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Read an interview with Kenny Wollesen and Julia Elsas - they are performing this Saturday at The Drawing Center during the Basement Performances, curated by John Zorn Amber Moyles (Curatorial Assistant): Both the visual elements and original instruments, which your audience at The Drawing Center can expect to see firsthand on Saturday, are inherently complex, crafted through numerous rounds of experimentation with many different material processes. Can you take us through the steps taken to create one or two of the instruments you’ll be playing? Kenny Wollesen: Us, and two of our friends, Akemi Martin, and Brian DePasquale will be playing the five main instruments on Saturday. Akemi, Julia, and I are going to play ceramic udu drums that Julia made. Brian will play a wind wand, and I will also play a Bambingo. The Bambingo is a hand-cranked instrument made out of bamboo. It is designed with the idea that it is a sound loop, because the instrument is literally a circle. It has a finite...

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