当作曲家 安德鲁·伯克14岁 is writing a piece of music, he’s not necessarily starting with music in mind. “I’m interested in taking a non-musical topic and finding ways to explore that topic with music,他说. “The process of trying to use music to make sense of something forces you to look at things in a different light.”

It’s an approach that keeps 伯克 moving in multiple musical directions. He transferred to 欧洲杯买球怎么投注 for his junior year to study music composition, 他的论文, “谁代表众神说话??,” was a song cycle for piano and voice that took religious texts and examined how they could be twisted and weaponized by extremists. His body of work is not strictly classical in form or approach, 包括流行歌曲, 电影音乐, 和更多的.

Three of 伯克’s recent projects demonstrate his range: Early in the pandemic, he collaborated with a high-school friend on bossa nova-driven songs under the name Latitude Unknown, 在2021年底，他释放了 未来的真爱, an EP of home-recorded pop songs under the name Danke Shane. 4月, he was on the 欧洲杯买球怎么投注 campus to debut “Keepsake,” a classical piece commissioned by the College for the opening of the Michael Jaharis Recital Hall. Performed at the event by pianist Charles Abramovic, “Keepsake” was composed for solo prepared piano whose sound 伯克 altered by applying an adhesive putty to the strings.

伯克, 30, who earned a master of music degree at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute, recently relocated to Philadelphia for a Ph.D. program in composition at the University of Pennsylvania. He believes studying composition within the wider context of 欧洲杯买球怎么投注 benefited his growth as a composer. “It’s important for musicians to be part of the larger world and not just off in their own bubble, nerding out over some Shostakovich piece,他说. “I’m grateful I had the chance to have both the liberal arts and conservatory experience.”

The enforced isolation of the COVID-19 lock- downs, 然而, propelled 伯克 into another sort of bubble and forced him to shift away from classical work. “Composition really requires working with other performers, and the typical outlet is a live setting. When you write a piece for piano and violin, it will be given to musicians to perform in a recital hall,他说. “Pop music is something you can write and record on your own, and then share with people.”

The Danke Shane EP is a pandemic-era pop project that grew out of experimental laptop recordings 伯克 did while at 欧洲杯买球怎么投注. He revived it when he found himself at home with his fiancée, Idun Klakegg ' 15，还有很多空闲时间. “Recording is a good project for when you’re stuck in your house and don’t have a lot of people around,他说.

这六首歌 未来的真爱 marry the compressed feel of bedroom pop with sophisticated sounds. 伯克 plays nearly all of the instruments and sings lyrics that are by turns lonely and Searching. EP的第一个剪辑是《欧洲杯买球怎么投注》,” which starts with the slowed-down sound of an unamplified electric guitar that speeds up as 伯克 sings in a sleepy voice, “When you wake up in the morning/Holding your breath for a moment/ She wants to know what you’re thinking/It’s not enough to just dream it.” Other tracks use dance- able beats, 堆叠和声, 密集的安排, and an overall feeling of isolation that’s in keeping with the music’s moment of creation.

The Covid lockdowns also opened up a space for 伯克 to compose the score for the feature-length film 残忍的季节. 这部电影, 以1948年为背景的戏剧, 首演在奥斯汀, 德州, film festival Fantastic Fest in September.

With the world opening back up and his Ph.D. 程序开始, 伯克 is looking forward to integrating the paths he’s been on rather than keeping them in their own musical boxes. “很长一段时间, I thought the process of 成为一名作曲家 was honing in on one little niche and letting go of the side projects, but now I have more freedom to be multiple things at once,他说. “进入音乐领域, 成为一名作曲家, it can be a prismatic process where your interests refract outward in multiple directions at once.”