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About Maysun
Maysun (Etienne Mason,) an electronic artist and Radical Hybrid Drummer from Canada. He is a drummer at his core, but his true passion is expanding the potential of the drums by incorporating modular synthesis into his kit. He has created hundreds of videos over the past few years, and he is very meticulous about explaining his set up and workflow on each video. He uses ‘randomizing’ features in his modular system to bring an element of surprise to his compositions. The results are complex, improvised, richly layered musical soundscapes.
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I view “creative percussion controllers” as three separate categories. Category 1 is a completely self-contained set of electronic drums that are designed by instrument manufacturers that create all the drum and cymbal samples. We simply plug in great headphones and start playing drums. This is the most popular category because …
