Vessels: Drums, Distortion, Dissonance

Experience a live experimental sound performance through drums.Johan Don-Daniel will transform percussive patterns (Sri Lankan thammatama) to create a dialogue between ancestral rhythms and contemporary technology.Working at the intersection of sound art, cultural documentation, and technological experimentation, Don-Daniel draws on Sri Lankan drum languages, including gta bera, yak bera, and thammatama traditions.Through circuit-bent electronics, modified audio devices, and interactive systems built from Raspberry Pi, touch-sensitive surfaces, and homemade instruments, these traditional drum patterns will be refracted, layered, and re-articulated.

These are not samples but conversations: between memory and innovation, analogue and digital, documentation and transformation.You will also be invited to explore an interactive installation of touch-sensitive sound works to make your own sound performance.