Solo Battery

A Simple Machine is a unique solo for snare drum, finger cymbal, and resonant metal that explores the process of creating and inventing at its core. By exploring the fundamental machines that we all use in daily life, Garner...

As the Sound of Many Waters is a contemporary work for a table-top multi-percussion setup and backing track. This piece explores the various sonic characteristics of water; ranging from sparse ethereal sections to...

At the Baggage Claim combines a variety of tambourine techniques with gnarly electronic sounds. The piece is dedicated to anyone who has ever wanted to take a ride on the baggage carousel at the airport.Genre: Solo...

Boundary Conditions is a work for solo multi-percussionist and string quartet that explores polyrhythms with rhythmic intensity from start to finish. A true tour de force for the soloist and quartet!Genre: Solo Percussion...

Cold Pressed is set up as a modified drum set with timbral notation, meaning each instrument is assigned a pitch and arranged like a keyboard. If you read keyboard music well, learning the notation will be a piece of cake...

A Different Drummer is a tour de force for advanced multi-percussionist. Requiring only 2 double-headed toms and a cymbal, Hollinden has crafted an impressive work that would be the perfect center piece on a recital.Genre:...

Dusting the Connecting Link is a hybrid mixture of notated music and graphic notation allowing for performer choice. Short rhythmic fragments are spatially arranged in a large graphic shape. This shape contains three...

The music of Flashback echoes some of my works for solo timpani and another well-known solo. It places these echoes, along with some new music, in a setting that expresses my view of solo music for timpani. Flashback is to...

This challenging duet for piano and multi-percussion offers two contrasting movements – lead, which is filled with inert heaviness and introspection, and Platinum, which evokes images of bright, polished surfaces;...

Commissioned by Dr. Andrew Eldridge, Mantra is an advanced solo for snare drum, small tom, and triggered midi samples or play-along track. It was inspired by a wide range of interests converging together to make one cohesive...

Commissioned by the FIM Flint School of Performing Arts in Memory of Delaina Oberman, Multiple Musings is a collection of five graduated solos for the developing multi-percussionist, ranging from medium easy to medium...

Neon Rush is a spiritual followup to "Downshift," and is also a set of three progressive solos for concert snare. Each is written to be performed along with the same play-along track.Genre: Solo Snare Drum + Track | # of...

Inspired by the raucous and alluring music from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Rite of Way is built from a combination of motifs and compositional techniques Stravinsky employed, but with groovy embellishments. This piece...

Limitless possibilities afforded by a very limited instrumentation. Hollinden explores a wide range of possibilities afforded by the three instruments, using them in various combinations, in dialog fashion, manipulating...

Focusing your awareness into...Slender Beams of Solid Rhythm. A power house of a piece that motivates both listener and performer to interact.Genre: Multiple Percussion Solo | # of Players: 1 Series: Hollinden Signature...

Stank is a fun quasi-drumset multi-percussion solo that features stanky grooves and rhythms that will get your head bobbing and feet tapping. It is sure to get you to make a stank face. Genre: Solo Multiple Percussion | # of...