Perfecto Aleman's Senior Percussion Recital, SFASU 5/4/24

Perfecto Aleman's Senior Percussion Recital
5/4/24
Stephen F. Austin State University Percussion Studio
Dr. Brad Meyer, director
www.Brad-Meyer.com
Cole Hall
PROGRAM:
"Distractions" by Jensen L. Thomassie
"Omnipresent" by Andy Akiho
"Just a Matter of Time" by Jamison Carr
"Indifference" by Joseph Colombo, arr. Eric Sammut
"beFORe JOHN7" by Hollò Aurél & Váczi Zoltán

[@kfenton8243]

Some really cool pieces! Great job!

[@georgebarrera0715]

This piece has transcended a mere performance into an actualized masterpiece. If one was to tell me that music itself was nothing more than notes on a piece of paper read out like a book, I would show them these pieces performed by the most endearing and handsomest lad. The integration of discord notifications, the fast-paced cymbal on the drum, the angelic taping of the steel pan, the rough and basilisk-like playing of the timpani’s! Oh! And don’t even get me started on the marimba playing! The marimba reminding me of the jungle gym again when I would play tag with my elementary school mates. And the timpani piece lets me know if Godzilla has a theme, that would be it! And the steel pan felt like I was floating away to heaven in its rapture! Further, that last piece! It was its own beast! Reminds me of the yin and yang between music and noise! It reaches such a beautiful chemistry of what is known in the world and what we still have left to hear! So much of what we thought we knew about music went into it teaching us all the lesson that what we create is not just devices for human consumption or experience, but for the arts and music which transcends time and place, despite their brutal or mundane aspects! Transforming the cooking pans we use to eat and the beer barrels into tangible and rhythmic sounds that one could only be classified as art! The incoherent monkey screaming and the exiting slide whistle along with the slapstick commentary at the end gave me whiplash that even now days after the performance I still have yet to comprehend! What a performance Perfecto Aleman has done. And all I have to say is he has done it again! A true masterpiece! Bravo my dear boy! 🎉

[@abbyfenton_]

Perfecto!!!!🎉❤

[@abbyfenton_]

My favorite piece is Name by Description

[@georgebarrera0715]

George Barrera