Bloom
Bloom
Year: 2024
Heading: for percussion quartet
Record Release: August 30, 2024 click for details
Movements:
Bloom 1, morning
Bloom 1, noon
Bloom 1, night
Stem 1 click to watch video
Bloom 2, morning click to watch video
Bloom 2, noon
Bloom 2, night
Stem 2
Bloom 3, morning
Bloom 3, noon
Bloom 3, night
Instrumentation:
player 1: vibraphone, 2 bongos
player 2: vibraphone, 2 congas
player 3: marimba, 5 wooden slats
player 4: marimba, 4 tom-toms
Duration: 54”
Press:
With an exuberant, infectious rhythmic groove, it rides the visceral pulse of the contemporary dance floor. —The Listener’s Club
Program Note: BLOOM was written for and recorded by Sandbox Percussion.
BLOOM uses interlocking rhythms which, when played together, create a groove expressed through each player’s pitched and non-pitched instruments. Just as shoots push through dirt erupting in blooms, so too do the vibes and marimbas burst forth from the drums. In other words, this music has an organic profile, unlike other recent pieces of mine.
—Michael Torke