Here is a recent project that I played in this past April. This is Michael Laurello's An Overwhelming Capacity for Denial for percussion quartet. This piece includes some of my favorite aspects of contemporary chamber music, including "found" objects used as instruments (brake drums from cars and metal pipes cut to specific pitches), stylistic influence from minimalism and indie rock, and a heavy mixed meter groove.
Here is a project that I really admire for its synthesis of electronic and acoustic performance. So Percussion is one of my favorite contemporary chamber groups. They collaborate in some amazing projects that are aimed at reframing the concert-going experience. This evening-length piece neither Anvil nor Pulley by Dan Trueman utilizes pre-recorded tape, turntables, video game controllers, and drums prepared with speaker drivers played with microphones. Be sure to check out the 4th movement entitled Feedback (in which a Bach Prelude becomes ill-tempered) around 23:17.
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