Sound Sculptures Concert 2025
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Time and Location
Sat. May 31, 3:00pm PDT
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About the concert
An outdoor performance featuring the WWU Percussion Ensemble on, in, and around the Outdoor Sculpture Collection at Western Washington University.
The concert will begin at the Performing Arts Center plaza overlooking Bellingham Bay at For Handel and progress through the campus towards the south end and conclude about 60 minutes later at Untitled (Steam Work for Bellingham). The audience is free to move from sculpture to sculpture during the performance.
Concert Program
For Handel (1975) by Mark di Suvero
- “Bourrée” by George Frideric Handel arranged for Marimba Orchestra by Clair Omar Musser
- “Allegro” from Sonata in F Major Op. 1 Nr. 12 by George Frideric Handel
- Sarah Gillespie and Logan Marshall, marimbas
- “Bourrée” from Water Music by George Frideric Handel arranged by Patrick Roulet
- “IV” from Percussion Suite (1935) by Johanna Beyer
Skyviewing Sculpture (1969) by Isamu Noguchi
- Watercolor Sun (2023) by Ivan Trevino
- Jacob Anderson, Parker Butterfield, Deno Durant, Mica Kishaba, marimba
Wright’s Triangle (1979-80) by Richard Serra
- Funk Duets by Peter Erskine arranged for pitch-bending triangles by the ensemble
Log Ramps (1974, reconstructed 1983 and 1995) Lloyd Hamrol
- “Sente Nekola” arr. by Haruna Walusimbe and the Nakibembe Xylophone Group. Taught to the WWU Percussion Ensemble by Mark Stone.
Stadium Piece (1979-80) by Bruce Nauman
- Samba-inspired grooves with rainsticks arranged by the ensemble
Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings (1977-78) by Nancy Holt
- Cyclical Time of the Universe (2025) by Patrick Roulet
Untitled (Steam Work for Bellingham) (1971, installed 1974) Robert Morris
- Toyama (1993) by Michael Udow
- Flowerpot Music (2020) by Elliot Cole
Manus (1994) Magdalena Abakanowicz
- Fibonacci (2021) for large bass drum by Patrick Roulet
- Deno Durant, bass drum
WWU Percussion Ensemble
Patrick Roulet, Director
- Jacob Anderson
- Aspen Bentrim
- Darren Bunker
- Parker Butterfield
- Toby Bruce*
- Deno Durant
- Mary Fejer
- Hayden Fontenot
- Daniel Furry*
- Elias Gardner
- Sarah Gillespie
- Mica Kishaba
- Rye Kwiecien-Roick
- Logan Marshall
- Asa Morris*
- Rik Mason-Zollfrank
- Quill Pulliam
- Luke Shannon
- Aiden Tarrach
- Lucas Webster*
*WWU Percussion Ensemble Alumni
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