Sputter (BREAKS DOWN THE) Box

Sputter (BREAKS DOWN THE) Box features Sputter Box’s debut EP, which includes 29 one-minute pieces composed during the 2020 lockdown. These miniatures have been an audience favorite and are performed without pause. The first half of this program breaks the trio down into each combination of duos and includes works from the 20th and 21st centuries.

This program is best for venues that cannot provide any percussion equipment.

Sample Program And Recordings

Full Performance from All Souls Episcopol Church in Stony Brook, NY - Music starts at 10:23

Comfort Patterns (2018) Anna Meadors // 10 minutes

The World Feels Dusty (1950) Aaron Copland // 2 minutes

Tandem (2013) Chris Fisher-Lochhead // 6 minutes

Sputter (SHRINKS THE) Box (2020) // 29 minutes

Through Distance Daijana Wallace

All I Wonder Josh Trentadue

Castaways I Zach Hicks

La Dame Mavis MacNeil, Text: Guillaume Apollinaire

The Way We Look Michael Genese, Text: Richard Siken

I Tried To Make Love On Zoom Kyle Lewis

Amphibious Jacob Frost

I Am, I Was Seth Andrew Davis

PSA Brendan Sweeney

Distress Signal No. 1 From Re:Morse Music Matt Kowalski

Unremarkable Brain Matthew Slazik

Lorelei of the Leeches Julienne Tsang

A Divine Image Mario Godoy

Trapped Mavis MacNeil, Text: Adelaide Crapsey

Sing Swan! Apollonio Maiello

A Mood Michael Kahle, Text: George Macdonald

The Beauty of Night Martin Gaughan

A Pool John Secunde, Text: H.D.

i have always wanted David Carlton Adams, Text: Olivia Pepper

Catalog of Horrors Ian Wiese, Text: James Douglas Morrison

In the now Spencer Perkins

Pokr Shazer Joseph Bohigian

Take My Head Off My Shoulders Alex Chadwell

In His Hoodie Jamie Macdonald

what a time to be alive Isaac Mayhew

12 Bar Oohs David Howell

The Spice Cabinet Samuel Mutter

57.492 Seconds (Happy Tune) Niles Loughlin

PmuDII Yoshiaki Onishi

Total: 47 minutes of music

This program may be revised in collaboration with Sputter Box and the presenter.

Touring and Tech

An intimate chamber music concert with 3 duos and 29 one-minute works for a bass clarinet, voice, djembe trio, with a team of 3 musicians

Length: 70 minutes with intermission

Preferred venue: intimate space with a slightly elevated stage; recital hall; church

Tech and production rider is available upon request