Rituals permeate every aspect of human life, and music is no exception. An evening of inventive new works for percussion explores how music plays a role in everything from renewing a world in chaos to the pursuit of wellness through meditation practice.

Missy Mazzoli’s Millennium Canticles imagines the musicians as a post-apocalyptic group of survivors who struggle to remember the rituals and stories that once made them human. Tyondai Braxton’s Sunny X is a meditation on small phrases of non-pitched percussion and electronics that takes the audience on a riveting sonic journey. A new original composition by Third Coast Percussion brings the focus inward, exploring the ritual of meditation through sound.

Contact Reba Cafarelli, TCP Managing Director, for more information: [email protected].

Press for Rituals and Meditations

Chicago Classical Review
“TCP’s performance was enormously impressive.”

Third Coast Review
“If you have not listened to any Third Coast Percussion music, I highly recommend that you set aside a couple of hours and get on it.”

Read a feature article about Third Coast Percussion’s concerts, residencies, commissions, and other activities from The Chicago Reader.