tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71781057406085804162024-03-19T07:09:19.787-05:00DRUM THEORY AND REVELATIONUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-55367963461549920452013-12-29T02:25:00.000-06:002013-12-29T02:25:00.908-06:00VIRTUOSITY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Virtuosity is not a good or a bad thing.<br />
It's a tool to be used when necessary.<br />
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Virtuosity can have the effect of making one transparent and predictable.<br />
It immediately shows that you have been educated.<br />
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Modern education can be a form of enslavement<br />
so it's a dangerous card to have at the foundation<br />
all of the time.<br />
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Technique is the rational mind<br />
important like seasoning.<br />
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Absence of technique, like a child, like an animal.<br />
Empathy for the environment as a moment.<br />
The ear in the heart.<br />
Crucial.<br />
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Language is not a conquest<br />
Neither is music.<br />
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Clarify your intentions for playing<br />
and the techniques and empty spaces will arrive<br />
of a greater unity than is commonly accepted<br />
or expected.<br />
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Remove the walls of the zoo<br />
and see how the instinct is reborn.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-5726820433153528032013-09-27T18:10:00.001-05:002013-09-30T14:47:30.082-05:00David Hurlin Drum Solo (September 2013)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is my drum solo opening up for <a href="http://chimneychoir.com/">Chimney Choir</a> at Cafe Paradiso. I'm very grateful to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/fairfieldrocksme">Glenn Chumley</a> for videotaping. I would recommend listening to this on high quality speakers or headphones at a moderately loud volume for the best effect. Hope you enjoy!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-7235275767164568262013-09-18T17:59:00.000-05:002013-09-18T17:59:02.040-05:00Imperfect Looping<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the name of true perfectionism I am obsessed with imperfection. Especially since music, and drumming in particular, is so easily seduced by the charm of neat, knowable math.<br />
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I came across a <a href="https://vine.co/v/hvmiMOQa5ja">Moby video loop on Vine</a>. Vine is an awesome website/mobile app where you create and involuntarily edit video in real time from your smartphone and end up with a 7 second video loop that plays forever. Moby said about his loop, "Not sure if this works... more weird sound than visual,"<br />
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Immediately I had the desire to drum to it as Moby's singing head was looping ad infinitum and there was no discernible place that the loop was <i>supposed </i>to start over. So I recorded an arbitrary slice of the infinite loop and improvised a solo over it. <br />
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My favorite moment and I'm so grateful that I caught this (literally) is when, I lean over to pitch bend the floor tom and due to the short length of my headphones, I yank the condenser mic off the mantle it is sitting on. In the middle of drumming I catch the mic with my left hand, and keep soloing with my right hand. I hope I can pull that off live someday.<br />
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Imperfection and Perfection together like phases of the moon.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-79019065206895557002013-08-27T23:25:00.000-05:002013-08-27T23:27:52.246-05:00Glock Revelation: Learning the Melody<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Last night I had a simple and empowering experience. Instead of waiting around, while the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Apocalypso-Tantric-Boys-Choir/192685407420560">Apocalypso Tantric Boys Choir's </a>new track "Preaching to the Choir" was being figured out by James and Eric, I decided to learn the header also, on the Glockenspiel.<br />
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It made me realize how much time I have been wasting because I thought of myself only as a drummer. This is a seriously huge revelation. Learning the melody gave me a deeper window into the form, and consequently intimacy and command were both amplified.<br />
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I might even get to play the Glock on the outro. YES!<br />
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Then after rehearsal you can really let your hair down.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-822055080130424782013-08-23T02:38:00.004-05:002013-08-23T02:49:53.177-05:00LIGHTNING GROK BLOSSOM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thoughts I had tonight while contemplating,<br />
"What makes a drummers different from each other<br />
and different from computers?"<br />
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OK there are infinite number of patterns possible.<br />
So even if you were to play your entire life for 24 hours a day<br />
you would be lacking thoroughness almost one hundred percent.<br />
In other words James Tate's "The Oblivion Ha-Ha."<br />
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This is one possible antidote to ego-driven virtuosity.<br />
Speed and complexity can be sad and kinda pitiful<br />
if the delivery is too earnest<br />
or if light speed is forgotten for a bit. <br />
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This is where dimensionality comes in.<br />
Conquering seems to happen by staying where you are<br />
rather than strong-arming knowledge<br />
into an attainable intellectual realm like what zoos do to animals,<br />
that infinite lust; water-bottle-wielding mirage chasers.<br />
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Knowledge needs to be grokked<br />
at the level of silent intuitive action<br />
while letting go of ownership.<br />
Dropping through and into infinite knowledge<br />
cross referenced through the rainbow-origin<br />
of all emotional states and spiritual illuminations,<br />
(Milford Graves talks about playing different emotions<br />
on different limbs: feeling-polymeters)<br />
