A World of Rhythmic Possibilities
Dafnis Prieto will be performing a drum solo while presenting excerpts from his book on drumming and rhythms. The book (to be released in the summer of 2013) it is both – an analytical as well as an instructional book – incorporating a great amount of rhythmic examples not only from the most popular patterns from Cuba but also adding a considerably amount of personal rhythmic structures very often inspired by nature and science. This book also includes in some of its chapters the spiritual, emotional and intellectual aspects behind drumming from a very personal point of view. Based on the vast rhythmic legacy of Cuba, Dafnis Prieto will explain and suggest how some of those traditional and popular patterns such as Clave, Cascara and Songo can be structurally re-organized adding a great variety of rhythmic possibilities.