Roots and Rhizomes: Seventy Five Years of Percussion Music Conference FREE February 22, 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, Febrary 24, 2007 10:00 am - 8:00 pm

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.

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/