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Ground to Foot Learning

by Simon Barker

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Simon Barker high/low drums

Over the past few years I've been developing/exploring a personal vocabulary on the drums that I call coiling (the coils being chunks of rhythm/sticking cells organised in different ways), and I love playing this language on two drums (left hand - high drum/right hand-low drum). Lately I've been enjoying exploring alternative types of ornamentation by allowing the drumsticks to get stuck to resin on the drum heads during patterning...it allows for all sorts of sounds to appear as well a little chaos (there's high chance each note won't sound due to the stick getting stuck to the drum).

Some of the areas explored on this track have been emerging lately and it's funny how it seems to be developing in tandem with new areas of learning that I'm experiencing running barefoot on the road. It sometimes feels like the details of the road are always teaching me both how to run barefoot and how to play the drums.

Recorded at home on a zoom H5
Cover pic: a great hill in Earlwood with an incredible surface to run on. That crack in the road feels really nice to run on.
Special thanks to the University of Sydney/Sydney Conservatorium of Music

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released June 12, 2021

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Simon Barker Sydney, Australia

I'm a drummer and I like documenting drumming experiments and explorations. To find out more please visit my website:
simonbarker.com.au
For more high/low drum chants visit:
chantcoils.bandcamp.com

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