Let There be Drums is a Four Concert series presented by Small Space Music and The Melbourne Jazz Co-op. Showcasing the music of ten Melbourne drummers in solo, duo and small ensemble settings.
Utilising four different spaces to suit each act, these concerts will be a celebration of multi directional drumming, thinking and listening.
Concert 1:
May 26th LongPlay St Georges Rd Northcote 5.30-7.30pm
Spartacus Collective + Nat grant Dave Brown Duo
Spartacus Collective is a platform to explore the drumset as solo instrument with accompaniment. A combination of written notation and improvised material is utilised. One of the aims of the group is to highlight the drumet as a tonal instrument that can adapt to the requirements of the music on hand.
David Brown (guitar) melds conventional electroacoustic methods with noise and rock and also the development of a vocabulary of tiny acoustic sounds enlarged outside their normal context. Nat Grant (drums) produces performances and recorded works that focus on stillness, the slow revelation of small changes in sonic landscapes, and a reflective listening to everyday sounds in different contexts. They are long time bandmates in Adam Simmons’ Creative Music Ensemble, and new collaborators in this duo, with a focus on texture rather than time, on timbre more than tonality.
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