Pereira-Echi Dromi (2S)-Dumbek/FL

Echi Dromi by Joseph Pereira is a duet written for flute and dumbek. The title is taken from the earliest Byzantine musical notation. Echi, meaning sounds, was used to describe rhythms and dromi, meaning ways was, used for melodic figures. The rhythms on the dumbek were developed by using an extreme working out of traditional concepts and applied motion with the western use of strict metric modulations. The flute is given a certain amount of improvisatory freedom of melodic patterns with occasional fragments of strict rhythmic unisons.

This piece was recorded in October 2011 on the album "Introductions" by Electrum Duo featuring Sophia Anastasia and Ralph Sorrentino.