Spiel was commissioned by Sandbox Percussion as a part of Andy Akiho’s Seven Pillars Project in 2020. This is a technically challenging piece that uses timbale sticks to play different variations of paradiddles on the glockenspiel. Akiho uses techniques like hitting the edge of the bar, deadstrokes, hitting the bars with the stick length-wise, glissandos, clicking the timbale sticks together while playing a deadstroke, and clicking the sticks off the bar.