National Gallery Hand Drum The rhythm notation . . . The following notation can be easier for drummers and percussionists to use, compared to the usual notes and lines of conventional sheet music. Because drum notes aren't sustained but struck once, it makes sense to show the timing for these beats as single and equal. Rests are measured by the same, single-beat units. All the rhythms at this site, and in the book Roots Jam, use the following notation for drum beats--primarily those played on the west African djembe. D: Dun ("Doon") = bass beat with left hand G: Gun ("Goon") = bass beat with right hand d: do ("doe") = rim beat with left hand g: go = rim beat with right hand T: Ta = slap beat with left hand: sharp glancing stroke P: Pa = slap beat with right hand - = space About left and right hand notes: Though the majority of the rhythms displayed here (and in the book Roots Jam 1) will show leading with the left hand, the handing can be reversed (and is for most rhythms in Roots Jam 2). Additional Notes: new!
British Museum Gallery for Russian Arts and Design Chaired by Prof John Milner, of the Courtauld Institute of Art, the event examined the designs of Constructivist artists Lissitzky, Klucis, Rodchenko and Tatlin, as well as discussing the idea of reconstruction as embodied by the works of Henry Milner. Speakers included museum curators, such as Willem Jan Renders from the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and Maria Tsantsanoglou from the Costakis Collection, Thessaloniki, as well as academics such as Christina Lodder, of the University of Kent, Canterbury. The event ended with an illuminating discussion between the speakers and Henry Milner, whose re-imagined Constructivist structures are on display in the exhibition. Professor John Milner, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (Chair) ‘Re-Constructivism’ Christina Lodder, University of Kent, Canterbury ‘Gustavs Klucis: Transmitting Utopia’ Dr. Willem Jan Renders, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven ‘After Lissitzky: Reconstructions at the Van Abbemuseum’