Everything Now Right Now (2018)

FOR PREPARED Drum set and electronics

9 minutes

Program Notes

Everything Now Right Now is a piece for drum set and track featuring high-energy, driving rhythms and a free-wheeling, synth-soaked track. Moving in lock-step with the drums, the track becomes a kind of super-drum, highlighting every sound in the kit as if the kit itself triggers the track’s bombastic frenzy. After a careening opening section, full of jump-cuts and jagged rhythms the track abruptly shifts to an ominous drone while the drummer adds a layer of improvised cymbal sounds. As we are lulled into an ambient haze of cymbals and shifting synth-pads, the music suddenly turns back to material reminiscent of the opening. The quick change leads to few brief missteps, but the drummer soon locks in with a series of increasingly disjunct grooves, driving the music to a bombastic finish. 

Everything Now Right Now was commissioned by Evan Chapman and premiered July 11, 2018 at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

Electronics may be downloaded here.

 

Evan Chapman’s Caustics features Everything Now Right Now and was released in 2020.

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Performances

March 6, 2021 Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL. Kyle Parciany.

May 17, 2020 NYU, YouTube Live Recital. Jared Shaw.

November 7, 2018 Everything Now Right Now, Sō Percussion Studio, Brooklyn, NY. Evan Chapman.

September 12, 2018 Everything Now Right Now, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Evan Chapman.

July 11, 2018 Everything Now Right Now, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Evan Chapman.