A Song For Friday: David Crowell

The composer's portrait album offers sonic sparkle and emotional complexity

Millennia of music making and we still don’t know precisely why certain chord progressions, notes, or melodies inspire happiness or sadness, let alone more complex feelings that blend a little of both. But on Point / Cloud, composer, saxophonist, guitarist, and producer David Crowell proves his expertise at creating nuanced landscapes of feeling using s…