More from Greg Scruggs:
Gali played live with festival sound director Pouya Ehsaei, who filtered
his drumbeats, and we chatted afterwards backstage. He seemed bemused
at the electronic manipulations that could transform the warmth of his
drum into cold metallic resonances. I asked him if digital technology,
like the drum, could also be sacred. “Look, if we talk about the sacred,
we have to talk about ritual,” he explained, his voice just as metallic
through the throat box. And to him, there’s no space for the digital in
the ceremony, no matter how virtuoso one might be. “You can play it
well,” he said, “But you can’t ritualize it.”
I took the liberty of recording Galis and Pouya Ehsaei:
The impatient should fast-forward to the 32:00 mark.
I believe Pouya is using a Vermona filter here.