That center of the wheel omniscience.<br />
Time Itself blah blah blah.<br />
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But in addition to knowledge<br />
there is context, timing of delivery,<br />
stand up comedy rhythms.<br />
Harold Bloom, to paraphrase,<br />
said the common denominator of all bad poetry<br />
is that it is too sincere.<br />
This is a naivete of context.<br />
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Aka your spilled milk is funny<br />
if there is a meteor about to land on you.<br />
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Aka Brubeck's "Take Five" would be thrilled<br />
to cross dress as a waltz for a night.<br />
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Aka the intelligence to quote "Stars Wars"<br />
in "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."<br />
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OK so there is vocabulary<br />
and then there is poetry and fucking magic.<br />
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Awareness, sensibility, and fearless intuition<br />
make infinity applicable instead of useless.<br />
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These are what allow your whole voice to blossom<br />
toward the tangible. Lightning and thunder etc. <br />
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Below is the video where Professor Graves<br />
talk about different emotions on different limbs.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-33524608028682750342013-08-20T23:42:00.001-05:002013-08-21T16:33:05.069-05:00The Voice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I think the voice is the most intimate instrument, meaning it's so innate it's not even an instrument. I guess the heart and the drone of the nervous system would be in the same category, but the voice is audible to other people and it is through voice that we communicate our children and to others. <br />
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I think this is why singing, and the other instruments that emulate the voice, the violin, the slide guitar, the flute are so emotional and can have such an impact on the heart. The instruments I find to be the most emotional are the ones that have not been compartmentalized by frets and note categories.<br />
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That is why it must be that when I hear <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CENP5Tswjhk">Derek Trucks</a>, and other masters of the entire string, I feel like crying and actually do cry most the time. Like the voice they can get to all the hard to reach places in the heart and in the body because they command the entire range of frequency.<br />
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Talking drums, tablas and other such cosmic membranophones are worth researching. The ancient cultures knew the power of all the in between tones.<br />
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This video has inspired a really exciting nocturnal practice session. I was experimenting with harmonics on the cymbals and on the drums by holding my finger on the surfaces the same way you would get a harmonic out of a guitar string. I can't believe I didn't think of it before. I will post a video as soon as I get a better way to record the low end. <br />
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But for now check this guy out. The drums are every instrument.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-91846244002650760852013-08-19T17:38:00.000-05:002013-08-19T17:38:52.344-05:00Papa Jo Jones<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This made me happy.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-25100917937398596122013-08-18T14:33:00.004-05:002013-08-18T14:35:29.095-05:00Music Education<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I had a revelation this morning. As I am writing a blog about drumming I think a lot about music education. I was thinking about the majority of instructional drum videos out there. So many of them are the equivalent of a writing teacher coming into class and saying,<br />
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<i>Good morning class. How many of you want to be the best speller you can be? It takes practice. Here is how you spell "Apple." A P P L E. Now once you have figured that out let's see if we can spell "conformity."</i><br />
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It's subversive to be poetic. It cuts against knowledge itself towards the supreme darkness of Being. New words, new spellings, and the whole gamut of human life from suffering to emergence into the light. We need to empower musicians to rise above vocabulary, spelling, and recitation, and into the field of the terror and joy of innovation and romance with sound.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-91289619375538444512013-08-17T23:20:00.001-05:002013-08-17T23:21:59.804-05:00The Found Poetry of a New Era<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-75204993292343177302013-08-16T17:13:00.005-05:002013-08-17T22:41:46.466-05:00Pathways<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There is the desire to sound good.<br />
The desire to control the expression<br />
so the notes occur on an area that is<br />
intellectually understood in advance.<br />
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Licks, grooves, scores, charts, notes etc.<br />
Or as Milford Graves calls it<br />
Standard Organized Music.<br />
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A conceptual framework somehow legitimizes<br />
and proves knowledge of rhythm and melody,<br />
an execution of a predetermined structure,<br />
or an improvisation projected onto a predetermined structure.<br />
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It's like "Oh he is repeating himself therefore he knows."<br />
It's safe. It's a form of GPS. It has its pleasure and limitations.<br />
Groove. It's OK have structure sometimes but how deep are the roots?<br />
If the roots are not deep "music" can become imprisonment.<br />
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The foundation is built upon breath and the feeling of the intention.<br />
Fear and vanity keep people on the surface and afraid of violating the structure.<br />
Conversely if you are at the center of the wheel you are omnipresent and timeless.<br />
You are time, keeping it or not keeping it is redundant.<br />
You can't reach the center without breath and relaxation.<br />
