PDXPercussionGroup

A percussion collective based in Portland, OR dedicated to the creation and performance of music for percussion.

[45th Parallel Universe @45thParallelPDX]

Music for 18 Musicians, a special 4/20 event!

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Coming up March 5th!

We team up with Caballito Negro to perform music by @alogginshull, Juri Seo, and @jeffwherriott. Join us at Bauman Auditorium for an immersive evening of flute and percussion music!

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Tickets: https://t.co/rfqhee5pCp

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From the time we first heard and saw Connor Shafran's "Continental Divide" in 2015, we fell in love with the sound world he created. We are so happy to finally share our recording!

Check out the full video: https://t.co/w1DMHUKszX

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#comingsoon

#continentaldivide

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We’re so happy to take part in this year’s @NewMusGathering, premiering “Space Station 189” with @LisaNeher, and some pretty stellar lyrics and music by @TransCherubino and @orpheuswannabe! Tune in at 1pm CDT today to check it out!

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[New Music Gathering @NewMusGathering]

Events for today, Aug 17! All online and free with registration! Visit https://t.co/PoLlqR1UEK

@NewMusicUSA @ComposersForum #NMG2021

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Check out the full performance of "The Spaces Between" by @Mendel_Lee!

https://t.co/hOaEFnn2e4

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New Music Alert!

We're thrilled to share our performance of @Mendel_Lee's "The Spaces Between"

🏟️: Revolution Hall Portland
🎥: @and_rew_and_you /Story to Spectacle
🎙️: Jason Powers
🔌/💡: Sage Collette

Watch the full performance at our YouTube channel:
https://t.co/hOaEFnn2e4

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Coming soon...

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New music by @Mendel_Lee

5.12.2021

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We had a blast laying down recordings for some new and recent works by @carolynaquick, @Mendel_Lee, Daniel Webbon, and Ben Justis for upcoming video releases! Big thanks to Jason Powers, Andrew Julius Wallner, and Sage Collette for making us look and sound as good as can be!

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@orpheuswannabe @TransCherubino @LisaNeher We are so excited to do this project with this awesome group of people!

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We're looking forward to a recording session this month of a new favorite of ours (⬇️!), but we're always keeping an eye on what @Mendel_Lee is up to! Can't wait to see what's next!

[Mendel Lee @Mendel_Lee]

now that I've inked "Spaces Between" for @PDXPercGroup and "You've Made Me Hungry" for @mezzoihnen , i find that i want my next project to be technically challenging and energetic. Have a few ideas floating around my head, we'll see where they go.

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@Mendel_Lee We are really looking forward to sharing this with the world!

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A glimpse from our performance of "Fixtures in the Fold" by Douglas Hertz at the 2020 @gaida_festival last fall!

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Here's another of our favorite haunting moments in Paul Lansky's "Threads", from our appearance at the @gaida_festival last October. This piece is so full of amazing colors!

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#ppg #gaida #timbres #Threads

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Check it out!

Paul absolutely slayed this insane vibes part from Steven Snowden's "Van Gogh From Space" on our @gaida_festival concert last fall!

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#ppg #gaida #snowden

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We are pretty excited about this ourselves!

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[Mendel Lee @Mendel_Lee]

Just found out that @PDXPercGroup is going to do a high quality video recording of the work I wrote for them last year. Very grateful and honored. More info as this develops.

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We love this groove from Paul Lansky's epic "Threads"!

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What a blast it was to share this with audiences at @gaida_festival 2020!

#ppg #Threads #groove

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This feels like it was just yesterday!

The first in a series of series of snippets from our performance last fall at the 2020 @gaida_festival in Vilnius, Lithuania!

Mvt. 6, Closing, from our arrangement of "Glassworks" by Philip Glass

#ppg #performance

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As we head into our 10th year, we have some exciting news to share - we’re expanding!

We’re thrilled to welcome Mari Yoshinaga, Terry Longshore, Jonathan Brown, and Garrett Arney to the PPG family, and we are excited for what the future holds as we move forward as a collective!

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We're still on a high after such a memorable concert Sunday in Vilnius with @colincurrieperc and the Colin Currie Quartet! Many thanks to everybody at @gaida_festival, Colin and his group, and @midatlanticarts for making our trip to GAIDA 2020 happen this year!

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