Billy Martin's "stridulations For The Good Luck Feast" at The Falcon

Legendary MMW drummer, Billy Martin will conduct his musical game piece for a guitar orchestra along the waterfall at The Falcon Outdoor Stage! So start the evening off early, and then stay late upstairs!

Stridulations for the Good Luck Feast is a suite of percussion compositions as a collaborative game, played not to win or lose, but by a team whose primary challenge is collective improvisation. It is the formation of a self-governing ensemble acting as one ‘organism’ that produces unique arrangements each performance.

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Legendary MMW drummer, Billy Martin will conduct his musical game piece for a guitar orchestra along the waterfall at The Falcon Outdoor Stage! So start the evening off early, and then stay late upstairs!

Stridulations for the Good Luck Feast is a suite of percussion compositions as a collaborative game, played not to win or lose, but by a team whose primary challenge is collective improvisation. It is the formation of a self-governing ensemble acting as one ‘organism’ that produces unique arrangements each performance.

The Book!
https://www.hellomerch.com/products/stridulations-for-the-good-luck-feast-book
Instrumentation includes small bamboo sticks harvested from Martin’s bamboo grove in New Jersey, woodblocks, and recycled bottles as instruments. The event also includes performative demonstrations. Containing 13 mini scores in a deluxe folder pack, this publication is designed for percussion ensembles, schools, workshops, including music therapy. What began for Martin as tireless enthusiasm for music, percussion, and improvisation evolved into a wide ranging search for the roots of inspiration. Martin is currently associate director and has recently been elected President (for 2018) of the Creative Music Studio, a non-profit organization in New York founded by Karl Berger, Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry.

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