Brian Calhoon's guest appearances

Brian Calhoon

Pete's Percussion Podcast - Pete Zambito

The @Percussion Podcast

Tim Palmer

David Harvey

James Campbell

Brian Smith

Evelyn Glennie

David Robinson

Colin Currie

Josh Roberts

Josh Jones

Dave Hall

Justin Alexander

Mark Ford

Mark Reynolds

Stephen Hall

Matt Lau

OwlTail

160 - Adam SilvermanJoining us this week is composer and Professor at West Chester University: Adam Silverman.  He's especially known for some of his percussion works, including Quick Blood, Carbon Paper and Nitrogen Ink, Sparklefrog, and stars, cars, bars.  (The title game is strong with this one, no?)He teaches composition, music theory, and orchestration, and runs a site dedicated to his musings of teaching the theoretical side of music at musictheoryprof.com.Watch here. Listen below.0:00 Intro and hello1:34 Casey: What's the sound?  Prudie Shuffle and RIP ArethaFranklin6:04 Intro and hello to Adam Silverman7:10 Approaching composing for unfamiliar instruments?  18:11 Texture use and approach?20:04 None western scales?  Quarter tones?25:23 Adam's piece, "Stars Cars Bars"32:15 New solo pieces?  Little prog. rock tangent    38:20 How did you get so involved in the percussion community and into composing for percussion?45:10 Importance of community?52:11 Commissions vs "writing for yourself" ?  58:30 Todd Meehan's Liquidrum Practice Journal1:03:05 Podcast speed trivia

160 - Adam SilvermanJoining us this week is composer and Professor at West Chester University: Adam Silverman.  He's especially known for some of his percussion works, including Quick Blood, Carbon Paper and Nitrogen Ink, Sparklefrog, and stars, cars, bars.  (The title game is strong with this one, no?)He teaches composition, music theory, and orchestration, and runs a site dedicated to his musings of teaching the theoretical side of music at musictheoryprof.com.Watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty8-P4c1uJs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Listen below.0:00 Intro and hello1:34 Casey: What's the sound?  Prudie Shuffle and RIP ArethaFranklin6:04 Intro and hello to Adam Silverman7:10 Approaching composing for unfamiliar instruments?  18:11 Texture use and approach?20:04 None western scales?  Quarter tones?25:23 Adam's piece, "Stars Cars Bars"32:15 New solo pieces?  Little prog. rock tangent    38:20 How did you get so involved in the percussion community and into composing for percussion?45:10 Importance of community?52:11 Commissions vs "writing for yourself" ?  58:30 Todd Meehan's Liquidrum Practice Journal1:03:05 Podcast speed trivia

The @Percussion - Episode 1 - Brian Calhoon 