Sunny X - Score and Parts

For Percussion Quartet.
Sent in PDF format, with accompanying click, electronics, and mockup tracks.

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Watch TCP's performance of "Sunny X" on YouTube:

"Sunny X" was composed by Tyondai Braxton. Hear it on Third Coast Percussion's album, "Between Breaths":
https://thirdcoastpercussion.com/music/albums/between-breaths/

Tyondai Braxton has been writing and performing music under his own name and collaboratively, under various group titles, since the mid-1990s. He is the former front man of the experimental rock band, Battles, whose debut album, Mirrored, was both a critical and commercial success. Braxton has composed commissioned pieces for ensembles such as the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Alarm Will Sound, Brooklyn Rider, and Third Coast Percussion. In 2012, he collaborated with Philip Glass during the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival. He has also performed his orchestral work, Central Market, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and New York’s Wordless Music Orchestra.

His 2015 Nonesuch debut, HIVE1, was praised by NPR Music for its “playfulness — the feeling that experimenting with sound is a joyful game.” Braxton followed that release with the 2016 five-song EP Oranged Out, proceeds from which supported the work of Everytown for Gun Safety, and released three new tracks — “Dia,” “Phonolydian,” and “Multiplay” — this past winter. His album, Telekinesis, an 87-piece work for guitars, orchestra, choir + electronics, was released by Nonesuch in 2022. Record Collector called it "an astonishing tour de force that gives new meaning to the word 'epic.'"

Braxton was recently appointed to Princeton University’s Music Composition faculty as an Assistant Professor of Music.

Braxton’s work for Third Coast Percussion, Sunny X, further develops his previous experiments with electronic sounds and live percussionists in his HIVE1 project, utilizing more idiosyncratic instruments such as wooden and metal slats, steel pipes, Thai gongs, and crotales, with electronic playback generated with modular synthesizer.

“Predominantly set up as meditations on small phrases of non-pitched (or *partially* pitched) percussion and mercurial electronics, the piece explores different permutations of these meditations where the relationship between the acoustic and electronic realms seems to work together, slip around and contrast.” —Tyondai Braxton

Sunny X was commissioned for Third Coast Percussion by the Sewanee Music Festival, George Mason University, and Carnegie Hall, with additional support from Third Coast Percussion’s New Works Fund.