Extremes (2009)
For Percussion Quartet
5 Minutes
About the Music
An avid performer and composer, Jason Treuting is a founding member of the percussion ensemble So Percussion. Treuting has composed many works for the ensemble including tonight’s Extremes, which is part of a larger evening length work called “Imaginary City” (Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2009 Next Wave Festival). Much of Treuting’s inspiration for composition comes from patterns that are found in language; he uses words as a basis for form and rhythmic structure. In Extremes Treuting bases his form and rhythmic structure on a series of US cities; the result is an intricate four-part canon. According to Treuting the parent work, “Imaginary City,” “is a meditation on urban life and its sounds, architecture, light, and color.”