Kevin Drumm
Kevin Drumm is an experimental musician based in Chicago, United States.
Biography
Emerging from the city's improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world's pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers. His early recordings contain mostly sparse, quiet sounds; recent works have been more loud and dense.
Drumm has collaborated with many artists working in similar fields, including Japanese guitarist Taku Sugimoto, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jim O'Rourke, and many European improvisers such as Swedish saxophonist Mats Gustafsson and German trumpeter Axel Dörner. He has also worked with the artist group Simparch, composing a piece for their installation Spec, shown at Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany and at the Renaissance Society in Chicago. Drumm has also worked with saxophonist Ken Vandermark's Territory Band, which brings together American and European players who work in both jazz and free improvisation.
Podcasts:
Kevin Drumm
ALBUMS
- Wrong Intersection released: 2014
- Trouble released: 2014
- The Abyss released: 2014
- The Damned Sort released: 2014
- The Old Hag released: 2014
- Earrach released: 2013
- Electronic Harassment 4-5 released: 2013
- 1983 released: 2013
- I Drink Your Skin released: 2013
- Tannenbaum released: 2013
- Venexia released: 2012
- Relief released: 2012
- Electronic Harassment II/III released: 2012
- Humid Weather released: 2012
- The Back Room released: 2012
- The Kitchen released: 2012
- The Whole House released: 2012
- Twinkle Toes released: 2012
- More Answers released: 2012
- Moving released: 2012
- Blast of Silence released: 2012
- Don't Ask released: 2011
- Ghybbrish released: 2011
- Blue Before Blackface released: 2011
- I Have a Computer released: 2011
- Mud Keeps Lifting Me Higher released: 2010
- The Obstacles of Romantic Exaggeration released: 2010
- Reconquer Sleep or Disappear released: 2010
- Necro Acoustic released: 2010
- Kevin Drumm released: 2010
- Second released: 2010
- Imperial Horizon released: 2009
- Imperial Distortion released: 2008
- Purge released: 2007
- All Are Guests in the House of the Lord released: 2007
- Mort Aux Vaches released: 2003
- Werner Dafeldecker, Christof Kurzmann, Kevin Drumm, eRikm, Dieb13, Jérôme Noetinger released: 2003
- Land of Lurches released: 2003
- DEG released: 2002
- Sheer Hellish Miasma released: 2002
- [untitled] released: 2001
- Cases released: 2000
- Comedy released: 2000
- Particles and Smears released: 2000
- Charhizma 002 released: 1999
The Obstacles of Romantic Exaggeration
Released 2010- Cupcake-Focused Militants
- Stochastic Sophistication
- Humidity Can Suck It
- Violent Daydreams
- Shortwave Intermission
- A Hairdresser Who Suddenly Went Mad and Decapitated a Duke
- A Therapist's Lazy Nightmare
- Brutal Nothing
- This Sounded Like a Bad Fennesz Rip So I Bagged It... Until Now
- Transgressive Yawns
- Farewell Reprobates
