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Sō Percussion is a Grammy winning American percussion quartet formed in 1999 and based in New York City. Composed of Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Eric Cha-Beach, the group is well known for recording and touring internationally and for their work with composers such as
Steve Reich Stephen Michael Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich descr ...
, David Lang,
Caroline Shaw Caroline Adelaide Shaw (born August 1, 1982) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer. She won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her a cappella piece '' Partita for 8 Voices''. Shaw received the 2022 G ...
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Bryce Dessner Bryce David Dessner (born April 23, 1976) is an American composer and guitarist based in Paris, and a member of the rock band the National. Dessner's twin brother, Aaron is also a member of the group. Together, they write the music in collabo ...
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Julia Wolfe Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer and professor of music at New York University. According to ''The Wall Street Journal'', Wolfe's music has "long inhabited a terrain of its own, a place where classical forms are rech ...
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Vijay Iyer Vijay Iyer (; born Vijay Raghunathan, October 26, 1971) is a composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, writer, and professor based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' has called him a "social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builde ...
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Fred Frith Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser. Probably best known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as a founding member of the English avant-rock group Henry ...
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Angélica Negrón Angélica Negrón (born 1981) is a Puerto-Rican composer and multi-instrumentalist recognized for composing music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys, and electronics, as well as for chamber ensembles, orchestras, choirs, and films. Negrón i ...
, Nathalie Joachim,
Dan Trueman Dan Trueman is a composer, fiddle player, improviser, new instrument creator and software designer. He plays the violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Trueman studied physics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, composition and theo ...
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Tristan Perich Tristan Perich (born 1982) is a contemporary composer and sound artist from New York City who focuses on electronic one-bit sound. Perich received his B.A. from Columbia University in 2004 and went on to earn a master's degree from New York Univer ...
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Paul Lansky Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York City) is an American composer. Biography Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Princeton University, studyi ...
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Claire Rousay Claire Rousay (styled as claire rousay) is a Canadian-American Experimental music, experimental musician and composer based in Los Angeles. Rousay, who is currently signed with Thrill Jockey, is known for using Field recording, field recordings t ...
, Shodekeh Talifero,
Leilehua Lanzilotti Leilehua Lanzilotti née Anne Victoria Leilehua Lanzilotti (born November 5, 1983), is a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, curator, and scholar of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Lanzilotti grew up in Honolulu, ...
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Steven Mackey Steven "Steve" Mackey (born February 14, 1956) is an American composer, guitarist, and music educator. Biography As a musician growing up listening to and performing vernacular American musics as well as classical music, Mackey's compositions a ...
, Kendall K. Williams,
Shara Nova Shara Nova (previously Worden) is the lead singer and songwriter for My Brightest Diamond. As a composer she is most recognized for her choral compositions and the baroque chamber opera "You Us We All". New music composers Sarah Kirkland Snider ...
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Martin Bresnick Martin Bresnick (born 1946) is a composer of contemporary classical music, film scores and experimental music. Education and early career Bresnick grew up in the Bronx, and is a graduate of New York City's specialized High School of Music and A ...
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Oscar Bettison Oscar Bettison (born 19 September 1975) is a British-American composer known for large-scale chamber and large ensemble works. He has been described as possessing "a unique voice". His work has been described as having "an unconventional lyrici ...
, Olivier Tarpaga,
Evan Ziporyn Evan Ziporyn (b. Chicago, Illinois, December 14, 1959) is an American composer of post-minimalist music with a cross-cultural orientation, drawing equally from classical music, avant-garde, various world music traditions, and jazz. Ziporyn h ...
