Corey Dargel

The instrumentation for these two cycles is in the classical song cycle tradition; the voice and piano combination is the original instrumentation for 19th century romantic song cycles (e.g. Franz Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, Robert Schumann's Dichterliebe), while the ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano was used by Arnold Schoenberg for his 1912 song cycle Pierrot Lunaire and has become a common ensemble for 20th and 21st century classical music including vocal works like Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King.

Dargel has also performed and recorded music by other composers, including Oliveros, Eve Beglarian, k. terumi shorb, Phil Kline, and Nick Brooke.

Corey Dargel (born October 19, 1977, in McAllen, Texas) is a composer, lyricist, and singer who makes a mix of contemporary classical and electronic pop music.

Formally trained in music composition, Dargel studied with Pauline Oliveros, John Luther Adams, and Brenda Hutchinson, and received a Bachelor of Music from Oberlin.

Dargel writes and composes all of his songs.

In his earlier compositions, he accompanied his own voice with prepared electronics.

His debut album, Less Famous Than You, released in May 2006 with Use Your Teeth records, is in the singer-songwriter style and incorporates totalist rhythmic relationships.

His next album, Other People's Love Songs, released in 2008 with the contemporary classical label New Amsterdam Records, combines indie pop and postminimalist contemporary classical music.

In May 2010, New Amsterdam released a two-CD set entitled Someone Will Take Care of Me, which combines two song cycles performed by Dargel and other musicians live: On Removable Parts, he is joined by pianist Kathleen Supové, and on Thirteen Near-Death Experiences, he is joined by members of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and composer/drummer David T. Little.