Video Recording of Steve Reich’s DRUMMING with NEXUS, Sō Percussion, and Friends!

Nexus and Sō Percussion are so excited to join together to make a historical video recording of Steve Reich’s Drumming. It is such a rare opportunity to gather up two of the world’s best percussion groups to celebrate Drumming turning 50 years old. This fabulous team includes Nexus, Sō, Yumi Tamashiro, Daisy Press, Beth Meyers, and Alex Sopp. We are asking you to join us in this historical event by contributing what you can to make this project come to life! We need money to cover the cost of making the video recording (video, audio, and record label production).

As some of you might know, Russell Hartenberger and Bob Becker are both original members in Steve Reich and Musicians–a group which Reich himself performed in, premiered the majority of the Reich repertoire, and toured the world together for decades. Russell and Bob learned Drumming directly from Reich and for us who have heard them in concerts, we can attest to that fact that they have perfected the art of phasing! The earlier renditions of Drumming were mostly taught by rote; Russell and Bob were among the most important figures for establishing the piece as a part of the percussion repertoire and have carried the torch of imparting wisdom on this work in the past five decades.

Together, this world-class line up is going to make history and we invite you to be part of this history making project. Your donation is what makes this possible.

Adam Sliwinski has penned a comprehensive year-in-review for the season just ended. Check it out here! 

PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR FIFTH ANNUAL SŌ PERCUSSION BENEFIT

HONORING SARA COFFEY

6:30PM, THURSDAY, JUNE 7

$300 TICKET*

(LE) POISSON ROUGE
158 BLEEKER STREET
NEW YORK CITY

RSVP BY MAY 24 TO SO@SOPERCUSSION.COM

BUY TICKETS HERE!

*ADMISSION TO NIGHT OF AWESOMENESS INCLUDED

9PM, NIGHT OF AWESOMENESS FEATURES PERFORMANCES BY:
(Doors at 8:30PM, $20/ticket)

BALÚN
GREY MCMURRAY
DAMSEL
SANDBOX PERCUSSION
DITHER
BOBBY PREVITE
SHARA NOVA
& SŌ PERCUSSION

“From Out a Darker Sea” conveys our experience of a multi-visit residency in the industrial north of England. Former mining towns are searching for a new identity and a way forward in the globalized present, while never forgetting the past.

We are touring the show in sacred spaces around the UK during November and December. Other than London, all of the locations were chosen because of their connection to industry.

Adam wrote about our process in The Big Issue.

See below for further dates.

The Guardian wrote a lovely review:

“…a haunting and often deeply moving requiem for an industry and its people.”

“****”

The project is sponsored by Forma, with funding from many partners. Learn more on Forma’s website.

Dates

• 22 November 2017
  —
  Derby Cathedral, Derby
  Presented by QUAD
  Support from Unite the Union
• 24 and 25 November 2017
  —
  St Giles Cripplegate, London
  Presented by the Barbican Centre
• 27 November 2017
  —
  St John the Baptist Church, Newcastle
  Book Tickets
• 28 November 2017
  —
  In conversation with Amber Films
  The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Newcastle
  Book Tickets
• 30 November 2017
  —
  Holy Trinity Church, Blackburn
  Presented by the Bureau Centre for Arts and Mid Pennine Arts
  Book Tickets
• 2 December 2017
  —
  St George’s Church, Deal, Kent
  Presented by Deal Festival of Music & the Arts
  Book Tickets
• 5 December 2017
  —
  All Souls Church, Cheriton, Kent
  Presented by Strange Cargo
  Book Tickets

On Thursday, September 7th, we joined The National on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” to perform “Day I Die” from their new Album “Sleep Well Beast.” What a thrill to perform on national television at the Ed Sullivan Theater!

We contributed some typical Sō Percussion color to the new album, which has just been released September 8th.

Our summer institute (SoSI) approaches! Check out our SoSI page for more information.

If you can’t make it in person, most of these events will be live-streamed from Sō Percussion’s Facebook Page: facebook.com/sopercussion. 

Please Join us for our fourth annual benefit and online auction!

Thursday, June 8th – 7pm

Honoring Limor Tomer
LE POISSON ROUGE
158 BLEECKER STREET
NEW YORK CITY

Performances by Sō, Theo Bleckmann, and Wolfgang

After party at 10pm featuring Round Peg Square Hole

RSVP to so@sopercussion.com

Tickets to main benefit $300 each

Tickets to after party $25 each (already included for main benefit attendees)

Purchase below! (If ordering more than six tickets, fill in custom amount below and send us an email. Also, let us take you out to coffee sometime, because you are awesome!)

If you can’t make it, we’re also running an online auction leading up to the benefit!

TED Talk: Bryce Dessner, Music for Wood and Strings

Performance at the TED conference in Vancouver, BC, February 2016.

We were honored and delighted to present an excerpt from Bryce Dessner’s work for the audience at TED 2016. Keeping in line with the ethos of the TED organization and community, we brought this unique piece with its newly designed instruments to show some of what’s going on in contemporary music.

Performing in this amazing venue was exciting enough, but we were surprised to realize that some pretty heavy hitters were in the audience as well!