Volume (Vibraphone and Steel Drum Duo) by Missy Mazzoli

IronWorks Percussion perform "Volume" by Missy Mazzoli. This work won third place in the IronWorks Percussion Duo 2008 Composition Contest. This video is from the IronWorks Duo performance on October 12, 2008.

For more information about the IronWorks Percussion Duo, please visit: http://www.ironworkspercussion.com/

For more information about Missy Mazzoli, please visit: http://www.missymazzoli.com/

Program note:

Volume was inspired both by the inventiveness of the musicians of Trinidad and by the badass playing of percussionists James Deitz and Joshua Quillen. Drumming was banned in Trinidad in the late 19th century, since it was used as a form of communication between slaves. Enslaved musicians were forced to improvise, using whatever materials they could find to construct instruments. Prototypes of the steel pan were made of biscuit tins, paint cans and oil drums, and bottles were struck with spoons to provide a high percussive accompaniment. Volume, a work scored for steel pan, vibraphone, and a junkyard array of other instruments, is a raucous work and joyful work, an homage to the steel pan tradition and the spirit of innovative music making.

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• dave
• gerhart
• axel
• clarke
• ironworks
• percussion
• duo
• vibraphone
• vibe
• steel
• drum
• wine
• bottles
• bass
• kick

[Gwyogurt]

Very interesting piece. Very awesome use of instruments. Hats off to all involved.

[percussioneducation]

@Gwyogurt Thanks for the kind words! Be on the look out for our new CD which will feature a studio recording of Volume. It should be released this summer. Thanks! Dave

[AoAPC]

This piece is incredible. How Mazzoli took these instruments and objects used for other genres and purposes and created this is innovative and outstanding. I want to learn pan just to play this piece. Is this published?

[Reon]

Pretty cool ensamble piece/duet. I love it when pan gets incorperated into all sorts of different music