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Arvo Pärt Arvo Pärt (; born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in p ...
. Originally formed when the members were students of
Robert van Sice Robert van Sice is an American marimba player. He currently teaches at the Yale School of Music and the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and the Curtis Institute of Music. Van Sice has his own line of marimba mallets by Vic Firth, and a line of sig ...
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Yale School of Music The Yale School of Music (often abbreviated to YSM) is one of the 12 professional schools at Yale University. It offers three graduate degrees: Master of Music (MM), Master of Musical Arts (MMA), and Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), as well as a joi ...
, the group also continues to play works from the standard repertoire of percussion ensemble music—including works by composers such as
John Cage John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was an American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and Extended technique, non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one ...
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Julius Eastman Julius Eastman (October 27, 1940 – May 28, 1990) was an American composer. He was among the first composers to combine the processes of some minimalist music with other methods of extending and modifying his music as in some experimental music. ...
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Pauline Oliveros Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...
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George Crumb George Henry Crumb Jr. (24 October 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an American composer of avant-garde contemporary classical music. Early in his life he rejected the widespread modernist usage of serialism, developing a highly personal musical ...
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Iannis Xenakis Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; , ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and enginee ...
. In addition to their work with composers, the members of Sō Percussion produce original music, including large scale evening-length works. The group is also known for their use of non-standard instruments and found sounds in performance and on recordings, such as scrap metal, rocks, flower pots, and an
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. Sō Percussion has released albums on
Cantaloupe Music Cantaloupe Music is a Brooklyn-based record label that produces and releases contemporary classical music and other forms of avant-garde music. The label was founded in 2001 by Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Kenny Savelson. Gordon ...
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Nonesuch Records Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Records (formerly Warner Bros. Records), and based in New York City. Founded by Jac Holzman in 1964 as a budget classical label, Nonesuch ...
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Thrill Jockey Thrill Jockey is an American independent record label established by former Atlantic Records A&R representative Bettina Richards and based in Chicago. History Richards started the label in 1992 with $35,000 of family and personal capital, while ...
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Brassland Records Brassland is an independent record label founded in 2001 by Alec Hanley Bemis, Aaron Dessner, and Bryce Dessner. History In Brassland's early years, Bemis worked as a freelance journalist for ''LA Weekly'' and ''The New York Times''. The Dessners ...
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New Amsterdam Records New Amsterdam Records is an independent record label in New York City that was formed in 2008 by Judd Greenstein, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and William Brittelle to promote classically trained musicians who fall between traditional genre boundaries. ...
. The group endorses
Zildjian The Avedis Zildjian Company, simply known as Zildjian (), is a musical instrument manufacturer specializing in cymbals and other percussion instruments. Founded by the ethnic Armenian Zildjian family in the 17th-century Ottoman Empire, the com ...
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Vic Firth Everett Joseph "Vic" Firth (June 2, 1930 – July 26, 2015) was an American musician and the founder of Vic Firth Company (formerly Vic Firth, Inc.), a company that makes percussion sticks and mallets. He was also known for his association ...
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Remo Remo Inc. is an American musical instruments manufacturing company based in Valencia, California, and founded by Remo Belli in 1957. Products manufactured include drum kits, drumheads, drums, and drum hardware, hardware, and various percussio ...
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Naming

