While Optimum Percussion aims to keep the majority of the instruments listed on this website in stock, not all products, colours or sizes can be available at the one time. Please place your order now using the shopping cart system and our sales team will always contact you to discuss your order should any products be unavailable. Alternatively, use the add to quote system and we will be in touch quickly to confirm price and availability, OR call (02) 9744 1829, OR email us.
Happy Tachyons: each Composer: Psathas John
"Happy Tachyons…relies on high levels of rhythmic energy and drive…. Thrilling in result, the relentless continuity requires a pianist (and vibraphonist) of fortitude and immense concentration, though the effort will be worth it. Lest this be off-putting, once some of the basic routines and rhythmic hiccups are learned, the fingers should just cope as the single line expands and runs in and out of phase canonically, but it moves at a pretty cracking pace which must be maintained for 227 bars…. While this is not, then, a piece for weekend learning – it was after all commissioned by Evelyn Glennie - it is one well worth studying for its rhythmic inventiveness and sheer excitement. What a thrill it must be to perform once it is worked up to its full breathtaking breathlessness!" John Elmsly, Canzona 1997
