Brooklyn Bound - So Percussion

The loft scene is alive!

Now in its seventh year, Brooklyn Bound is a popular series of concerts at Sō’s working studio in the Navy Yard section of Brooklyn. When social distance became a necessity, we decided to create a new version and transition to a fully virtual one. Casual and intimate, the concerts feature us and emerging ensembles from our local scene.

New in 2019, the Brooklyn Bound Podcast! Check it out below on this page. Each batch of new episodes appears in the youtube playlist, which you can search on the upper right hand corner of the embedded video.

Brooklyn Bound is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Interested in performing on Brooklyn Bound? Apply Here

The Brooklyn Bound Podcast

with Jason Treuting

navigate the playlist by clicking in the upper right hand corner of the video

2020-2021 Artists

Bora Yoon (and friends)
Aizuri Quartet
Bergamot Quartet
Sō Percussion

Troika Percussion Trio
Sam Amidon
Alex Sopp
NYU Steel with Sō Percussion

Matchstick Percussion
Francesca McNeeley
Kendall Williams
Sō Percussion

Raquel Acevedo Klein
Pathos Trio
Sō Percussion

Bergamot Quartet
Kendall Williams
Sō Percussion

Arone Dyer
Adam Tendler
Sō Percussion

Shodekeh
Soo Yeon Lyuh
Sō Percussion

Stephanie Lamprea
Elijah Daniel Smith
Nina Dante
Sō Percussion

HPRIZM aka HIGH PRIEST
Beth Meyers
Iarla Ó Lionáird
Sō Percussion

JaW Percussion
MEDIAQUEER
Secret Drum Band

Upcoming Shows

Thursday, June 17, 2021
All performances will be live-streamed on the Sō Percussion Facebook page, and on the Sō YouTube channel at 7:00pm (ET).

Bora Yoon (and friends)

Korean-American composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Bora Yoon is an interdisciplinary artist who conjures electroacoustic soundscapes using digital devices, voice, and found objects and instruments from a variety of cultures and historical centuries, formulating a kind of sensory storytelling through sound. Yoon composed the score for Haruki Murakami’s Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Edinburgh International Festival, Singapore Arts Festival) and has had her work presented at Lincoln Center, the Nam Jun Paik Art Center (South Korea), Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Carnegie Hall, Festival of World Cultures (Poland), and Visiones Sonoras (Mexico). Yoon has composed works for Sympho, Metropolis Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Sō Percussion, the NJ Symphony Orchestra, Musica Viva, Voices of Ascension, and Young People’s Chorus of New York City — and is very excited to explore and present this new sonic collaboration with Detroit music mavericks, Maritza Gabay and Austin Ritchey.

Read more about Bora!

Maritza Austin + Austin Richey

Maritza Garibay is an interdisciplinary artist, music educator, instrument maker, and violinist from Detroit, Michigan. She creates soundscapes with handmade instruments, found sounds, solar powered synthesizers, and a variety of noise makers and electronics. Garibay studied orchestral conducting with Kenneth Kiesler and Jeffrey Schindler and has participated in workshops with Marin Alsop and Kypros Markou. Maritza Garibay led Detroit new music ensemble, Interrobang, performing original scores to silent films at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Cube and served as the assistant conductor of the Detroit Community Orchestra. Garibay is the Director of Orchestras at Detroit School of Arts where she has facilitated orchestral workshops with Detroit jazz legends Regina Carter, Wendell Harrison, and Mike Monford. Garibay’s students work in collaboration with Detroit cultural arts organizations like the Detroit Chamber Music Society, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 826 Michigan, Third Man Records, and the National Arab Orchestra. Garibay is the co-founder of virtual masterclass series, Detroit Grooves, which focuses on bringing Black and diasporic African arts into the classroom. This year Garibay has premiered original work under the guidance of Bora Yoon and is looking forward to collaborating with the incredible artists at SōSI 2021.

Learn more about Maritza!

Austin T. Richey is a performer and music educator based in Detroit, MI. His work as a percussionist and sound synthesist is steeped in a blend of diasporic African musics, free improvisation, and esoteric electronic circuitry, including performances with his handmade free jazz drum machines, noise boxes, and solar synthesizers. Richey has performed with Mounafanyi Drum and Dance, Gamelan Lila Muni, Ossia New Music, Mbira dzeMugomo Guru, and has collaborated with an array of artists including Pascal Le Boeuf, Masimba Hwati, Efterklang, Musekiwa Chingodza, Efe Bes, The Books, and Tendai Maraire. Richey is a current Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at Eastman School of Music; his scholarship has appeared in African Music, Sounding Out!, and he has contributed original research and writing for the award-winning PBS Digital production Sound Field. Recently, Richey co-founded Detroit Grooves, a virtual masterclass series that connects young artists with renowned Detroit-based musicians, poets, and dancers to highlight the continuing cultural legacies of the African diaspora and the influential impact of original Detroit performance genres.

Learn more about Austin!

Aizuri Quartet

Praised by The Washington Post for “captivating” performances that draw from its notable “meld of intellect, technique and emotions,” the Aizuri Quartet was awarded the Grand Prize and the CAG Management Prize at the 2018 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition, along with top prizes at the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan, and the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in London. The Quartet’s debut album, Blueprinting, featuring new works written for the Aizuri Quartet by five American composers, was released by New Amsterdam Records and nominated for a 2019 GRAMMY Award.

Through its engaging and thought-provoking programs, branded by The New York Times as “genuinely exciting” and “imaginative,” the Quartet has garnered critical acclaim for bringing “a technical bravado and emotional power” to bold new commissions, and for its “flawless” (San Diego Union-Tribune) performances of the great masterpieces of the past. In the 2019-20 season the group will tour extensively across North America giving both debut appearances at Lincoln Center and at Carnegie Hall as part of CAG Winner’s Series.