The group's name was suggested by Jenise Treuting, Jason Treuting's sister. Jenise writes,


Collaborations

Sō Percussion frequently collaborates with other musicians and performers from around the world, including The National (appearing on Grammy-winning album '
Sleep Well Beast ''Sleep Well Beast'' is the seventh studio album by the American indie rock band The National, released on September 8, 2017, by 4AD. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2018. Promotion On May 9, and May 10, 2017, ...
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Buke and Gase Buke and Gase (formerly spelled Buke and Gass) ( and ) is a New York based musical duo named after the musical instruments invented and built by founders Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez; the ''buke'' is a six-string former-baritone ukulele and the ...
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Shara Nova Shara Nova (previously Worden) is the lead singer and songwriter for My Brightest Diamond. As a composer she is most recognized for her choral compositions and the baroque chamber opera "You Us We All". New music composers Sarah Kirkland Snider ...
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Dave Douglas David or Dave Douglas may refer to: Entertainment * David Douglas (director) (born 1953), Canadian cinematographer, director and writer * Dave Douglas (trumpeter) (born 1963), American jazz trumpeter * Dave Douglas (drummer) (born 1979), American ...
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Matmos Matmos is an experimental electronic music duo formed in San Francisco and based in Baltimore. M. C. (Martin) Schmidt and Drew Daniel are the core members, but they frequently include other artists on their records and in their performances no ...
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Medeski Martin & Wood Medeski Martin & Wood (or MMW) is an American jazz fusion band formed in 1991, consisting of John Medeski on keyboards, Billy Martin on drums, and Chris Wood on bass. The band is influenced by musical traditions including funk and hip hop and ...
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Dan Deacon Daniel Deacon (born August 28, 1981) is an American composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. Deacon is renowned for his live shows, where large-scale audience participation and interaction is often a major elemen ...
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The Dirty Projectors Dirty Projectors is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002. The band is the project of singer-songwriter David Longstreth, who has served as the band's sole constant member throughout numerous line-up changes. The ba ...
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Glenn Kotche Glenn Kotche (born December 31, 1970 in Roselle, Illinois, United States) is an American drummer and composer, best known for his involvement in the band Wilco. He was named the 40th greatest drummer of all time by Gigwise in 2008. Prior to ...
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Bobby Previte Bobby Previte (born July 16, 1951 in Niagara Falls, New York) is a drummer, composer, and bandleader. He earned a degree in economics from the University at Buffalo, where he also studied percussion. He moved to New York City in 1979 and began ...

