NEAL PRESENTS: JJ HAM
IMPROVISING POLYRHYTHMIC SPACE
THU FEB 6, 8PM
FREE EVENT
Musician and architect J.J. Ham performs his Improvising Polyrhythmic Space solo show for NEAL at Platform Arts.
In collaboration with Uwe Woessner, J.J. developed a Virtual Drumming Environment (VDE) as an experimental vehicle through which to explore the relationship between music and space. The VDE enables the real-time spatialisation of live digital drumming in Virtual Reality where audience participants can experience and direct dynamic 3D drumscapes in virtual space. These spectacular spatialisations compliment vast soundscapes generated from polyrhythmic drumming that operate across the multiple genres from ambient to industrial. Jeremy’s performance is completely improvised.
These improvisations operate across the musical domain, the spatial domain and within a newly imagined ‘musico-spatial’ domain where sound and space meet. Improvising Polyrhythmic Space pushes the boundaries of polyrhythm beyond drumming’s known worlds and thus will engage with the ideas behind the New and Experimental Arts Lab.
Jeremy (J.J.) Ham has been part of the underground Geelong band scene since the 1980’s, playing drums with local artists including John Nolan (Powdermonkeys), Compost and Surfusion. Jeremy recently completed a PhD in Architecture and Design at the SIAL Sound Studios at RMIT that explored the continuum of musico-spatial creative practice using the digital drum kit as his vehicle for exploration.
Uwe Woessner is the head of visualisation at the University of Stuttgart High Performance Computing Laboratory. Uwe developed the coding for the VR visualisation.
