Linda Dusman

for mixed percussion ensemble

ca. 7'00"

In the summer of 2012 I was cleaning up my back yard, where a number of discarded water-diverting tubes had found a home. When I threw them on a pile, they sounded magnificent. Experiments with the tubes revealed a number of interesting possibilities for use as a percussion instrument, and working with Tom Goldstein and Umbilicus, an extraordinarily imaginative percussion quartet, forwarded the creation of the “subterraneaphone.” I am indebted to Rich Lipscher, a master luthier, for assistance with design and fabrication of the instrument.

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