University of Texas at Austin Percussion Ensemble 2020

This 50-minute-video is set around Yaz Lancaster’s work dis[armed] which attempts to explore the conversation around gun violence - particularly mass shootings and the killing of unarmed Black people by police in the US. Yaz’s work, and the program as a whole,
encourages a conversation to figure out where to go from here, and that there is somewhere better to go. Supporting works include: Joseph Pereira (Mallet Quartet), Devonté Hynes (Perfectly Voiceless), and a world premiere of (Elysium Infernum) by UT Percussion
DMA student Cy Miessler.

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This performance is dedicated to the victims of gun violence.

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00:00 - dis[armed] mvmt. II
05:12 - Mallet Quartet
14:03 - Perfectly Voiceless
25:29 - Elysium Infernum
40:20 - dis[armed] mvmt. III
42:07 - dis[armed] mvmt. IV
48:39 - Credits