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Bradley Sroka is a musician and occasional poet based in Sterling, Virginia. His piano music is available digitally for streaming (The Precipice). Additional recordings are on Soundcloud. He was a member of Procession.
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Bradley Sroka has compiled two piano pieces and two improvisations into the EP The Precipice with new album art by Cailin Flatla. Click here to listen. Below is the sheet music for “Darkness Before Dawn” if you want to play it at home!
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I ate the avocado toast that was left on the counter which mommy made for lunch and you left uneaten Forgive me but you barely eat and daddy eats everything
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In Los Angeles, I met a classical music scholar for coffee at an upscale coffee shop in Silverlake. They blasted AC/DC and Judas Priest the entire time. I apologized to my guest, but at that moment I realized this is the coolest music in the world. In this spirit, I submit to you a Balls…
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I wrote this poem in 2011. At the time, I was nervous to call it “Fox News”, so I settled for “Nasty Bitches”; at the time, it still felt controversial to suggest Fox News peddled propaganda rather than news. Not anymore! Mike Birbiglia had this great tweet in July; he wrote “It’s the 38% that…
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I recorded this on a fun little Korg Volca FM synthesizer, which, for $150, lets you create sounds similar to a vintage Yamaha DX7. My kids love it because the interface is tactile and easy to manipulate; I love it as a tool for learning the basics of sound synthesis. This is an improvisation lightly…
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I bought an upright piano at auction from a barbeque restaurant in 2018 and recorded improvisations on it for a few months. I love dissonant music, as you can probably tell. I pride myself on understanding how music works, how songwriters think about music, how music writers write about it, and so on. But when…
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Like any 43-year-old professional, I have become obsessed with comic books and extreme metal, and both have now fully permeated my taste set. This is very exciting! I also started making music and writing poetry again, which is exciting too, and am adjusting to this recent aesthetic change. It has proven… challenging. Briefly stated, I’m…
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I am an analyst by trade and for as long as I can remember I’ve thought about music and writing as an “organization game”. For example, in my first band, Procession, we made our songs by layering distinct musical patterns, one on top of the other, like Aphex Twin or the Cure. Though our music…
Organization Game 