet.

He holds a B.Mus. in Composition from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Stephen Hartke, Jesse Jones and Elizabeth Ogonek and where he was awarded the Walter E. Aschaffenburg Prize, given to a graduating Oberlin Conservatory senior for outstanding music composition. He also holds an M.Mus. in Composition with a Minor in Electronic Music from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music where he studied with P. Q. Phan, David Dzubay, Chi Wang, and John Gibson. He is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in the Performance of Data-driven Instruments at the University of Oregon’s School of Music and Dance under the tutelage of Jeffrey Stolet where he is also a Graduate Employee in the Department of Intermedia Music Technology.

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