# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BBVmc2px1yu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16049282-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2016-02-03T20:27:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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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 pattern. A random element is introduced to the loop so the repeating groove is interrupted. 
Julia Elsas: A few years ago when Kenny learned that I started working with ceramics, he commissioned an udu drum from me. Traditional Udu drums are Nigerian musical instruments built by the women of the Igbo people. Originally udus were strictly used for women’s ceremonial purposes. The ceramic drums I have made are inspired by udus but don’t physically resemble the traditional instruments. They are all hand built and made to be amplified. 
For the full interview, please go to drawingcenter.org and click on the lower left circle. 
#KennyWollesen #JuliaElsas #BasementPerformances

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