Sō Percussion (original) (raw)
Sometimes the world seems deadset against moving the culture forward. But we’re sticking with the plan, and we have a secret weapon. You!
We need money so we can do SōSI and commission and record and collaborate with heroes like Becca Stevens, Helado Negro, Kate Stables (This Is the Kit), Olivier Tarpaga, Jad Abumrad, Ji Hye Jung, Kaoru Watanabe and Caroline Shaw and Ringdown – and that’s just for starters…the next few years will be full of marvels, if you can just believe in us through your gift.
Nearly half of the videos that we made for our 25×25 Box Set are already out. You can watch everything we’ve released so far (got a few weeks/videos to go!) and every bit is free, the streaming, the videos, the good vibes.
But let’s be real for one second. This all costs money. From the commissions, to the rehearsals, the schlepping of gear, the engineers and producers, the video artists, the amazing folks who perform alongside us and did we mention overhead and payroll taxes? We have productions staff, an incredibly utilitarian home loft studio in Brooklyn that we share for free with many and at super low rates with others. We run a Summer Festival (SōSI) where so many of our new heroes once attended. In a word, we stay busy.
If you don’t think we keep busy, maybe watch some of these? The rest are coming out every week for the foreseeable future!
Here’s Adam to tell you about the 8-CD 1LP 25×25.
His essay digs into the why of it all!
Concerts
Collaboration
Community
Tue, Jan 13 – 7:30pm
Sō at Salt Lake City
Virtuoso Concert Series in Partnership with the School of MusicFor 20 years and counting, Sō Percussion has redefined chamber music for the 21st century through an “exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy, rigor and bedlam” -The New Yorker. Their 2024 Album, Rectangles and Circumstance, won the group their first Grammy Award. Their commitment to the creation and amplification of new work have made them a trusted partner for composers, allowing the writing of music that expands the style and capacity of brilliant voices of our time.Their concert will feature new quartets by Grammy-winning Bryce Dessner of The National and Pulitzer and Grammy-winning Caroline Shaw, which you can experience in SLC ahead of their performance at Carnegie Hall later in January!
Fri, Jan 23 – 9:00pm
Carnegie Hall – American Flow Volume I
New stuff! New month! Dessner, Love, Shaw & Williams. You can’t miss this one!
Fri, Jan 30 – 7:30pm
Winter Princeton Show!
This year’s show resembles the Carnegie Hall gig. More to come soon!
Fri, Feb 27 – 7:00pm
So Perscussion @ Adelphi University
Performing Arts Center Garden City,
Wed, Mar 25 – 7:30pm
Sō at Eastman! Who Turns Out The Light with Caroline Shaw and Ringdown
…AN EXHILARATING BLEND OF PRECISION AND ANARCHY, RIGOR AND BEDLAM…
—The New Yorker
Sō Percussion and its Board of Directors invite you to a very special benefit concert and party to celebrate our 25th Anniversary and honor Janet Cowperthwaite WEDNESDAY MAY 7, 2025 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC (BAM) BAM Fisher 321 Ashland Pl…
Congratulations to Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion—Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting—who won the GRAMMY Award for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance, for their album Rectangles and Circumstance,at the 67th GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony held in Los Angeles today.
Rectangles and Circumstance comprises ten songs co-written and performed by the artists. Shaw and Cha-Beach and Sliwinski “sourced a group of nineteenth-century poems that shaped its expressive mode [and] ended up using verses by Christina Rosetti, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and William Blake,” says Sliwinski. “The lyrics on this album by members of the band contain wordplay that explores the same profound feelings explored by Blake and Dickinson.” Shaw and Sō co-produced the album with Grammy-winning engineer Jonathan Low (The National, Taylor Swift). Ringdown—Caroline Shaw’s duo with Danni Lee Parpan—is featured on the track “Slow Motion.” You can hear the album here.
Caroline Shaw’s two Nonesuch albums with Attacca Quartet, Evergreen and Orange, previously won the Grammy for this category.
August 2nd at 7:30pm in the Lewis Arts Complex Featuring: Julius Eastman – Stay On It With special guest Ji Hye Jung August 3rd – Day of Sonic Exploration! 11am Princeton Record Exchange 12pm Labyrinth Books 1pm jaZams 2pm Princeton…
THIS ENSEMBLE HAS SET THE NEW YORK STANDARD FOR PERCUSSION INNOVATION.
—The New Yorker