The first part of the interview is available here: link And now I wanted to ask: how has your drum set changed over time? Actually, not much at all. When did you start using the bow, for example? Was it your idea or did you see someone else doing it? That’s an interesting question. The first documented use of the bow in my playing appears on Tubworks, which was recorded around 1983 or 1984. To be honest, I’m not entirely sure where the idea came from. Maybe I saw it used in 20th-century classical percussion music. I don’t recall taking it directly from anyone, but at some point, I simply had the idea to bow the cymbals – and I followed that impulse. Back then, many of the extended techniques I began developing were motivated by the need to make solo drum music more orchestrally diverse. I wanted a broader […]
