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Tension:Release

for percussion quartet

2023 3′ Percussion quartet

Written for the Sō Percussion Summer Institute

First page of the score for Tension:Release

Tension:Release is a three-minute work for percussion quartet, written for the Sō Percussion Summer Institute and premiered at Princeton University, with subsequent performances at the SPLICE Institute and Small World Coffee. The piece is a tight study in the gestural mechanics of its title — the relaxation never arrives where it would be expected to, and where it does arrive, it does not last long.