Owner and Creator of SplatBoomBang! Percussive Storytelling and Los Angeles-based Freelancing Percussionist Cory Hills stops by to discuss his PASIC 2023 presentation and getting into Percussive Storytelling (02:00), living in Los Angeles, Freelancing, and making Percussive Storytelling a business (22:00), his experiences with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet and getting to meet William Kraft (40:40), growing up in northern Virginia (46:00), doing his undergrad at Northwestern (IL), studying with Michael Burritt, and the community he cultivates in his studios (51:10), living in Australia and studying with Vanessa Tomlinson (56:10), his fellowship in Italy and doing his doctorate at the University of Kansas (01:06:16), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on percussion composer pieces, Beat Generation authors, and that party when he “performed on Christmas tree” (01:15:10).
Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film Poor Things (01:37:25).
Cory Hills Links:
“The Lost Bicycle” - Cory Hills
Previous Podcast guest mentioned:
Other Links:
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Los Angeles Percussion Quartet
L’Histoire du Soldat - Igor Stravinsky
“To The Earth” - Frederic Rzewski
“And Now For the News” - Graeme Leak
The Fast and the Furious trailer
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Raves: