This inaugural release on the "Stand Alone Series" finds the San Diego-based percussionist displaying the diverse aspects of his approach to solo performance and improvisation.
Born On Tuesday is percussionist Nathan Hubbard’s debut solo album. The recording is a varied look into Hubbard’s interests and excitements throughout the last few years. Throughout this time, Hubbard completed a challenging “12-step program” – 12 solo concerts in 12 months – in which he explored wide-ranging possibilities for percussion, electronics and drumset. This recording captures many of the different settings, varied responses, outcomes and changing notions of place and time inherent in the concert series. The works are primarily improvisations, with the titles derived from life experiences, suggesting that music and improvisation are intimately connected to living.
Hubbard’s primary instrument is the drum set, usually augmented with various percussion and found objects. In conjuction with this, Hubbard uses several homemade instruments, most notebly his "frames", metal instruments strung with various object and amplified, as well as digital and analog processors, samplers, drum machines and other sound modifying devices. This extended sound language and use of electronics for new timbres is also utilized in the studio by employing extended miking techniques, pre and post processing, overdubbing signal degredation and many other possibilities.
Alarming intricate larceny in the hands of a master.
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