Terry Longshore "Balance" Percussion
Fresno State Concert Hall, CA, 93740
Thursday, September 19 2024
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Terry Longshore: balance | flow – an intermedia percussion experience
“Longshore’s understated virtuosity is percussion poetry at its best”
— Blue Sky Music
"Terry combines his effortless technique and expansive artistic curiosity to create a
transformative experience. We are invited into the seamless flow of this story but ultimately find
that we have created a story of our own."
— Britt Music & Arts Festival
Internationally-acclaimed percussionist, composer, educator, and performing artist Terry
Longshore presents his balance | flow tour, an exhilarating evening of music, animation, virtual-
reality video, electronic audio, and integrated lighting, creating a dynamic experience that has
been enjoyed by audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Since 2023 the balance | flow tour has
been performed throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon, Nevada, and California.
Longshore weaves a sonic tapestry with a diverse array of percussion: vibraphone, cajón, North
Indian tabla, hi-hat, tuned metal pipes, djembe, composed hand gestures, junk percussion, and
more. The music is infused with multi-genre influences including modern classical, jazz, hip-hop,
flamenco, pop, and Hindustani. The performance will take place at Fresno State Concert
Hall in the Music Department on Thursday, September 19 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $5-15
and available at https://cah.fresnostate.edu/calendar.html.
“Whether I’m performing, composing, arranging, improvising, or teaching – balance and flow are
always integral to my approach. I seek balance between the artistic collaborators I work with,
compositional voices I amplify, instrumental sounds I select, and styles of music I play. The flow
of a performance, and of my journey through life, is a constant work of art,” says Longshore.
The composers presented in balance | flow represent a diverse spectrum of modern artistic
voices. Stanford University composer Mark Applebaum’s self-described “kind of alien, pre-verbal,
and rhythmic sign language” in his Aphasia is balanced by Irish composer Emma O’Halloran’s
beautiful, trancelike offering, meditation for metal pipes. Longshore arranged her quintet as a solo
with four versions of himself projected in a virtual reality video created with animator Miles Inada,
filmmaker/director Christopher Lucas, and scenic designer Sean O’Skea. A trio of short one-
minute pieces for junk percussion by Yaz Lancaster, Joe W. Moore III, and Phong Tran also
include whimsical animations created by Inada. Nick Zammuto (of The Books) contributes Green
Yellow Green Red for vibraphone, accompanied by a soundtrack and video of scratched records,
and Erik Griswold’s quirky Twos and Threes, amplifies Longshore’s longtime immersion in world
rhythm traditions.
Longshore composed three of the concert’s works, including Trap Hat for solo hi-hat and
electronics, co-composed with his son, Portland, Oregon-based music producer, mackxswell.
“The collaboration on Trap Hat has turned into an exciting new project with Max that has produced
four new pieces,” says Longshore. “They are all combinations of my own recorded and live
percussion and his music production. The latest is a commission from Saratoga High School in
the Bay Area that we will perform with them at The Midwest Clinic International Band and
Orchestra Festival in Chicago in December.”
A native of Fresno and graduate of Hoover High School and Fresno State (Business
Administration), Longshore has lived in Ashland, Oregon since 2000 where he is Professor of
Music, Artist in Residence, and Director of Percussion Studies at Southern Oregon University. He
is the Principal Percussionist of the Rogue Valley Symphony and Co-Artistic Director of
ensembles Skin & Bones and Caballito Negro, and a member of the Portland Percussion Group.
He is an artist endorser for the Marimba OneVibe, Black Swamp Percussion, Zildjian Cymbals,
Vic Firth Sticks & Mallets, Remo Drumheads, GonBops Percussion, and Beato Bags.
For more information on Terry Longshore and the balance | flow tour, visit
www.terrylongshore.com.
