Drum Dive Grey Scale (2004)

A video work conceived from my experience as a drummer and from listening to the hardcore punk music I love.

As the Japanese expression "to strike the drum" suggests, playing the drums feels less like performing and more like beating — and the extension of this sensation leads toward a violent inclination: a struggle with and destruction of the instrument.

Furthermore, hardcore punk, the genre I hold in high regard, is a music constituted by a succession of destructive, roaring explosions, which ultimately generates a euphoria born of tedium — a kind of intoxicated elation.

This work emphasizes the inherently violent aspect of the drum as an instrument through the repeated act of literally destroying drums, while attempting to approach the euphoria born of tedium found in hardcore punk.

The work is composed in monochrome with the intention of evoking a lineage of films depicting "a man possessed by something," such as Shinya Tsukamoto's *Tetsuo: The Iron Man* and Darren Aronofsky's *π*. In this case, the subject is a man possessed by the destruction of drums.