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aired on CHLY 101.7 FM on April 24, 2007
guest - Jordan Stringer
guest - Jordan Stringer
musician
Jordan will be demonstrating and discussing percussion.
"A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. The term usually applies to an object used in a rhythmic context and/or with musical intent.
What this really boils down to is a vast landscape of instruments. A percussionist is not only someone who focuses on a particular instrument but also someone who searches deep and wide for anything cool anywhere that makes noise..... If you haven't yet seen the movie "The touch of sound" check it out, we're talking about a curious woman by the name of Evelyn Glennie, nearly deaf, percussionist extraordinaire, travels everywhere possible to find new musical textures not yet found in the world.
Another cool thing about percussion is that you honestly don't need to buy any instruments. Commercially there are fantastic hand drums, specially engineered shakers and so on, but if you have a hand or two, a couple knees to slap, a tin full of rice or whatever, you too can take on the percussive challenge.
Some things I have:
A cajón (Spanish for 'crate', 'drawer', or 'box', pronounced 'ka.HON') is a kind of box drum played by slapping the front face (generally thin plywood) with the hands.
The udu is an African drum originated by the Igbo and Hausa people of Nigeria. In their language it means peace or vessel. Actually being a water jug with one more hole, it was played by women for ceremonial uses. Usually the udu is made of clay and stone. The instrument is played by hand and produces a special and unique bass sound by quickly hitting the big hole.
Furthermore the whole corpus can be played by fingers. Today it is widely used by percussionists in different music styles.
A caxixi (pronounced Kasheeshee) is a percussion instrument (shaker) consisting of a closed basket with a flat-bottom filled with seeds or other small particles. The caxixi is an indirectly struck idiophone. It is found across Africa and South America
A Djembe (pronounced JEM-bay) also known as djimbe, jenbe, jembe, yembe or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin covered hand drum, shaped like a large goblet, and meant to be played with bare hands."
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