Kid Millions/Man Forever
Eli Keszler Eli Keszler is an American percussionist, composer, and visual artist based in New York City. Known for his complex and intricate style of drumming, as well creating sound installations involving piano wire and other mechanisms to accompany his li ...
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Emily Johnson Emily Johnson (born March 19, 1976, in Soldotna, Alaska) is an American dancer, writer, and choreographer of Yup'ik descent. She grew up in Sterling, Alaska, and is based in New York City. She is artistic director of her performance company, Em ...
, Ain Gordon,
Shen Wei Shen Wei (; born 1968) is a Chinese-American choreographer, painter, and artistic director based in New York City. He is known for founding Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2000 and for choreographing the opening segment of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olymp ...
, and The Princeton Laptop Orchestra. Recent collaborative projects include the creation with
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of a score to the
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story
The Heartbeat
" part of the episode "Radiolab Live: Telltale Hearts featuring Oliver Sacks," produced by Molly Webster and performed live by Sō Percussion at Brooklyn Academy of Music's "RadioLoveFest.". So Percussion worked with composer West Dylan Thordson as contributing performers on the score of '' The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst'', a 2015
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documentary miniseries about
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Discography

* ''Sō Percussion'' (2004) * Steve Reich: ''Drumming'' (2005) * ''Amid the Noise'' (2006) *CD/DVD * ''Five (and-a-half) Gardens'' — with Trollstilt (2007) * ''Treasure State'' — with Matmos (2010) * Paul Lansky: ''Threads'' (2011) * Steve Reich: ''WTC 9/11'' - Mallet Quartet Recording (2011) *CD/DVD * Steve Mackey: ''It Is Time'' (2011) *CD/DVD * Martin Bresnick: ''Caprichos Enfaticos'' with Lisa Moore, piano (2011) * ''Bad Mango'' with Dave Douglas, trumpet (2011) * David Lang: ''The Woodmans - Music From the Film'' (2011) * ''Amid the Noise Remixes'' (2011) * Cage 100: Bootleg Series (2012) * ''Where (we) Live'' (2012) * ''neither Anvil nor Pulley'' (2013) * Cenk Ergun: ''Nana'' - Proximity Recording (2014) * Man Forever: ''Ryonen'' (2014) * Bobby Previte: ''TERMINALS'' (2014) * Bryce Dessner: ''Music for Wood and Strings'' (2015) * Glenn Kotche: ''Drumkit Quartets'' (2016) * Steve Reich and So Percussion: ''Drumming Live'' (2017) * Color Theory, with PRISM Sax Quartet (2017) * Dan Trueman: ''Songs That Are Hard to Sing'' - with JACK Quartet (2019) * ''A Record Of...'' - with Buke and Gase (2021) * Caroline Shaw: ''Narrow Sea'' - with Dawn Upshaw and Gil Kalish (2021) * Julius Eastman: ''Stay On It'' - with MEDIAQUEER, Adam Tendler, Beth Meyers, Grey Mcmurray, Shelley Washington & Alex Sopp (2021) * Paul Lansky: ''Angles'' (2021) * ''Steve Reich'' with NEXUS Percussion (2021) * ''Let The Soil Play Its Simple Part'' - with Caroline Shaw (2021) * Julia Wolfe: ''Forbidden Love'' (2022) * ''Individuate'' - With Darian Thomas, Bergamot Quartet, Shelby Blezinger-McCay, and Kasey Blezinger (2022) * ''
Rectangles and Circumstance ''Rectangles and Circumstance'' is a collaborative album by American classical composer Caroline Shaw and percussion quartet So Percussion. It was released on June 14, 2024, by Nonesuch Records. Reception Music review website AllMusic wrote abou ...
'' - with Caroline Shaw (2024)


