'The simplest possible gesture' is almost always the right thing to do. Creative endeavours so easily get crushed with baggage. Gear doesn't make music, gear just makes noise, and noise is just distraction and isolation, the real hallmark of our times. I think I would prefer to concentrate and allow simple vibration to do battle against suffocating silence... A far more evenly matched opponent, over whom success is not guaranteed.
One snare drum.
Recorded live.
No electricity. No overdubs. No.
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