| david alderdice |
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 i am. beyond that i am in love with developing a deeper conscious relationship with sound and silence and how they interact and communicate through motion and stillness within the infinite vastness of space and time. i am also a rhythmist. i enjoy learning, internalizing, exploring, and playing with different rhythms and sensibilities from around the world. my main allies in this quest have been the drumset, different frame drums, rhythmic vocalizations, visual arts and of course the music itself. i was born in new orleans and this journey has also had me living on both coasts, on the plains and in the shenandoah before bringing me to be living more and more sustainably here in the north fork valley of the beautiful rocky mountains in 2003. after taking a summer class at the university of north texas when i was 17 i decided that i didn't want the bureaucracy and competition or the debt of a major music school, so i went to a small college taking some music, but mainly art courses. by putting my focus on applying the universal concepts, aesthetics and mysticisms of the different art mediums i was learning into different musical projects which i was involved in - i feelthat i was able to meet music in its own realm. since then i have been putting myself through a self-applied musical study of the rhythms from around the world and the uses of intermingling sound and silence. i have had the pleasure of studing privately with great teachers including... frances thompson (drumset /rhythm theory), jon seligman (drumset/frame drums/rhythm theory), ed soph (drumset /jazz sensibilities), layne redmond (tambourines and frame drums), robert jospe(drumset /latin styles), pejaman hadidi (tombek), scott robinson (frame drums), john bell (tabla), marla leigh (tabla), andy skellenger (tabla), and faisal zedan (riq /persian sesibilities). i have also attended many workshops with great clinicians including . . . glen velez (frame drums/solkattu/overtone singing), gary chaffee (drumset/linear concepts), pejman hadidi (persian daff), abbos kosimov (doyra), billy cobham (drumset/progressive stylings), lori cotler (solkattu), kenny werner (effortless mastery), miranda rondeau (melodic vioce w/ frame drums), beth quist (raga and vocal stylings), musekiwa chingodza (mbira, hosho, and zimbabwe sensibilities), randy gloss (kanjira), brad dutz (brazilian pandeiro), will rapp (snaredrum/drumline), dom famularo (drumset), steve houghton (jazz drumset), vickie dodd (sacred sound as a body work), amy williams (aruvedic yoga), adyashanti (satsong), as well as others. through active listening, internal searching, and present awareness, music, silence and nature have been my greatest teachers.
my most inspirational human influences have been my family and friends as well as, rumi, dr. seuss, jim henson, gary null, glen velez, hazrat inayat khan, ram dass, bunny wailer, nusrat fateh ali khan, zigaboo, dali, cristina, jesus, j.r.r. tolkien, david grisman, w. timothy gallwey, stomp, max roach, adyashanti, the grateful dead, street musicians and performers, and the symphony of everyday human interaction. i am a founding member (along with tyme and catie mientka) of the classical celtic world fusion group feast. feast plays a hybrid of classical, celtic, spanish, eastern european, americana, and funk musical styles. we usually play as a four-piece consisting of violin, cello, electric piano and percussion, but also as the mientka/alderdice consort (a trio) and celtica symphonia (10-17 piece, w/ dancers). we play regularly here on the western slope, some around the western states, and toured germany twice in 2008. are debut cd recorded live at the valir center in vail, colorado in march 2009 and it's accompaning dvd were released in march 2010. besides playing in the feast groups i also play drums and percussion in projects with sticky mulligan, beth quist, and ariana saraha (ariana just released a c.d. with her singing, myself on percussion, beth on hammered dulcimer, and seva bears on oud in july 2011). i have enjoyed doing sound effects and percussion for the adventure story teller craig childs and have presented percussion-based concerts with jon seligman, aaron jarad, and others. i also enjoy sitting in with different musical groups around the western slope and beyond. i play snare drum, tri-tone whitsle, and help lead the 'funky-gorella-second-line-squeaky-chair-samba-marching-band' as well as playing percussion in and helping lead the 'living rhythm ensemble' which provides worldly inspired improvised music to support embodyment dance events. i love the union of movement and sound and have enjoyed accompanying, collaborating, and performing with many dancers including belly dance troupes, modern dance departments and performance groups, african dance classes and performance groups, irish step teams, western tap dancers, flamenco dancers, poi and staff fire dancers, ballet companies, dances of universal peace gatherings, five-rhythms workshops, as well as ecstatic dance and avant-garde movement events. i am available for and really enjoy studio recording. i have been recorded dozens of times within the last 15 years and have been first call drummer for studios in the d.c. area as well as in western colorado. i have enjoyed playing with different theatre companies and have performed musicals and ballets including west side story, godspell, pirates of penzance, crazy for you, seussical the musical, the nutcracker and others. these days i seem to be really into playing different frame drums (especially the bendir, riqq, and pandeiro), "reciting" solkattu (south indian rhythmic vocalization patterns), spending time in the high-country, gardening and permaculture, playing shakers, sharing different ideas- concepts- and feelings on rhythm and drumming through workshops and lessons, and trying to be present with whatever arises.
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