Mantra Percussion, by Ian Douglas/The New York Times

Mantra Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 13, 2012
The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2013

Michael Gordon's new percussion sextet, Timber, ended up on both my year-end Top 10 list for Time Out New York (details of which will come in a subsequent post) and Alex Ross's list for The New Yorker. This week, I was surprised and delighted to have a brief cameo in Alex's column about Gordon and David Lang in The New Yorker, available to subscribers and purchasers only. Try to find it; it's superb.

You can still watch Mantra Percussion's clever video of a Timber performance at a Lowe's Hardware store, as filmed by NPR, on YouTube, here.