Music For Pieces of Wood, by Steve Reich

Performed by Third Coast Percussion David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, Owen Clayton Condon with special guest Matthew Duvall of eight blackbird ABOUT THE PIECE: “Music for Pieces of Wood grows out of the same roots as Clapping Music: a desire to make music with the simplest possible instruments. The claves, or cylindrical pieces of hard wood, used here were selected for their particular pitches (A, B, C-sharp, D-sharp, and D-shar