Donkey’s jaws and oxygen tanks: red fish blue fish’s percussive arsenal
Percussionists can play trees, hit sticks together, make music with bones or buildings or bricks – and they do. The 2013 Ojai Music Festival celebrates percussion in a wide variety of ways, and Steve Schick‘s University of California San Diego grad student ensemble, red fish blue fish, is central to almost every performance. red fish …
Inuksuit, John Luther Adams, and Ojai
The 2012 Festival will kick off with the piece’s West Coast premiere on Thursday Evening at 5pm. The premiere will be a free community performance featuring 48 percussionists led by Steven Schick, including professional musicians, music students from Southern California universities and colleges, and local musicians from Ojai . . .