Percussion vs electronics!

Each technological advancement is both an extension and an amputation of human potential. This duality is the central focus in a this work by Serge Verstockt. Percussion instruments and electronic instruments are the protagonists in this concert. Music that will inevitably leave its mark.

Serge Verstockt’s composition BeatEmUp! features percussion (Teun Verbruggen and Tsubasa Hori), decap drumkit and video.

The decap drumkit that has previously played a prominent part in his Opera de Trash Hold Your Horses is back once more.The percussionists (live and virtual) enter into dialogue with fighting games and movies.

Verstockt masterfully plays with the audience’s physical listening experience. Resistance is futile. From a soft yet ominous rustling in a pitch dark concert hall to extatic drum and bass and (truly) breathtaking soundscapes. The music is dominant. It grabs you by the throat. It’s inescapable.