Daniele De Santis | Prepared Drums - live recording

Exploring the boundaries between acoustics, electro-acoustics and electronica, Prepared Drums performances are blueprints of the peculiar combination of instrumentalism, crafting and sound design that animates Daniele De Santis’ activities. The project finds its foundation in a longstanding research towards a possible augmentation/electrification of the percussive instruments and their acoustic qualities. An experiment covering from the design to the very manufacturing and live implementation of several custom non-airborne microphones. Their integration in the instrumental setup as major amplifying medium and electronic processing source, becomes the means for a “sound-system-magnified” dynamic topography of all those subtle tactile timbres and microtonal resonant harmonics which reside in the acoustic bodies.

A rich as much as rare sound palette, ultimately serving Daniele’s’ aim of a post-acoustic folk and body-controlled organic electronica, where his atypical cross-over of rhythmical languages leads into a unique hypnotic auditory path of immersive and almost shamanic qualities. Daniele will present and record his Prepared Drums in symbiosis with the acoustics of Morphine Raum and Rabih Beaini’s engineering.

Photo by Lyse Ishimwe