So Percussion performs selections from Strange and Sacred Noise by John Luther Adams at the 11th Other Minds Music Festival at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005.

So Percussion
Douglas Perkins, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, Lawson White

This performance was funded in part by a gift from Liz and Greg Lutz.

Composer John Luther Adams presents the West Coast premiere of five movements from Strange and Sacred Noise, an evening-length suite for percussion quartet in which Adams devotes each movement to various combinations of like instruments: "...dust unto dust..." is for snare drums; "clusters on a quadrilateral grid" invites the players to strike hair-raising simultaneous chords on multiple vibraphones; and "solitary and time-breaking waves" is scored for a battery of tom-toms. Living in the boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, Adams has created a unique musical world grounded in the elemental landscapes and indigenous cultures of the North, exploring natural phenomena from the songs of birds to the complex nature of chaos, fractal geometry, and elemental noise. His book Winter Music: Composing the North was released by Wesleyan University Press in 2004.

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