https://bookerstardrum.com Booker Stardrum Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:02:02 +0000 https://bookerstardrum.com en http://bookerstardrum.com/photos Fri, 26 Mar 2021 19:02:02 +0000 Booker Stardrum 401839  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact <img width="2000" height="1336" width_o="2000" height_o="1336" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/6d36a74517a4889507acbb8b38450275fd73961c6de9d0a2372a7d5d9974bee3/Rendy_Mahardhika-1.jpg" data-mid="1427166" border="0" /> <img width="800" height="600" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/53e7425e5d6cc173dccd84558939d3858a5292aa9ad9cbcc26a7916a65af1308/Booker-Stardrum_drummer_composer_hill.jpg" data-mid="1353990" border="0" /><img width="800" height="600" width_o="800" height_o="600" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/9cc38f0ebe9a3588d4c4fc6ca0bdef9039d59e22fdd9b3cbbf118842a8cc30d4/Booker_Stardrum_drummer_composer_Drive_In_Concert.jpg" data-mid="1248898" border="0" /><img width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/7d2091b4a0406a3bd8a641a2bd056c5464e8fd2e5fa22b157f408ccb1d760658/Booker_Stardrum_composer_DennistonHill-copy.JPG" data-mid="1248891" border="0" /> <img width="5472" height="3648" width_o="5472" height_o="3648" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d23b56319466073035aac2ab27e98adec54673a77291a5732c133ff591011745/David_Haskell.jpg" data-mid="1427167" border="0" /> <img width="1456" height="1092" width_o="1456" height_o="1092" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/def67ef2c47a1064c064292a3910c36260d2cdb1b9fd60b288815a5d851e8610/8F441E6B-46C7-44B2-9349-A49D0AA0E164_1_201_a.jpeg" data-mid="1405462" border="0" /><img width="4629" height="3472" width_o="4629" height_o="3472" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/b53775a26c08f1baff2d461d8a1cd6371d275363f7e2a9f3157d8ae5c14a9a90/687317BB-F970-47C3-A148-BE8D2203520E_1_201_a.jpeg" data-mid="1405461" border="0" /><img width="800" height="533" width_o="800" height_o="533" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0a3ea195d6a9581b3ab781bc484d0be5053f8a8840eb7986185bd17b18e1c30c/Booker_Stardrum_drummer_composer_joshua_tree.jpg" data-mid="1248900" border="0" /> photo credits: 1. Rendy Mahardhika 2.&nbsp;Jacob Blickenstaff3. Sam Lee4. Jacob Blickenstaff5. Brian Guido6. Charles Bouril7.Miranda Javid8. Jenna Putnam   recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact photo... http://bookerstardrum.com/contact-1 Mon, 25 Jan 2021 00:19:59 +0000 Booker Stardrum 396255  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact Inquiries: booker.stardrum@gmail[dot]com Publishing: andrew@intlanthem[dot]com SML:Tina Priceman / Managertina@bigfishbookingco[dot]com Chris Weller / Agentchris@bigfishbookingco[dot]com  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact ... http://bookerstardrum.com/about Sun, 04 Nov 2018 01:17:12 +0000 Booker Stardrum 296367  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact bio: Booker Stardrum is a composer, drummer/percussionist, and producer. Stardrum has been involved with countless experimental and improvisational collaborations, pop projects, film scores, and sound design productions, and has released four solo records (’Close-up On The Outside’ in 2026, ‘Crater' in 2021, ‘Temporary etc.’ in 2018, and ‘Dance And’ in 2015). Stardrum’s music is a highly personal amalgamation of electro-acoustics, minimalism, ambient, jazz, and contemporary experimental electronic music. His compositions are sculptural, carved from the dense layering of instruments and manipulated samples, a pantonal harmonic sense, and an intuitive approach to rhythm. Stardrum’s frequent collaborators include SML, Lisel, Photay, Horse Lords, Wendy Eisenberg, Amirtha Kidambi, Ben Vida, Will Epstein, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Chris Williams, Patrick Shiroishi, Carl Stone, Lee Ranaldo, and Nels Cline. Stardrum has scored films by Suneil Sanzgiri and Miranda Javid. He was a OneBeat fellow, a New Amsterdam Composer fellow, a Pioneer Works resident and a Denniston Hill