notes on drum-lectures

The Drum-Lecture series began in 2003 with the confrontational collaboration Reminisce This with the artist and drummer Dave Carbone. Facing Carbone as he plays drums Coy repeatedly shouts a series of statements that appear as sub-titles. Each has been extracted from one of a number of sources including contemporary art conferences and the spiel of a museum tour guide, making for compulsive, surreal and humorous incantations. Carbone’s semi-destructive rhythms are played till the point of exhaustion giving the work its duration whilst forcing Coy’s pattern of speech.

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