Category: music performance
I play live music in bands sometimes.
I usually stay behind the drumkit.
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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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video and insight of “Analogs to Nausea” at Oberlin TalberTronics Festival
TELL: My second live honoraria performance in the TalberTronics Festival at Oberlin College as “Analogs to Nausea,” a live synthesis/sampling re-interpretation of my audio hash-noise soundscape “GusTutorial v3” from “GusTation” to “GusTutorial” The sound-collage portion of this performance comes from back in 2010. While finishing my MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering at Drexel, a lab-mate gave me…
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video and insight of my “Repeater Slow” at Oberlin TalberTronics Festival
I got to perform some electronic music to honor the retirement of John Talbert, the professor who got me started. Enjoy videos here !
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Honoraria Performances at the TalberTronics Festival
It was an immense pleasure to head back to my alma mater Oberlin College to attend and perform at the TalberTronics Festival to honor the career and retirement of John Talbert from/within the Oberlin Technology in Music and Related Arts (TiMaRA) program. Background: I had spend my first three years finishing my BA in Psychology,…
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Destruct Device at the Shred Shed
Matt Miller, my buddy and bandmate (from WormRider and other jams) is in an excellent grind-thrash band Destruct Device. Went to Destruct Device opened at the Shred Shed. The hey welcomed me to “do sound” on the otherwise un-manned PA. Promoter/doorMan was fine with it. So I ended up mixing vocal channels on a Mackie…
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TalberTronics Concert 3 – “Repeater Slow” applause
At the end of my presentation/remix of Phil Raath’s drone track “Repeater Slow” as a rhythmic exercise of my modified MS1, I recorded the warm reception of our Oberlin TIMARA friends.
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(more) Drumming w/ LaTreice Branson and LADIES !
My friend LaTriece Branson has really got something going with her regular jam-sessions around Philadelphia, including Drum Like a Lady, growing Drum Like a Lad the Jam Jawn, a somewhat-weekly Tuesday thing at West Philadelphia’s Dahlak Paradise. Had a blast at LaTreice’s Jam Jawn for featured drummer (and birthday boy) Corey Mark. Thanks again Corey…
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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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dRAWn first show
I’ve started playing drums for Chris P.’s project with Nick H, called DrawN. Pretty interesting new challenge to add human drumming (and a bit of vocals) to some songs that were We will be playing at this show, Thursday, January 5th. 2017, at the Burbon and Branch, with In the Pines Lucinda, Recording Club. Follow the…