Kevin Drumm

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Kevin Drumm

Kevin Drumm (* 1970 in South Holland , Cook County , Illinois ) is an American musician in the field of electronic music and an avant-garde table guitar player.

Musical career

After initially playing in various rock bands, Drumm devoted himself to experimental playing styles in the Chicago improvisation scene in the 1990s and quickly became one of the world's most famous guitar players for prepared guitar. He experimented with magnets, tie clips, chains, violin bows and nail scissors. Soon after, he added a laptop and modular synthesizer to his equipment and expanded his work to include an electro-acoustic way of playing and composing. In 1997 his solo debut album s / t was released .

music

Drumm's music is characterized by a variety of different musical approaches. Acoustic and electronic forms of expression merge into sound surfaces, in which mostly electronic individual events receive the structural dramaturgy of the pieces. The initially calm and economical sound designs were increasingly expanded to loud and condensed textures in later publications. Some of his pieces can be assigned to Drone Doom , other influences come from Concrete Music , Heavy Metal and Black Metal .

Collaborations

There were collaborations with Jim O'Rourke ( Gastr del Sol ) and Ken Vandermark . Also with Taku Sugimoto , Axel Dörner , Martin Tétreault and Ralf Wehowsky , with Phill Niblock , Tony Conrad , MIMEO , Mats Gustafsson , John Butcher and Thomas Ankersmit. In the course of a collaboration with the artist collective Simparch , he composed the piece Spec , which was performed at Documenta11 in Kassel and at the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago.

Discography (selection)

  • 1997: Kevin Drumm (CD, Perdition Plastics)
  • 1999: Second (CD, Perdition Plastics)
  • 2000: Comedy (CD, Moikai)
  • 2000: Particles and Smears with Martin Tétreault (CD, Erstwhile Records)
  • 2000: Kevin Drumm / Bhob Rainey Split (12 ", Fringes)
  • 2001: KD (cassette, Freedom From)
  • 2001: Cases with Ralf Wehowsky (CD, selection)
  • 2001: Den with Taku Sugimoto (CD, Sonoris)
  • 2001: Triangles with Leif Elggren (LP / CD, Moikai)
  • 2001: Untitled (Erstwhile 015) with Axel Dörner (CD, Erstwhile Records)
  • 2001: Kevin Drumm / Pita Split (12 ", BOXmedia)
  • 2002: DEG with Leif Elggren and Mats Gustafsson (LP, Firework Edition Records)
  • 2002: Frozen by Blizzard Winds with Lasse Marhaug (CD, Smalltown Supersound)
  • 2002: Sheer Hellish Miasma (CD, Mego )
  • 2002: I Drink Your Skin with Aaron Dilloway (cassette, Hanson Records)
  • 2003: Eruption with Fred Lonberg-Holm and Weasel Walter (CD, Grob)
  • 2003: Land of Lurches (LP / CD, Hanson Records)
  • 2003: Mort Aux Vaches with Dan Burke (CD, Staalplaat )
  • 2004: Impish Tyrant (cassette, spite)
  • 2005: Horror of Birth (cassette, Chondritic Sound)
  • 2005: Kevin Drumm / 2673 Split (LP, Kitty Play Records)
  • 2007: Sheer Hellish Miasma re-release (CD, Editions Mego)
  • 2007: All Are Guests in the House of the Lord with Prurient (Hospital Productions)
  • 2007: Purge (cassette, iDEAL)
  • 2007: Gauntlet with Daniel Menche (CD, Editions Mego)
  • 2008: Snow (tape, Hospital Productions)
  • 2008: Imperial Distortion (2CD, Hospital Productions)
  • 2008: untiled (LP, Dilemma Records)
  • 2009: Malaise (cassette, Hospital Productions)
  • 2009: Alku Tape (cassette, Alku)
  • 2009: Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions)
  • 2010: The Icy Echoer with Michael Esposito (7 ", Fragment Factory)
  • 2010: Necro Acoustic (5CD Box, PicaDisk)
  • 2012: Relief (LP, Editions Mego)
  • 2012: Crowded (LP, Bocian Records)
  • 2013: Tannenbaum (CD / Cassette, Hospital Productions)
  • 2017: Interference (Cassette, Second Editions )

Collaborations

  • 1995: Ken Vandermark - Standards (CD, Quinnah)
  • 1996: Gastr del Sol - "Our Exquisite Replica of Eternity" on Upgrade & Afterlife (CD, Drag City)
  • 1998: Loren Mazzacane-Connors and Alan Licht - Hoffman Estates (CD, Drag City)
  • 1999: "Berlin 1", "Graz 2", "Vienna 1", "Berlin 3" on Charhizma 002 with Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Fennesz / O'Rourke / Drumm / Siewert (CD, Charhizma)
  • 2002: Territory Volume-2 Atlas (CD, Okka Disk )
  • 2003: "Wels", "Nickelsdorf 1", "Nickelsdorf 2" on Charhizma 020 with Dafeldecker / Kurzmann / Drumm / eRikm / dieb13 / Noetinger (CD, Charhizma)
  • 2003: "Untitled" on Untitled (CDr, No label)
  • 2004: Territory Band-3 Map Theory (2CD, Okka Disk)

Sampler

  • 1997: "Brassy" on Scatter (CD, Ash International)
  • 2000: "Three" on Prix Ars Electronica CyberArts 2000 (2xCD, Ars Electronica Center)
  • 2000: "Untitled" on Variious (2xCD, Intransitive Recordings)
  • 2001: "Feelin Hilarious" on Or Some Computer Music (CD, Or Records)
  • 2001: "Untitled" on Transmissions 003 (2xCD, Transmissions)
  • 2002: "My Tree Bears No Nuts (Part 2)" on All Tomorrow's Parties 1.1 (CD / 2xLP, ATP Recordings)
  • 2001: "Untitled" on X + Y = XY (CDr, Alku)
  • 2004: "Untitled" on LDS Relationchips (CDr, Entr'acte)
  • 2005: "Untitled" on ALKUjiggerypokeryMIX (MP3, Alku)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kevin+Drumm
  2. ↑ ibid.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Drumm, Kevin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH South Holland , Illinois