Percussion Ensemble- An Out of Body Experience

An Out Of Body Experience is a very ethereal, unearthly-sounding piece that is designed to evoke the feeling of having an actual out of body experience. The piece features bowed waterphone, cymbals, gongs, and vibes, bass drum thumb rolls, piano, and other mallet and battery instruments. I considered having some electronics hooked up to read actual testimonials of actual out of body experiences in strange altered voices, but decided against it since the piece had a pretty hefty set-up already. The music is avai

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• Waterphone
• Bowed
• Vibes
• Vibraphone
• Cymbal
• Cymbals
• Gong
• Tam-Tam
• Tam
• Bass
• Drum
• Thumb
• Roll
• An
• Out
• Of
• Body
• Experience
• Laney
• Percussion
• Ensemble
• Northern
• Colorado
• UNC

[Pianoplayaaaaaaaaaa]

at 2:50 what is she doing on the bass drum to achieve that technique? it's amazing!

[RLaneyPercussion]

@Pianoplayaaaaaaaaaa She is doing a thumb roll around the edge of the drum's head. If you try it yourself it's an odd technique to master, but can be done on just about any concert bass drum just like almost any tambourine. Try using some beeswax on the head and not pressing as hard as you might think you have to press. It makes a GREAT effect when you hear it live in person!

[Rythsbeats]

where can i hear more from them?

[RLaneyPercussion]

@Rythsbeats Technically nowhere. This was a quartet assembled specifically for this piece. Some of the same players are used on a few of my other chamber ensemble pieces though.

[thomazdion]

Frickin' Awsome :D Well done

[jcbacongrease]

Very nice.

[injack1994]

SOOOO FREAKIN COOL