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Clocks in Motion. Left to right: Sean Kleve, Kyle Flens, Matt Coley, Garrett Mandelow.

press release: Performing on a myriad of percussion instruments, the experimental quartet Clocks in Motion is a featured performer at the Rural Musician’s Forum concert series held at Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Hillside Theater on the Taliesin estate south of Spring Green.

The concert is scheduled for July 25 beginning at 7:30 p.m.  Hillside Theater is located at 6604 Hwy 23, Spring Green. The concert is made possible in part through a grant from the Spring Green Art Fair and an anonymous gift to Clocks in Motion. The concert is not ticketed and is open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken to support the concert series. For additional information and driving directions see www.ruralmusiciansforum.org.

Clocks in Motion is known for engaging performances of the classic repertoire for percussion quartets presented alongside new compositions and rarely heard works. Featured in this performance are the great masterworks of Steve Reich, Mallet Quartet and Drumming Part I. In addition to these classic compositions, Clocks in Motion will perform their commissioned work by Marc Mellits, “Gravity.” The quartet will also perform Moldavian folk music for hammered dulcimer, experimental music by John Cage, and a not-to-be-missed theatrical work for wooden spoons on lunch trays!

Hailed as “nothing short of remarkable” ( ClevelandClassical.com) and “the most exciting addition to Madison’s classical music scene” (The Isthmus), Clocks in Motion is a percussion quartet that performs new music, builds many of its own instruments, and breaks down the boundaries of the traditional concert program. Formed in 2011, Clocks in Motion is quickly becoming a major artistic force in today’s contemporary music scene. Among its many recent and upcoming engagements, the group served as performers at the Interlochen Arts Academy (Michigan), The Stone (New York), The Overture Center for the Arts, Casper College (Wyoming), University of Michigan, BaldwinWallace University (Ohio), The University of North Carolina-Pembroke and The Ewell Concert Series (Virginia).

Clocks in Motion is Matthew Coley, Kyle Flens, Chris Jones, and Sean Kleve.