Skin heads can be set to vibrate in many ways. They can be excited with different sticks and mallets; they can be stroked or even rubbed to produce a wide variety of sounds. They can also become the resonant body of another instrument, altering its sound quality or just magnifying its presence. Skin Heads, for skin percussion trio and electronics, explores all those modes of sound production and their interaction with electronic transformations. The form of the piece is based on the construction of a continuous sound space out of discrete materials (skin percussion sounds). The electronics are used in this process both to spectrally merge the instrumental sounds and to extrapolate sound objects that are deployed in space.

Skin Heads is the third piece of a cycle written for each family of percussion instruments and electronics, it is preceded by Metal Hurlant for metallic percussion (solo) and Toco Madera for wooden percussion (2 players). The cycle is completed with On Space, a percussion sextet combining the whole instrumental palette with surround electronic sounds.