Percussion Music

My percussion music comes from many sources: my many years as an indie/punk drummer, my passion for non-western drum-based music, my fascination with timbre and the possibilities of melodic non-pitch, and my interest in the conjunction of human movement and percussion. All of these elements find their way into my percussion music, creating a sound that is concerned with the contradictory and complimentary possibilities of the seemingly-endless world of percussion.

Four Snares – (snare drum quartet)
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Liebeschlag – (solo bass drum)
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Alchemy – (two percussionists)
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    Couch Surfers!

    Ongoing – I am writing music for a very different kind of project: the webseries Couch Surfers! Kind of a little bit of everything (even a Wagnerian forest moment in one episode) but mostly a lot of punk rock surf with guitar help from my friend Carleton Ingram. www.couchsurferstv.com

    May 20-21, 2011

    Taffety Punk Theatre Company presented a new collaboration between myself and choreographer Micheline Heal featuring music for piano, cello, and live computer-generated sound. The new piece, Garden for Wayward Girls was on the finale concert for the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s three-week long modern dance event, “Dance Craze”.

    April 28, 2011

    Thursday, April 28, 7:30 PM at Oakdale Emory Church in Olney, MD: the very talented singers performed the new commission A Song for Peace as the first piece on their spring concert.