77 Boa Drums (Jun Kawaguchi 2010)

“You can have sounds echo with your brain , and it feels good.So rather than listening to music, it´s like having these sounds ringing inside your head and yourself creating music. “
EYE (Bredoms)

La música como una experiencia extrema para sanar el alma , en un acto único e irrepetible que intenta elevarse al cielo en forma de espiral y perderse en el espacio. En Julio 7 de 2007 a las 7: 07 pm la banda japonesa de culto, Boredoms, comenzó una tradición numérica que involucra la repetición de dígitos en fechas y horas en conjunto con sus presentaciones experimentales en las que participan un gran número de percusionistas en este caso 77 .

El primer performance fue en la ciudad de New York y quedó documentado en el film “77 Boadrum“, largometraje de 77 min y 777seg de duración que nos muestra la logística del evento, cada uno de los sets de batería junto con sus ejecutantes y por último el histórico experimento liberador de energía, a partir del cual se ha repetido en 2008 y 2011 con algunas modificaciones dependiendo la fecha (88 Boa Drums , 111 Boa drums)

Hace un par de años tuvimos la oportunidad de ver Boredoms en México con un set de 4 baterías (4Boa drums) no comparable al del documento, sin embargo demoledor para las dimensiones del lugar donde se presentaron (Lunario), experiencia única verlos en vivo definitivamente.

Para aquellos que piensan que todo está escrito en la música, experimentos tan arriesgados como este son solo una pequeña muestra de que no existen límites para los lenguajes musicales.

http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/?id=104974
http://www.viva-radio.com/77Boadrum/

77 BOA DRUM trailer from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

The Boredoms gave Australian fans their latest installment of their BoaDrum performances. This year, the experimental rock collective from Osaka, Japan celebrated 11/11/11 with one of their “astronomical annual numerical performances” entitled 111BoaDrum.

The Boredoms have been around for about two and a half decades. Though the members of the collective often switch due to the given demands of a particular experiment, their vocalist Yamantaka Eye has served as the band’s primary orchestrator. The Boredoms have been classified as noise rock, experimental rock, and Japanoise due to their diverse sound, but the common thread that ties their work together is an emphasis on minimalism and tribal percussion.
The band started this tradition of celebrating numerical symmetry with 77 Boadrum on 07/07/07. Since then, a percussive performance has followed each subsequent year in accordance with the proper calendar dates. Their installment of 111BoaDrum, which took place on Island Quarry in Byron Bay, Australia featured 111 drummers.
The current members of the Boredoms orchestrated the performance. The figure above illustrates the layout of the performance, in which a select few drummers occupied the center of the circle while cymbalers and cymbal leaders formed the circle’s outer rings. The video included below features Ponytail’s former member, Jeremy Hyman, warming up on a practice kit before his performance at 111BoaDrum.