Echoes from the Gorge

Percussion: red fish blue fish percussion ensemble Steven Schick, Yongyun Zhang, Michael Jones, Mitchell Carlstrom Echoes from the Gorge is the magnum opus of Chou: It represents a summation of all the concepts, East and West, acquired throughout his career. This work deploys vast timbral resources, yet is unprecedented in the thoroughness with which it codifies certain Western percussion practices according to timbres, sticks with regards to articulation, and contact location on the instruments. Such extensive codification results in a vast network of intrinsic structures comparable to Chinese ideograms.