Road Works for Solo Percussion & Workers

When I first moved to Manchester at the age of sixteen I lived directly beside the large carpark where the Urbis Centre currently stands. For the duration of my time there however this area was a building site and so, for two years, the sounds of hammering metal and the rhythms of machinery dominated my world. Having recently arrived in Manchester from a very quiet rural area this soundtrack was completely new to me and, as a response, I wrote this virtuosic, but playful, percussion solo. © Gavin Higgins