Road-Tested Songs by So Percussion and Caroline Shaw, In-Studio

Published: July 11, 2024, 4 p.m.

Sample collaborative music by Pulitzer Prize-winning vocalist/composer Caroline Shaw and the versatile quartet S\u014d Percussion from their latest release,\xa0Rectangles and Circumstance,\xa0as played in-studio.

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Composer/vocalist/violinist\xa0Caroline Shaw, who has produced for Kanye West and Nas, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for her\xa0Partita for 8 Voices, which was written for and performed with the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth; she also teaches at NYU. Brooklyn-based S\u014d\xa0Percussion\xa0(Eric Cha-Beach, Adam Sliwinski, Josh Quillen, Jason Treuting) is a force of music and noise-making comprised of\xa0composer/percussionists/instrument builders/finders who beat, shake, bow, immerse, and rip all kinds of things \u2013 home goods and instruments - both acoustic and electric; they also compose.\xa0

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Listen to some of these songs with contributions by Caroline Shaw, and with her band Ringdown, together with S\u014d Percussion, as played live, in-studio.