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█ There was a line, and So Percussion crossed it. █
█ They'd never been just another modern performance █
█ ensemble anyway. Following two acclaimed albums of █
█ rigorous music by modern master Steve Reich and even █
█ -more-modern masters David Lang and Evan Ziporyn, as █
█ well as ongoing collaborations with hepcat Bj÷rk █
█ producers Matmos, the 20-something quartet has █
█ discovered a bold new voice: their own. █
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█ Called "astonishing and entrancing" by Billboard, █
█ "brilliant" by the New York Times, the discovery is █
█ perfectly appropriate. Coming together in the green █
█ pastures of New Haven, at Yale's graduate program, So █
█ Percussion was created to give fresh voice to what █
█ co-founder Jason Treuting calls "funky contemporary █
█ music." Devoted to the conceptual dreamscapes of █
█ Reich, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, and others, So █
█ established a disciplined work ethic, learning pieces █
█ whole -- memorized and absorbed -- instead of merely █
█ read. In performance, music stands were jettisoned █
█ for a stunning live dynamic. A blind call to Bang on █
█ a Can founder David Lang yielded a commission. Called █
█ "a must-hear" by Billboard, their self-titled debut █
█ featured Lang's "the so-called laws of nature." █
█ █
█ In 2004, realizing Steve Reich's nine-part "Drumming" █
█ as a quartet, they made one small step for music, one █
█ radical step for a percussion group: they overdubbed █
█ -- and to great success. Having explored the past, in █
█ the form of Reich's classics, and the present, in the █
█ form of Lang and Ziporyn's freshest, it was time for █
█ S? to start exploring the future. █
█ █
█ In that vein, their newest CD/DVD Amid the Noise █
█ began as an after-hours project. Eager to expand █
█ their palette, So members Treuting, Adam Sliwinski, █
█ and Lawson White experimented with glockenspiel, toy █
█ piano, vibraphones, bowed marimba, melodica, tuned █
█ and prepared pipes, metals, a wayward ethernet port, █
█ and all kinds of sound programming. The resulting █
█ idiosyncratic tone explorations were synchronized to █
█ Jenise TreutingÆs haunting films of street scenes in █
█ Manhattan and Tokyo. In 2006-2007, So is performing █
█ amid the noise across the country with electronic █
█ gurus Matmos. █
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█ "If you're sick of the sounds you've got, you go and █
█ find more," declares Sliwinski of the group's sonic █
█ philosophy. "There's always something to hit or rub █
█ or whatever." It is a philosophy they have taken with █
█ them to countless educational programs, which have █
█ ranged from teaching adolescents to masterclasses █
█ with student percussionists and composers at Harvard, █
█ Duke, Princeton, the University of Texas, the █
█ University of Oklahoma, and many other schools. It █
█ also has inspired them to commission dozens of █
█ composers to write for this most eclectic of █
█ instrumental groups. With the list spanning from such █
█ notables as David Lang and Paul Lansky to emerging █
█ talents Dennis DeSantis and Suzanne Farrin, this █
█ unique repertoire has been heard at the Miller █
█ Theatre and Carnegie Hall in New York, the Cleveland █
█ Museum of Art, and the Walker Center in Minneapolis, █
█ to name a few. In fact, So is one of the only █
█ outfits that can play at a major concert hall and █
█ with indie's hippest producers within 24 hours. █
█ █
█ With an audience comprised of "both kinds of blue █
█ hair... elderly matron here, arty punk there" (as the █
█ Boston Globe described it), So Percussion makes a █
█ rare and wonderful breed of music that both compels █
█ instantly and offers vast rewards for engaged █
█ listening. Edgy (at least in the sense that little █
█ other music sounds like this) and ancient (in that █
█ people have been hitting objects with sticks for many █
█ eons), the members of So Percussion are nothing if █
█ not themselves, imaginary lines or not. █
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█ 01 03:46 June █
█ 02 03:57 White █
█ 03 03:36 Work Slow Life █
█ 04 03:45 May █
█ 05 04:12 September █
█ 06 06:55 Go █
█ 07 04:44 What the Hell █
█ 08 02:29 Old █
█ 09 03:48 Fire Escapes █
█ 10 03:52 July █
█ 11 06:31 March █
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█ Total size : 95,3 MB Total Time : 52:15 min █
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