Ice Breaks Consortium

Coming Soon! Ice Breaks is a work for marimba quartet inspired by a large ice mass crumbling apart, and the additional environmental damage that might ensue - specifically A23a, the world’s largest iceberg which has broken up: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/climate/worlds-biggest-iceberg-a23a-broken-scli- intl The piece itself starts very open and sprawling, like a vast expanse of ice, and eventually becomes groovier and forward moving (like the rapid breaking up of the ice). The rhythmic and harmonic material borrows from both modern classical idioms and popular genres like EDM and video game music. The “wispy” sprawling sections are more gestural, using non-tonal pitch collections to create atmosphere, while the more rhythmic sections include pounding bass, metal-style breakdowns, and fast technical passages in parallel intervals.