Darren Solomon

Darren Solomon
COMPOSER
Darren Solomon is a Clio and Cannes Gold Lion award-winning composer, producer, bassist and keyboard player, based in Brooklyn. He has composed music for hundreds of TV commercials, toured with Ray Charles and Barry Manilow, and created the collaborative music websites In B Flat 2.0 and marker/music. He is a partner and creative director at Quiet City Music + Sound and a visiting affiliate artist at SUNY Purchase. Darren likes throwing his hands in the air, but draws the line at waving them like he just don't care.
music for ads

I've written the music for over 400 national TV commercials for brands including Coke, Samsung, Honda, Google, M&M's, Verizon, Dell, AMEX, L'Oreal, Geico, and a memorable one for K-Y Jelly. Here are a few examples.
live performance
I regularly perform live around the city, here are some clips!

H&M x Balmain Runway Show
I produced the music and DJ'd the show, working directly with Balmain Creative Director Olivier Rousteing and choreographer Normann Shay to create the perfect mix.
3 Legged Dog gallery performance
Live electronic set with visual artist Matt Romein
Hip Hop Tribute to Miyazaki
A night of Hip Hop inspired by Miyazaki films, here featuring Baxter P Wordsworth.
Aether Dance Company
Original score for motion capture dance company Aether, performed live at National Sawdust.
web projects

I created a collaborative music project called In B Flat 2.0

The videos for the site were created by me and people from all over the world. The project was featured on NPR, CNN, and Google Creative Lab's 87 Cool Things On The Web. Hear my interview on NPR's Weekend Edition.
As a visiting artist at Northern State University, I worked with the students to create marker/music, a music and Google map mashup.
Everything Bad But Forever is a program written in p5.js that generates an infinitely long drug commercial. Using a data set of the text from 75 actual drug ads, it algorithmically creates weird and horrifying side effects and recites them over a random selection of stock footage. The drug names are generated from a data set of 100 actual product names. Here's some footage of its output.
remixes/mashups/tidbits
assorted tracks for your listening pleasure
science for girls
This is Science For Girls.
I wrote, produced, and performed most of the album, and each track has a different singer.
Read an article in Electronic Musician about the production of the album.
tours

I got my start in music when I joined Ray Charles' band at the age of 19, and played bass on tour with him for two years. I later worked with jazz, latin, and pop artists around NYC and spent four years on tour with Barry Manilow. Here are a few clips.
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music for ads

live performance

I regularly perform live around the city, here are some clips!

H&M x Balmain Runway Show

3 Legged Dog gallery performance

Hip Hop Tribute to Miyazaki

Aether Dance Company

web projects

remixes/mashups/tidbits

assorted tracks for your listening pleasure

science for girls

This is Science For Girls.I wrote, produced, and performed most of the album, and each track has a different singer.Read an article in Electronic Musician about the production of the album.

tours

say hello!

This is Science For Girls.
I wrote, produced, and performed most of the album, and each track has a different singer.
Read an article in Electronic Musician about the production of the album.