"I get my influences from everyday life" -Ross Karre

"Classical percussionist" Ross Karre--he explains what this means today--explains the creative world and craft of his many instruments. Sound associations, playing unlikely objects, programming for unusual repertoire.

Ross Karre is a percussionist, filmmaker, and producer who devoted 11 years to the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), initially as a performer and archive director, and later in the roles of production director and artistic director in addition to performing. He has appeared in more than 500 concerts with the collective, including hundreds of world premieres.

An avid chamber musician and interdisciplinary artist, he has performed regularly with red fish blue fish, Third Coast Percussion, and Yarn/Wire. His projection design work has been presented all over the world in prestigious venues such as the BBC Scotland, the Park Avenue Armory, the Kennedy Center, and the National Gallery of Art.

0:00 Intro Demonstrations
1:46 Playing a Cactus?
4:34 How do you notate a bouncy ball or a comb?
12:16 Who decides what's a creepy sound?
15:18 Choreographing a performance
19:59 Dividing practice time between many instruments
24:18 Programming a percussion concert
26:58 Hannah Hartman: Message from The Lighthouse (2011)
29:46 Dealing with injury with awareness
31:48 How do you know if you have rhythm?
35:00 Closing credits

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