SPRING 2008:

'PERCUSSION' AS PERCUSSION
Information as Material is proud to present ‘Percussion’ As Percussion
CD - 22mins - 32pg booklet - 2008 - Product code: 5-060163-970010
















‘Percussion’ As Percussion is a sonic reading of John Mowitt’s book Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking and an attempt to grasp how rhythm makes sense in music and society. Fowler charts the encounter between theory and practice implied in Mowitt’s book to produce a critique of the ontological delimitation of percussive theory and it’s social consequences for ‘drumming’. This CD, co-produced with Nick Thurston, features a foreword by musician James 'JLIAT' Whitehead, an introductory essay by poet Bruce Andrews, an appearance by vocalist Liz Tonne, and an afterword with John Mowitt himself.

“Jarrod Fowler’s ‘Percussion’ As Percussion is uncanny. On one level, it is utterly surprising, unanticipated and unsettling. It takes the work of reading — the time, the pace, the modes of attention — in directions and to places it rarely goes. Yet for this very reason I found it strangely familiar, utterly attuned to one of the driving theses of the text, the intricately differentiated yet coherent rhythm of the percussive field. Here, reading and listening touch one another in ways that question our relations to both.”

— John Mowitt, Professor at the University of Minnesota