#percussion quartet

[tgreiving]

Danny Elfman: First he conquered Hollywood, now he’s crashing the classical concert hall

Danny Elfman is best known for composing TV and film music for the likes of "Dumbo, " "The Grinch" and "The Simpsons." But with a new album of piano music and a violin concerto, he's setting his sights in yet another world that's skeptical he belongs.

[percussivethoughts]

Atomic Atomic

Andrew Rindfleisch

Heartland Marimba Festival Academy - July 10, 2017

[coreyhubbardmusic-blog]

Weekly Percussion Spotlight: #5 (May 6, 2017)

Ritual Music - David Skidmore

Performed by: Third Coast Percussion

This is a piece I played with my close friends on our most recent percussion concert. Composed by David Skidmore, Ritual Music is a percussion quartet consisting of a marimba player and three percussionists. The pitch material of the piece consists only of A. C#, D#, and G, leading towards the ritualistic feel of the piece. The dramatics of the piece are amplified with a wide range of dynamics and sudden increases in volume. Ritual Music requires all four players to be very comfortable with their tambourine skills, as demonstrated around the 3:50 mark. The piece ends with a unison pattern in both the tambourine and drum parts, crescendoing into a groovy - but sudden - ending, as if the ritual were suddenly fulfilled.

[thatdrumandpercussionblog]

@sopercussion performs Cage's Third Construction

[soundconvincer]

"...in other news" is a piece for a percussion quartet and electronics, dedicated to all known and unknown children that have suffered abuse. The electronic part is based on a poem by author Rebecca Burns. Performed by University of Buffalo percussion ensemble. Live recording, may 3rd, 2014

[dustedmagazine]

Listed: Sō Percussion

Much of Sō Percussion’s repertoire comes from some of the greatest contemporary composers, luminous names like Steve Reich, Steve Mackey, Paul Lansky and Martin Bresnick. (Its performances of Reich’s Drumming are exquisite.) But the quartet, handily the most outstanding percussion quartet operating today, just as easily steps outside the contemporary classical realm; it’s opened for The National, and it’s collaborated with experimental electronic musicians Matmos and Dan Deacon, jazz-funk trio Medeski Martin & Wood, and a host of drummers ranging from Wilco’s Glenn Kotche to Bobby Previte. Its most recent collaboration, with Man Forever’s John Colpitts, yielded Ryonen, an intensely cerebral and wildly ecstatic drumming suite that Dusted’s Jennifer Kelly called “a revelation.” (Read the whole Kelly’s review of Ryonen here.) Group members Jason Treuting and Josh Quillen share some seminal influences after the jump.

1. Steve Reich, Early Works: Hard to not choose Music for 18 Musicians or Drumming, but the first time I heard these earliest works was seminal. They are stark, strong statements from which so much music developed.

2. Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel, 1965: Again, really hard not to choose Bitches Brew or Live Evil or… but when this box set was released in the ’90s, I learned so much about what live music was about. It transcends the standards they are playing and is just about the way this quintet communicates.

3. Keith Jarrett, Changeless: His solo piano concerts definitely changed my life, and I still listen to The Köln Concert too much. But this album, one of the few with his trio when they aren’t playing standards, seethes along in an incredibly satisfying way. Jack DeJohnette!

4. Radiohead, King of Limbs: Hard not to choose Kid A, and maybe I should have. I don’t think I understood King of Limbs until I saw Live from the Basement. The drum layers are hard to understand but super satisfying and “Give Up the Ghost” is amazing!

5. The Beatles, Revolver: We got asked to cover “For No One” at a show at Northwestern University, and I discovered/re-discovered that one. So great. It’s the album I go to now.

6. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot: Once I hear the first tune and the weird world it creates, I can’t turn this one off. Glenn Kotche!

7. The Books, Lost and Safe: I wish I made that first track. It is amazing! The sampling is fresh, the programming is refreshing and the three-against-four rhythmic ideas made me love that feel again.

8. Me’shell Ndegeocello, Peace Beyond Passion: This was when I discovered Gene Lake.

9. Bill Frisell, This Land: This is when I discovered Joey Baron.

10. Bang on a Can, Industry: I remember the first time I heard the title track, Michael Gordon’s “Industry,” and discovered that music like this was being made. The accompanying tracks are killin’, too. Steve Schick!

Josh Quillen In no particular order:



1. Laurie Anderson, Big Science
 2. Aretha Franklin, Amazing Grace
 3. Paul Motian Trio, I Have the Room Above Her
 4. The Books, Lost and Safe
 5. Boris Berman, Cage: Music for Prepared Piano 6. Keith Jarrett, The Köln Concert  7. Various Artists, Smithsonian Folkways: Calypso Awakening from the Emory Cook Collection 8. Miles Davis, In a Silent Way
 9. Randy Newman, The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol 1 10. Various Artists, Dark Was the Night: A Red Hot Compilation

Want to hear selections from the albums and artists — well, everyone except The Beatles — from the above lists? Check out this playlist below. As usual, we fudged a little — but hey, there’s a Me’Shell Ndegecello song with Jack DeJohnette on there!

[jamiedrake]

A video of "Malandragem", a Mark Duggan composition that he arranged for himself and TorQ for our "Notes from Brazil" concert.  Featuring (from left to right) Mark on marimba, Dan on xylophone and drums, Jamie on vibes and drums, Adam on marimba and glock, and Rich on percussion.

[djsparr]

...from yesterday's rehearsal of my new piece for percussion quartet...

Tuesday November, 20 2012 at the Singleton Center for the Performing Arts - Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall at Virginia Commonwealth University. 

more details: http://www.pubinfo.vcu.edu/calendar/detailEvent.asp?ID=54580