Ryoji Ikeda: music for percussion 1 & 2

Commencing with music for percussion 1, commissioned by Eklekto Ensemble Geneva in 2016. Body Music features the hands and the legs of two percussionists engaging a virtuosic counterpoint of "body claps". Metal Music I is a duet and uses of one of the most iconic orchestral percussion instruments, the triangle. Metal Music II brings onstage two sets of crotales - small bronze discs played with violin bows to create a polyphony of sinus-like high ...