Jason Eckardt
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American composer
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Jason Eckardt's Degrees
- PhD Composition Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jason Eckardt is an American composer. He began his musical life playing guitar in heavy metal and jazz bands and abruptly moved to composing after discovering the music of Anton Webern. Compositions Atonal and microtonal harmony, intricate rhythms, highly polyphonic textures and large-scale transformational processes are prevalent in Eckardt's compositions. Allan Kozinn of The New York Times wrote that Eckardt's music "celebrates harmonic prickliness, rhythmic complexity and a density of ideas". Though Eckardt has been associated with the New Complexity movement, he is also influenced by American composers Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter.
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