Friday, October 17, 2014

This / not this: what's a bass drum for?

First, an eerily-passionless video demonstrating the manipulation of a piece of machinery: a pedal mechanism, which is attached to a product called “a bass drum.” We are left to speculate about what purpose these space aliens have for this activity.




Next, an example of this so-called bass drum being used in its former role, as a musical instrument:

2 comments:

Global Citizen said...

Your commentary on the two different videos seriously made me laugh out loud - and the drum and fife guys are really cool

Todd Bishop said...

They're great-- I kind of wish people would start up a punk/avant drum and fife movement... I guess I'll have to do it myself. Love their marching style...