Bloom

Year: 2024

Heading: for percussion quartet

Record Release: August 30, 2024

Movements:

Bloom 1, morning
Bloom 1, noon
Bloom 1, night
Stem 1
Bloom 2, morning
Bloom 2, noon
Bloom 2, night
Stem 2
Bloom 3, morning
Bloom 3, noon
Bloom 3, night

Instrumentation:

player 1: vibraphone, 2 bongos
player 2: vibraphone, 2 congas
player 3: marimba, 5 wooden slats
player 4: marimba, 4 tom-toms

Duration: 54”

Program Note: BLOOM was written for and recorded by Sandbox Percussion.

BLOOM uses interlocking rhythms which, when played together, create a groove expressed through each player’s pitched and non-pitched instruments. Just as shoots push through dirt erupting in blooms, so too do the vibes and marimbas burst forth from the drums. In other words, this music has an organic profile, unlike other recent pieces of mine.

 —Michael Torke