Grudge explores the nuances of everyday sounds that would usually pass by too quickly to notice. Akin to seeing a different world when looking through a microscope, we hear a different world by unfolding and exposing these sounds. In composing Grudge I was partially influenced by Karlheinz Stockhausen’s writings on unified time structure as well as the idea that musical forms are equally valid at different levels of time. All of the sounds sources were provided by Impulse.

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I'm a composer. I'm currently an associate professor of music and chair of the music program at Sweet Briar College in central Virginia. I have degrees from Appalachian State University, Brigham Young University, and the University of North Texas. 

My music is grounded in a fascination with visual art, textures, sound spectra, non-linear narratives, and extreme temporal manipulations, and it has been heavily influenced by studio techniques of electroacoustic composers. I've been commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition, the Nova Ensemble at UNT, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Virginia Wesleyan University, and many amazing performers. I've composed two feature film scores—King Rat (2017) and HUM (2020), and my concert works have been performed throughout the United States as well as South Korea, and is available on the SEAMUS and Ravello record labels.

Check out additional pieces at my YouTube channel (link below).

Email me at jkharriscomposer@gmail.com

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Joshua Harris