Drum Poems
performance (2024 - ongoing)
I have been working on my drum poems since June 2024, as an invitation from “Voice as Landscape: Borrowing a Distant Hill”, a two-day festival with a focus on the voice as a transformative force. I blend repeated beats and spoken word to explore the interplay between rehearsal and script. This performance unfolds as a surreal mosaic of scattered aphorisms and imagery, evoking moments such as the increasing popularity of the patron of lost causes, and recalling only the scent of a football player while entering the field holding his hand. As an alternative version, I have performed my drum poems with Cameron Lynch, as a b2b between autobiographical maximalists. These video excerpts are from a session recorded in one take in the Roode Bioscoop theater, Amsterdam.
Image from “Prelude, The World As We Know It” at the Brakke Grond, Amsterdam 2025. Photo by Ernst van Deursen.