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Flowerpot Music No. 1
Elliot Cole
for two players, 8 flowerpots

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Flowerpot Music No. 1 is a duo for two percussionists and 8 flowerpots. It is ‘pitch-agnostic’ - you design your own collection of pitches with any pots you can find.

Indigo Bunting
Brad Balliett
for bassoon and piano

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“Lancaster, Massachusetts, June, 7:50 AM: surrounded on both sides by low-rise seasonal forest, a long and naked stretch of scrubby grasslands is bisected by dusty walking path. Miniature mesas dot the horizon. It’s getting very bright, and in the hazy air hang songs of Indigo Buntings, Prairie Warblers, Field Sparrows, Grasshopper Sparrows, and Towhees. And by the road — a House Wren, inflamed, bursting with love or anger.”

Postludes
Elliot Cole

for bowed vibraphone / four players

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Postludes is a book of eight pieces for a familiar instrument played in a new way. Four players, with eight double-bass bows, play interlocking lines on a single vibraphone. The interplay of bows and hands tapping, muting and touching harmonics, weaves an intimate and intricate counterpoint that is as beautiful to watch as it is to hear: fragile, tender and haunting.

Capillary Waves
Quinn Collins
for percussion quartet
two vibranophones
two marimbas (4.3)

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In this gorgeous new work by Quinn Collins, patterns overlap and evolve. Eerie auras glow and pulsate from the beating resonance. And at its center -- a maelstrom around which everything spins.

Vicious Children
Wally Gunn
for percussion quartet whispering, shouting and singing (singing optional) – 4 snares, 4 almglocken (low F E D C), 4 floor or low toms tuned to D minor.

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The schoolyard and the playground can be places of savagery, where each child must nervously navigate the shifting alliances, the ruthless and cruel scheming, and sometimes the unjustified violence of their fellows. It’s not clear whether these behaviours are learned from grown-ups, or whether they are innate. In any case, they are ubiquitous, and no child escapes them. Vicious Children recalls this struggle with a musical and theatrical narrative of brittle stick clicks and driving drumming, dreamscapes of meditative bells, and grim, sinister nursery rhymes whispered, sung and shouted. The piece was composed for Mobius Percussion. — WG

Bloom Suite
Elliot Cole
for solo guitar

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Other versions available:

solo marimba
trio: add cello and clarinet
full orchestra: 222, 4321, timp, 3 perc, harp

Bloom Suite for Marimba
Elliot Cole
solo marimba

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Other versions available:

solo guitar
trio: add cello and clarinet
full orchestra: 222, 4321, timp, 3 perc, harp

Bloom Trio
Elliot Cole
for guitar (or marbima), cello, and clarinet

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Facets
Elliot Cole
for solo piano

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Facets is a quilt of interlocking patterns that pivot and fold, a hall of mirrors from which songs and illusions of songs emerge from an algorithmic unconscious.

Facets (Percussion Quartet)

Elliot Cole
percussion quartet: 2 vibes, 2 marimbas (5), crotales, glockenspiel, bass drum

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This version of Facets was arranged for percussion quartet for Blow Up Percussion.

Vita brevis, ars longa.