Encore 1 (percussion sextet - from Between Zero and One)

One of the several encores from the concert-length show "Between Zero and One" created in collaboration with New Zealand's Strike Percussion.

Here's a playlist with the demos I created for most of the tracks....

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The show Between Zero and One landed strongly with audiences. I wrote several encores, to match the audiences' appetite. I decided to make a version of the "Bell Drum" track as an encore (tediously dubbed "Encore 1") and to write myself a keyboard part to play. I've been wanting for decades to return to live performance, and was trying to create opportunities. Strike were very accommodating. I practiced my part to the nth degree and really new it. But live, I didn't have my own in-ear click and I could hardly hear the bell-drums at all when playing the synth line I'd rehearsed so diligently. A friend made a passing comment "oh, it sounded like you were freely improvising, independently of the group". That was the last time I joined Strike onstage and it set me back years in terms of confidence. But the slow game will get you there: Here I am performing with an orchestra and Arjuna Oakes (10 years later!); a song we wrote and arranged together: Safe Way

I managed to find the score of what I was playing in this encore. Some screenshots in the photo gallery below. The SoundCloud recording above is missing the keyboard part.