Silence Breakers -Silence Shapers (abberations on percussion)

The percussionist’s table :

A concert percussionist goes on stage with a wheeled table, carrying a set of what will later produce the vocabulary of sounds required for the musical work about to be performed.

It's an assortment of objects that seem randomly grouped, irrational even ; there can be functional objects like a mixing bowl or a wood saw, a block of wood, a grater, things seeming disparate and unconnected ; but once one is aware that they re there to produce noise, they instantly become buildling blocks of a sort of language. They become tools operating in one singular realm.

The particular notion of Percussion relative to these works, is the one that presumes silence as a state prior to the event of a percussive sound: i.e. a drum punctures silence. A bell, a snap of two fingers splits the silence in two parts ; before and after it.

It is like a very primordial and binary state of the begginings of a language : not dissimilar to a 0s and 1s system.Then comes rhythm, a pattern repetitive or not at all, but carrying information which we instantly decode as emotive, dynamic, structural, syntactical.

This notion of percussive ‘tools’ is also an idea of intimacy ; the word ἅπτω - (haptics ) means primarily to touch, but this is a notion of touching in order to identify an object, its nature, its soundness : Like a cat taps gently on a surface with its paws well before it climbs on it, to test whether its rigid enough to hold its weight, to get a feeling of what its made of.

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)

Silence Breakers, Silence Shapers (Abbreviations On Percussion)