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Underground Modern Drummer
About Paul B.
In 2017, during a rain-soaked set at Berlin’s Säule, Paul B. dismantled a vintage Ludwig kit mid-performance, replacing snare wires with piano strings, mounting contact mics on drum hoops, and triggering granular loops from cymbal bowing, then played a 13/8 groove layered with live tape-speed modulation. That moment crystallized his signature approach: treating the drum set not as a timekeeper but as a resonant architecture, where rhythm emerges from material tension, spatial decay, and intentional instability. He’s since authored *Tactile Time*, a workbook that replaces traditional notation with pressure diagrams and breath-mapped stick trajectories, and collaborated with choreographers to build percussion scores from floor vibration data. His work rejects genre taxonomy not as rebellion but as physics, because syncopation behaves differently in concrete basements versus anechoic chambers, and a hi-hat’s decay changes meaning when recorded through a broken telephone line.
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Not sure where to begin? Try asking Paul B.:
- “How do you tune drums to match room resonance instead of pitch?”
- “What’s the most unexpected sound source you’ve sampled for a rhythm track?”
- “Can you walk me through building a groove from floor vibrations?”
- “Why did you stop using metronomes after 2019?”