Roots and Rhizomes: Seventy-Five Years of Percussion Music Conference February 21, 2007

The conference is free, evening performances are $8 for general admission, except for the taiko performance, which is $30-$34 for general admission.

Roots and Rhizomes is a conference – a gathering of percussionists, composers, teachers and researchers, who will meet February 21-24, 2007 at the University of California, San Diego to consider the unique questions that face percussionists as contemporary percussion music comes of age. It has been 75 years since the Big Bang of the percussive universe, Edgard Varèse’s seminal Ionisation. Since then traditions have emerged, varied aesthetic sensibilities have been deployed, and new populations of composers, players and listeners have been engaged. We would like to take these days to hear some important percussion music and to discuss our past, present and future with each other.

Roots and Rhizomes will be hosted by Steven Schick, UCSD’s red fish blue fish percussion group, Gustavo Aguilar (New York) and Aiyun Huang (McGill University) and Artpwr! of UCSD. Conference participants will include The Percussion Group Cincinnati, Fritz Hauser, Vanessa Tomlinson, Bernhard Wulff, Christopher Shultis, Julio Estrada, Taikoproject and red fish blue fish.

Schedule

Note: All concerts are in Warren Studio A unless indicated otherwise.

Wednesday, February 21

8pm	Evening Concert: red fish blue fish with Vanessa Tomlinson Works by Erik Griswold, Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri, Georges Aperghis, and Julio Estrada. Tickets: $8 General / $6 Students / UCSD Students free with ID.

Thursday, February 22

11am	Taikoproject School Presentation Mandeville Auditorium
12:30pm	Lunch Break
1:30pm	Kick-off performance*: Matt Jenkins plays Thomas Meadowcroft *Kick-off performances will consist of the performance of a single piece to initiate the day's panel discussion
2-4pm	Panel I - Roots and Rhizomes A moderated group discussion of the traditions of contemporary percussion repertoire and how divergent views meld (or fail to meld) to form the current practice.
6-9pm	Robert Esler "Sustained Metal" Performed sound installation in Warren Studio A
8pm	Evening Concert: Taikoproject Presented by Artpwr! in Mandeville Auditorium. Tickets: $34 and $30 General / $24 and $20 Students / $17 and $15 UCSD Students with ID.

Friday, February 23

10am	Kick-off: Special Guest John Bergamo - Gustavo Aguilar plays Bergamo's "Tulumbaz"
10:30am-12:30pm	A Conversation with Julio Estrada and Christopher Shultis Performance of Estrada’s “Memorias” for percussion with live processing by Gustavo Aguilar and Phil Curtis
12:30-2pm	Lunch Break
2-4pm	Panel II - We Are Family: the Meaning of Community among Contemporary Percussionists
5-6pm	Mini-concert: Allen Otte plays Herbert Brun's "Touch and Go"
8pm	Evening Concert: Fritz Hauser "Trommel mit Mann" Tickets: $8 General / $6 Students / UCSD Students free with ID

Saturday, February 24

10am	Kick-off: Aiyun Huang plays Sean Griffin's "Tension Study II: Eagle Claw Wu Tsiao Chen Wins" (2007)
10:30am-12:30pm	Paper Session
12:30-2pm	Lunch Break
2-4pm	Panel III An Imagined Future: Where Will We Be in 75 Years? How Do We Get There?
5-6pm	Bernhard Wulff in Conversation
6-8pm	Catered Reception
8pm	Evening Concert: Percussion Group Cincinnati Tickets: $8 General / $6 Students / UCSD Students free with ID

Purchasing Tickets:
Tickets for Evening Concerts at Warren Studio A are reserved through registration and can be purchased at the door on the evening of the event.
Tickets for Taiko Drumming at Mandeville Auditorium can be purchased at 858-534-TIXS (8497) through the UCSD Box Office. UCSD Faculty and Student discounts are obtained by purchasing tickets directly at the Box Office in Price Center or the Mandeville Box Office on the evening of the concert. Box Office hours: 10am-5pm Monday through Friday; 10am-1pm Saturday. For more information, visit: http://www.artpower.ucsd.edu/main.html

Official Website: http://music.ucsd.edu/~percussion/