Machine Project

Hands On’Semble
Episode Four of Everybody Loves Difficult Music, a music and discussion series
Thursday March 23rd 8:00pm
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
213 483 8761

Free

Please join virtuoso hand percussion group Hands On’Semble as they play original compositions that blend the rhythmic concepts and playing techniques of North and South India, the Middle East, West Africa, Indonesia, South America, and western chamber music. After each piece, the group will deconstruct and explain the concepts, forms, devices, and techniques used as means for both composition and improvisation.

Hands On’Semble is a contemporary percussion quartet devoted to the art of hand drumming founded by renowned percussionist John Bergamo in 1997 (with Randy Gloss, Andrew Grueschow, and Austin Wrinkle). Hands On’Semble has performed and lectured throughout the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia at many of the world’s premier percussion and world music festivals, music schools, conservatories (and now) Machine Project. Hands On’Semble has collaborated in performance and recordings with a wide array of highly esteemed percussion artists such as Swapan Chaudhuri, Poovalur Sriji, Adam Rudolph, Houman Pourmehdi, Brad Dutz, Abbos Kosimov, Glen Velez, Jamey Haddad, Steve Shehan, Mark Nauseef, Ed Mann, Carlos Stasi, Guello, and Pete Lockett.

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