Julien Monette (b. 2001) is a composer and performer of new music based in Newport News, Virginia. He is pursuing a BM in Music Composition and Piano Performance at Christopher Newport University. He writes music for concerts, the stage, films, games, audiobooks, and installations in a tasteful blend of acoustic and electronic idioms. Julien's music explores natural and unnatural sonic environments using a variety of compositional styles and processes, and often uses programmatic or interdisciplinary inspirations such as paintings, poetry, philosophy, sculpture, physics, and psychology. Julien views music to be a language with a discernable syntax, in which choices of time and sound are analogous to words, sentences, or paragraphs. He uses this philosophy first and foremost to encourage listeners to engage and reflect on environments, lives, relationships, and purposes in real or imagined worlds. Go to https://linktr.ee/J8054 to learn more.