Kick Studies

by Ewa Justka

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It's an excerpt from 8 channels sound installation, written in SuperCollider.

From tribal rituals of possession dance ceremonies, or spirits’ music, to gabber raves, drum sounds have been playing an essential role in inducing trance like states, where progressive acceleration of tempos and crescendos would then trigger violent and convulsive dance in participants.
In Madagascar, ndop ceremonies are described as follows: “the tempo increases, while at the same time interjections ring out: ‘your hands!’, ‘louder,’ ‘clap all of you’, ‘it’s getting hot now, sister!’. The beat of the drums speeds up, then a little later, as they announce at the same time cause the possessee’s collapse, the movements and the drum become very fast” (Rouget, Gilbert, Music and Trance, p.83). The above description of the traditional ritual trance process is uncannily familiar to every raver. In hardcore techno (gabber) the climax is always a focal point, where the speed of distorted kicks can accelerate up to two hundred bpm. Those stimulate violent a convulsive dance, trance-like, where, similarly to shamanic rituals once could observe in ravers “rapid extension and bending of the arms, in an oblique line to the axis of the body, and a violent swinging of the head up and down” (Ibid, p.86).

The piece is a celebration of kick drums, distorted, ravy, gabbery, 808-y, morphing, as if hammers were stretched to the point of being no longer recognisable.

The piece was written in SuperCollider - a programming language for sound synthesis, thanks to advices from SC forum and Roc Jimenez de Cisneros.

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umc, umc, umc

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released September 14, 2017
Ewa Justka, Roc Jimenez de Cisneros, SC forum

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