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Pan Pan presents a special weekend programme, curated by drummer and performance artist Dan Johnson. Saturday evening features performances Dan Johnson solo, drum and vocal duo Rattle, and Ecstatic Drum Beats, with a brand new and extra-special lineup featuring Katharine Eira Brown & Theresa Wrigley (Rattle), Nathan England-Jones, Pam Rose Cott, Stuart Chalmers and Dan Johnson.
Is it music, art or even a comedy show? This eclectic ensemble keeps you guessing throughout, with unexpected sounds, movement and laughs. I imagine every show is different, with logical choreography, I try to recognise the pattern, but sooner than later I surrender and enjoy the organised chaos." - Claudia Capocci (Cafe Cloudywaaa)
“This is tribal music for the introvert, defamiliarizing the tribal and merging individual dissonances to achieve something greater, freedom. Rattle’s greatest accomplishment is managing to paint in black and white and produce the effect of colourful variety, to deconstruct the magic of music with subversive simplicity and create something new.” - Danijela Bočev, The Quietus
Ecstatic Drum Beats (EDB) is a live performance and creative education project led by Dan Johnson, that combines traditional and experimental approaches to percussion playing with performance art. EDB draws influence from the Judson Dance Theater, Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening practice and the Abramovic Method, along with the work of percussionists Milford Graves, Midori Takada, Greg Fox and Susie Ibarra.
RATTLE is an ongoing musical project concerned with experiments in rhythm, metre and tension. Katharine Eira Brown & Theresa Wrigley make up the Nottingham duo who with just drums and occasional vocalisations weave an expanse of percussive vortices. Their songs swirl and envelop with all the physicality and drama of another world pulling together around its own shifting centre of gravity. The drum beats phase and sidestep, they trade accents and overlap, providing a suitably alive terrain for the vocals to explore similar tendencies of pattern.
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