Shiva (percussion sextet, audio track - from Between Zero and One) with Jack Hooker

Created out of two of the works/movements from the concert-length show "Between Zero and One" created in collaboration with New Zealand's Strike Percussion.

Between Zero and One grew out of my relationship with Murray Hickman (the Director of Strike).

Murray and I started talking about a concert-length new project. I had seen some of their existing collaborations in this area with Adam Page, and Warren Maxwell. I was super-keen and wanted also to explore an area I was just getting started in; combining pre-recorded audio with live performance.

I invited Jack Hooker onto the project. Jack was still a student at the New Zealand School of Music, and I'd heard his incredible work in the Shocking and the Stunning. This was large-scale mega-music. Given the visual and physical scale of what Strike were seeking in our project I asked Jack if he'd be interested in collaborating on the opening and closing tracks of the show. I created the drum layers (which Strike performed live) and Jack created a kind of galactic-scale electronica response, which was pre-recorded. These two book-ends to the show - Brahma and Shiva - were truly epic (to put it mildly) and framed a very intense odyssey through many states and pieces that came to be Between Zero and One. In more recent times Jack and I have crafted a hybrid piece from those bookends - unoriginally titled Shiva Brahma - which now exists as a standalone live-performance piece for percussion ensemble.

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

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