River Procession

With Laurie Spiegel's "Drums" as our inspiration for the river piece, Rachel and I are coming up with rhythms in various meters, using Taiko drum samples. My very simple idea for the progression of the piece is that, we could start with a softer sample with a very simple rhythm (straight 16th, maybe?). Then, as the river puppet emerges from behind the bushes, things can pick up, adding more voices transposed to different notes and the rhythms become more involved. As the river splits to go around the pond, we can have a left-panned voice doing rhythms in 3/4, and a right-panned voice doing rhythms in 4/4. As the river merges back together, the two rhythms will combine in a way to form a new rhythm, in perhaps another different meter (6/8?). We can continue with the previous rhythms and fit them into the 6/8 format as the river processes.