VELVET AUDIO
Gateway of the Mind
Available for Regional Protection
featuring the original music of Tigran Hamasyan from his album, “The Call Within”
CLASS: MID - HIGH WORLD / RUNTIME: 7’58
Centered around the brain and its motivations, "Gateway of the Mind" explores the organ and its functions as well as the untapped potential it harnesses.
This world class production for indoor percussion ensemble offers a sort of omniscient, cynical view on human action and capability. Centered around the brain and its motivations, "Gateway of the Mind" explores the organ and its functions as well as the untapped potential it harnesses. Often glitchy and sporadic, the narration was meant to be indirect and unfulfilling so that the audience can fill in the rest for themselves.
This show presents a wonderful dichotomy of future and past, digital and organic, restraint and freedom...it is purposefully patient, except for when it’s not. Ultimately, "Gateway of the Mind" is a unique and refreshingly dry take on the human condition, gritty and unrelenting in its intention. Come take a look.
Front Ensemble Percussion
- Five Marimbas (4.5-octave range)
- One Xylophone (3.5-octave, w/ 2-octave range Crotales) combo
- Four Vibraphones (2 3-octave & 2 4-octave range)
- One Glockenspiel (3-octave, w/ 2-octave range Crotales) combo
- Synthesizer
- Bass Guitar & Upright Bass Player
- Timpani Player
- Drumset Player
- Two Auxiliary Percussion
- Sampler: Voiceover & SFX Queue Part
Battery Percussion
- Marching Snare Drum
- Marching Tenor Drums (w/ 2 spocks)
- Marching Bass Drums (5 drums)
- Marching Crash Cymbals
As this show contains copyrighted material by Tigran Hamasyan, Evan Marien & Arthur Hnatek, along with ℗ 2020 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States., for the tracks “37 Newlyweds,” “Vortex,” “Ara Resurrected,” “Space of Your Existence,” and “The Dream Voyager,” we ask that you pay an additional estimated fee of $1,680 to obtain a license to perform for these copyright-protected songs.
- Full Scores & Parts (in .PDF format)
Front Ensemble & Battery Percussion Scores (in .PDF format)
Notation Files (Sibelius & MusicXML)
Full Show Audio (in .AIF format)
Individual Click Tracks (in .AIF format)
Voiceovers & SFX (in .WAV format)
Tarp/Floor Design (in .JPEG format)
- Front Ensemble Percussion/SFX: Hunter Davis
- Battery Percussion: Zach Brumfield