Performance Video by Macao Percussion Association
Performance Video by Furman University Percussion Ensemble
Shiva Brahma
Performance Video by Macao Percussion Association
Shiva Brahma
2024
Shiva Brahma is a single by Jack Hooker and John Psathas, combining Jack's wall-of-sound electronics and John's epic percussion. It is a reworking of pieces they originally created together for John’s full-length percussion show Between Zero and One, premiered by Strike Percussion in 2013. As well as being released as a single, Shiva Brahma is also a performative piece for percussion ensemble, and has been played by groups including the Furman University Percussion Ensemble in the United States and the Macao Percussion Association in China.
From John Psathas:
"This is a merging of the opening track Shiva Sleeps and the closing track Waking Brahma. I wrote the percussion parts and Jack Hooker created the epic electronica layers. We had discussed on and off the idea of creating a single track that fused these two pieces together - Shiva designed to be an opening to the show and Brahma very much designed to end it. Those kinds of conversations are easy to have, but invariably open up a can of worms. Jack dived all the way back into the electronic layers and rebuilt them, making them even more massive and (within that extraordinary decibel level) managing to refine and clarify the wall of sound. We decided to make this available to live performance groups and it has subsequently been picked up and played live."
Purchase performance materials (percussion ensemble + backing track) from John Psathas's website
