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Scott Wollschleger's trace-escape-horizon Featured on Michael Jones' New Album, "The Promise of Escape"

May. 29, 2026

Percussionist Michael Jones' new album, "The Promise of Escape" was released last month on on New Focus Recordings. The album features Scott Wollschleger's 35-minute meditative work for solo percussion, trance-escape-horizon which Jones commissioned and premiered in May 2024 at Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla, California.

Wollschleger notes, "In trace-escape-horizon the percussionist conjures a magically fragile sonic situation. The first part of the work uses only two pitches, often harmonics, which playfully flicker and blend together in a constantly shifting manner, much like the way light glistens on the surface of water. The vibraphone harmonics are created in two different ways: one by striking the metal bar with a mallet and the other by lightly touching the metal bar as it is bowed softly. While writing, I imagined the percussionist gently holding up a nearly ungraspable and delicate microscopic sound sculpture for us to listen to and observe from different cochlear angles. As the piece progresses, new sounds are introduced and the range of the vibraphone is expanded upwards."


Michael Jones performs Scott Wollschleger's trance-escape-horizon

To learn more about the album, "The Promise of Escape," click here.
trance-escape-horizon can be purchased on Project Schott New York (PSNY) here.

To learn more about Scott Wollschleger, visit psnymusic.com and scottwollschleger.com.

Scott Wollschleger
trance-escape-horizon (2023)
for solo percussion
35'

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