Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy
New Rudiment Candidates For Snare Drum

With a microscopic focus on the snare drum, Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy extracts and manipulates its sound in a variety of tunings whilst maintaining a precision and simplicity of method and form. This exercise is a common one for the artist, in which he limits both the instruments used and the techniques with which its sounds are processed — in this case using only reverb and hard EQ-ing to engineer the final outcome. Even with these self-imposed restrictions, there is a playfulness and freedom that emerges from its textured layering of atmospheric tones and lively, aperiodic percussion.

All tracks composed with a single snare drum

Recorded and edited by Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy Mastered by Patrice Guillerme

Cover art photography by jem