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Justin Blackburn

Impossible Germany, Unlikely Japan...

About Me

***You can pick your friends, you can pick your notes, but, you can't pick your friends' notes***Salut tout le monde! My name is Justin Blackburn - I'm a composer at the University of Kansas, working under the equal-parts-brilliant-and-ruthlessly-eccentric James Barnes. Feel free to drop me a line; I love to meet new people, though I am, admittedly, tres tres terrible at it.Presently, I've mostly postings of Electro-Acoustic works I've been doing lately. However, my primary output is that of acoustic works for the concert hall. Following shortly is a partial list of works I've presently available in publication. Interested parties, seeking new works or in a position to commission, are encouraged to contact me, either via the present frivolous phenomenon or at my business email address: [email protected]. To this end, I work quite cheap! Don't hesitate to contact me out of curiosity alone! *********************************************************** "Le Chanson de L'Hiver" - Bb Clarinet with Piano Accompaniment "in time of daffodils" - ee cummings text - Soprano Voice with Piano Accompaniment "Cumulatives" - Marimba Solo "Autumn Sketches" - Suite for Piano Solo [Commissioned by Gabriela Lena Frank] "Collected Conversations" - Woodwind Quartet (Flute, Bb Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon) "Un Poco Danza" - Student Piece for Marimba with Piano Accompaniment "Afflictions" - Nocturne for Violin & Piano******************************************************* ****NEW VIDEOS!!! Rhapsody

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Member Since: 5/8/2005
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Influences: Bela BartokWillilam BolcomDave Brubeck Aaron CoplandVincent Persichetti Igor StravinskyJames Barnes Antonio Carlos Jobim Darius Milhaud Francis PoulencGeorge GershwinKip HaaheimDr. Charles HoagBilly Strayhorn George CrumbJohn MayerBen FoldsSergei Prokofiev _______________LATELY, LISTENING TO: Steve Reich's "New York Counterpoint" Ramsey Lewis "Dancing in the Street" Bartok's String Quartet No. 2 Brahms' 2nd Copland's Sextet & Piano Quartet ELO sordid sundry pop music...
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My Blog

a redolent reminder...

Both Counsel & Patient, sending mine eyes a-flit in fits of fastidious, fumbling, frivolous fantasy & fancy alike, she dredges humanity, cautiously spreading the residue of years' grit & ...
Posted by Justin Blackburn on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:48:00 PST

frittered fondness

frittered fondness fumbling thru fussing fucked up findings finds the faults it frowned for four years before all the while all my smiles have all been streched a tad too wide caressed a tad too slyl...
Posted by Justin Blackburn on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:44:00 PST

what needed be done where I'd gone awry killed my inclination...

Circumstances kept me honest this time, nice guy gestures broke my bank. Smiling messes stood the flank, so, discomfiture falling in line, I did what needed be done... ...what needed be done... was...
Posted by Justin Blackburn on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:46:00 PST

bad idea

of supple, sectarian slight-of-hand alone was such a situation summoned. She, knowing only the boy she had grown fond of, via green lights over waters & faults since tripped, having appropriately...
Posted by Justin Blackburn on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:43:00 PST

4-20

I'm afraid I've fallen in love with other people. I'm afraid, Sleeping Sister, that I've washed my hands with my own towel.   I'm afraid, Love-to-be, that we'll not meet, that I'll be too timid...
Posted by Justin Blackburn on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:21:00 PST

adagio what ifs

I'venotasinglequarrel(with theworldoutside)withanyone (withcucumbereyes)withbrok enfalls(withFallsfrailties )withGod.Theprestissimohow sandadagiowhatifs(offinger sfailingandblondesblushing...
Posted by Justin Blackburn on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:15:00 PST

Music for The Greying of Trees on The Skyline

Greetings, folks.  I've just posted my newest demo, bearing the title of the current blog posting.  It's still a little rough, and I'm in the process of cutting and editing a vocal by the lo...
Posted by Justin Blackburn on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:09:00 PST

*...like a decoy in these headlights...*

faultless birth and death in a single breath dangles trophies and obtrusions spits redhate at abstrusion jangles for the abyss yearless aches and sheets congealed in defeat offer sundry things insanit...
Posted by Justin Blackburn on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:28:00 PST

frittered fondness [draft]

frittered fondness fumbling thru fussing fucked up findings finds the faults it frowned for four years before all the while all my smiles have all been streched a tad too wide caressed a tad too slyl...
Posted by Justin Blackburn on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:53:00 PST

[fearing dreams & nevers]

I'm listening only to the sounds of my own chemicals, (which are brutally slaughtering me.)   I'm seeing only the skinny girls, which are only simply slaughtering me.   I'm pondering onl...
Posted by Justin Blackburn on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:41:00 PST