138 - Doug Perkins
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Joining us this week is Doug Perkins. Doug has commissioned and premiered over 100 pieces and works with such composers as David Lang, Steve Reich, Paul Lansky, John Luther Adams, Nathan Davis, Larry Polansky, Christian Wolff, Glenn Kotche, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Tristan Perich. He founded the So Percussion and the Meehan/ Perkins Duo, and performs regularly with Signal, eighth blackbird, the Chicago Symphony’s MusicNOW, and others. He currently teaches at The Boston Conservatory. Watch here. Listen below. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element 0:00 Intro and Hello 1:15 What's up? Being the Dept. Chair? 3:27 Where/how did you fall in love with drums? 7:16 TBC merging with Berklee? 9:44 New Music Gathering in Boston? 13:41 Casey: What's the sound? Acoustic Dispersion. Massive and excellent laser sound/laser tag tangent 26:00 Getting big projects off the ground? Chosen Vale percussion seminar? 35:09 Ben: Bang On a Can -Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon 47:10 Doug's podcast series, 5 Days With Doug. 50:43 How you see electronic music as it relates to percussion?
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