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John Korsrud

About Me

Compositions for orchestra, film, electronica, new music ensembles, jazz orchestra. I run the 17-piece avant Hard Rubber Orchestra, an ensemble I've had since 1990. I lived in Amsterdam for about 3 years studying composition w/ Louis Andriessen. Please check out johnkorsrud.com. I sometimes play the trumpet.

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Member Since: 02/04/2006
Band Website: johnkorsrud.com
Influences: Everyone. Everywhere. But a good list would be Gyorgi Ligeti, Miles Davis, Eddie Palmieri, Dead Kennedys, Arvo Part, Public Enemy, Morton Feldman, Barry White, Earth, Wind & Fire, Art Tatum, Krystof Pendereski, John Coltrane, John Zorn, McCoy Tyner... and Vancouver musicians such as Brad Turner, Ron Samworth, Peggy Lee, Chris Gestrin, Tony Wilson, Bradshaw Pack, Dylan van der Schyff...the list goes on and on...
Sounds Like: Music samples: --- *In a Flash is an excerpt from a piece for The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra..... *X's and O's is a bit of drum looping and sampling for Lola dance.....*Iguana is a bigband piece for The Hard Rubber Orchestra----- Wing Theory is live performance with musicians/ sampling. Diversity is where it's at.
Record Label: Spool, Les Disques Victo, CBC...
Type of Label: Indie

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