Arthur Dubois
Documented by Drum Faster
The French drummer who plays water. Acoustic drums fused with unconventional objects, Sensory Percussion sensors and electronic triggers — and a body of work built on the fact that a ringing chime lowered into water bends flat. One video passed three million views.
2023 — The hybrid rig
The point is not speed or weight, it is making sounds that do not otherwise exist. Sensory Percussion reads where on a head you strike and how hard, so a single drum becomes a whole instrument with strike position as a control. And the water genuinely is physics: it damps and loads a vibrating piece of metal, which bends the pitch — a pitch bend on a percussion instrument, which percussion does not normally have.
Meinl percussion
a listed Meinl artist — the unconventional metal and effects percussion the work relies on
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Sensory Percussion sensors
strike position and dynamics mapped to triggered sound
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Evans Hybrid sensory range
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