JOSS TURNBULL – JR

Door: 8:00
Music: 8:30

JOSS TURNBULL presenting TURMOIL for zarb and electronics 

JOSS TURNBULL is a percussionist in the widest sense of the word, using rhythmic dynamics to invoke a sense of vertigo and vibrating vastness. The traditional Iranian drum zarb is electrified and becomes the leading voice of a percussive symphony, shaping constantly growing and decaying tension. Through unorthodox instrumental extensions such as rubber balls, tremolo sticks, chains, and live sampling, he creates acoustic spaces that are both minimalist and overwhelming. He stretches and destabilizes rhythms, distorting them almost to the point of disappearance between restraint and release.

JR (amplified Bodhrán) teams up with some analog and digital machines to reflect on the Irish frame drum Bodhrán across future and past—and on how a musical tradition, like any thing, suffers in our human conception of history.