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Cory Cullinan shares peaceful sonic adventure

Award-winning mastermind and musical composer Cory Cullinan releases a one-of-a-kind over 10 minute long landmark achievement in experimental music. Called “Footprint”, the song features a hallucinatory mix of sounds including chirping birds, ocean waves, dropping water, wind, haunting soundscapes and combustable rhythms.

Cullinan was inspired to write the song by his Stanford Music Major Advisor Dr. Chowning whose college course touched the creator. Not finding the studio he needed to finish it, nor the time, Cullinan moved on from his art form. Over 30 years later that same professor attended a show Cullinan had with Riley Max in San Jose, CA. This meeting gave the composer the excitement to once again revisit “Footprint” and complete the piece. Assisted by his own former college Recording Arts student Elizabeth Anaya, who’s now his Business & Studio Manager, Cullinan and Elizabeth worked at his Reach Studios to finish the piece before the show. It sounds remarkably similar to what he heard in his head in 1989. Adding another dimension to the experience, Cullinan tapped his daughter a film director Sidney Cullinan to envision the visual accompaniment. The result is a collage of different cinematic rolls, each perfectly mirroring the piece’s sonics.

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