Edgcomb Portfolio – Princeton PhD

Welcome and thank you for taking the time to listen to my portfolio. Here is a small guide to help you explore the works:

#1 is a piece for quartet that in the jazz-adjacent realm
#2 is a ballad that really ramps up for my experimental rock band CLAK
#3 is from improvising chamber ensemble Tropos and features a mix of lyrical writing, atonal melody lines, and structured improvisation
#4 is a piece for layered bowed vibraphone and video
#5 is an electro-acoustic piece for contact microphone on cymbal

1) Centripetal Grid Myth #1

Aaron Edgcomb (drums/composition)
Anna Webber (tenor)
Phillip Golub (piano)
Eva Lawitts (acoustic bass)

2) IHSM

CLAK
Aaron Edgcomb (drums/electronics/composition+lyrics)
Alex Koi (voice/electronics)
Yuma Uesaka (saxophone)
Andres Abenante (guitar)
Isaac Levien (bass)

3) husk

Tropos
Aaron Edgcomb (drums/composition)
Phillip Golub (piano)
Ledah Finck (violin)
Yuma Uesaka (clarinet)

4) a small cheat.

layered bowed vibraphone and video of the gowanus canal

5) hypnos irascitur hephaestus

contact mic on cymbal through pedals