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Corey Dargel (born October 19, 1977, in McAllen, Texas) is a composer, lyricist, and singer of electronic art songs that "smartly and impishly blur the boundaries between contemporary classical idioms and pop" . [1]
Formally trained in music composition, Dargel studied with Pauline Oliveros, John Luther Adams, and Brenda Hutchinson, and received a B.M. from Oberlin.
Dargel writes and composes all of his songs. In his earlier compositions, he accompanied his own voice with a prepared electronic soundtrack. His debut album, Less Famous Than You, released in May 2006 on Use Your Teeth records, is in the singer-songwriter tradition despite incorporation of totalist rhythmic relationships.The next album, Other People's Love Songs, released in 2008 on the contemporary classical label New Amsterdam Records, blurs the lines between indie pop and the conceptual and post-minimalist conceits of downtown contemporary classical music. [2]
In May 2010, New Amsterdam released a 2-CD set entitled Someone Will Take Care of Me, which combines two song-cycles performed by Dargel with live musicians most usually associated with contemporary classical music performance: On Removable Parts, he is joined by pianist Kathleen Supové, and on Thirteen Near-Death Experiences he is joined by members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and composer/drummer David T. Little. [ citation needed ] The instrumentation for these two cycles clearly references the classical song cycle tradition; the former voice and piano combination is the original instrumentation for 19th century romantic song cycles (e.g. Franz Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin , Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe , etc.), while the latter's small ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano was introduced by Arnold Schoenberg for his 1912 song cycle Pierrot Lunaire and, with or without the addition of a percussionist, has become a ubiquitous ensemble for the performance of 20th and 21st century classical music and has been also used in countless vocal works including Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King . [ citation needed ]
Dargel has also performed and recorded music by other composers, including Oliveros, Eve Beglarian, k. terumi shorb, Phil Kline, and Nick Brooke. [ citation needed ]
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