The Art of the Drum

The chronicles of a Bristol Fellowship.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Here is a short video of an employee of the Japan Percussion Center tuning a djembe, a West African hand drum. Cross-culturalism at its finest...

Jesse B-H: I graduated from Hamilton College in 2007, with degrees in Religious Studies and Hispanic Studies. I have been awarded the Bristol Fellowship, a year-long grant. As a passionate drummer, I would like to explore the art of the drum, with a global perspective: to establish the spiritual process that a craftsman undergoes while building a drum, and to define the intricate spiritual relationship that the drummer has with his drum. The itinerary includes Fiji, Japan, India, Morocco, and the Caribbean.

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