Experience a live experimental sound performance through drums.

Johann Don-Daniel will transform percussive patterns (Sri Lankan thammatama) to create a dialogue between ancestral rhythms and contemporary technology.

Working at the intersection of sound art, cultural documentation, and technological experimentation, Don-Daniel draws on Sri Lankan drum languages, including gäta bera, yak bera, and thammatama traditions.

Through circuit-bent electronics, modified audio devices, and interactive systems built from Raspberry Pi, touch-sensitive surfaces, and homemade instruments, these traditional drum patterns will be refracted, layered, and re-articulated. These are not samples but conversations: between memory and innovation, analogue and digital, documentation and transformation.

You will also be invited to explore an interactive installation of touch-sensitive sound works to make your own sound performance.