Rock Paper Scissors

In this medium-advanced work for percussion quartet, wood, skin, and metal instruments are used to represent rock, paper, and scissors. Each has its own musical personality. The woods play hocketed 16th notes, the skins play aggressive polyrhythms, and the metals hint at metric modulation in five. Though they maintain their individual characteristics, these sound families exert influence on one another, just like the classic score-settling game played by millions across the world.

This piece comes as a professionally printed and bound score and includes individual parts in PDF format for printing or for tablet viewing.