BATTERY [2022-25], 55’.

Marching snare drum, computer-controlled woodblock array, solenoid motors, feedback-entwined crash cymbals, two BOSS DB-90 “Dr. Beat” metronomes, custom software, Astroturf carpet, white field marking paint, vintage field drum, Waterford Crystal wine glass, crude oil, wooden color guard rifle, annotated studies from The All American Drummer (1945) by Charley Wilcoxon.

I. Trauermarsch, or The Downfall of Paris

II. press roll [for Sean Meehan] 

III. ‘The SCV’ 

IV. diacritical axioms ( e && a )

V. Euclid drops the hammer in Houston

Written for myself and Jennifer Torrence, commissioned and presented by Lampo.

All photos by Alex Inglizian.

 

(video documentation coming soon)