
Kyoto: Player 3
Digital download includes the following files:
1. Kyoto - Player 3 - INSTRUCTIONS.pdf
2. Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE MATERIALS
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 64bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 72bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 80bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 85bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 90bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 95bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 100bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 105bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 110bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 115bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 118bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - CLICK 121bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 64bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 72bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 80bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 85bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 90bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 95bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 100bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 105bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 110bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 115bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 118bpm.mp3
- Kyoto - Player 3 - PRACTICE TRACK 121bpm.mp3
Download does not include score or parts.
Kyoto, premiered by the Ju Percussion Group in Taiwan City on May 20, 2011, was commissioned by the group for the Taipei International Percussion Convention. Departing from my earlier intense and physically demanding percussion compositions, such as Drum Dances and Etude from One Study One Summary, Kyoto shares stylistic similarities with his marimba concerto Djinn. The piece maintains a constant rhythmic semiquaver pulse that drives the momentum, transitioning through varying time signatures and punctuated by moments of silence that give rise to shifts in harmonic content. Two contrasting ideas, rhythmically driven melodic lines and vibraphone arpeggios, alternate before converging in a climactic moment. The title of the work is inspired by a 1976 improvisation by pianist Keith Jarrett recorded in Kyoto, which served as a transformative catalyst for my journey as a composer.