Whitman, Walt. Drum Taps: The Complete Civil War Poems; Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition [review]

Drum-Taps: Revisions and Reconciliation

The Test of Auditory Processing Skills – Third Edition (taps-3):

The XY Drum

Standard electronic drum pads are equipped with one piezoelec­ tric sensor that converts stick strikes to electronic pulses which are measured and used to trigger pre-recorded samples or other sounds. Advanced models can measure the amplitude of this pulse and adjust the volume of the resultant sample or even select a different sample en­ tirely. The state of the art electronic drums are equipp...

The Evolving Drum Machine

The expectation of the listener from house and techno music seems to be that percussion sounds will maintain the same timbre for the duration of a piece of music. For the composers of such musics the synthesizing of drum sounds of a quality equal to those available from commercial drum machines or samples is difficult and seems unnecessary. A system is presented here which provides a unique met...

Walt Whitman: Nineteenth-century Popular Culture