These Violent Delights

  • percussion quartet

  • ~5’30”

 

These Violent Delights experiments with sections that start relatively simple and give just enough time to feel the groove before becoming increasingly complex and even devolving into chaos. Suddenly, everything stops and begins again.

Instrumentation

  • upright kick drum

  • concert bass drum

  • 2 marimbas (4.3 and 5 octave)

  • 4 toms

  • 4 tuned gongs (E2, F2, F#2, G2) (optional chimes)

  • desk bells (B, C, D, E, F, G, A) (optional glockenspiel)

  • log drums (4 pitches)

  • 5 wood planks

  • brake drum

  • cowbell

  • opera gong

  • ribbon crasher (or other junk metal)

  • suspended cymbal

  • sizzle cymbal

  • shaker

  • bow