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Bounce!! (2014)


rent the scores and parts through Black Tea Music 
Duration: 7 minutes
Instrumentation: 1(+pic+bfl)1(+eh)2(1+ecl 2=bcl)1/1110/2pc pn/strings

Performance History
7/26/2014, Alarm Will Sound w/ Alan Pierson (director) at the MIZZOU International Composers Festival, Columbia, MO
10/20/2016, Alarm Will Sound w/ Alan Pierson (director), St. Louis, MO
10/22/2016, Alarm Will Sound w/ Alan Pierson (director), New York, NY
5/5/2017, Northwestern Contemporary Music Ensemble w/ Ben Bolter (co-director), Evanston, IL
​2/11-12/2022, San Francisco Symphony w/ Perry So (cond), San Francisco, CA

Program Note

The summer of 2013 was rather special to me in that I went to the gym almost every day. The first things I heard when getting into the gym were bouncing basketballs on the floor, mixed with shoes squeaking and occasional huff and puff. “It would be fun,” I thought, “to write a piece about this.” And I did.
That's about it: this piece is, as its title might suggest, all about “bounce” – those of bows and mallets on the strings and percussion, bouncing musical figurations, and acoustic, harmonic, and even structural bounces. I hope you can bounce with this piece!!
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         To me, summer 2013 is rather special in that I went to the gym almost every day. The first thing I heard with getting into the gym is the sound of bouncing basketballs on the floor, mixed with sound of shoes squeaking and occasional huff and puff. “It would be fun,” I thought, “to write a piece about this.” And I did.

         That's about it: this piece is, as its title might suggest, all about “bounce” – those of bows and mallets on the strings and percussion, bouncing musical figurations, and acoustic, harmonic, and even structural bounces. Let’s bounce together!!

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Updated in June 2025

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