Xati

Payton MacDonald

General Info

Copyright: 2022
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Level: Advanced
Duration: 00:07:35
Cost: $36.00

Instrumentation

Player 1: Tambourine 1
Player 2: Tambourine 2
Player 3: Tambourine 3
Player 4: Tambourine 4
Player 5: Tambourine 5

Program Notes

In the spring of 2007 I spent two months listening to South Indian Carnatic music on my commute to work in the morning and Xenakis’s percussion works on my way home from work in the evening. The effect of this listening schedule was a dream I had in which Xenakis himself was wandering around South India. He was gigantic, with spindly legs and a shock of hair, lost and yet at home in the subcontinent. A curious drumming accompanied him, which provided the inspiration for Xati. I’ve drawn on the Carnatic concept of jati, or different polyrhythmic subdivisions, infused with Xenakis’s formalized primitivism.

Works for Percussion by this Composer

Solo Works

Tri-alaap - Multiple Percussion
To See - Marimba

Chamber Ensemble

Rudra - Percussion Quartet
Xati - Percussion Quintet

With Other Instruments

Devil Dance - Flute & Hand Drum