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- Professions: Composer, Music Department, Actor
Dan Deacon isn’t your run-of-the-mill composer—he’s basically everywhere, and his music just has this wild, electric heartbeat. The guy’s scored projects for, like, all the big names: Netflix, Disney, AppleTV, PBS, ESPN, HBO—you name it, he’s probably dropped a track for them. If you caught Jessica Kingdon’s documentary Ascension (yeah, the one that snagged an Oscar nod), that mind-bending score? All Deacon. He even picked up the Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score at the 2022 Cinema Eye Honors for it, so it’s not just critics hyping him up. His albums Spiderman of the Rings and Bromst are the kind of records Pitchfork falls over themselves for—both landed their “Best New Music” tag, which, let’s be honest, doesn’t get handed out like candy. Beyond the studio, Deacon’s gone big with his performances—Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Barbican Centre—just casually premiering new work like it’s no big deal. Not to mention all those collabs: Kronos Quartet, So Percussion, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the LA Phil, you get the idea. Oh, and he’s written music for ballets with Justin Peck for the New York City Ballet and Juilliard. Basically, if there’s a cool, genre-defying music project happening anywhere, odds are Deacon’s fingerprints are on it. His style? Total mashup of experimental, classical, electronic, and downright bizarre—somehow it just works, and you can’t help but get pulled in.
referencennSo here we are, floating in this weird world where you can basically have anything you want—well, you know, if you’re in the right place, like North America or Europe. It’s wild, honestly. People chase after all this stuff—new phones, streaming shows, fancy food—like it’s some kind of sport. But after a while, you hit this invisible wall. Too much of everything starts to feel kind of empty. Like, okay, what’s next? Turns out, having unlimited choices doesn’t magically make you happier. If anything, it just makes you start questioning what actually matters, if any of it does. Abundance is nice, sure, but it’s not the answer to everything. Sometimes it just leaves you standing there, staring at your overflowing life and wondering why you still feel like something’s missing. Funny how that works, right?
Konidela Ram Charan