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The Quarantine Concerts 3/25/2020
My contribution to ESS’s Quarantine Concerts. I was invited to play the day before the scheduled performance, so I didn’t have much time to get nervous about it. (Check out the rest of the sets here: lots of super rad stuff!!! https://ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts)
Rewind to sometime 2014; I started this blog, my tuberculosis nurse project. The idea was that even if I was stuck in my basement without many (any?) people to play music with irl, I could reach out via whatever means possible to collaborate remotely. I remembered visiting Mammoth Cave and learning about the sanatoriums (?) that doctors tried to build in the caves to provide a place for tuberculosis patients to recover; I remembered reading something (what? idk) about tuberculosis nurses venturing into people’s private homes to treat them. Reaching out from isolation has always been on my mind, and I think the name “tuberculosis nurse” actually came to me in a dream?
The idea was to record drum tracks and then I would post them here. If anyone heard it and felt inspired, maybe they would make a song with it? And guess what -- it worked! A few different projects with kind and generous friends developed, including the first recording I ever made and the first show I ever played as a drummer.
And so, in 2020 during this global pandemic, I was invited to play a set from my basement, my happiest place, and share my noises with the entire world. In addition to some improvisation, I chose to play songs from those two projects for this set specifically because they emerged from the same impulse: to reduce isolation and increase community, even under unusual or dire circumstances.
So here it is! Posted to my lil tb nurse blog. Thanks to a kind invitation from people who believed in me, I brought the sound of my basement to the world even though I couldn’t bring the world into my basement. I’ll celebrate my 7th birthday as a drummer in early June and I feel l have accomplished at least a few things during that time.
The second of the two pieces I played during my solo set last night (Jan 8, 2020) at Tritriangle. Definitely more of a slow cooker than a pressure cooker.
Drumset, cowbell, tiny cymbals: me
∆∆∆ Reid Karris w/ Memory Dregs Reid Karris “Rainbow Monolith” album release show on Orb Tapes. ∆∆∆ Echo Chamber ∆∆∆ Molly Jones Trio of Molly Jones, Alexander Adams, Reid Karris ∆∆∆ Am…
I am playing for the second time in 2020 at this event! (Click on the link above for more info about the event :)
My first performance of 2020 was with Impulsive Hearts on 1-2-2020; this time it’ll be all by myself. I will be playing some material I have been working on for a while but have never played in front of people before. The first and second times I have performed solo are documented below on this very blog. Getting the year started right!!!
Drums and voice: me recorded live in basement on Zoom one minute long October 2019 image source: After Sybil...From the Letters of Shirley Mason by Nancy L. Preston, Infinity Publishing 2012
I am trying to exposure-therapy myself into being less freaked out by my own voice + practice singing/playing/improvising simultaneously. This is a tiny one minute experiment inspired by Shirley Mason, an artist and human being who most people only know by her patient pseudonym of Sybil. More to come?!
Returning champion, percussionist Amanda Kraus performing a solo piece for drums and PA system at TriTriangle as part of the 100th episode celebration. https://boobsweat.bandcamp.comI've said it before, and I'll say it again ... Only available on ...
My first unaccompanied solo performance -- recorded! This entire experience was an absolute delight and I would do it again if anyone would let me :)
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