Discothèque
2016 (10:00)
Percussion trio

Video: Discothèque by Wally Gunn, performed by Jacob Gutierrez, Nathan Matthews and Somali Wilson at Sō Percussion Summer Institute 2016

Program Note
This piece is dedicated to all the extraordinary musicians, especially the Latin- and African-American musicians, who created disco music in the 1970s; music with the message of desire, love, aspiration, inclusion, freedom, and release in the unbridled joy of dancing. And it is also dedicated to the dancers, especially the magnificent queers of all colors who gathered together at discotheques in throughout that decade when it was a radical act that heralded the dawn of the LGBT liberation movement.
– WG, 2016

Instrumentation

Percussion 1
Bongos
Mid tom
Low tom
Concert bass drum
Vibraphone (shared with Percussion 2)
Bows

Percussion 2
Bongos
Mid tom
Low tom
Concert bass drum
Vibraphone (shared with Percussion 1)
Bows

Percussion 3
Drum kit (kick, snare, high hat, 2 cymbals)
Crotales
Bows

First performed by
Jacob Gutierrez
Nathan Matthews
Somali Wilson
at Sō Percussion Summer Institute 2016

Discothèque . Catalogue 127 . Copyright © Wally Gunn . June 2016