Production Plan

Artist – Andrew Bailey (found sounds, drums, piano, synths).

Album details – 50 minutes of recorded percussive elements – a panorama of rhythm: Record rice, metal, a whisk, water in a pan, sand, and a few other creative, non-musical sounds used as an underlying glitch drum kit for an artificial electronic sound. Spend two weeks editing and orchestrating these sounds in the form of various series of sympathetic atmospheric rhythms, utilizing complex meter, slow-fast tempos and everything in between. After a rhythmic exoskeleton of the album is in place, drums will go on top of that further intensifying the material. Altered piano sounds, chords, melodies and harmonies will be applied. Effects such as swelling, panning, sweeping, delays, chorus, vibrato, phaser, reverbs (artificial and gated), reverse reverb techniques, gated drum techniques, gated trigger techniques, and other mixing techniques.

Instrumentation – Full 8 piece drum kit, found sounds tracked in auditorium, piano.

Drums:
22x18 kick
5x14 snare
8x7 tom
10x8
12x9
13x10
14x11
16x13

Cymbals: SABIAN
6” ice bell
8” AAX splash
10” AAX splash
14” AAX-cellerator Hi-hats
14” Paragon Hi-hats
14” HHX evolution china
17” vault crash
18” vault crash
18” AA Metal-X china
19” vault crash
20” HHX evolution ride

Time needed – 20-30 hrs to track, 60 hours to edit, 20 hours to mix

Budget (costs will be artwork($50), physical release)
Release event: live performance of some of the material from the album.
Artwork – black full color cd/jacket with picture of the kit used to record the album on the front ($200)

Approximately 3 weeks for CD duplication and turnaround time.


As i have been researching more, I have come across a few more sources I will use for the paper based around the anatomy and origins of the drum kit.
I will be using these two books:



The next plan is to make some phone calls to a few of the drum companies that played a significant role in the development of the modern drum kit, the advancement of the technology and innovations, and players that have influenced the stylistic characteristics of the many types of drum kits available today.