Education

Princeton University
Since 2014, the members of Sō Percussion have served as the Edward T. Cone performers-in-residence at Princeton University. The group has commissioned and recorded major works from Princeton composition faculty
Steven Mackey Steven "Steve" Mackey (born February 14, 1956) is an American composer, guitarist, and music educator. Biography As a musician growing up listening to and performing vernacular American musics as well as classical music, Mackey's compositions a ...
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Paul Lansky Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York City) is an American composer. Biography Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Princeton University, studyi ...
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Dan Trueman Dan Trueman is a composer, fiddle player, improviser, new instrument creator and software designer. He plays the violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Trueman studied physics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, composition and theo ...
, as well as collaborating many times with the Princeton Sound Kitchen and Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk). Sō Percussion Summer Institute
The annual Sō Percussion Summer Institute (SōSI), founded in 2009, also takes place on Princeton's campus. The program features teaching and performing with the members of Sō Percussion and with Princeton faculty and student composers. Each year includes a number of concerts on Princeton's campus, in New York, outdoors in downtown Princeton, and in Small World coffee shop. Bard College Conservatory
In 2011 the members of Sō Percussion established the first percussion department at the
Bard College Conservatory of Music The Bard College Conservatory of Music is a music conservatory within Bard College, located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Established in 2005, it is unique among music conservatories in the United States in that all undergraduate students are ...
. The undergraduate program is a five-year double degree. Sō Percussion members Eric Cha-Beach and Jason Treuting are current co-directors of the department, together with timpanist Jason Haaheim


Original music

Works with Caroline Shaw (2021-2024)
The members of Sō Percussion co-composed two sets of songs together with singer and composer
Caroline Shaw Caroline Adelaide Shaw (born August 1, 1982) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer. She won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her a cappella piece '' Partita for 8 Voices''. Shaw received the 2022 G ...
, each released as an album on
Nonesuch Records Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Records (formerly Warner Bros. Records), and based in New York City. Founded by Jac Holzman in 1964 as a budget classical label, Nonesuch ...
- ''Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part'' (2021) and ''
Rectangles and Circumstance ''Rectangles and Circumstance'' is a collaborative album by American classical composer Caroline Shaw and percussion quartet So Percussion. It was released on June 14, 2024, by Nonesuch Records. Reception Music review website AllMusic wrote abou ...
'' (2024), the latter of which received a 2025
Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance The Grammy Award for Best Small Ensemble Performance (from 2013: Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance) has been awarded since 1997. In its early years, its title included the addition "(with or without a conductor)". In 1991 the Grammy f ...
. From Out a Darker Sea (2017)
From Out a Darker Sea explores the former coal mining communities of East Durham, UK in a collaboration with Forma Arts and
Amber Films Amber Film & Photography Collective (often shortened to Amber Films or Amber) is a film and photography collective based in Newcastle upon Tyne with an aim to capture working-class life in North East England. Often combining professional and non- ...
. A Gun Show (2016)
A Gun Show is an exploration of American gun culture using music, video, spoken text, and movement. The project was created collaboratively by the members of Sō Percussion together with director Ain Gordon and choreographer
Emily Johnson Emily Johnson (born March 19, 1976, in Soldotna, Alaska) is an American dancer, writer, and choreographer of Yup'ik descent. She grew up in Sterling, Alaska, and is based in New York City. She is artistic director of her performance company, Em ...
. Where (we) Live (2013)
Where (we) Live was an original project exploring ideas about home and community, created together with guitarist Grey mcmurray, director Ain Gordon, choreographer
Emily Johnson Emily Johnson (born March 19, 1976, in Soldotna, Alaska) is an American dancer, writer, and choreographer of Yup'ik descent. She grew up in Sterling, Alaska, and is based in New York City. She is artistic director of her performance company, Em ...
, and video designer Martin Schmidt. 2wice - Fifth Wall (2012)
Members of Sō Percussion composed the score for 'Fifth Wall' - an
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-based performance by dancer
Jonah Bokaer Jonah Bokaer (born October 1, 1981) is an American choreographer and media artist. He works on live performances in the United States and elsewhere, including choreography, digital media, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and social enterprise. ...
, published by dance magazine 2wice. Shen Wei - Undivided/Divided (2011)
The members of Sō Percussion composed the music for Undivided/Divided with choreographer
Shen Wei Shen Wei (; born 1968) is a Chinese-American choreographer, painter, and artistic director based in New York City. He is known for founding Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2000 and for choreographing the opening segment of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olymp ...
, which premiered at the
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in November, 2011. Martin Kersels: 5 Songs (2010)
In 2010 the
Whitney Museum The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is a Modern art, modern and Contemporary art, contemporary American art museum located in the Meatpacking District, Manhattan, Meatpacking District and West Village neighbor ...
commissioned the members of Sō Percussion to write new original music for performance in connection with
Martin Kersels Martin Kersels (born 1960) is an American contemporary artist. Kersels' work is largely installation based, incorporating sculpture, photography and video. Kersels is a professor of sculpture and director of graduate studies at the Yale School of ...
' sculpture project for the Whitney Biennial: 5 Songs. Imaginary City (2009)
Inspired by the
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novel
Invisible Cities ''Invisible Cities'' () is a postmodern novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in 1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editore. Description The book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco Pol ...
, Imaginary City used as inspiration the six cities that are home to the presenters that commissioned it: The
Brooklyn Academy of Music The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City. It hosts progressive and avant-garde performances, with theater, dance, music, opera, film programming across multiple nearby venues. BAM was chartered in 18 ...
in Brooklyn, NY; The Myrna Loy Center in Helena, MT;
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in Cleveland, OH; The Flynn Center in Burlington, VT; Diverseworks Art Space in Houston, TX; and The Newman Center in Denver, CO. The project again included original video created by Jenise Treuting as well as theatrical direction by Rinde Eckert. Music for Trains (2008)
In 2008 Sō Percussion developed the Music for Trains project in southern
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. The month-long residency project centered around performances in and around the towns of
Brattleboro Brattleboro (), originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States, located about north of the Massachusetts state line at the confluence of Vermont's West River and the Connecticut River. With a 2022 Census populat ...
and Bellows Falls, including concerts in the train stations of those two towns, pre-recorded mp3 players listened to on the trains, and materials gathered from the local community. The project also included original video created by Jenise Treuting and an on-stage sculpture created by local artist Ahren Ahrenholz. Amid the Noise (2006)
A series of short pieces written by group member Jason Treuting, Amid the Noise was the first project of original music created and recorded by members of Sō Percussion. The project also features videos created by video artist Jenise Treuting, which were included in the CD/DVD release of 2006.


