Ted Rubright’s musical activities (and more) from the musty confines down the stairs.
Another pair of paintings in my drum stick portrait series. One shows a Grover Artist Choice Medium Tam Tam Mallet against a tam tam (actual size!) and another is a quartet of Real Feel practice pads with a pair of Innovative Percussion CL-1s.
Last week I hosted a birthday shindig at Duff’s Restaurant. My brother Dan and I (aka The WirePilots) played and trotted out some new gear, notably my new Korg WaveDrum, which is a ‘virtual acoustic instrument.’ In other words, it’s electronic but there’s no MIDI or computer interface. It’s played in real time like any other acoustic instrument and it responds to gestures like slapping or hitting the rim.
Here’s a video of a new tune that Dan wrote and I like how it turned out.
Wire Pilots – one more tune from Duff’s from Leslie Peters on Vimeo.
A couple of posts ago I talked about how I was reunited with my former marimba. Now I’ve made contact (although virtual) with my boyhood drum set. It’s a vintage Rogers kit with a sort of pearl-oyster finish that I bought when I was 15 or so.
Here’s the story. A couple of days ago we got an email from a friend who moved with his family to the west coast a few years back. I had sold him the Rogers kit, but to tell you the truth I kind of forgot about it.
In the email he told us his son (our kids were preschool buddies) had started playing the drums, so when I got some video links of the kit in action I was stoked. It’s amazing that these instruments are still in circulation inspiring a whole new generation of kids to play!
