Freshman competes to play at Snowglobe music festival - Daily Northwestern

Few people can say they performed on the same stage as Disclosure, Skrillex and Zedd. Medill freshman Justice Skolnikmay soon be one of them.

Skolnik is competing to win a spot at the Snowglobe Music Festival in South Lake Tahoe, California. As of Monday night, he is currently second in the chart rankings, which is based on online votes, and has a good chance of winning the competition, he said. The festival will take place Dec. 29 to 31.

'You get to meet all the big names,' Skolnik said 'There's a few thousand people who go to the festival, and they'll hear your music, possibly search you on Soundcloud. And that's how you get your name out there.'

Skolnik said he views the competition as a stepping stone to getting more gigs as he hopes to make music his profession.

'I know things take time,' he said. 'Possibly you might make a hit song and blow up, but that rarely happens. Hopefully by the time I graduate I can be out there playing festivals, making music, having a solid fan base.'

Skolnik's goal is to get booked at San Francisco music festival Outside Lands in two years.

'I want to reach that,' he said. 'Nothing really is going to hold me back.'

Skolnik currently has 18 tracks on his Soundcloud, including remixes of Rihanna's 'Stay'and Clean Bandit's 'Rather Be.'

'He has a unique ability to hear harmony unto everything,' Skolnik's friend Michael Weston said.'We'll just be walking around, humming a song, and he can just remix it with his mouth.'

Weston, a Weinberg freshman who has been helping Skolnik get votes for the competition, said Skolnik has a 'unique talent' because he is able to mix together material from two worlds of music.

Skolnik's roommate Bowen Gerouldhas also been reaching out to his friends on Facebook, asking them to vote for Skolnik.

'It's really cool to support someone you know on such a big stage,' said Gerould, a Weinberg freshman.

During the summer, Skolnik won another music competition by house producer 3LAU after he remixed one of 3LAU's songs. His prize was a Skype session with 3LAU and his manager and new DJ equipment.

'It was unreal,' Skolnik said. 'I never thought I would get to speak with anyone who was famous in the music industry ... He told me to keep up with it because he thought I had a lot of potential and thought that I could go somewhere with music.'

3LAU dropped out of Washington University in St. Louisas a sophomore, but Skolnik isn't looking to give up school for music. He asked 3LAU how to maintain a balance between the two.

'When I come back from class, I tend to just go straight to music versus homework,' Skolnik said. 'I try to spend two to three hours a day making music. It's hard to balance it because we have so much work here.'

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