Drummer Will Calhoun Brings together Seem & Science to Create Rhythm Artwork

For the past 4 many years, Bronx-born drummer Will Calhoun has been one of the most unique and sought-just after drummers as a founding member of the legendary rock group, Residing Colour, and as a solo artist with six recordings as a chief. A graduate of the Berklee University of Tunes, with a BA in Tunes Output and Engineering, Calhoun combines his adore for audio and science when he provides his innovative Rhythm Art/AZA selection to the Countrywide Museum of Arithmetic (MoMath), 11 E. 26th Street in New York City, on April 30 in the Museum’s Composite Gallery.

Portion of the Traces show, the Gallery also options artwork by Spanish and Canadian photographers Xavi Bou and Stephen Orlando. Calhoun, who formerly labored with MoMath executing in children’s applications and fundraisers, was encouraged to bring his iconoclastic artwork to the museum by Executive Director/CEO Cindy Lawrence. He developed his audiovisual strategy five yrs back, actively playing with Living Colour, and required to generate a visual encounter with his drum solos by combining African-influenced dance, heritage, culture and rhythms with slicing-edge visible technological know-how.

“I was imagining about visual compared to audio, vs . an immersive practical experience,” Calhoun says. “So, in my drum solos, I took the African loops off, jumped back again on the drumkit, turned the lights off in the location and then used lightened drumsticks. The folks not only listened to the African-variety drum solos … they also saw the streaks of light.”

Calhoun took his notion to SceneFour, Inc., a Los Angeles-dependent, visible arts firm. They photographed him drumming with cameras with sluggish apertures, and translated his impressive, polyrhythms into multicolored abstract art. “They taken out me, the [Studio lights], the drumsticks and the drum established from the photograph,” Calhoun suggests, “and they had these streaks, which have been roadmaps of my hand actions. Which is where the notion came from, and which is what got the consideration of the museum.”

Christening his audiovisual idea Rhythm Art and naming his collection AZA – which means “impressive” in Swahili – Calhoun’s picks at MoMath reveal the relationship in between improvisation and mathematical designs. “I’m participating in distinct time signatures,” Calhoun says. “My arms are relocating in geometrical designs like a triangle, a square or a hexagon, and the tracking of my arm actions creates the mathematical angles and shapes.”

Calhoun’s profession is as multifaceted as his visual improvisations. As a founding member of Residing Color, Calhoun gained two Grammys with the team: a person for Finest Really hard Rock Performance by a Team for the track “Cult of Personality” in 1989, and an additional for Very best Difficult Rock Performance by a Team in 1990. Calhoun recorded and/or carried out with Miles Davis, Harry Belafonte, Pharoah Sanders, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner,Santi DeBriano, Herb Alpert, Mos Def, Oumou Sangaré and Charnett Moffett. His 6 albums as a leader, released from 1995 to 2016, involve Housework, Drumwave, Stay at the Blue Observe, Lifetime in this Entire world and Celebrating Elvin Jones.

Calhoun serves on the boards of the Bronx Songs Heritage Centre, which encourages music and delivers free of charge local community plans and The Way of the Rain, a multidisciplinary project that raises consciousness about local weather change through efficiency art. Calhoun has lectured at Brown University’s Watson Institute, Columbia Teachers College, Berklee University of Songs, Haverford School, New York College, The Brooklyn Academy of Audio, The New School, Head-Royce Faculty in Oakland, and the Sup’imax Institute in Dakar, Senegal. He also has examined with folkloric drummers in Australia, Mali, Morocco, Senegal, Belize, and Northern Brazil.

Will Calhoun hopes his ingenious and groundbreaking artwork will inspire others to appear up with their have musical mathematical styles. “I hope musicians will be encouraged to visually look at improvisation as this bodily motion that makes lines and designs and angles.”

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