visual effect po ng Taiko drum performance?
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visual effect po ng Taiko drum performance?
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Taiko, the Japanese art of drumming, is like turbocharged percussion. Or, perhaps, martial arts with skins and sticks. Or maybe a meditation in sound. However you try to define it, taiko is a mix of pounding passion and delicate grace, where the way the instruments are played, and the spaces between beats, are every bit as important as the music itself.
But perhaps the last place you’d expect to find this highly stylized Asian form is in a theatre in the rough-and-ready working class English town of Doncaster. And even less would you expect to find it played by Mugenkyo, a six-member troupe based in Scotland that contains absolutely no full-blooded Japanese people at all. Yet in a curious way there’s a sense of balance to that as both audience and players lose themselves in the heart of the drum for the evening.
It’s a mighty, overwhelming sound, whether on the small taiko drums, performed with highly exaggerated choreography, or the massive odaiko, bigger than a man, the skin on each head about the size of half a cow.
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