Dear You, Thank you for being a part of my oh-so-musical life. I see ya and I care about ya 🫶🏻 When I look at this nurturing artistic community that i get to be a part of, and how it is continuing to sprout, it is like a slow and gentle trickle
Feeling a flurry of warmth and sparkle for my show this Friday! And look! Great news! @markyboyproductions is live-streaming the show! If you were wishing to come but live far far away, or perhaps have caught a nasty bug, or maybe you are traveling &
8pm this Friday!! @erinmarimba will start us off with a set of downtempo pop and narcotic lullabies for marimba and voice. @beaujwood and I will be improvising with bass, percussion, and voice and offering gentle song. It’s a free show, a

Video Short: Sunlines (2022) by Rose Martin

I tried to make you a perfect
person
Clear like moon rise
Sun lines
Ocean and midnight
I tried to make me your perfect
person

TRACKS (2017) by Christian Wolff (b. 1934)

A consortium of 4 percussionists (Andrew Ferdig, Max Kanowitz, Ayano Kataoka, & Rose Martin) commissioned TRACKS from Christian Wolff in 2016. This recording is the World Premier from June 2018.
Instrumentation: sabar drums, bongos, saw blade, copper pipe, crotale, galvanized steel pipe, Tibetan singing bowl

Amazonia Dreaming (1987) by Annea Lockwood (b. 1939)

Recorded in 2017.

Amazonia Dreaming is an etude out of The Noble Snare, Volume 3. Published in 1987, The Noble Snare is a three-volume set of snare drum etudes, commissioned by Sylvia Smith of Smith Publications.

Traditional Ghanaian Tune (2016)

Arranged by Rose Martin (gyil) and Brittany Brown (violin). Performed and recorded at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, 2016

"I write poetry as a music, unheard until it's written down.
They are lyrics to songs of poverty.
All that I make comes from the drum,
the most lowly instrument in the West.
Clay Singing is one of these."
--Stuart Saunders Smith

Stuart wrote Clay Singing as four different scenes, each unrelated to the next. I see Clay Singing as four different moments of one’s life, in a real, undramatized context…introspection, family tradition, reverence, death. When performing Clay Singing, I am less concerned about upholding classical practices. I enter into the space of these moments as if it each were my own singular experience. In this way, Clay Singing becomes human, relatable to all listeners.

Instrumentation:
Scene 1: Tibetan singing bowls, cymbals
Scene 2: cardboard box, cowbell, piece of wood, small slapstick
Scene 3: terra cotta pots
Scene 4: crotales, guiro
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Film Production by Tyler Clayton Appel
Audio Production by Traxler Studios (NYC)
Copyright Sonic Arts Editions (Smith Publications)
© 2019 Rose Martin Sound

Edges (1969) by Christian Wolff (b. 1934)

Edges is written for any instrumentation, and any number of performers. It is a graphic score notated with symbols, each giving a different direction or meaning. The score helps shape the piece and challenges performance choices, whether planned or improvised. This performance was at Munson Memorial Library in Amherst, Massachusetts during a solo percussion recital of works by
Stuart Saunders Smith and Christian Wolff. 

Performed by Rose Martin (percussion), Ayano Kataoka (percussion), and Benjamin Porter (saxophone) in 2018.