Percussionist, Susie Ibarra has found that the natural rhythms of water are in right in tempo and ideal BPMs for creating electronic music. She also discovered stunning melodies from combining the pitched rhythms from the bamboo in the region with various water sounds. Some of her favorite sounds captured for this pack include the underwater rhythm loops and the bell sounds at Rumtek Monastery.
The water rhythm loops are pitched natural as recorded, as well as at a higher frequency and at one four octaves lower. This allows the listener to hear these rhythms from different perspectives and use the sounds in different ways. She foresees producers and listeners alike finding themselves surprised by how compatible these one-shots and loops are to producing EDM and hip hop music, especially the way water shape-shifts and takes on different qualities.
Susie Ibarra is a Filipina-American composer, percussionist, and sound artist. Her sound has been described as “a sound like no other’s, incorporating the unique percussion and musical approach of her Filipino heritage with her flowing jazz drumset style” (Modern Drummer Magazine) and her compositions are sometimes described as “calling up the movements of the human body; elsewhere it’s a landscape vanishing in the last light, or the path a waterway might trace” (New York Times).
Recent commissions include Kronos String Quartet’s 50 for the Future Project Pulsation, PRISM Saxophone Quartet + Percussion’s Procession Along the Aciga Tree, Talking Gong trio with pianist Alex Peh and flautist Claire Chase, the film score for When the Storm Fades directed by Sean Devlin, and a multimedia game piece called Fragility: An Exploration of Polyrhythms for Asia Society.
