Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 378 - Cory Hills

Owner and Creator of SplatBoomBang! Percussive Storytelling and Los Angeles-based Freelancing Percussionist Cory Hills stops by to discuss his PASIC 2023 presentation and getting into Percussive Storytelling (02:00), living in Los Angeles, Freelancing, and making Percussive Storytelling a business (22:00), his experiences with the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet and getting to meet William Kraft (40:40), growing up in northern Virginia (46:00), doing his undergrad at Northwestern (IL), studying with Michael Burritt, and the community he cultivates in his studios (51:10), living in Australia and studying with Vanessa Tomlinson (56:10), his fellowship in Italy and doing his doctorate at the University of Kansas (01:06:16), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on percussion composer pieces, Beat Generation authors, and that party when he “performed on Christmas tree” (01:15:10).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film Poor Things (01:37:25).

Cory Hills Links:

Cory Hills’s Homepage

Cory Hills’s YouTube page

“The Lost Bicycle” - Cory Hills

Previous Podcast guest mentioned:

Aiyun Huang in 2023

Other Links:

Fred Rogers’ Institute

Michael Burritt

Third Coast Percussion

Vanessa Tomlinson

Steven Schick

Fabrica Institute

The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell

Derek Tywoniuk

Los Angeles Percussion Quartet

Matthew Howard

William Kraft

Aaron Copland

Igor Stravinsky

L’Histoire du Soldat - Igor Stravinsky

James Ross

Rubén Alvarez

Paul Wertico

Anders Astrand

Concours de Genevé

TROMP Percussion

“?Corporel” - Vinko Globokar

Stuart Saunders Smith

“To The Earth” - Frederic Rzewski

“And Now For the News” - Graeme Leak

William Barton

Ji Hye Jung

Carl Czerny piano exercises

Charles Hanon piano exercises

Aladdin trailer

The Fast and the Furious trailer

Tao Te Ching - Laozi

Ursula K. LeGuin

On The Road - Jack Kerouac

Howl - Allen Ginsberg

Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

Five Guys restaurant

Buster Keaton

Dustin Hoffman

Paul Reiser

The Kardashians

J. Paul Getty Art Museum

Raves:

Poor Things trailer