Shiva Brahma (with Jack Hooker)

This is a merging of the opening track Shiva Sleeps and the closing track Waking Brahma from the full-length percussion show "Between Zero and One" premiered by Strike Percussion in 2013.

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Listen to the single on Spotify

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I wrote the percussion parts and Jack Hooker created the epic electronica layers. We had discussed on and off the idea of creating a single track that fused these two pieces together - Shiva designed to be an opening to the show and Brahma very much designed to end it. Those kinds of conversations are easy to have, but invariably open up a can of worms. Jack dived all the way back into the electronic layers and rebuilt them, making them even more massive and (within that extraordinary decibel level) managing to refine and clarify the wall of sound.

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We decided to make this available to live performance groups and it has subsequently been picked up and played live (as a percussion ensemble + pre-recorded backing track). This is now a product on the store page of this website Shiva Brahma Live Performance Materials

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Omar Carmenates and the Furman University Percussion Ensemble have since made a film of their performance

An earlier iteration of this piece (named Shiva Sleeps) was performed and filmed by the Macau Percussion Association