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Always Very Soft (2007)
for percussion trio. |
9:00
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…and bells remembered… (2005)
for bowed crotales, orchestra bells, chimes, vibraphone and bowed vibraphone. |
10:30
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Commissioned by the University of Wisconsin –
River Falls |
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The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies (2002)
for solo percussion and processed sounds.
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65:00
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Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, WNYC and the Subtropics Festival.
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"All noise contains pure tone. And the complex sonorities of percussion instruments conceal choirs of inner voices. In The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies my search is to find and reveal those voices."
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-- John Luther Adams
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"...a massive new canvas... a 69-minute, eight-movement series of sonic environments..."
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-- Richard S. Ginell, Los Angeles Times
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Audio Excerpts
roar - 1.8 Mb
shimmer - 1.3 Mb
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Qilyaun
(1998)
for four bass drums or bass drum with digital delay.
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15:00
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Audio Excerpt
Excerpt 1 - 1.4 Mb
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Sauyatugvik: The Time of
Drumming (1996)
version for 2 Pianos, Timpani and 4 Percussion.
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11:00
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"...a vivid personal vision... an evocation
of Eskimo drumming and dancing that verges on the
ecstatic..."
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-- Peter G. Davis, New York
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Audio Excerpts
Excerpt 1 - .8 Mb
Excerpt 2 - 1.2 Mb
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Three Drum Quartets from Earth and the
Great Weather (1993)
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28:00
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"...muscular and sophisticated pieces...
based on Inuit dance music... charged with the
explosive power of Japanese Taiko drumming..."
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-- The Wire
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Audio Excerpt
Drums of Winter - 534 kb
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Score Sample
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Green Corn Dance (1974)
for percussion ensemble (six players).
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7:30
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