Michael Goron's Field of Vision world premiere trailer with U-M Percussion at the Caramoor Festival.

Highlights from performance with dance by Lucinda Chiilds.

Darian Donovan Thomas' Spiral live from Time:Spans with Ensemble Signal.

Tales of the Traveler live from Time:Spans with Ensemble Signal and Nicole Mitchell.

for 50 violins and 50-channel 1-bit electronics

Red Bull Music Festival
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
May 9, 2018, NYC

Tristan Perich's Drift Multiply is performed by 50 violins alongside 50 loudspeakers. Scored as 100 individual lines of music that blend violins and speakers into a cascading tapestry of tone, harmony and noise, Drift Multiply is a vivid synthesis of person and machine. The violins perform from sheet music, while the speakers are each connected to custom-built circuitboards programmed to output 1-bit audio, the most basic digital waveforms made up of just 1s and 0s. "I am interested in the threshold between the abstract world of computation and the physical world around us," states Perich. Perich's largest work to date, Drift Multiply is an exploration of the dense multiplicity resulting from a hundred musical threads as they travel across the ensemble and shift between acoustic and electronic, individual and group, tone and noise.

Doug Perkins, conductor

Violins: Tia Allen, Megan Atchley, Melisa Atoyan, Ludovica Burtone, Kallie Ciechomski, Matt Consul, Francesca Dardani, Erica Dicker, Amelia Dietrich, Stanichka Dimitrova, Adrianne Munden Dixon, Kiku Enomoto, Emma Frucht, Emilie Anne Gendron, Molly Germer, Sarah Goldfeather, John Guarino, Isabel Hagen, Pauline Kim Harris, Josh Henderson, Ling Ling Huang, Michael Hustedde, Maria Im, Patti Kilroy, Katherine Liccardo, Blagomira Lipari, Laura Lutzke, Matthew McBane, Julia Meynert, Ariel Mitnick, Josh Modney, Arthur Moeller, Emily Mullaney, Doori Na, Yuri Namkung, Tom Nikiper, Alec Norkey, Yumi Oshima, Maxfield Panish, Elena Moon Park, Lavinia Pavlish, Ben Russell, Finnegan Shanahan, Kyla-Rose Smith, Brendan Speltz, Abby Swidler, Sabrina Tabby, Sarah Whitney, Ashley Windle, Nicole Wright.

"Tristan Perich: Drift Multiply" was commissioned by Issue Project Room, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and additional support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

UMich Percussion plays Robert Maggio's Everything I Thought I Wanted

Vodalities performed by Shodekeh Talifero and the University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble.

Journeys by Brad Lubman performed by the University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble.

Highlights from Aniara w/ The Crossing

So Percussion and Meehan/Perkins Duo

Thanks to Vic Firth for putting this video together!

INUKSUIT from Connor Owens

Here is the first movement of the Leshnoff Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra for the Meehan/ Perkins Duo.

The exciting conclusion of our 7-hour, 13-mile journey down Broadway for Make Music Winter!