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Original program notes: Talking Drum | Chris Brown and DJ eddie DEF | Sun May 23 1999 Composer Chris Brown and an ensemble of Bay Area musicians will take guests on an acoustic exploration of a historic military bunker in an outdoor performance of Talking Drum at Battery Wallace in the Marin Headlands. Talking Drum is an interactive electronic sound piece in which musicians play a network of four small computer music systems installed outdoors. The computer instruments run rhythm-generating software and are positioned to exploit distance and resonance effects at the performance site. Hence, the environment itself is played like the membrane of a drum. Bay Area turntable legend, DJ eddie DEF will be a featured soloist with the ensemble. Chris Brown is a composer, pianist and electronic musician whose music explores the intersection of composition, improvisation and electronics. Trained as a classical pianist, Brown is a renowned inventor of personal electronic instruments. His recent works involve extending Network Music into new performance venues. DJ eddie DEF has been spinning records since age 12 and is a cofounder of the Bullet Proof Scratch Hamsters, the first scratch crew in the Bay Area. After recording the pioneering scratch record Hamster Breaks, they released a double vinyl album under the band name, the Space Travelers. Tape 1 label: promo reel
Type
moving image
Format
Sound Color Hi8
Extent
1 Tape of 1
Identifier
casauhc_000022
Language
English
Provenance
Headlands Center for the Arts California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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