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(background) Although my involvement with percussion ensemble
goes all the way back to high school, i've always been amazed how very
few pieces made any impression on me. There are, of course, notable
exceptions - Edgar Varese's Ionization, John Cage's Constructions,
Roscoe Mitchell's The Maze, etc. Those pieces, along with ensembles
like the Lovens/Lytton duo, EasSide Percussion, Brad Dutz's Obliteration
Quartet and Stomu Yama'shta's solo recordings got me excited about writing
and performing percussion ensemble music. My main outlet in the last
few years for percussion music has been the two very different trios,
NOD
and Wormhole.
So the SKO percussion ensemble is a chance to bridge these different
ways of working, while at the same time strengthening the music that
I've been creating in duo collaborations with Curtis Glatter (the Glatter/Hubbard
Duo), Marcos Fernandes and James Burton.
In the early stages of this group, we performed numerous
gigs with different lineups. Most of these gigs were completely improvised
with occasional performances with notation. In the past few years, we have performed at the Percussive Arts Society San Diego Day Of Percussion (premiering three new pieces by Hubbard), premiered new music for Louis Hocks cinemural Southern California, collaborated with dancer Rebecca Bryant at Spring Reverb 2005 and recorded Hubbards large scale work for the ghosts/while we sleep. More recently we have performed on the Spring Reverb Festival, presenting two sets, one all electronic, the second an acoustic collaboration with dancers based around the Neto pieces at MCA SD. - NMH |
