Echo Funk
General Info
Year of Published: 2015
Publisher: Tapspace
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 00:06:00
Cost: $45.00
Instrumentation
Solo
Ensemble
Player 1: Cowbell & Concert Bass Drum & Small Metal
Player 2: China Cymbal & Floor Tom & Brake Drum & Coffee Can
Player 3: Opera Gongs & Snare Drums & Bongos & Low Metal
Player 4: Wood Blocks & 4 Concert Tom Toms
Player 5: Wood Blocks & 4 Concert Tom Toms
Player 6: Timbales & Congas & Cooke Tins & High Metal
Player 7: Brake Drum & Firecracker Snare Drum & China Cymbal (Small)
Player 8: Kick Drum (On Stand) & Small Metal
Description
What happens when you mix two parts First Construction in Metal (John Cage), three parts Bonham (Rouse), a dash of industrial spice, and a heaping dose of Vinnie Colaiuta-style groove? You get Jonathan Ovalle’s raucous and exciting new work Echo Funk. Using a creative array of mostly drums and metal instruments (often found objects), the piece features a drum set soloist backed by eight multipercussionists. Throughout the work, various “echo” motifs are used as a defining element while producing varying degrees of polyrhythmic tension and conversational activity between the drum set soloist and the eight percussionists.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Danza Furioso - Xylophone & Marimba Trio
Echo Funk - Drumset & Percussion Octet
Epic Proportions - Marimba & Drumset & Percussion Sextet
Fanfare (Ovalle) - Percussion (12)