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Control without balance is FASCISM<br />
Letting Go without balance is NIHILISM<br />
and both together are TAOISM or SURFING<br />
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Lose Control in the name of gaining it.<br />
Weave these domains together.<br />
Sure practice <i>MASTER</i> Studies and Stick <i>CONTROL</i><br />
but then also get out the machete and do some bushwhacking.<br />
How are we going to become strong and fearless if we only mow the lawns<br />
and don't forge new neural pathways.<br />
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These new pathways come about by making music<br />
at the level of silent intuition and openhearted innocence.<br />
By stumbling into methods and sounds that are unknown<br />
and possibly uncomfortable and awkward.<br />
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Falling and flying and failing. <br />
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The axiom in creative writing<br />
"no surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader"<br />
Lovemaking requires no GPS.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-66155482010146469052013-08-12T02:42:00.001-05:002013-08-17T22:40:34.116-05:00Vantage Point<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have a gigging kit and a kit that stays set up permanently in my living room. For my show on Friday night I took the snare drum from my permanent setup with me. Today I got on my drums to mess around with some African Claves from <a href="http://amuletrecords.shop.musictoday.com/Product.aspx?cp=36_10392&pc=AMAM06BOOK" target="_blank">Billy Martin's book</a> but my snare drum was still in its case in the van.<br />
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I decided to use this as an opportunity to move toward sound and away from musical dependencies and habits. Expanding intimacy with drumming itself rather than with a drum set, with sound itself rather than with music, with the act of drumming rather than with what I am drumming. <br />
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I walk around the town playing on mailboxes, road signs, thrift store objects, telephone poles, benches, buckets, cups. Anything that looks like it might have a song I check to make sure. So why doesn't that extend to the drum set as much? Habit? Comparison? Expectations? Musical taste? Fear? I think the main thing is there is no preconception about a mailbox or a five gallon water jug. There is not an extensive library, in the exalted annals of music history, of mailbox and water jug recordings and techniques.<br />
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These found-percussion trysts are innocent encounters with sound. There is no, "am I doing this correctly?" because there is no "correct" way to play a mailbox or a water jug. The obsession with technique and perfectionism, as it correlates to the learning of an instrument, is only useful if it does not tamper with the ability to innocently experiment with your instrument stripped of all historical and musical context. <br />
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That is why I didn't go and get my snare drum. I did a practice session and some soloing minus the snare. It completely changed my relationship with the toms. It changed the way I thought about melody and drumming. The grooves were wilder and simpler. Africa came to visit or vice versa. When you change vantage points your vision and your knowledge expand. <br />
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Set up your drum set backwards. Use only floor toms. Remove all your cymbals. Do a solo blindfolded. Drum in the forest. Video tape yourself and play it backwards. Duct tape your right hand to your heart and drum with your left. Do anything to break your dependency on your instrument in order to increase the chance of entrance into extra terrestrial innocence where intuition and sound converge in the melted heart.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-71704835803617104772013-08-07T18:03:00.001-05:002013-08-17T22:39:02.060-05:00Four Arm Drumming<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just had a wake up call on the drum set. I've been putting a lot of attention on the expressive side of drumming, drumming as a language, drumming out of time as a rainstorm aka I'm John Cage and Merce Cunningham at the same time etc, mischievous ANTIDOTES and joyful FUs to the institution of airbrushed-smooth jazz-perfectionist-I'm looking at myself in the mirror while I over rehearse laptop karaoke-purgatory timekeeping of Swiss watch salsa as a whipped mule of general business-school of drumming. Even though the metronome is a demon there is still a place for Him on the altar as we all must enter the volcano together.<br />
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In other words even though a large chunk of my time is spent outside the suburbia called music and into the wilderness called Sound Itself, I still am always hungry for techniques that make my experiences in all three worlds more pleasurable, competent, and primed for unlocking the greatest possible power and surprise in the world of innovation and proficiency when I am at the drum set.<br />
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Today I realized that so much of my playing is handcentric. I think many players have this, let's call it PPS (Practice Pad Syndrome). I know all the American rudiments and can rock the first 1/3 of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOwFQRYbbTo" target="_blank">Alan Dawson's rudimental ritual</a> over a samba but even still all the focus is on the hands. So today I got rid of one stick and pretended like my right foot was my other hand. I did the seven stroke roll (and some other and eventually why not all the rudiments?)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">FOOT FOOT HAND HAND FOOT FOOT HAND</span></b><br />
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I know this is common knowledge but thinking of the feet as 3rd and 4th arms unlocks so much. It turns common and sometimes boring sticking patterns into grooves and unlocks the feet as soloing and integrated voices of our four limb arsenal. Water the root to enjoy the fruit. For real.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-33936140001382690892012-12-10T11:15:00.001-06:002013-08-17T22:55:10.001-05:00Losing Control: Antidotes to the Grid<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Drummers are obsessed with rhythm. But not the moon rhythms that drive the oceans, no the pre-fatal abstraction of machine rhythms. Devotees to the false god of the clock. Perfectionism among drummers is an epidemic, and because of that the paralysis of the fear of the unknown is rampant. <br />
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The grid is a very small area, just as visible light is an extremely narrow wavelength. The grid I define as the area where a traditional "note value" could theoretically house a "note"....similar to the options on a drum machine, any quarter, eighth, sixteenth, thirty second, and maybe sixty fourth, in whatever numerical subdivision up to say 12. <br />
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Yes the the grid is worth knowing. And if you are looking to be employed where metronomic exactitude is the karaoke death sentence of Sisyphusian muledom then by all means learn accountability so one can be of service to all styles and feels of music. Even though there is survivalist sarcasm here I fully believe in knowing the grid. Marcel Duchamp says, "I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste." <br />
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But this loyalty to the machine, to the standardization of the ear, to the extremely narrow bandwidth of "rhythm" I think is causing drummers to be too careful. <br />
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To fully gain control there has to be the courage to completely lose control. The reins are held loosely. Shamanic trance, drumming as painting, drumming as breathing, drumming as language, words, love letters mailed and love letters set on fire, the freedom of off-the-grid exploration. For some off-the-grid will be a place to live and to work and to never come back to the compressed heart of the machine. For others it will be a way of relating to the instrument with a new perspective so that the grid becomes more lively and dynamic rather than a fixed and passive structure.<br />
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Some antidotes to perfectionism and slavery to the grid. <br />
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First the "grid" can always be loosened and humanized. Allow imperfections, fluctuations in tempo, fire up the neurons in the heart and bypass the cul de sac autoeroticism of the intellect in a searing arc of red meteor fire.<br />
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Accelerations: (feet play ostinatos on the grid:) hands speeding up slowing down creating rhythms based in the joy of movement and the feeling of the sound as the criteria. No devotion to bar lines or time signatures and each hand has freedom of tempo, dynamics, and domain. Practicing total freedom of the language of the hands while the feet hold down a very tight pattern or an extremely loose unfixed pattern. The soul itself can become the groove and that needs no commentary and all music becomes ornamental to that primary condition of ecstasy.<br />
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Monologues: In the same way that speaking does not require any practice to a metronome. Drum for or to someone or something.<br />
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Weather: waves, rain, haunting of fog, the wind, the atmosphere is full of images and beautiful pulsations that are off the grid, natural, and primal as fuck.<br />
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Minimalism: let silence be the dominating voice like a very distant thunderstorm. Practice primarily listening and get transfixed in the ecstasy of non-doing.<br />
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Making love: The dynamics of lovemaking, infinitely silent and sweet to violent euphoria and abandon.<br />
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Polyrhythms: Set up both sustainable and unsustainable systems. Experience not being able to maintain a rhythm as an entrance into it's own oscillation of creation destruction creation destruction. That is a very primal thing to be a part of. Fall off the horse and get back on. Invent new ways to gallop.<br />
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Sound barrage: Avalanche, eruption, downpour, experiment with a full and complete unleashing on the drums but play at a dynamic that IS sustainable, in other words let it increase your energy rather than playing over the edge that will deplete you. Try a quiet incessant barrage and then build from there.<br />
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Dance Dance Dance Dance Dance: This is a pre requisite for all drummers<br />
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Sing Sing Sing Sing Sing: This is a pre requisite for all drummers<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-83439816843781117902012-02-27T00:52:00.000-06:002012-02-27T00:52:31.877-06:00David Hurlin vs Dil Hurlin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> School :)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of the things discussed after <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AnimalSound?ref=ts&sk=app_178091127385" target="_blank">Animal's</a> CD release party </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">at the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BeautyShopFairfield" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Beauty Shop</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> with artist resident </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Laura-Goldhamer-the-Silvernail/255505883106" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Laura Goldhamer</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">silent drumming</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">triggering lights vs. sounds</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">computer access to notes between the notes </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">gear </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">electronic music</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">the use of computer </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">as a tool rather than an absolute</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">enslavement </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">to the computer</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">freedom vs. structure </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">digital vs. analog</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">the paralysis of the infinite</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">digital photography </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">as it relates to automatic weaponry and sloppiness</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">t-switches in trains </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">diesel engines and in audio equipment</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">sound healing with speaker-triggered drums</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">new age filtration</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">community vs. individualism</span></li>
<li><a href="http://dwellingherenow.blogspot.com/2009/04/primal-wound-is-womb-of-renewal.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">vesica piscus and the primal wound</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/soundingcircles" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">sounding circles</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">group improvisation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">improvisation</span></li>
<li>bow ties<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and the two ends of an infinity sign</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">looping</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/zoekeating" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Zoe Keating</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">centrioles</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">mytosis</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">cell duplication</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM6uXiqSgjc" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Harpoontang</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/evangenitals" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"> The Evangenitals</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Cage</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Merce Cunningham</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5kPkqzDto0" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Apocalypso Tantric Boys Choir</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alvin Lucier</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Steve Reich</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV5SE8XCISk" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Milford Graves</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">as a law of nature and </span>heartbeat<span style="font-family: inherit;"> master</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">free jazz as a permission-</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">concept for all music vs. free jazz the genre</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Marcel Duchamp's "I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste" as it relates to authentic genre hopping</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">contact mics</span></li>
<li>sub woofers</li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">recording the sounds of brainwaves</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">oscillators and the patterns of frequency</span></li>
<li><a href="http://homepages.sover.net/~nichael/nlc-poetry/gs1.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Gary Synder's "Axe Handles"</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></li>
<li><a href="http://andrewandainsley.blogspot.com/2008/10/splitting-wood.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Billy Collins "Splitting Wood"</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">star formation within circles and squares</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">centrisomes and moons</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">video feedback and the Lord</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">unity and diversity, not twoness</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">overhead projections, animation</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">digital projectors</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">the evolution of technology and photography equipment</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">quality</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">the infinite of digital photography vs. the finite of old school photography</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">hip hop</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">vulnerability and strength together within blossoming of expression</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">loop pedals used as a tool not as a parlor trick</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">white as an expression of all color combined</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">aperture and shutter speed in terms of video feedback</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">sonic installation</span></li>
<li>breath-ability<span style="font-family: inherit;"> of music</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">language and allowance of silence in conversation and music</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">volume pedals</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">art of live accompaniment vs. computer-centric accompaniment</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">allowance for variance in music</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">allowance for intuition and assessment of the present moment vs. re-creation of music</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">prayer through singing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">truly being motivated by love and creating what you want in spite of all circumstance.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7178105740608580416.post-64581741642392324822012-02-15T13:19:00.000-06:002013-08-17T23:01:51.112-05:00Let's Call the Whole Thing Off<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Valentine's 2012 is pretty heavy :) <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I am ECSTATIC!! I recorded this over a year ago on my Blackberry while I was walking down a lovely shaded lane in Venice Beach. I was playing a water bottle and my solo turned into an incredible duet. I truly am beaming with pride! I totally forgot about this. This is better than finding a wad of cash in old jeans which ALSO happened to me today!! Sweet blizzard in a nativity scene I'm happy :)</span></div>
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