The Loops and Variations concert series at Chicago's Millennium Park unites electronica with contemporary classical music, resulting in a unique hybrid concert designed to appeal to fans of both genres. Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion will perform Thursday evening, on the same program with grit pop band Ghost Beach.
Third Coast Percussion's June 12 program features new music of Chicago composers, including Augusta Read Thomas' Resounding Earth, Owen Clayton Condon's Fractalia and Marc Mellits' Gravity.
TCP will also play a work written by one of its own members, David Skidmore. The work's prosaic title, Percussion Quartet, gives no hint of the inspiration behind it: the music of Meshuggah, a heavy metal band from Sweden.
I recently spoke with Skidmore about the piece. "It may seem like a strange inspiration for concert music," Skidmore acknowledged, " ...but the thing that really caught my ear about this particular band, they have an unbelievably complicated and intricate rhythmic language in the music they write."
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