What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
Film, Television, Multimedia, Choir, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Songs, Contemporary Ensembles, Other
What is your favorite genre or style of music?
Late Romantic "Classic" Music
Is music your main income source?
Sort Of - Music Related
About Me (Must include at least one paragraph of biographical information about you as a composer) - blank or minimal answers on this line will cause your request to be rejected. Include a link to your website if you have one.
When I started learning to play the piano at the age of 7 I really wasn't good at it compared to fellow starting students.
I didn't like to study the piano, but what I did like was trying to find chords and tunes I heard on the radio or on television shows.
I spent more time goofing around with chords and so discovered the harmonic relations and relative functional tensions before anyone had a chance to ruin my interest with the horrible historical mess that we call the theory of harmony.
At this point when I started to practically understand harmony my connection with the classic pieces I played greatly improved, and I was emotionaly involved in a way other students were not.
The classical piano pieces I played also had a great influence on my musical language as I started to improvise.
I went to study composition at the Royal Conservatory in Gent, but I did not feel right in the contemporary music of my teachers and fellow students. My music did not came from the pencil. It came from the piano attached to the computer.
I learned that I was more a producer, rather than a composer. Not much later I graduated at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Gent as Music Producer.
In search for further experience in recording and mixing, I worked my first years as mixing engineer for television (Post-production)in Brussels using Fairlight mixing consoles, then for economic reasons went into sales (first pianos, now in sheet music).
Music composition/production and improvisation will always be a part of my life, but at this point it is not my main activity. I do realise that having mixing and producing experience certainly adds to the composing possibilities. I also perform in a a Rock band called 'The Man Up North'.
Website:
https://soundcloud.com/jra-grommen
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