Hocket Sandbox

"Hocket Sandbox"
Marimba Duo by Victor LaBozzetta III
Performed by Victor LaBozzetta III and David Yun
Audio and Video Produced by Greg Doscher

Program Note
"Hocket Sandbox started as a summer project based off a progression of sixteenth-note block chords for solo marimba. Upon the near immediate realization that seven minutes of sixteenth-note block chords would be physically and aurally exhausting for solo marimba, the piece became a duo. The duo, as a result, often functions as members of a single voice, developing phrases and melodies together. The title comes from the rapid trading of sixteenth notes between the two players, similar to a hocket, and the nature of free-flowing counterpoint all using the same tonal language and central motive, much like a child terraforming grains of sand in a sandbox. In that sense, the piece intends to display childhood imagination through the lens of a young adult."

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Recorded at the Eastman School of Music on April 27, 2017