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Check out our new SOUNDS to the right and our VIDEOS below! More Video, Audio and Info at http://www.youtube.com/user/GentlyUsedMusic The Man Who/The Woman Who Excerpt from the piece for dance and percussion by PMPD. Performed at Missouri State University's Coger Theater in 2008. The ad-hoc drum set (including a table of cans, gongs, a license plate and other metal instruments) gets moved around the perimeter of the stage, causing the performers to change the "front" of the stage and offering the audience different vantage points. North Star Boogaloo Excerpts from North Star Boogaloo Percussion solo by George Lewis. Set to text created and read by Quincy Troupe. Performed live by Don Nichols. Content With Content Solo Dance by Rebecca Bryant. Concept and Soundscore by Andrew Wass. Recorded live in 2007. Another Border Crossing Another Border Crossing combines traditional Persian Radif with Iranian Newscaster Speech. The percussionist, Don Nichols, plays the rhythms of the newscaster on the tombak--a Persian drum. The rhythms, idiosyncrasies, pacing and inflections of the Iranian newscaster must be intricately translated onto the drum. As a result, the drum both 'speaks' the news and juxtaposes itself into a traditional musical setting. This was a part of his Breaking News program that combines percussion and television news. Recorded live in 2008. News Between Copies, Pt. 1 Don Nichols Performing the percussion solo live. A metal plate sculpture serves as both video screen and instrument. Audio from a single news broadcast is manipulated and combined with live percussion to comment on the ideas of originality, news and repeatability. Images of newscaster faces are superimposed on each other while their words are stretched to create the accompanying soundscore. Cloudy But Sunny 9 min highlights from a trio in which each percussionist follows, in real time, a local half-hour newscast that aired at the same time and in the same city. The newscast is broken up in segments, each one receiving its own treatment by live performer, video and recorded audio. For example, the male newscaster's speech is played precisely by the percussionists on a chosen instrument whenever he speaks. What we hear are the words 'spoken' through the instruments. Performing are Greg Stuart, Don Nichols and Ross Karre. | SOUND SAMPLES
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Track Descriptions 1. Minow Swimming Upstream by Don Nichols -- in 1961 FCC Chairman Newton Minow addressed TV producers and other network excecutives with his famous "vast wasteland" speech. This is an audio collage that adds a contemporary commentary on his persistently relevant ideas 2. Debate 08 by Don Nichols -- an audio collage, comprised of radio news reports in 10 different languages, creates the rhythmic material for various collections of percussion instruments. The collage plays once in its entirety while the percussion ocassionally shadows the voices. Then the collage repeats, but this time all the voices are replaced by the percussion sounds. 3. Near, Far, Close -- an original percussion solo multi-tracked in three parts. 4. Rebonds b excerpt - Iannis Xenakis. Percussion solo 5. Rebonds a excerpt - Iannis Xenakis. Percussion solo 6. ascention 3 (right place) by Don Nichols -- a real-time radio improvisation 7. yet untitled by Don Nichols -- played on prepared snare drum, bass drum and hi hat 8. Rogosanti excerpt - James Wood. Percussion solo 9. Thirteen Drums excerpt - Maki Ishii. Percussion solo |
