ELEKTRORAMA #4: So says the drum / Axel Pulgar THE SCHRANK + Jamsession

Tuesday, September 15

Elektrorama #4
So Says The Drum / Axel Pulgar THE SCHRANK

“Experimental live music with visuals”

So Says The Drum

Bella Comson - clarinet, whistles, vocals, DIY electronics 

Bruna Cabral - drums, percussion

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Axel Pulgar THE SCHRANK

Axel Pulgar - electronics, visuals, Schrank

So Says The Drum

So Says the Drum is a project by Cologne-based Brazilian artists Bella Comsom and Bruna

Cabral. It is a tribute to the drum as an ancient technology and an encoded language. In Brazilian

culture, drumbeats transcend rhythm, becoming a grammar of silence, pulse, and resistance. The

project explores percussion beyond its purely musical function, approaching it as a medium of

communication and collective memory: one that embodies spiritual, healing, and political

dimensions. “So Says the Drum” is a live performance that combines ritual, improvisation, and

technological experimentation to create new forms of transmedia sound art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPzlt8Ck9E

Axel Pulgar THE SCHRANK

I am Axel Pulgar, a sound and media artist working with experimental electronic music, live performance, and digital imagery. I approach the computer as an open artistic system, where human knowledge enters into dialogue with nature, emotion, and the body. A central element of my practice is THE SCHRANK, a self-built audiovisual synthesizer that functions as an instrument, a visual medium, and a performative object. I program and build the machine, but I also interact with it through my physical presence, creating a continuous feedback loop between body and system. My work explores machine poetry and sensory constellations, where sound, image, noise, and movement emerge from primal forms hidden within digital structures. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JI5yQIkCzk&t=3s

Following the concert, the stage will become an open electronic jam session: Everyone is invited to bring their own modular synths, effects units, or DIY instruments and participate in a collective improvisation. DJ decks will also be available—bring your noise and plug in.

Visual artists are also invited to the jam to spontaneously connect their laptops to our projector.

Admission: 8/6€ in advance, 10/8€ at the B.O. *
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Concert at 8:00 p.m. (2 sets)
Jam session ~9:30 p.m. (suggested donation: 3€)
End ~ 11:30 p.m.
Standing-room-only event
Supported by the Cologne Cultural Office and Initiative Musik.

*Reduced admission: students, high school students, apprentices, people with disabilities, and Köln-Pass holders