{"id":1235,"date":"2021-06-04T12:59:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2021-06-04T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:59:52","slug":"lancaster-power-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/lancaster-power-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster – POWER\/gone"},"content":{"rendered":"
Yaz Lancaster – POWER\/gone (2018)<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k5_idUpBw94<\/span><\/p>\n 4 players <\/p>\n This is a percussion quartet piece premiered by So Percussion in 2018, written for auxiliary instruments and clapping, body languages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n the limited instrumentation i was presented with for this piece led me to look towards musical tradition that arose from restriction & necessity. the main inspiration became work songs & i began looking into the history & traditions tied to my ancestral past– african american slave (\u201cwork\u201d) songs & arhoolies (agricultural work songs). i then was pulled in other related directions; to industrial folk songs, military cadences & sea shanties, all of which are founded in aural tradition and a nature of call & response. My hope is for those who engage with this piece to look back not only to these specific musical traditions, but to the history of prison labor, the prison-industrial complex, institutionalized oppression\/racism and then to its present-day, ongoing persistence.<\/span><\/p>\n abolish police. abolish prisons.<\/span><\/p>\n By Yaz Lancaster <\/span>https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/yazjanelle\/powergone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>4 tables of auxiliary. Kitchenware, clapping<\/p>\n