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Smear Music

from Palettes by Taylor Joshua Rankin

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string quartet

Smear Music was written in the summer of 2013, immediately after receiving my Bachelors in Music Composition from California State University East Bay in Hayward. All at once, I found myself working a 9 to 5 job in the bustling city of San Francisco, constantly on my feet and amid the whirlwind of living around, and commuting in, a modern major metropolis.

My composing in this new life, formerly a craft I could commit an entire day to, became reduced to sporadic 20-30 minute intervals whenever I could win over an open seat on the various buses and Bart rides that now cluttered my day. Now a part of the "real world" and feeling isolated and unsure of my own place within it, I pieced together the strands of ideas written over the course of my daily commuting. I believe that because of this, Smear Music took the form of a rhythmically fueled piece of music, composed at a time of strong isolation and aggression at a new world constantly shifting and churning with little regard to my seemingly tiny space within it. Recommended listening in a dark room, alone, without moving.

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from Palettes, released October 7, 2019
Friction Quartet,

Kevin Rogers - violin
Otis Harriel - violin
Taija Warbelow - viola
Doug Machiz - cello

Recording and mixing by Zach Miley
Mastering by Jacob Winik at Tiny Telephone, Oakland

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Taylor Joshua Rankin Los Angeles, California

Taylor Joshua Rankin (b. 1991) is a composer of new music based in Los Angeles, CA.

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