Spike The Percussionist

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SPIKE the Percussionist - www.manipulate.net - is a classically trained performer and composer who studied under percussion guru and Yamaha performing artist Dr. Norman Weinberg, author of Guide to Standardized Drumset Notation and The Electronic Drummer. A master of acoustic percussion, SPIKE is also an expert programmer and electronic music expert with a degree in audio engineering. While most drummers with SPIKE's talent and training would have headed for a career in classical symphony or jazz composition, SPIKE took an entirely different route. Inspired by Dr. Weinberg's advocacy of technological advances in percussion and his own inventiveness (SPIKE's award-winning sophomore recital was the first entirely electronic composition ever performed by a percussion student in competition), SPIKE focused his formidable abilities on ambient noiz and electro-industrial, two burgeoning, but at that time obscure, genres of music. "When I started back in the 80s, nobody was doing what I was doing. I am the only drummer I have ever heard of who actually embraced the coming of the drum machine---and the only one who could actually play along with it. Playing live with, or composing with, a drum machine is an art unto itself with its own set of disciplines and creative boundaries. In short, I came up with some really wild stuff. Things nobody had ever heard before. Now, suddenly there is this huge market for ambient noiz and electro industrial. It blows my mind to think that what I wa

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