Awards

* ''Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance'' - 2025 * ''Bessie Award for Outstanding Musical Composition/Sound Design'' - 2016 * ''American Music Center Trailblazer Award'' - 2011 * ''Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming'' - 2004, 2006, 2010 * ''ASCAP John Cage Award'' - 2009 * ''International Percussion Competition Luxembourg'' 2nd Place - 2005


Selected works commissioned

* Dennis DeSantis: ''Shifty'' (2000) * David Lang: ''the so-called laws of nature'' (2002) *
Paul Lansky Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York City) is an American composer. Biography Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Princeton University, studyi ...
: ''Threads'' (2006) *
Martin Bresnick Martin Bresnick (born 1946) is a composer of contemporary classical music, film scores and experimental music. Education and early career Bresnick grew up in the Bronx, and is a graduate of New York City's specialized High School of Music and A ...
: ''Caprichos Enfaticos'' (2007) *
Steven Mackey Steven "Steve" Mackey (born February 14, 1956) is an American composer, guitarist, and music educator. Biography As a musician growing up listening to and performing vernacular American musics as well as classical music, Mackey's compositions a ...
: ''It Is Time'' (2010) *
Dan Trueman Dan Trueman is a composer, fiddle player, improviser, new instrument creator and software designer. He plays the violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Trueman studied physics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, composition and theo ...
: ''neither anvil nor pulley'' (2010) *
Steve Reich Stephen Michael Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons. Reich descr ...
: ''Mallet Quartet'' (2010) *
Bobby Previte Bobby Previte (born July 16, 1951 in Niagara Falls, New York) is a drummer, composer, and bandleader. He earned a degree in economics from the University at Buffalo, where he also studied percussion. He moved to New York City in 1979 and began ...
: ''Terminals'' (2011) *
Dan Deacon Daniel Deacon (born August 28, 1981) is an American composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland. Deacon is renowned for his live shows, where large-scale audience participation and interaction is often a major elemen ...
: ''Ghostbuster Cook: The Origin of the Riddler'' (2011) *
Glenn Kotche Glenn Kotche (born December 31, 1970 in Roselle, Illinois, United States) is an American drummer and composer, best known for his involvement in the band Wilco. He was named the 40th greatest drummer of all time by Gigwise in 2008. Prior to ...
: ''Drumkit Quartets'' (2011) * David Lang: ''man made'' (2013) *
Bryce Dessner Bryce David Dessner (born April 23, 1976) is an American composer and guitarist based in Paris, and a member of the rock band the National. Dessner's twin brother, Aaron is also a member of the group. Together, they write the music in collabo ...
: ''Music for Wood and Strings'' (2013) *
Shara Nova Shara Nova (previously Worden) is the lead singer and songwriter for My Brightest Diamond. As a composer she is most recognized for her choral compositions and the baroque chamber opera "You Us We All". New music composers Sarah Kirkland Snider ...
/So Percussion: ''Timeline'' (2015) *
Paul Lansky Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York City) is an American composer. Biography Paul Lansky (born 1944) is an American composer. He was educated at Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, Queens College and Princeton University, studyi ...
: ''Springs'' (2016) *
Caroline Shaw Caroline Adelaide Shaw (born August 1, 1982) is an American composer of contemporary classical music, violinist, and singer. She won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her a cappella piece '' Partita for 8 Voices''. Shaw received the 2022 G ...
: ''Narrow Sea'' (2017) with Dawn Upshaw *
Donnacha Dennehy Donnacha Dennehy (born 17 August 1970) is an Irish composer and leader of the Crash Ensemble specializing in contemporary classical music. According to musicologist Bob Gilmore, Dennehy's "high profile of his compositions internationally, togeth ...
: ''Broken Unison'' (2017) *
Dan Trueman Dan Trueman is a composer, fiddle player, improviser, new instrument creator and software designer. He plays the violin and the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle. Trueman studied physics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, composition and theo ...
: ''Songs That Are Hard to Sing'' (2017) with JACK Quartet *
Vijay Iyer Vijay Iyer (; born Vijay Raghunathan, October 26, 1971) is a composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, writer, and professor based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' has called him a "social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builde ...
: ''TORQUE'' (2018) *
Julia Wolfe Julia Wolfe (born December 18, 1958) is an American composer and professor of music at New York University. According to ''The Wall Street Journal'', Wolfe's music has "long inhabited a terrain of its own, a place where classical forms are rech ...
: ''Forbidden Love'' (2019) * Shodekeh Talifero: ''Vodalities, Paradigms of Consciousness for the Human Voice'' (2021) * Nathalie Joachim: ''Note to Self'' (2021) *
Bora Yoon Yoon Bo-ra (; born December 30, 1989), better known by the mononym Bora, is a South Korean singer, rapper, and actress. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group Sistar and its sub-group Sistar19. Early life and education Bora was ...
: ''the wonder that's keeping the stars apart'' (2022) * Olivier Tarpaga: ''Fēfē'' (2023) *
Angélica Negrón Angélica Negrón (born 1981) is a Puerto-Rican composer and multi-instrumentalist recognized for composing music for accordions, robotic instruments, toys, and electronics, as well as for chamber ensembles, orchestras, choirs, and films. Negrón i ...
: ''Inward Pieces'' (2023) *
Vijay Iyer Vijay Iyer (; born Vijay Raghunathan, October 26, 1971) is a composer, pianist, bandleader, producer, writer, and professor based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' has called him a "social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builde ...
: ''Dharma Eye'' (2023) *
Leilehua Lanzilotti Leilehua Lanzilotti née Anne Victoria Leilehua Lanzilotti (born November 5, 1983), is a Kanaka Maoli composer, multimedia artist, curator, and scholar of contemporary classical music. Early life and education Lanzilotti grew up in Honolulu, ...
: ''Sending Messages'' (2024) *
Claire Rousay Claire Rousay (styled as claire rousay) is a Canadian-American Experimental music, experimental musician and composer based in Los Angeles. Rousay, who is currently signed with Thrill Jockey, is known for using Field recording, field recordings t ...
: ''In Places'' (2024)


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