Composer Donovan Tousignant interview by Jill Renae Hicks

Drawing from multiple genres, the University of Missouri student crafts pieces full of surprising interludes and experimental concoctions. "Sleeper: Dreamer Part II," his recent work performed at the summer's Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, was a 12-tone dissonant composition with a drum beat inspired by a riff from the electronic music outfit Aphex Twin.

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