RCC Indoor Percussion - a program of BD Performing Arts
RCC is the home of forward-thinking designers, educators and performers. Our goal is to provide our members with the best possible educational experience, while consistently pushing the boundaries of performance art.
Since RCC Indoor Percussion's inception in 2001, they have consistently been on the cutting edge of creative and performance excellence. Making their first trip to the WGI World Championships in 2002, RCC won the Independent World Class gold medal with their unforgettable show, "The Sound of Silence". Since then RCC has never placed out of the top four, winning the World Championship title in 2002, 2005, 2007 and 2012.
15 years later and it's still one of my favorite shows I've ever seen. The musical cohesiveness of the pit and tenors at 6:18 is really what sets this show apart from others.
I decided to watch some shows from the past. I had never seen this particular year. 4th PLACE?! I watched the other top 3 performances and it blows my mind this didn't medal... The body, marching, arrangement, notes galore. pdd ram at 7:04 made me woo and scare my cat.
i keep coming back to this show year after year. the amount of detail in it is crazy. i keep noticing new things every time i come back to it! so many musical motifs in the second movement that are referential to the sounds of deforestation (rolls in snare break mimicks the revving of a chain saw followed by the snap of the trunk at the end of the long roll). and i just now noticed that the last form in the show is making the image of a tree from left to right. this show design is timeless.
