Percussion is different from other instruments. Percussionists learn to play not one instrument, but dozens, each with its own techniques. The sound quality of some percussion instruments, such as a ...

The percussionist, whose Metal Wood Skin festival continues in London, explains how music became a lifelong inspiration Metal Wood Skin, my percussion festival at London’s Southbank Centre, is a ...

Press material for Third Coast Percussion’s Vancouver debut indicates that its performance of Augusta Read Thomas’s Resounding Earth will involve the use of 125 bells from around the globe, but that’s ...

Recipients of the 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant Award, Sandbox Percussion has sought to expand the breadth of percussion as an art form. One of their favorite things to do is to work with modern ...

A 2004 inductee into the Modern Drummer magazine's Hall of Fame with a 12-year run as the best progressive rock drummer in the magazine's reader's poll, as well as various live and clinic awards, ...

“The spirit of percussion opens everything,” musician John Cage once declared. He had in mind the way percussion music can open the door to unaccustomed ways of listening — and even of perceiving the ...

Sinori is a brand new instrument for percussionists made from a sheet of stainless steel. You can flex it, wobble it, or bash it with brushes, mallets or your hands, with - if played correctly as the ...