Kevin Drumm
Kevin Drumm (born 1970 in South Holland, Cook County, Illinois ) is an American musician in the field of electronic music and avant-garde guitarist table.
Musical Career
After Drumm had first played in various rock bands, he devoted himself in the 1990s in the Chicago improvisation scene increasingly experimental ways of playing and soon became one of the world's most famous guitar player for prepared guitar. He experimented with magnets, tie holders, chains, violin bows and nail scissors. Soon after, he added his equipment to laptop and modular synthesizer and extended his work to an electro-acoustic playing and compositional style. 1997, his solo debut album was released s / t.
Music
Drumm music is characterized by a variety of different musical approaches. Acoustic and electronic forms of expression merge into sound spaces which are mostly individual events receive electronic structural dramaturgy of the pieces. The first quiet and economical sound designs were to be increasingly in later publications and compressed textures expanded. Many of his pieces are lowercase influenced by Doom and Drone, and, accordingly, his tunes sound mostly very bleak. Other influences are attributed to the concrete music, Heavy Metal and Black Metal.
Collaborations
Collaborations with Jim O'Rourke gave it ( Gastr del Sol ) and Ken Vandermark. In addition, with Taku Sugimoto, Axel Dörner, Martin Tétreault and Ralf Wehowsky, Phill Niblock with Tony Conrad, Mimeo, Mats Gustafsson, John Butcher and Thomas Anker Smith. As part of a collaboration with the artist collective Simparch he composed the piece spec, which was staged at Documenta 11 in Kassel and at the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago.