On May 9, the Cascadia Composers Collective showcased the concert "Found Sounds," featuring unique percussion instruments sourced from everyday objects. Highlighting the versatility of sound, eight composers presented music incorporating nonstandard percussion. The term 'found sounds' relates to these everyday objects turned instruments. Historical examples include Tchaikovsky’s cannons, while modern pieces utilize diverse elements like John Cage's compositions. This concert emphasizes composers as 'sonic excavators' who creatively repurpose objects into musical tools, challenging traditional concepts of instrumentation and expanding the realm of percussion in contemporary music.
With the right mindset, anything can become a percussion instrument. Composers become sonic excavators, seeking out objects that have the right sound when struck the right way.
Rather than instrument builders, found sound composers become instrument finders - or maybe instrument discoverers. They are discovering the musical possibilities latent within our everyday, nonmusical lives.
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