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Sō Percussion with Caroline Shaw

Rectangles and Circumstance

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So Percussion and Caroline Shaw sitting in a row.

Powerhouse percussion ensemble Sō Percussion and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and singer Caroline Shaw return to perform music from their upcoming album, Rectangles and Circumstance.

Continuing their mission to redefine chamber music, Sō Percussion joins forces with Caroline Shaw to perform music that takes inspiration from 19th-century poems by Christina Rosetti, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein and William Blake, with lyrics that echo the romanticism of the time. The album follows their 2021 Grammy Award–winning debut, Narrow Sea, and 2021’s Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part, with Shaw on vocals.

Sō Percussion ‘gleefully trample across the boundaries of musical genres, and … constantly provoke reassessments of what a percussion group can do’ (Guardian). Shaw has ‘an audaciously uninhibited approach to music-making based on joy, omnivorous curiosity and congeniality — even as her work challenges your expectations and takes you by surprise’ (New York Times). Together, they’ll have you hooked.

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This performances will finish at approximately 10pm. There will be no interval.

Produced by the Barbican

Programme

  • Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion   Songs from Rectangles and Circumstance
  •   Let the Soil Play its Simple Part

Performers

  • Sō Percussion  
  • Caroline Shaw   vocals
  • Danni Lee   vocals
  • Ringdown  
  • Mark DeChiazza   staging and design

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The Barbican Hall is located within the main Barbican building. Head to Level G and follow the signs to find your seating level. 

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EC2Y 8DS

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