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website url changed
Posted on October 8th, 2008 by David.
Categories: general news.
I moved to a new webserver and the url has changed from framedrums.de to www.framedrums.net.
The new address of the blog/news is www.framedrums.net/news. Please update your bookmarks, this site is not updated any more.
best,
David
Ramallah
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by David.
Categories: All, news.
I’m in Ramallah, Palestine right now where I’ll be teaching for about a week.
03/02/2008
I arrived in the Tel-Aviv airport yesterday night. Of course the flights were delayed and my luggage was lost. In the airport after I said I’d like the stamp on a seperate paper because I travel in the middle-east, I was told to go to a seperate waiting area until someone would pick me up for questioning. The actual questioning went pretty quick though, it was 3 in the morning and everyone was a bit tired.
A taxi driver picked me up and after driving through a couple of checkpoints we arrived in Ramallah, where I will stay for the next 8 days. It took us a while to find the hotel, and after we found it we couldn’t find the entrance. The hotel was on the 5th floor of some kind of shopping complex, but there were no lights and the whole front was closed. After walking around the building a couple of times trying to find some kind of entrance, we finally found a tiny bell. It took another 5 minutes until someone came and opened.
Today I went to the conservatory where I’ll teach, the national conservatory of music which has departments in Ramallah, Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
The atmosphere was tensed, because yesterday many people where killed during airstrikes in the Ghaza Strip. Everyone is a bit down and concerned about the development of the situation.
Tonight there is a memorial concert for one of the students here who died during a car-crash and right now I’m sitting in the concert hall during the soundcheck. I met one of the percussionists here that I’m going to work with over the next week. I love to meet riq players :).
03/03/2008
Finally I got my luggage. I couldn’t have it delivered here because I’m in Palestinian territory. The airport sent it to Jerusalem to a friend of one of the people here.
It arrived last evening, but it took another day to get it over here.
Nice to have my toothbrush back.
Some of the students didn’t show up today because it’s not so relaxed to pass the checkpoints now, there are shootings and lots of controls.
I gave a masterclass to the percussion teachers, both very nice and good players. We also started discussing the new curriculum for percussion students of the conservatory, which is one of main reasons I’m here.
I talked to a friend in Jordan today, he had a funny story. He’s a percussionist but has a dayjob in a bank. He had moved to Dubai to work there, but after a while they asked him to stop playing music because of the damage to his reputation as a banker. That’s when he went straight back to Amman. What a weird world.
03/06/2008
Yesterday and today I went to Bethlehem and Jerusalem to teach. After 8 students of a religious jewish school were killed during an attack 2 days before, I thought the checkpoints and roads would be closed, but they weren’t. The overall atmosphere is tensed, the situation really messed up.
It was interesting to meet the teachers and students of the different branches and I had heard many good things about Jerusalem which indeed is very beautiful.
Video Section Updated
Posted on February 10th, 2008 by David.
Categories: All, Videos, general news.
finally the VIDEO SECTION is updated.
Framedrumming Video Podcast - Special Edition - Hatem Ammous on Tunesian Percussion
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by David.
Categories: All, Videos.
While being there I had the great pleasure to work with percussion teachers of the local universities. With Hatem Ammous, Percussion Professor at the University of Sfax, I recorded a half hour instructional video on Tunesian and Arabic Rhythms. Check it out, he’s pretty amazing!
You can find the other 3 parts on youtube. When I get more server space I will upload the full-length video in high quality.
Tunisia
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by David.
Categories: All, general news.
I recently came back from Sidi Bu Saiid, a small village and pilgrimage place close to Tunis in Tunesia.
I was teaching a series of masterclasses to local percussionists and played a concert with a big percussion ensemble. It’s hard to explain what an amazing experience it was musically and personally so I won’t even try. Lots of amazing people and very good musicians.
Check out some of the pictures in the gallery of framedrums.de.
Framedrumming Video Podcast - Episode 4
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by David.
Categories: All, Videos.
This one comes from Tunesia, I show how to expand the fingerroll from Episode 3 into a full 9-stroke roll.
Framedrumming Video Podcast - Episode 03
Posted on April 26th, 2007 by David.
Categories: All, Videos.
This episode teaches a 5 stroke fingerroll
You can download the video, watch it on youtube or subscribe to the rss feed.
Video from Orient & Oxident in Estonia
Posted on March 30th, 2007 by David.
Categories: All, Videos.
from my percussion solo:
Video from Orient & Oxident in Estonia
Posted on March 30th, 2007 by David.
Categories: All, Videos.
from my percussion solo:
stumbled upon this…
Posted on March 20th, 2007 by David.
Categories: All, Videos.
…on youtube today.
It´s a recording from about 5 years ago from my study time in Rotterdam. 
The composition is by Lionel Zioblat.
stumbled upon this…
Posted on March 20th, 2007 by David.
Categories: All, Videos.
…on youtube today.
It´s a recording from about 5 years ago from my study time in Rotterdam.
The composition is by Lionel Zioblat.
Layne Redmond´s new website
Posted on March 13th, 2007 by David.
Categories: All.
You probably know her, but if you don´t, Layne is one of the most prominent framedrummers in the USA. She was one of Glen Velez´s first students, has played and performed with him back in the 1980s, has several framedrumming CDs and videos released, has written a book about the history of framedrums and is a wonderful teacher and musician. She has a new website up and running with lots of great material, check out the member´s section, there is a teaching video for middle-eastern tambourin and a recording of a concert with Glen Velez and Steve Gorn from 1989.
Layneredmond.com