Sam Hamilton

Taking Solos (2017)

11 min 48 secSingle channel / Sound / transferred to Digital Video / Colour / Sound

"The invitation to partake in a solo drum performance takes on the implicit hierarchical and patriarchal overtones in the very nature of its compositional structure within Western musical traditions. But when set against a natural backdrop, the drums become antithetical within the context of non-anthropocentric music, which for Hamilton includes the waterfall, frogs mating, or the vibrations spiders use to spin their silk."

Grace Kook-Anderson, from the catalogue 'Standard Candles', Portland Museum of Art (2017)

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