Kevin Drumm


Kevin Drumm is an experimental musician based in Chicago, United States.
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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. Drumm has received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award.

Discography

Releases

Kevin Drumm - Perdition PlasticsSecond - Perdition PlasticsComedy - MoikaiParticles and Smears with Martin Tétreault - Erstwhile RecordsKevin Drumm / Bhob Rainey Split - FringesKD - Freedom FromCases with Ralf Wehowsky - SelektionDen with Taku Sugimoto - SonorisTriangles with Leif Elggren - MoikaiUntitled with Axel Dörner - Erstwhile RecordsKevin Drumm / Pita Split - BOXmediaDEG with Leif Elggren and Mats Gustafsson - Firework Edition RecordsFrozen by Blizzard Winds with Lasse Marhaug - Smalltown SupersoundSheer Hellish Miasma - MegoI Drink Your Skin with Aaron Dilloway - Hanson RecordsEruption with Fred Lonberg-Holm and Weasel Walter - GrobLand of Lurches - Hanson RecordsMort Aux Vaches with Dan Burke - StaalplaatImpish Tyrant - SpiteHorror of Birth - Chondritic SoundKevin Drumm / 2673 Split - Kitty Play RecordsSheer Hellish Miasma reissue - Editions MegoAll Are Guests in the House of the Lord with Prurient - Hospital ProductionsPurge - iDEALGauntlet with Daniel Menche - Editions MegoSnow - Hospital ProductionsImperial Distortion - Hospital Productionsuntiled - Dilemma RecordsMalaise - Hospital ProductionsAlku Tape - AlkuImperial Horizon - Hospital ProductionsThe Icy Echoer with Michael Esposito - Fragment FactoryNecro Acoustic - PicaDiskRelief - Editions MegoCrowded - Bocian RecordsTannenbaum - Hospital ProductionsEarrach - SelfreleasedThe Abyss with Jason Lescalleet - Erstwhile RecordsInterference - Second EditionsRECLINEAPRILMayMayJune The Loop Fortification SpectrumThe Illusion Of Having Plans Live Last Week Accelerate Less Than Half As LoudOctoberThe Next World Is Better - Chondritic Sound recordsAnother Set Of Days Now OverFrozen PipesThe March FlogFinal Protracted SpillingsMay 18BlockingJune SpillHorizontal Well There You Go! OverstayingAnother Odyssey Of WaitingTHE GAS BILL EPSundaySheer Hellish Miasma II - Erstwhile Records

Appears on

  • Ken Vandermark - Standards - Quinnah
  • Gastr del Sol - "Our Exquisite Replica of Eternity" on Upgrade & Afterlife - Drag City
  • Loren Mazzacane-Connors and Alan Licht - Hoffman Estates - Drag City
  • "Berlin 1", "Graz 2", "Wien 1", "Berlin 3" on Charhizma 002 feat. Dafeldecker/Kurzmann/Fennesz/O'Rourke/Drumm/Siewert - Charhizma
  • Territory Band-2 Atlas - OkkaDisk
  • "Wels", "Nickelsdorf 1", "Nickelsdorf 2" on Charhizma 020 feat. Dafeldecker/Kurzmann/Drumm/eRikm/dieb13/Noetinger - Charhizma
  • "Untitled" on Untitled - No label
  • Territory Band-3 Map Theory - OkkaDisk

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