Echo Funk
General Info
Year: 2015
Publisher: Tapspace
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 00:06:00
Cost: $45.00
Instrumentation
Solo
Ensemble
Player 1: Cowbell & Concert Bass Drum & Small Metal
Player 2: China Cymbal & Floor Tom & Brake Drum & Coffee Can
Player 3: Opera Gongs & Snare Drums & Bongos & Low Metal
Player 4: Wood Blocks & 4 Concert Tom Toms
Player 5: Wood Blocks & 4 Concert Tom Toms
Player 6: Timbales & Congas & Cooke Tins & High Metal
Player 7: Brake Drum & Firecracker Snare Drum & China Cymbal (Small)
Player 8: Kick Drum (On Stand) & Small Metal
Description
What happens when you mix two parts First Construction in Metal (John Cage), three parts Bonham (Rouse), a dash of industrial spice, and a heaping dose of Vinnie Colaiuta-style groove? You get Jonathan Ovalle’s raucous and exciting new work Echo Funk. Using a creative array of mostly drums and metal instruments (often found objects), the piece features a drum set soloist backed by eight multipercussionists. Throughout the work, various “echo” motifs are used as a defining element while producing varying degrees of polyrhythmic tension and conversational activity between the drum set soloist and the eight percussionists.
Recent Performance
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Works for Percussion by this Composer
Danza Furioso - Xylophone & Marimba Trio
Echo Funk - Drumset & Percussion Octet
Epic Proportions - Marimba & Drumset & Percussion Sextet
Fanfare (Ovalle) - Percussion (12)