percussion

An original composition of music with an African theme that consists of only percussive instruments. It as an imagining of the drums that were thought to incite rebellion as mentioned in "Voyage to the Island of Jamaica." Recorded on an HP Envy PC with an AKAI MP61 keyboard, Mixcraft Pro Studio 8, and cinema sound effects software. 

I drop coins into the palm of my hand, one on top of the other.

The sound represented is a mellow jazz groove performed on a Zildjian L80 low volume cymbal inside of my dorm. This recording was done on an IPhone 6S and edited on Audacity.

Recording of a pair of two baroque timpani. Primarily used in the Eighteenth century and Nineteenth century, these drums consists of copper bowls with calfskin heads stretched across them, tightened and tuned by lugs and played with wooden mallets. The sizes of these timpani are 23" and 26" in diameter. Hand tuned with the help of a tuning key, the pitches of these drums are C3 and G2.

Una grabación de Miriam Levitin tocando su piano electrónico mientras usando auriculares. Solo el ritmo sincopado de la canción es audible al oyente. | A recording of Miriam Levitin playing her keyboard while wearing headphones. Only the syncopated rhythm of the song is audible to the listener.

Extracto de un video de Paul Lopez tocando un ritmo merengue con dos congas. El tempo se acelera y se desacelera. | Excerpt from a video of Paul Lopez playing a merengue rhythm with two drums. The tempo accelerates and decelerates.

I play one bar of 8th notes on right hand, then the same thing on left hand, and then a bar right-hand lead 16th notes at a moderate tempo. I do the whole thing again starting on opposite hand for each section. Then, I raise several tempo up and do those two sets again. (Recorded by LG Phone)

Two mechanical pencils were used as percussion instruments with AC conditioning as background noise. I created a few simple rhythms on an adjacent table. Recorded with Lenovo Thinkpad E550 laptop.