“The first drum set came on the market in 1918 and triggered a musical revolution: It took over urban dance music and established the triad of bass drum, snare and hi-hat as the combination used the world over. “
https://hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2018/100_jahre_beat/100_jahre_beat_start.php
2018 was the 100th Anniversary of the modern instrument we call the ‘Drum Set’. An event hosted at the ‘Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)’ in April 2018 titled ‘100 Jarhre Beat (100 Years of Beat)’ featured and celebrated this beautiful instrument, with concerts, talks, film screenings, and sound installation art such as Hanno Leichtmann‘s ‘Skin, Wood, Traps’ (2018), shown in the feature photo.
‘Skin, Wood, Traps’ was a multi channel sound installation, an immersive space one could enter, and gaze up to these hanging drum parts, and listen to the sounds and loops of samples took from inspirational drummers from the past 100 years.
I decided to use this photo I took with my smartphone for this website’s top image, which is not really a good photo at all, but what I captured and heard on this installation, very well correlated with my thoughts and love towards music as a listener. Live music, as well as recorded music, samples and playbacks, dj culture and dance. These are the topics I love to think about, and what this blog will mainly be about. The uniqueness of raw, live, first hand musical experience is a powerful force. But just as well the importance of recording, sampling, and play back could not be emphasized enough, as this form of celebrating music on a club dance floor, is what got me into music as a dedicated listener in the first place.
