The Future State of the Art Camille Gainer-Jones Evan Stone
Drummer/leader Evan Stone, whose poetic, political, and funk-laced Translucent Ham Sandwich Band released its debut album, Music From the Future, last year, tells Modern Drummer that, indeed, the future of drumming is a subject he thinks about a lot. “I believe that as the future unfolds,” he says, “the art of drumming within music—both popular and otherwise—will begin to see a variety of more complex ideas coming from the drum chair, which may include elements of metric modulation, odd time signatures, and over- the-barline ideas that the general population will come to accept, comprehend, and feel in a more natural and organic way. A raising of the intelligentsia bar, so to speak! “After studying the progress of drumming
and drummers over the last ninety years,” Stone goes on, “we can see that each new generation developed a better sense of ‘metronomic pulse/time,’ which doesn’t neces- sarily refl ect a more organic, ‘feel’ sense of time. The future will hopefully provide us with more ‘feeling’ drummers and fewer ‘thinking’ drummers. “We as a drumming community must
remember that every genre of music and its prospective ‘feels’ within those contexts is founded upon the principle of the drumbeat and the varying syncopations within those beats. This is what determines ‘feel.’ “Drumming is the most primal of all instru-
ments, and the organic experience of music and its beat must remain entrenched within it, as I believe that society as a whole would have a diffi cult time adjusting entirely to the removal of the human element in rhythm. “Although I do not believe that artistic
drummers/musicians are a dying breed, I do think there is a danger in having the future of recorded popular music dictated by machines, only to be mimicked and reenacted by a live musician.”
Tim Kuhl
“With all the advances in technology and changing musical styles,” says Tim Kuhl, who plays in Sean Lennon’s psychedelic pop band Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger and who recently released the tablet-generated LP 1982, “the role and the future of the drummer remain the same: Make those around you sound better.”
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“I think in the future drummers will need to be self-reliant,” says Camille Gainer-Jones, who’s performed and recorded with Roy Ayers, Roberta Flack, Heavy D, Christian McBride, Cyndi Lauper, and the Dream Logic, and who is out supporting her solo album, A Girl From Queens. “They should have their own bands and be able to write and produce, along with some marketing skills. Embrace all technology, from reading music to programming to playing other styles. Being fl exible and open is how I see the future of drumming.”
Interviews with Matt Garstka, Stella Mozgawa, Jojo Mayer, and Brendan Buckley conducted by Ken Micallef; interview with Mark Guiliana by Je˜ Potter.
Rob Mazella
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