In a one-time collaboration, local artists Harrison Haynes and Casey Cook will perform LRLL RLRR at Branch Outpost, Friday, December 19, 2008 from 5-7pm.

Two drummers (Cook and Haynes), each seemingly unaware of the other and of whoever might be watching, each behind a drum set, each located in one of the two window bays of the Branch Outpost space, will play the same drum beat continuously for 2 hours.

The performance is based on 13 ideas:

The point(s) at which the performance of music overlaps with the production of art.
The iconographic role of the drum set and the drummer in film, literature, pop culture and art.
The obligation on the part of the viewer/audience to respond, sing or dance when confronted with performance that lies outside the form of accepted contexts.
The anticipation on the part of a viewer of a crescendo or a change in the rhythm when presented with something monotonous.
The beauty in monotony, especially with regard to drum beats.
Drumming as a social, collaborative practice rather than a solo practice.
That the beat in this performance could be understood as merely a background accompaniment for some invisible, inaudible secondary component, riffing on the notion of ‘isolation booths’ used during multi-track recording sessions.
That viewers might start to ‘hear things’.
The monotony of the beat in the this performance is a negation of the supposition that drummers playing alone will perform solos.
As the drummers weave slightly in and out of sync with each other over the course of the performance the opportunity for improvisation or syncopation is presented but never realized, suggesting the delicacy of human interaction and communication.
Mirror images.
Stereo recording.
Two people talking over one another.

Branch Gallery Outpost
111 Orange Street
Durham, NC 27701

919.918.1116

Branch Outpost

LRLL RLRR : Casey Cook and Harrison Haynes