Desert Hail for percussion quartet, seasonal notation, and electronics (2014) - 11'

Desert Hail for percussion quartet, seasonal notation, and electronics (2014) - 11'Written for and read at the 2014 So Percussion Summer Institute at Princeton University, by Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting of So Percussion. Click to Download Score Sample PDF PROGRAM NOTE: While on an extended bicycle trip through west Texas, I was caught in a sudden summer thunderstorm. In these storms, the temperature drops from 95 to 35 in a matter of minutes, the sky opens up, and hailstones descend from the sky onto

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piercing screeches

get a visceral collection of guttural and grating vocalizations from the volcanic rocks of the Davis Mountains

Aaron Levy

This piece grew from that vividly imagined picture of brass playing at the tops of their lungs from the cliff tops of the Yosemite Valley and hearing their sound reverberating endlessly throughout the valley

Locations: Davis Mountains

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Reading: Trinity University Wind Ensemble

Commissioned by a Consortium of 28 Percussionists

I completed a bike trip from San Diego

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