MUSIC FEATURING TAMTAMS / GONGS / RINGING METALS

COMPOSITIONS

COMPOSITIONS BY DOMINIC DONATO

PLAN B (2016)
  for percussion ensemble of seven tamtams and seven barei bells (18 minutes)
  Premiere: November 10, 2016 at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College
  by the Purchase Percussion Ensemble

SIX (2011)
  for percussion ensemble of six large tamtams (18 minutes)
  Premiere: March 6, 2012 at St. Peter's Church, NYC
  by Talujon Percussion Group

SEVEN (2010)
  for percussion ensemble of seven large tamtams (20 minutes)
  Premiere: May 10, 2011 at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College
  by the Purchase Percussion Ensemble

REUSE, RECYCLE, REDUCE (2009)
  for percussion quartet (9 minutes)
  Premiere: March 19, 2010 at the Tenri Cultural Institute of New York
  by Iktus Percussion Quartet

WITHOUT A DOUBT (2009)
  solo for drumset (4 minutes)

POINTS AND LINES (2008)
  for flute , violin, cello and vibraphone (5 minutes)
  Premiere: October 26, 2008 at Jan Hus Church, NYC
  by the Cadillac Moon Ensemble

SPIN (2008)
  for percussion quartet and looping soloist (9 minutes)
  Preimiere: February 28, 2008 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater
  at Symphony Space by Talujon and Todd Reynolds, violin

SOLO'TUDE (2006)
  solo for four timpani (4 minutes)

EITHER/OR (2004)
  for djembe solo (7 minutes)
  Premiere: April 18, 2005 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater
  at Symphony Space by Michael Lipsey
  Recorded on: "so long, thanks..." (Capstone Records CPS-8773) by Michael Lipsey
  Published by: Calabrese Brothers Music

PARALLEL LINES (2004)
  for percussion duo (3 drums each) (5 minutes)
  Premiere: October 15, 2004 at the Frank E. Taplin Auditorium,
  Princeton University by DoublePlay

ABOUT TIME (2002)
  for two marimbas (2 minutes)
  Premiere: October 21, 2003 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater
  at Symphony Space by DoublePlay

SLIP (2002)
  for amplified tamtam and looping device (12 minutes)
  Premiere: March 19, 2003 at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater
  at Symphony Space by Dominic Donato
  Recorded on: "METALMORPHOSIS" (Capstone Records CPS-8796)

STATIC THREADS (2001)
  for percussion quartet (4 minutes)
  (hi-hat/splash cymbal, timpano, large tamtam, floor tom) (5 minutes)
  Premiere: September 10, 2001 at Purchase College, NY by Talujon

RING (2000/ rev. 2003)
  for amplified tamtam solo (9 minutes)
  Premiere: May 7, 2001 at Washington Square Church, NYC by Dominic Donato

JOYA NO KANE (1999-2000)
  for one or more gongs distributed throughout performance space (approx. 80 minutes)

OUTSIDER (1999)
  5, 7 and 9 minute versions for ensemble of 2, 4, 6 or more percussionists
  Premiere: December 3, 1999 at TONIC, NYC by Talujon and ESP

HUM (1997/2003) 
  for percussion quartet - solo tamtam, large tamtam, 2 double cymbals
  (12 and 15 minute versions)
  Premiere: November 30, 1997 at the Knitting Factory, NYC
  by Talujon Percussion Quartet
  Recorded on: "METALMORPHOSIS" (Capstone Records CPS-8796)
  Published by: Calabrese Brothers Music

* = written for Dominic Donato
 
ARTHUR KREIGER - Precious Metals* (2012)
  for metal percussion and electronic sounds

BARBARA WHITE - Nothing Doing* (2009-2010)
  for tamtam and recorded sound

BARBARA WHITE - Ryokan's Bowl* (2009)
  for large chau gong

ERIC MOE - Gong Tormented* (2007)
  for two inverted Chau gongs, Chinese opera gong, suspended cymbal
  Recorded on: "Of Color Braided All Desire" (Albany Records TROY1539)
  Published by: Dead Elf Music

USHIO TORIKAI - Metal Songs* (2007)
  for tamtams, gongs, metals and pre-recorded sounds
  (Meet the Composer Commission)

STEVE RICKS - Haiku* (2006)
  for tamtams, temple bowls and pre-recorded sounds
  Recorded on: "Mild Violence" (Bridge 9265)

PETER JARVIS - Metallic Music* (2005)
  a serenade for six gongs
  Recorded on: "METALMORPHOSIS" (Capstone Records CPS-8796)
  Published by: Calabrese Brothers Music

ELIZABETH HOFFMAN - metalmorphosis* (2004)
  for inverted Chau and Peking Opera gongs and suspended Paiste gong
  Recorded on: "METALMORPHOSIS" (Capstone Records CPS-8796)
  Published by: Smith Publications/Sonic Arts Editions

STUART JONES - Transmogrifications IV* (2002)
  for 3 tamtams and computer-generated sounds
  Recorded on: "METALMORPHOSIS" (Capstone Records CPS-8796)
  Published by: Berwick Heights Music

JOHN LUTHER ADAMS - Roar from "The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies" (2002)
  for very large tamtam and processed sounds

HELEN LEE - whispering silence* (2001)
  for 3 prepared tamtams and thundersheet

HEINZ HOLLIGER - Voi(es)x métallique(s) (1994/2000)

JOHN CAGE - One4 (1990)
  Recorded on: "METALMORPHOSIS" (Capstone Records CPS-8796)
  Published by: Henmar Press Inc./C.F. Peters Corporation

JOHN LESSARD - Ringing Sounds and Casual Comments (1989/1992)

GLEN CORTESE - Chronaxis IV* (1984)
  for large Paiste gong

TOMAS SVOBODA - Discernment of Time (1975)

JAMES TENNEY - deus ex machina (1982)

JAMES TENNEY - Having Never Written a Note for Percussion (1971)

JAMES TENNEY - For Percussion Perhaps, Or.... (night) (1971)
  Recorded on: "METALMORPHOSIS" (Capstone Records CPS-8796)
  Published by: Smith Publications/Sonic Arts Editions

PHILLIP GLASS - 1+1 (1965)

KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN - Mikrophonie I (1964)

LA MONTE YOUNG - Studies in the Bowed Disc (1963)
  for bowed gong

LA MONTE YOUNG - arabic numeral [any integer] for H.F. (1960)
  for  piano(s) or gong(s) or ensemble of at least 45 instruments of the same timbre,
  or combinations of the above, or orchestra. A sound is to be repeated some number
  of times, the number corresponding to the title chosen for the performance.