Professor Elainie Lillios’s new composition “The Rush of the Brook Stills the Mind” for multi-percussion and live, interactive electroacoustics premiered on June 1, 2013 at the Nief Norf Festival in Greenville, South Carolina. The annual summer festival attracts percussionists, composers, and other performers who workshop and perform challenging contemporary literature and explore special topics surrounding the avant-garde. Percussionist Scott Deal, Nief Norf’s 2013 keynote speaker and featured guest, premiered the work.