Video trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO2wKMmJ1wU
Event Requirement:
Terry Longshore: balance | flow – an intermedia percussion experience
“Longshore’s understated virtuosity is percussion poetry at its best”
— Blue Sky Music
"Terry combines his effortless technique and expansive artistic curiosity to create a
transformative experience. We are invited into the seamless flow of this story but ultimately find
that we have created a story of our own."
— Britt Music & Arts Festival
Internationally-acclaimed percussionist, composer, educator, and performing artist Terry
Longshore presents his balance | flow tour, an exhilarating evening of music, animation, virtual-
reality video, electronic audio, and integrated lighting, creating a dynamic experience that has
been enjoyed by audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Since 2023 the balance | flow tour has
been performed throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Oregon, Nevada, and California.
Longshore weaves a sonic tapestry with a diverse array of percussion: vibraphone, cajón, North
Indian tabla, hi-hat, tuned metal pipes, djembe, composed hand gestures, junk percussion, and
more. The music is infused with multi-genre influences including modern classical, jazz, hip-hop,
flamenco, pop, and Hindustani. The performance will take place at Fresno State Concert
Hall in the Music Department on Thursday, September 19 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $5-15
and available at https://cah.fresnostate.edu/calendar.html.
“Whether I’m performing, composing, arranging, improvising, or teaching – balance and flow are
always integral to my approach. I seek balance between the artistic collaborators I work with,
compositional voices I amplify, instrumental sounds I select, and styles of music I play. The flow
of a performance, and of my journey through life, is a constant work of art,” says Longshore.
The composers presented in balance | flow represent a diverse spectrum of modern artistic
voices. Stanford University composer Mark Applebaum’s self-described “kind of alien, pre-verbal,
and rhythmic sign language” in his Aphasia is balanced by Irish composer Emma O’Halloran’s
beautiful, trancelike offering, meditation for metal pipes. Longshore arranged her quintet as a solo
with four versions of himself projected in a virtual reality video created with animator Miles Inada,
filmmaker/director Christopher Lucas, and scenic designer Sean O’Skea. A trio of short one-
minute pieces for junk percussion by Yaz Lancaster, Joe W. Moore III, and Phong Tran also
include whimsical animations created by Inada. Nick Zammuto (of The Books) contributes Green
Yellow Green Red for vibraphone, accompanied by a soundtrack and video of scratched records,
and Erik Griswold’s quirky Twos and Threes, amplifies Longshore’s longtime immersion in world
rhythm traditions.
Longshore composed three of the concert’s works, including Trap Hat for solo hi-hat and
electronics, co-composed with his son, Portland, Oregon-based music producer, mackxswell.
“The collaboration on Trap Hat has turned into an exciting new project with Max that has produced
four new pieces,” says Longshore. “They are all combinations of my own recorded and live
percussion and his music production. The latest is a commission from Saratoga High School in
the Bay Area that we will perform with them at The Midwest Clinic International Band and
Orchestra Festival in Chicago in December.”
A native of Fresno and graduate of Hoover High School and Fresno State (Business
Administration), Longshore has lived in Ashland, Oregon since 2000 where he is Professor of
Music, Artist in Residence, and Director of Percussion Studies at Southern Oregon University. He
is the Principal Percussionist of the Rogue Valley Symphony and Co-Artistic Director of
ensembles Skin & Bones and Caballito Negro, and a member of the Portland Percussion Group.
He is an artist endorser for the Marimba OneVibe, Black Swamp Percussion, Zildjian Cymbals,
Vic Firth Sticks & Mallets, Remo Drumheads, GonBops Percussion, and Beato Bags.
For more information on Terry Longshore and the balance | flow tour, visit
www.terrylongshore.com.
Video trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO2wKMmJ1wU
Event Requirement:
- Guests (vaccinated or unvaccinated) are highly recommended to wear a face covering.
- There are no longer any physical distancing requirements; however, attendees should do their best to maintain six feet of physical distance.
- No drinks and food are allowed.
- If guests become ill within two (2) days after the event, they must notify the event manager at [email protected].
