21, by Andy Akiho

21, by Andy Akiho
Performed by:
Ian Rosenbaum | marimba & tambourine
Mariel Roberts | cello, kick drum, & electronics
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ABOUT THE COMPOSER:
Andy Akiho was born in 1979 in Columbia, South Carolina and now resides in New York. His musical interests run from steel pan to traditional classical music. Akiho's debut CD No One To Know One, on Innova Records, features brilliantly crafted compositions that pose intricate rhythms and exotic timbres around his primary instrument, the steel pan.
Recent engagements include commissioned premieres by the New York Philharmonic’s CONTACT! series and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW, a performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and three concerts at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. His rhythmic compositions have been recognized with awards including the 2014-15 Luciano Berio Rome Prize, the 2014 American Composers Orchestra Underwood Emerging Composers Commission, a 2014 Chamber Music Grant with the Friction Quartet and Jenny Q. Chai, a 2012 Chamber Music America Grant with Sybarite5, the 2011 Finale & ensemble eighth blackbird National Composition Competition Grand Prize, the 2012 Carlsbad Composer Competition Commission for the Calder Quartet, the 2011 Woods Chandler Memorial Prize (Yale School of Music), a 2011 Music Alumni Award (YSM), the 2010 Horatio Parker Award (YSM), three ASCAP Plus Awards, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award, and a 2008 Brian M. Israel Prize.
Akiho is a graduate of the University of South Carolina (BM, performance), the Manhattan School of Music (MM, contemporary performance), and the Yale School of Music (MM, composition). He is pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at Princeton University, and is currently Composer-in-Residence at Avaloch Farm Music Institute. His compositions have been featured on PBS’s “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and by organizations such as Bang on a Can, American Composers Forum, and The Society for New Music. To read more about Andy and listen to his music, please visit andyakiho.com
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[@noahmarcotte9567]

I have no other choice but to make a movie revolving around this beautiful masterpiece.

[@str3]

amazing performance

[@dkeller20m]

Playing this piece for my senior recital and am loving every second of it.

[@jobplace5842]

what time signature is it in? or is it many?

[@bcoughlin10]

3/4

[@zhaoli7692]

Hey so could I ask you have the score of this piece ?

[@DanielKodiak]

I am now going to do this for my senior recital lmao

[@sharkpigstudios505]

The laterals for the marimba player is insane....mad respect

[@ronniewingo7768]

Hey I was in Carolina Crown with Andy!

[@programmedwrong3795]

Very very cool! This is true musicianship!

[@lynnedreyer5742]

wow! no words.. beautiful

[@hey0723]

i love the sound of the cello, so cooool

[@ryebread7224]

This is awesome!!!!!!

[@jeffreyanthony6628]

This is fantastic! Bravo!

[@ashlynirwin7751]

I love the way it sounded! You two make a really great pair!

[@MSCViolin]

Incredible stuff

[@jazzfrontproductions9645]

This is on fire!

[@virginiacestmoi671]

preciousssss

[@s.goldberger4887]

Awesome!

[@GeMaDu]

Very nice, I like it very much! All the best for you!

[@davidwisemannn3823]

Amazing

[@ishipmyselfwithfood]

Gotta love Andy Akiho!

[@RobespierreThePoof]

One of the best composers in quite some time. I could give you a whole set of reasons based in music history and cultural theory ... But thats a dinner conversation , not a KZbin one.

[@chase0312]

Love the progressive creativity

[@chrispidicello]

those pizz's are gold Mariel!

[@nhatminhvule]

Such a beautiful duet !

[@mexkdspEd44]

Andy Akiho is a genius

[@Rokudammela]

Great one

[@ashlynirwin7751]

Wow!

[@ryanm.russellsmusicrecordi63]

String and Percussion are my two favorite families of the orchestra. So this video is my favorite

[@andresmarinmusic]

WOW!

[@curtbarnes4294]

Thank you Vic Firth, whoever you are. Your productions are always optimal.

[@dylancouch7286]

Vic Firth is actually a company for Percussion.

[@Vallent518]

@@dylancouch7286 Actually Vic Firth is a real person! He just named the company after himself. He used to be a member of the Boston Symphony!

[@Mikhakonko]

Whoaaaaaaa!!!

[@unagi6790]

Goddamn that's fantastic stuff, very nice composition and an excellent performance.

[@RobbyHuang]

This is jammin'!

[@existiryextinguirse1950]

relaxing.....................

[@DieNaSty4me]

One thumbs down? Someone is bitter. This is awesome!

[@JonahBoudreaux]

Must have been an accident because holy cow!!

[@tsf5-productions]

This number would make a great "driving around" song for some type of "crime show". Really...this is a cool number!

[@user-zj8ms9xq8l]

これはすごい！これからのスタンダードとして広めてもらいたい！演奏者も素晴らしい。曲のすべてがわかって演奏している。

[@shawnmuench]

the comprehension here is dope

[@Ferrichrome]

Playing this with someone for a percussion recital!!

