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Touki Delphine: SUPERDRUM X

  • September 4 - 7, 2026

  • PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

    2980 New York 66
    Chatham, New York 12037
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Description

“A hundred unique heartbeats that together create ominous and wondrous rhythms” – de Volkskrant


The drum is a primal instrument. For thousands of years, people have used rhythm to communicate: across long distances, with their surroundings, and with spiritual worlds.


With SUPERDRUM X, boundary-pushing Dutch collective Touki Delphine taps into this primal force. Making its US premiere at PS21 as part of Commonground Festival, SUPERDRUM X repurposes more than one hundred drums, sourced from the local community via a myriad of second-hand ways, creating one giant interconnected self-playing machine. 


The drums are fitted with lights, controlled by electronics, and struck by twigs and sticks collected from the woods of PS21. Each drum has a different shape, size, and timbre, and tells the story of their previous lives through their dents, band logos, and discolorations. 

Developed partially in residency at PS21, the work blends groundbreaking techniques from the modern avant-garde with world music, playing with sound masses: layers of sound that form a dense, living texture. It sounds like Steve Reich interrupted by a swarm of bees, Caroline Shaw writing for A Roomful of Drums, or Edgard Varèse interpreted by a hundred woodpeckers.


SUPERDRUM X leaves the spectator under a blanket of rhythm with a refreshed sense of time, and the feeling that they’ve taken part in a ritual communication with another world, whether that be of the digital or the spiritual form. Or likely a little of both.

Date & Time

Sep 4 - 7, 2026

Venue Details

PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

2980 New York 66
Chatham, New York 12037 PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance
PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

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