Stomp Out Loud
Nov. 18th, 2008 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellyssianI suppose some of you saw this coming ~ I didn't. It seems inevitable, though, to end a set of clips featuring percussion with a few clips from a production dedicated entirely to percussion.
The original set was just intended to feature Habib Koite & Bamada and some Uakti, and then Bamboo Orchestra was pointed out to me. As I collected those clips and lined them up, I realized some daiko ~ something I've liked for over a dozen years ~ would do nicely in this set. While searching and gathering for some great Japanese percussion, I couldn't help but notice the links for clips to Stomp [stomponline.com], which bills itself as a "Combination of percussion, movement, and visual comedy" and if only one third of that really fits the theme, it was enough to get me to watch. Of course, they also bill the show as "the international percussion sensation" ~ and that is, exactly, the theme.
Where the folks in Bamada and the daiko ensembles use traditional instruments of Mali and Japan, respectively, and Uakti combines traditional instruments of Brazil and elsewhere with engineered creations of PVC and other materials, Stomp uses anything and everything as an instrument. Although there is design behind it, there is much more of an improvisational feel to the bits of flotsam and jetsam that make up their instruments. More than that, they make use of their whole environment ~ anything within reach of a drumstick, hand, or whatever becomes a percussion instrument.
Here's the opening from their DVD, Stomp Out Loud
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The original set was just intended to feature Habib Koite & Bamada and some Uakti, and then Bamboo Orchestra was pointed out to me. As I collected those clips and lined them up, I realized some daiko ~ something I've liked for over a dozen years ~ would do nicely in this set. While searching and gathering for some great Japanese percussion, I couldn't help but notice the links for clips to Stomp [stomponline.com], which bills itself as a "Combination of percussion, movement, and visual comedy" and if only one third of that really fits the theme, it was enough to get me to watch. Of course, they also bill the show as "the international percussion sensation" ~ and that is, exactly, the theme.
Where the folks in Bamada and the daiko ensembles use traditional instruments of Mali and Japan, respectively, and Uakti combines traditional instruments of Brazil and elsewhere with engineered creations of PVC and other materials, Stomp uses anything and everything as an instrument. Although there is design behind it, there is much more of an improvisational feel to the bits of flotsam and jetsam that make up their instruments. More than that, they make use of their whole environment ~ anything within reach of a drumstick, hand, or whatever becomes a percussion instrument.
Here's the opening from their DVD, Stomp Out Loud
:
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Date: 2008-11-18 03:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-18 08:21 pm (UTC)