Collaboration

Fostering commissions and world premieres through all phases of their creation In our New Work Development Program, we draw from our years of experience as percussionists and composers, experimenting alongside composers and other artists to imagine percussion from the ground up.

Beginning with the 2019-2020 season, Sō Percussion is inaugurating a new International Residency program with a trip to Trinidad and Tobago. We travel to countries with rich percussion traditions in order to learn more about their work, participate in music-making, and expand global awareness of the accomplishments and unique cultural contributions of those artists. We also conduct educational programs about our own work, culminating in side-by-side collaborative performances. In some cases, our residency will produce newly commissioned work for Sō from one of the artists.

Since 2006, the members of Sō Percussion have been writing music for the ensemble. Using our studio in Brooklyn as a laboratory, we often create music that is about “place:” a city, our immediate sonic environment, even how the past resonates where we are today.

We have been inspired by many wonderful collaborators. Their contributions help us create unique music that neither of us would have come up with on our own.