percussion forest

'percussion-forest’ is a slow evolving dialogue between computerized percussion mallets playing acoustic instruments and 24 loudspeakers. The sounds from the speakers are all based on percussive sources and change their qualities, while the sounds from the acoustic instruments remain stable.
Without mallet changes and little variation in dynamics the ‘performed’ musical lines turn into a machine-like world, while the electronic sounds borrow shapes of human performance.
This work can be presented as a concert performance, as well as a public sound installation, where the audience moves through the space.

 

8-minute ‘trailer-montage’ of the work

 

full recording