Kasson Crooker is an American electronic musician, a composer, and the artist behind Symbion Project, his solo moniker. His past bands are Freezepop, Splashdown, Larkspur, and Sirensong. DJ HMX, Komputer Kontroller, and Cosmonaut Zero were alias bands of Crooker used only for the videogames ''

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'' and ''

Amplitude The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change in a single period (such as time or spatial period). The amplitude of a non-periodic signal is its magnitude compared with a reference value. There are various definitions of amplit ...

''.

Music career

In 1999, Crooker formed the

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group Freezepop with Liz Enthusiasm and

Sean T. Drinkwater Sean T. Drinkwater (born 1972) is an American musician living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. He is known as one of the four members of the synthpop band Freezepop, in which he performs under the name The Other Sean T. Drinkwater, posing as ...

. While in the band he went by various aliases, starting as The Duke of Candied Apples, then briefly being known as The Duke of Belgian Waffles, and finally The Duke of Pannenkoeken. In September 2009, Kasson retired from Freezepop to focus his efforts on his work at Harmonix. He has made several guest appearances at Freezepop concerts since then, often also playing a Symbion Project set. His main solo project is Symbion Project, with seven releases: ''

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'' (1998), ''

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'' (2003), '' Wound Up by God or the Devil'' (2006), '' Misery in Soliloquy'' (2009), ''

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'' (2011), ''

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'' (2016), and ''

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'' (2022). Several of his songs are featured in

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's films '' Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. His other former bands include the dreampop band Sirensong and the more well-known Splashdown, whose albums include ''Stars and Garters'', ''Halfworld'' (EP), ''Redshift'' (EP), and the unreleased full-length albums ''Blueshift'' (which was completed but never released by

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) and ''Possibilities'' (an album of remixes and demos). In April 2017, Crooker teamed with Micah Knapp and Avielle Heath to create a 360 Virtual Reality music video for a single off of "Arcadian".

Video game development

Crooker was also a project director at video game developer Harmonix and was the project lead on ''Phase'', '' Rock Band 2'', ''

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'', and ''

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'' for Kinect/Xbox360. The music of Symbion Project and Freezepop has been featured in the Harmonix

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games ''FreQuency'', ''Amplitude'', the '' Karaoke Revolution'' series, '' Guitar Hero'', ''

Guitar Hero 2 ''Guitar Hero II'' is a music rhythm video game developed by Harmonix and published by RedOctane for the PlayStation 2 and Activision for the Xbox 360. It is the second main installment in the ''Guitar Hero'' series and is the sequel to 2005's ...

'', ''

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'', ''

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''; the InCog-developed ''Downhill Domination''; and one of the North American '' Dance Dance Revolution'' games developed by

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, which publishes '' Karaoke Revolution''. He and

Eric Brosius Eric Brosius is a musician and video game developer, and a former employee of Looking Glass Studios. He is a former member of the band Tribe and is married to Terri Brosius. He is currently a member of the bands Eddie Japan and Dark Wheels. Bro ...

took home the 2006

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for Best Audio for their work on '' Guitar Hero''.

References

External links

Symbion Project Official Website

Facebook

Twitter

Soundcloud

Bandcamp (CD Store)

Official website of Freezepop

Nashville Review interview with Kasson Crooker
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