John Luther Adams: “Inuksuit”

Percussion students of UC Davis and University of the Pacific perform John Luther Adams’s ”Inuksuit,” which relates to an Inuit word having to do with stone markers used for way finding and designating landmarks. The varying numbers of percussion instruments and the physical locations where the performances take place shape the results, which

The Alaska-based composer John Luther Adams writes music influenced by the natural world and the late 20th-century avant garde. Adams, who’s been an environmental activist since the ’70s, studied with James Tenney at the California Institute of the Arts and draws inspiration from the spare, contemplative work of Morton Feldman.