Category: drums(acoustic)
Where hitting goes acoustics:
From sticks to surfaces to air (to windows and walls) to ears/mics…
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Street Drumming, 2023/July/20
Motivation: Weather was beautiful, so I decided to drag the suitcase-kit out for some street-drumming. On the way: Dragging the suitcase up to subway platform, I heard this woman blasting “Green Onions” on her phone. I dug it, and we started chatting.She eye-balled the suitcase, and I told her it was a ‘traveling drum kit.’Pointing…
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Pad expression on live eDrum kit
Movitation I’ve been experimenting with playing live electronic drums for a while. For most e-kits that one can buy off the sales floor, I find there is limited expression for controlling the sounds while playing them, beyond using the dynamics of your hits to control volume, tonality, or switch between samples. I found myself wanting…
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spontaneous drum circle !
I woke up from an afternoon nap to the sounds of hand-drums and percussion… so I put on pants and joined the circle.
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(re)building “Jet” Snare drum: PICS !
a photo-essay of my rebuilding a “Jet” (off-)brand snare shell back into a working, playable drum.
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presenting: VIDEO from my AES demo on drum triggers at AiPh
Last summer (09/2016), I led a workshop at the Art Institute of Philadelphia on drum triggers, covering: electromechanics of the piezo trigger sensor playing MIDI with a full human body tricks and inspirations from various sound parameters. …see my initial photo-post HERE. Several students happened to shoot video of my presentation, and over the past…
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initial photos from my Drum Trigger workshop for the AES at AiPh
UPDATE: I have subsequently found and uploaded video of this event HERE ! Hey Friends I had the honor, privilege, and joy of presenting to the Art Institute of Philadelphia Audio Department‘s student-run group in the Philadelphia chapter of the Audio Engineering Society. I presented on a topic very close to my heart, my…
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The PercussioNeuron 3.2 is growing up enough to require a high-chair
Motivation: I’ve spent many months learning how to use the MPC fully as if I’d play it directly with my hands. I’m controlling it less directly with my drumkit, mostly via MIDI, and I’m struggling to effectively exploit all its conncections. Here we review some of the finer points of how I’ve adapted it…
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An evolutionary history the “PercussioNeuron” of electronic drum technology for my acoustic drum kit; versions 1 thru 3.2
I’ve made a lot of changes (and purchases) in my work to merge “human drummer” and “drum machine”. Here is a photo-writeup of the technology (drum triggers, sound modules, effects) that I’ve used (so far)…