Rhythm As Necessity

Through the ARTech Residency at the Ferst Center for the Arts, Jade Simmons will explore the ways rhythm is integral to music, technology and human interaction. Using Urban Remix, the university’s cutting edge sound capturing software program, participants will gather sound bites and video clips of rhythmic machinery and technology, powerful speakers, rhythmic human interaction and examples of music known mostly for its rhythmic drive. The sounds will be analyzed to determine what makes them riveting and why they are effective in their purpose.

Jade will explore the captured sounds and examine how they can be reproduced on standard instruments, newly created instruments, the human body and found objects with the goal of creating the same powerful rhythmic impact means other than their original sources.

For more information, visit the Ferst Center ARTech web site.