So Percussion
"Time and time again...you found yourself smiling in a quiet amazement that could verge on disbelief." The New York Times
So Percussion creates music that is both raucous and touching, barbarous and heartfelt. Their music runs the gamut from percussion classics (Steve Reich's Drumming), to new commissions (David Lang's the so-called laws of nature), to original music (group member Jason Treuting's Amid the Noise). Called "astonishing and entrancing" by Billboard Magazine, and "brilliant" by the New York Times, the Brooklyn-based quartet's innovative work has quickly helped them forge a unique and diverse career. So Percussion has performed this music all over the United States, with concerts at the Lincoln Center Festival, Carnegie Hall, Stanford Lively Arts, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Recent tours to Russia, Australia, Italy, Spain, Germany, and the Ukraine have brought them international acclaim.
With an audience comprised of "both kinds of blue hair... elderly matron here, arty punk there" (as the Boston Globe described it), So Percussion makes a rare and wonderful breed of music that both compels instantly and offers rewards for engaged listening. Edgy (at least in the sense that little other music sounds like this) and ancient (in that people have been hitting objects for eons), perhaps it doesn’t need to be defined after all.
