Roots and Rhizomes: Seventy-Five Years of Percussion Music Conference February 23, 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.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:00 pm
Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:00 am - 8:00 pm
Friday, February 23, 2007 10:00 am - 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:00 am - 8:00 pm

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

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/