Listen to mp3s, look at scores and learn more about the music of Dirk Johan Stromberg - Composer, Performer, Musician, Educator, Technologist and Copyist.

Here is a full list of my series of compositions. Compositions not in series are currently unavailable. All tracks available here are available for download or streaming through the listening room. My CD Tropendrift is available for purchase and purchasing it is a friendly means of support. I will be discussing these works in my podcasts with some tracks included, so stay tuned to see what is the podcast of the month! For a list of works click here.

Compositions (click on the underlined titles to read more and listen to mp3s)

Tropendrift: a work for narrator, chamber group and computer that uses the text from the book by the same name by Albert Hagenaars. Read about this work's creation.

The Paint They Left on My Lips: works that look at different musical influences and the marks they have left on my music such as; Nine Inch Nails, Arnold Schoenberg, and Radiohead. probably some other meaning as well.

Dreams of Stopped Time: a series of works that delve into perception of time and reality in music. This stems from a morbid fascination with death.

tHe sIS: the three movements of my master's thesis. A disturbing and horrifying work not meant for the faint at heart or children

Sound Imprints: sound imprints from various places in the world where I have recorded ambient sounds and in real time created works that attempt to skew their placement in time

Disturbances of Self: music that delves into our insecurities and fears that make us the strange disturbed beings we are.

Scattered Works: various works that I wrote throughout the years each showing a different stage of my early development.

Existentialism: several pieces I wrote with the inspiration of aLBERT cAMUS.