Geoffrey Crowe (b. 1975) is an art director, visual artist, and drone musician based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Crowe’s multidisciplinary practice spans minimal music, sound art, visual art and graphic design. His interests lie in longform composition, mathematical logic, Buddhist Dharma, psychoacoustic phenomena, Nāda yoga, and Japanese aesthetics.

He began design work in the mid-90s creating graphics and capturing photography for skateboard companies. He went on to work in advertising for over a decade, collaborating with a diverse portfolio of consumer goods brands. He has worked as an in-house designer for Element Skateboards, Smartwool apparel, and EarthQuaker Devices. He has also provided art direction and archival restoration for countless record releases.

In parallel to his visual output, Crowe has embarked on a formal study of Hindustani classical music. His teachers include composers Terry Riley and Michael Harrison, disciples of Pandit Pran Nath in the lineage of the Kirana Gharana. The pursuit of tuning accuracy and perfection of pitch have had a profound influence on his compositional, artistic, and commercial work.

Crowe was born in Akron, Ohio and is a member of Alderville First Nation. He was exposed to the teachings of Carl Sagan at an early age which sparked a lifelong study of cosmology, mathematics, and the natural world.

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