For 20 years and counting, Sō Percussion has redefined chamber music for the 21st century through an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” (New Yorker). They are celebrated by audiences and presenters for a dazzling range of work: for live performances in which “telepathic powers of communication” (New York Times) bring to life the vibrant percussion repertoire; for an extravagant array of collaborations in classical music, pop, indie rock, contemporary dance, and theater; and for their work in education and community, creating opportunities and platforms for music and artists that explore the immense possibility of art in our time.
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DISCOGRAPHY

Forbidden Love

Released: August 19, 2022
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composer: Julia Wolfe

Let the Soil Play its Simple Part

Released: June 25, 2021
Label: Nonesuch Records
Artists: Caroline Shaw, So Percussion

A Record Of ...

Released: January 29, 2021
Label: Brassland
Artists: Buke & Gase, So Percussion

Narrow Sea

Released: January 22, 2021
Label: Nonesuch Records
Composer: Caroline Shaw

Songs that are Hard to Sing

Released: November 15, 2019
Label: New Amsterdam Records
Composer: Dan Trueman

Drumming LIVE

Released: January 27, 2017
Label: Dog w/a Bone
Composer: Steve Reich

Color Theory

Released: April 14, 2017
Label: XAS Records
Composers: Steven Mackey, Ken Ueno, Stratis Minakakis

Drumkit Quartets

Released: February 26, 2016
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composer: Glenn Kotche

Music for Wood and Strings

Released: May 19. 2015
Label: Brassland
Composer: Bryce Dessner

Terminals

Released: October 28. 2014
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composer: Bobby Previte

neither ANVIL nor PULLEY

Released: May 28. 2013
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composer: Dan Trueman

Cage 100: Bootleg Series

Released: March 27. 2012
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composers: John Cage, Cenk Ergun, Martin Schmidt, Jason Treuting

WTC 9/11

Released: September 11. 2011
Label: Nonesuch
Composer: Steve Reich

Threads

Released: January 25. 2011
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composer: Paul Lansky

Treasure State

Released: June 8. 2010
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Artists: Matmos, So Percussion

Amid The Noise

Released: October 10. 2006
Label: Cantaloupe Music
Composer: Jason Treuting

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PROGRAMS / PROJECTS

Sō Percussion with Shodekeh

Sō Percussion and Shodekeh bring together distinctive rhythmic practices that converge on the experimental in Vodalities, a piece which combines breath art, vocal percussion, and beatboxing with physical percussion. The collaboration draws on decades of collective experience that pulls together influences like John Cage, Meredith Monk, Bobby McFerrin, and a huge range of Hip Hop and House music artists.

The Keyboard Reimagined

Elliot Cole - Postludes for Bowed Vibraphone
Vijay Iyer - Torque
Dan Trueman - Nostalgic Synchronic
Jason Treuting - Nine Numbers 4
Suzanne Farrin - a diamond in the square
Caroline Shaw - Taxidermy
Donnacha Dennehy - Broken Unison

The Quartet Reimagined

Steve Reich - Music for Pieces of Wood
Julia Wolfe - Forbidden Love*
Susan Marshall - Construction
Viet Cuong - Water, Wine, Brandy, Brine
Bryce Dessner - Music for Wood and Strings

Living Room Music

Viet Cuong - Water, Wine, Brandy, Brine
John Cage - Living Room Music
Caroline Shaw - Taxidermy
Eric Cha-Beach - Four and Nine
Pauline Oliveros - Tuning Meditation
Jason Treuting - selections from Amid the Noise
John Cage - Credo in US

Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw: Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

Caroline Shaw - Taxidermy
Caroline Shaw- Narrow Sea
Shaw/Sō - Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part

Amid the Noise

Residency
Jason Treuting's Amid The Noise is a communal music-making project that can occur with a flexible number of musicians in almost any combination. Like Terry Riley's In C, this work maintains its identity and integrity through wildly different realizations.

Steve Reich's "Drumming"

3 day Residency
Drumming is one of the core works that formed Sō Percussion. For many years, through three recordings and dozens of performances, it has shaped our perspective and our practice. We often visit music schools to teach Drumming in a residency, where five or more percussionists join us to stage the entire 75-minute work.