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Probe for Percussion Octet

from A Parliament of Owls by Dan Cook

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Dragonfly, Perseverance, and Alvin: three probes exploring very different environments to learn more about our place in the universe.

Dragonfly is a rotorcraft expected to perform vertical take-offs and landings on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in 2034. Titan is a world like our own with oceans, rivers, and lakes. On Titan though, our water cycle is replaced with hydrocarbons, it rains liquid methane, and the surface temperature averages -179 degrees Celsius. The first section of Probe features contrapuntal melodies with a set of roto-toms representing the probe, flower pots representing the possibility of something growing in such a frigid place, and a rainstick representing the potential food source for a hypothetical methanogen.

Perseverance will roam the dry, dusty surface of Mars beginning in 2021 drilling and preparing samples that will, for the first time, be returned to Earth. Perseverance will also carry with it a small rotorcraft to prove the ability of flight within Mars’ thin atmosphere. In the second section, tonal harmony is replaced with sandpaper blocks, claves, and bongos with the roto-toms now playing the role of both the secondary rotorcraft and the Martian wind.

Alvin has been ferrying explorers to the deepest parts of Earth's oceans and providing insights into the origins of life since the 1970s. The discovery of large tubeworms living in an environment without sunlight, thriving on the energy provided to them by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, changed our understanding of how life might thrive in many environments across the universe. The conclusion of Probe features Boomwhackers appearing as tubeworms.

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from A Parliament of Owls, track released March 17, 2020

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Dan Cook San Antonio, Texas

Dan began singing when he was four and playing the trumpet when he was ten. He has pursued music his entire life, earning a degree in music education from The University of Texas at San Antonio and teaching both band and trumpet in his home state’s public school system for more than a decade. He has composed works for chorus, chamber groups, and wind ensembles of all levels. ... more

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