Stave Sessions

Featuring Tigue, Innov Gnawa, yMusic, Melissa Aldana, and

Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society

At: Berklee College of Music’s 160 Mass Ave, Tuesday through Friday. Tickets: $25 each performance, $10 for students. www.stave

sessions.org

Members of the all-percussion trio Tigue are used to having their hands full. In addition to a selection of drums and expected percussion accouterments, a night’s musical work may call for differently tuned musical saws, glass bottles, wooden planks, or frying pans — specifically, the sort that are sized to cook one egg at a time.

“Percussion can be limiting, but in the same way it’s also maybe one of the most open categories because percussionists get asked to do basically everything,’’ Matt Evans, 28, says. “In the world of new music, it’s like, ‘Oh hey, you play timpani? Xylophone? Can you play keyboard? How about chromatic harmonica, can you do that?’ You get really used to being very versatile.’’

Tigue is one of five groups playing the Celebrity Series’ Stave Sessions concerts at the Berklee College of Music venue known as 160 Mass Ave. (If you haven’t been there before, you can pretty well guess the location.) Tigue plays a double bill with Innov Gnawa, a group rooted in traditional Moroccan music, on Friday.

The series opens with versatile new-music sextet yMusic on Tuesday, followed by a jazz quintet led by tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana on Wednesday, and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society the following night.

Evans, Amy Garapic, and Carson Moody of Tigue started playing together while students at Ohio State University before eventually working their way to Brooklyn. Though a body of percussion-only repertory emerged in the 20th century, and groups like Nexus, So Percussion, and Third Coast Percussion have done much to raise the profile of the form, there hasn’t been much written specifically for a percussion trio. So Tigue set out to write its own material while sometimes commissioning works from other composers.

The group’s work ranges from the sort of rhythmically busy pieces you might expect from three highly skilled percussionists to more introspective numbers that work with drones. “We like to explore sound,’’ Garapic, 31, says, “and digging deeper into living in a specific sound world for a long period of time.’’

That element makes Tigue an intriguing onstage partner with Innov Gnawa, a New York-based group led by master musician Hassan Ben Jaafar. Gnawa is an intensely rhythmic music that, in the context of its West African origins, is meant to induce a trance state among listeners and dancers.

“There’s elements of gnawa where there’s very intense clapping rhythms, and the play between the castanets and the basses, that on a theory level have a lot to do with the trance aspect of what Tigue is doing,’’ says Meera Dugal, who manages Innov Gnawa.

Though artists from jazz pianist Randy Weston to, locally, Club d’elf have embraced influences from gnawa — the latter group has occasionally invited greats of the genre like Hassan Hakmoun to sit in at its home base of the Lizard Lounge — Dugal says Innov Gnawa is the only traditional gnawa group based full time in the United States.

At Berklee, it’ll combine with Tigue for a few traditional numbers.

“There’s this sense of sending the listener into a hypnotic world. I think it just kind of brings you out of yourself and takes you to this other place that’s sort of floating above,’’ Evans says. “I think that gnawa music definitely does that, and some of the pieces we’ve been doing comes out of that same concept.’’

Some of Tigue’s material has an indie rock energy to it and seems to be in conversation with the genre of twisty compositions known as post-rock. Though its three members are all conservatory-trained musicians, the group’s aesthetic straddles the concert hall and the club. Evans debuted his piece “Quilts,’’ which Tigue plans to perform in Boston, at one of the informal after-hours shows during the Bang On A Can summer residency at MASS MoCA in North Adams two summers ago.

“I feel like the music we put out can exist in so many different places and for so many different people,’’ Garapic says. “We have our classical, new-music fans and we’re bringing them out to the bars and the clubs. This high-energy music we’re writing can exist in lots of different places. And a lot of times, if we’re playing a bar or club, we’re excited to push the audience into this more meditative, drone-y sound world.’’

Each of Tigue’s members plays in various ensembles of different genres; Moody works a lot with dance groups and Garapic teaches percussion at Dartmouth College and Keene State College in New Hampshire. Juggling musical opportunities is part of life as an ambitious, freelancing percussion expert.

“I feel like drummers are always playing in 12 bands,’’ Evans says. “We just also happen to have one that’s all drummers.’’

Stave Sessions

Featuring Tigue, Innov Gnawa, yMusic, Melissa Aldana, and Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society

At: Berklee College of Music’s 160 Mass Ave, Tuesday through Friday. Tickets: $25 each performance, $10 for students. www.stavesessions.org

Jeremy D. Goodwin can be reached at jeremy@jeremy dgoodwinn.com. Find him on Twitter @jeremydgoodwin.