[@kovalthenarehate]

9+10

[@sevenfacecomplex]

best shit I've ever heard. God.

[@Program-zw4oe]

the first cello rhythm is in 27/16 or some simplified version of that. there is also 3/4 and 4/4 rhythm throughout but who knows what else is in there

[@chaoshuffer]

Nah, that opening is written in 3/4, the cello pizzicato line just cycles through a cycle of 27 16th notes so after the first statement it repeats with the quarter notes landing on the “a”s, then the “and”s, then the “e”s, and when it completes this rhythmic cycle for the first time and comes back around to the quarter notes falling on the downbeats, the marimbist playing on the resonators enters. It’s all written in 3/4 though, and you should be feeling the constant quarter note pulse throughout, it’s just syncopated.

[@KingstonCzajkowski]

@@chaoshuffer It's polymeter.

[@chaoshuffer]

@@KingstonCzajkowski yes.

[@drumcorps0junkie]

👌🎶🎹🏆😇🏆🎹🎶👌

[@tgjessica8]

Thank you so much for uploading this video! Let me know how to see the sheet of the "21"??Am studying a duet for cello and marimba.

[@ianrosenbaum]

Hey - you can grab the sheet music at andyakiho.com

[@HuangShang010]

Interesting

[@ulisesjm9608]

What equipment is the cello using for looping that?

[@magicpotato2161]

I hear some of the sounds from the beginning playing when they are not playing them visually. How did they get so good?

[@abcrtzyn]

MagicPotato21 their keep them in their thoughts, which get amplified. It’s a really cool new stuff.

[@alecgodfrey4510]

There’s a loop pedal/backing track that you record either before you play or at the beginning. Then there is a playback they trigger during the piece

[@cartoonringo]

Is there any way to contact Andy? I'd love to use this in our school's marching band show next year. I emailed asking for permission and he never responded.

[@TheEmperialist]

He is on facebook, maybe he'd respond there?

[@cartoonringo]

I tried. No response. Even though he accepted my friend request.

[@romanlanzas508]

Purpleparatroopa might be best to contact the actual company that published it

[@ianrosenbaum]

Hey - the best way to reach Andy is through email, [e-mail]. Just keep trying him!

[@chun-weikang471]

anyone know where I could find the score for this?

[@filipecalixto6569]

also looking for it... if anyone knows where to find pls tell... ill say if i find it tho...

[@ianrosenbaum]

It's available from Andy's website!

[@chun-weikang471]

Thanks Ian!

[@aaronrios6470]

I hear a little led zeppelin influence in there haha

[@bobloblaw9690]

I didn't really pick up on it till around 8:00 lol

[@spackerider1017]

Where can I get the wooden dowels?

[@ianrosenbaum]

Reach out to Vic Firth directly - they sell them!

[@wilbertocolon3576]

Chello and Bass drum with a Pedal Challenge, Check!

[@wilbertocolon3576]

The doubling with the reverb pedal is neat.

[@alainlemoal2643]

Excellent , mais d'où vient l'autre percussion qui maintient le temps par exemple au début ? d'une boîte à rythme me semble t-il....

[@zeta12ti]

Les artistes enregistrent la musique et la rejouent. Tu peux voir Mariel Roberts fait démarrer l'enregistrement à 8:48 (possiblement d'autres fois). (Désolé si mon français n'est pas bon: j'apprends)

[@Sohodollie]

Oui c'est un technologie pour rejouent le musique qu'il a déjà joue

[@gabbystempien9651]

what sticks for lack of a better term did he use? the mallets without the yarn?

[@ianrosenbaum]

Hey - they are just mallet shafts (marimba mallets without the heads).

[@gabbystempien9651]

+Ian Rosenbaum so did you just take off the heads or can you buy them like that

[@ianrosenbaum]

I get them direct from Vic Firth - if you get in touch with them, they will sell them to you!

[@jobplace5842]

what the heck time signature is this?

[@AstinCrow]

job place 3/4

[@willsunnn]

The initial grove is 3 quarter notes, followed by 5 dotted eighths. So one iteration if the grove is 27 sixteenth notes long, one sixteenth note shy of 8 counts. So every time the grove cycles through once, the grove is replayed an additional sixteenth note ahead of the beat

[@elptrilogy]

Opens up in 27/16.

[@scottlawson1522]

Clearly wanted every mic to deafen us with those two marimba notes JEEzus (don’t get triggered baby) %n%

[@muguletv1300]

Anyone have the score please ? I like this music, but $60 for this, I think it's really too much ... :(

[@dylan5218]

It was a good performance but I felt the conflicting rhythms at the beginning took away from the intro. Other than that, I thought it was great.

[@mindfulclarity169]

Man and woman working perfectly together. What's the feminists have to say about this?

[@nihilist4184]

He is not white so it's allowed.

[@Sohodollie]

Its just music man why do you have to make it an issue