Darren Solomon
COMPOSER / BASS / KEYS
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 with Balmain Creative Director Olivier Rousteing and choreographer Normann Shay.
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.
Covid Jamz. A few projects and collabs, to stay creative and connected during quarantine.
I wrote Everything Bad But Forever, 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
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've been fortunate to play bass with a few of the greats, here are some clips!
With Ray Charles at the Paris Jazz Fest
With Ray Charles on The Tonight Show
With Olivia Newton-John on the Dennis Miller Show
With Barry Manilow Live at Wembley