Composed in the fall of 2020 in Tampa, Florida. Recording of the premiere performance at the University of South Florida Barness Recital Hall on March 10, 2022.

Gabriel Mendoza, Violin 1
Madeline Klee, Violin 2
Kelsey Felton, Viola
Marcus Anderson, Cello

Quartett (2020)

Composed for audio fixed media in the fall of 2020. Realized in logic Pro X

Dilations (2020)

Composed in 2020 during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, setting a text of my own creation. Premiered on March 10, 2022, in the University of South Florida Barness Recital Hall.

Hope Goodman, Soprano
Joshua Adler, Piano

Evening Rebirth (2020)

Composed in the spring of 2022 for the Operation Opera music festival in Spokane, Washington. The song is a setting of a text by Edgar Allan Poe of the same name. Premiered in the Gonzaga University Recital hall on June 10, 2022.

Maura Schaefer, Soprano
Anne Flood, Piano
Spoken introduction by Joshua Adler

Spirits Of The Dead (2022)

Composed in the fall of 2020 in Tampa, Florida for fixed media*. Audio realized in Logic Pro X.

*Remixed in the fall of 2021

Lab Test (2020)

Composed in the fall of 2021 for audio fixed media. Realized in Logic Pro X

Broken Tapes (2021)

"From the Basement" was composed in the Fall of 2022 using electronic sounds from Pure Data and manipulations of recorded snippets of vinyl audio from various 60's and 70's records. This composition was realized in Logic Pro X and premiered on Nov 21, 2022 in Barness Recital Hall in Tampa, FL

From the Basement

Joshua Ryan Adler (b. 1998) is a composer of acoustic and electronic music and multi-instrumentalist based in Tampa, Florida. Adler’s music integrates various influences, including rock, impressionism, minimalism, various forms of folk music, and jazz. Adler began compositional studies as a music major at the State College of Florida, later transferring to the University of South Florida to pursue a Bachelor of Musical Arts in acoustic/electronic composition. Adler has had music performed at Infrequent Seams in New York City and Operation Opera in Spokane, Washington. He has studied under professors Paul Reller and Dr. Benjamin D. Whiting, has formerly studied under Rex Willis, and has taken lessons and masterclasses from Michael Timpson, Chichun Chi-sun Lee, Matthew Kennedy, Hilary Tan and Baljinder Sekhon II.

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