Zipper Music (2023) ~7’

for percussion quartet [zippers]

Premiered by Will Hopkins, Braden Vaughn, David Lee, and Aiden Gold on May 1, 2023 at Paul Hall at the Juilliard School.

In its original form, “Zipper Music” was written in 2020. I was sitting and fiddling with the zipper of my sweatshirt and began to see if I could consistently produce pitches or dynamics. At the time, there was little access for many percussionists to the vast array of equipment that shared percussion studios provided. My goal was to try to create a piece that could be performed with materials that were found in the home. I experimented with a small palette of sounds for just the zipper, leading to a two minute long piece. In 2023, I decided to expand the piece to include it in part of an ongoing set of pieces for various found sound objects for percussion quartet.