Percussion
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Ilimaq (2012)
for solo percussionist and electronic sounds
45:00
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Commissioned by University of Texas, Stanford University, the Walker Art Center, and Duke University
Inuksuit (2009)
for nine to ninety-nine percussion
75:00 – 90:00
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Always Very Soft (2007)
for percussion trio
9:00
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…and bells remembered…(2005)
for bowed crotales, orchestra bells, chimes, vibraphone and bowed vibraphone
10:30
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Commissioned by the University of Wisconsin–River Falls
The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies (2002)
for solo percussion and processed sounds
65:00
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Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, WNYC and the Subtropics Festival.
“All noise contains pure tone. And the complex sonorities of percussion instruments conceal choirs of inner voices. In The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies my search is to find and reveal those voices.” – John Luther Adams
“…a massive new canvas… a 69-minute, eight-movement series of sonic environments…”– Richard S. Ginell, Los Angeles Times
Qilyaun (1998)
for four bass drums or bass drum with digital delay
15:00
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Strange and Sacred Noise (1991-97)
six pieces for percussion quartet
75:00
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“Percussion here portrays the ‘terrifying event’…”– Steven Schick
“Strange and Sacred Noise is a masterpiece, not just for percussion music, but for contemporary classical / experimental / avant-garde / whatever-you-want-to-call-it music.”– Christian Hertzog Sequenza 21
Sauyatugvik: The Time of Drumming (1996) version for 2 Pianos, Timpani and 4 Percussion
11:00
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“…a vivid personal vision… an evocation of Eskimo drumming and dancing that verges on the ecstatic…”– Peter G. Davis, New York
Three Drum Quartets from Earth and the Great Weather (1993)
28:00
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“…muscular and sophisticated pieces… based on Inuit dance music… charged with the explosive power of Japanese Taiko drumming…”–The Wire
Five Percussion Quartets from Coyote Builds North America (1990)
18:00
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Green Corn Dance (1974)
for percussion ensemble (six players)
7:30
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