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Dorian Mastin, a musician and sound designer, offers a distinctive musical expression characterized by a melancholy and narrative quality. He has been involved in various musical endeavors and bands. Later, he lived in Guadalajara, Mexico, for 15 years, during which time he immersed himself in the creative industries as a sound designer, videogame producer, and academic.

In early 2023, after several ateliers with new bandmates, he decided to record an extract. "Works of Fragments" at Double Sharp Studio captures a 30-minute live session, executed within a brief span of a couple of hours, with post-produced arrangements. Dorian Mastin's musical pieces are progressive, incorporating sound improvisations and loops. The compositions strictly maintain instrumental spaces, where empty and full sound movements alternate. The absence of vocals enables the avoidance of the conventional verse-chorus structure, allowing Dorian Mastin and his bandmates the necessary time to immerse themselves, construct a sonic ambiance, and approach the musical proposals with sensitivity.

After returning to France with the recorded tracks from the Works and Fragments EP, he edited and added arrangements before releasing it earlier in 2024.

He is currently collaborating with new teammates on fresh material in a similar style, under the name The Common Pulse.

Dustin is a composer, sound designer, audio producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in the Nashville, TN area. He has spent the last ten years working in several avenues of music and audio including film, television, video games, marketing, and music education. 

Dustin began his professional studies at Western Carolina University, double majoring in Music Education and Commercial/Electronic Music. While at Western, Dustin worked with several student film makers as an on set audio engineer and composer as well as the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band as the Electronics Coordinator maintaining the band’s live sound equipment and running live sound for all performances in the 2010 season. He also worked with several high school bands as an instructor for brass, full band, and an audio electronics supervisor.
 
After his studies at WCU, Dustin attended the University of Southern California’s Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program in Los Angeles, CA from 2011 to 2012. While at USC Dustin had the chance to study with composers such as Bruce Broughton, Garry Schyman, Jack Smalley, and Christopher Young. Dustin also worked with several student film makers and game makers creating original music and sound effects for films and games such as Nevermind, The High Five Apprentice, Paulie, and The Pier. After USC, Dustin worked with several composers such as Mike Kramer (Lego Ninjago), Christopher Young (Spider-Man 3), Blake Neely (The Mentalist), and Darren Fung (The Great Human Odyssey). 
As a composer and producer, Dustin has had the opportunity to write and create music of all genres as a team member on over 50 projects. From the Indie Rock score of Jason Nash is Married, the EDM and Dubstep soundtrack of Shove Pro on iOS, the Industrial Horror music of Mr. Lockjaw, and the World/Celtic and Orchestral Film Score sound of Scotch - A Golden Dream, Dustin always looks forward to the challenge of learning the sound and language of new musical genres while blending his own musical voice into his scoring work. Dustin’s music can be heard through clients such as Comedy Central, SyFy, United Launch Alliance, CBS, and Hulu.

Outside of the world of media music and audio, Dustin enjoys all opportunities to teach and work with students of all ages. Dustin has worked with award winning band programs as an electronics coordinator, sound designer, and live sound engineer for programs such as Andrews High School (Andrews, NC), Cleveland High School Performance Ensembles (Clayton, NC), and the Ola High School Marching Band (Ola, GA). Dustin’s work can range from the set up and running of live sound for WGI and AIA winds competitions to creating original productions for winter guards. Dustin returned to Western Carolina University in the summer of 2017 to lead their recently created Summer Symposium Rock and Record Track for high school and middle school students. The students worked for three days in WCU’s pristine CAT studio learning about audio engineering, music composition, and mixing techniques. The students concluded the camp by performing and engineering an original piece of music that was presented on the final day as a music video shot and produced by the camp’s media team.

Dustin is currently pursuing his MFA in Recording Arts and Technologies at Middle Tennessee State University.

Artist contact: kenneth.m.florence@gmail.com

Musicians who have played in Sunfold at some time or other: 

Kenny Florence - composer, voice, guitar, keyboards, drums/percussion, pedal steel, cello, bass guitar, etc. 
Mike Robinson - bass guitar
Adam Baker - drums/percussion, voice, guitar, programming
Zack Oden - guitar, percussion
Chris Wessels - keyboards, violin
Nick Radford - drums
Anna Spence - keyboards

Acclaimed for his “ethereal saxophone playing” (Vital Weekly), Dylan Ward is a musician/improviser/sound artist specializing in contemporary and electroacoustic music. Ward has released recordings on the Neuma, Mother Brain, and XAS record labels that have been described as “meditative, jarring, and cosmic…highly creative” (Take Effect Reviews) and praised for presenting music that is “clear and coherent in its discourse, original in its sounds, and as beautiful and intellectually stimulating as it is playful” (Pan M 360). Ward has performed nationally at the Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend Festival, Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab, Northwestern University New Music Conference (NUNC!), and NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival and appeared in venues including Lincoln Center, Constellation Chicago, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Mesa Arts Center, and Sheen Center for Thought and Culture.

In July 2022, Ward released his debut solo electroacoustic album, Tourmaline, through Neuma Records. The album explores ideas of sonic transmutation and alchemy, featuring music by Alexandra Gardner, Viet Cuong, Seth Andrew Davis, Kenneth Michael Florence, and Emma O’Halloran. From the Cave of Crystals to the cosmogonic Ogdoad, from Paul Klee’s depiction of the Angel of History to the structure of a Michael Jordan documentary, Tourmaline covers a wide range of creative concepts in pursuit of the alchemical magnum opus. 

Ward's creative work has received support from the NC Arts Council, Charlotte Arts & Science Council, City of Charlotte, Infusion Fund, Foundation for the Carolinas, UMKC School of Graduate Studies, Charlotte Street Foundation, Semans Art Fund, Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, and William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust. 

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