resident. Stardrum has had new works commissioned for The Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.), National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY) and Indexical (Santa Cruz, CA). He has toured in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America and has performed at such festivals as Big Ears (US), Rewire (NL), Le Guess Who (NL), BRDCST (BE), Moers (DE), Meltdown (U.K.), Brighton (U.K), Festival Bo:m (ROK), Hopscotch (US) and Ecstatic Music (US). His discography includes solo and collaborative releases on independent labels such as International Anthem, We Jazz, NNA Tapes, Northern Spy Records, Mexican Summer, Saddle Creek, Luminelle, Prom Night Records and Home Tapes. Booker lives in the Hudson Valley in New York State. select press: Mojo Magazine&nbsp;“There's that same free-roaming, heavily processed approach to jazz, electronica, post-rock and ambience... But Stardrum heads further out here, making his own, Partch-like mallet instruments, capturing insects and birds on field recordings, and sometimes - notably on the superb Hover - entering a rarefied dronespace. SML are a truly exciting band, and that spirit's still present to invigorate these eight tracks, making for a kinetic new spin on minimalism and microtonal composition.” -John Mulvey Futurism Restated ““Hover” plunges into a porous weave of drone reminiscent of Laurel Halo’s Atlas and “Inside Sounds” is a kind of contemplative ambient jazz crosscut by a cosmic zipper. But the heart of the album is located in “Telluric” and “Third Nature,” in which Stardrum’s supple drumming provides the rippling axis around which his bandmates’ contributions—Necks-like piano, sinewy cello and upright bass, the sunrise glint of a hissing flute—revolve like celestial bodies.” -Philip Sherburne Aquarium Drunkard “But the key to the whole enterprise is maybe Booker Stardrum, the percussionist who continually knocks these grooves sideways without ever tipping them over onto their backs. His beats are quick and daring, full of varied tonalities and textures. They power these songs forward in a snake-y, non-linear way. They always feel a bit dangerous, a bit risky, but never disintegrate.” -Jen Kelly Pitchfork“On the seven-minute highlight “Trash Island,” he begins with a collage of scraped and battered drums and cymbal hits. Without warning, the drums stop, only to reveal glistening organs before the scratching and bashing returns. And on it goes, swinging like a pendulum between chaos and order, violence and idyll—cycling, turning in circles, as only a drummer knows how.” -Philip Sherburne The Wire“The most impressive track on Temporary etc. is “Swimming,” which conjures images of an otherworldly rainforest sojourn, as an eerie aural fug of indeterminate origin rises like mist from a primordial alien swamp. With this uncategorizable album Stardrum further solidifies his position as one of America’s most intriguing composers.” -Dave Segal Noisey“There’s a track at its center called “A Passage or Time in a Hanging Truth,” which explores dense clustered synth harmonies over the course of five-and-a-half minutes, calling upon the legacy of drone music to freeze the record’s momentum at its center, to bask for a moment in uneasy stillness. This turns out to be true even of the moments when Stardrum plays more recognizable rhythms, there is a slip-stream that occurs even when his playing is fast and scattered. He creates bubbles in which you can rest, moments of stillness amid the flailing.” -Colin JoyceModern Drummer “The drummer, who grew up in a household steeped in top-level twentieth-century classical music performance, has built up an impressive résumé featuring some of the most compelling experimental pop and rock groups of the past decade. He’s also released an adventurous percussion-oriented electroacoustic album and developed an evolving solo show that reveals unique methods.” -Adam Budofsky New York Times AllMusic Boomkat The Quietus Flood Magazine Billboard LA Times Thrd Coast Resident Advisor Gorilla vs. Bear Tiny Mix Tapes Cast The Dice Pop Matters Free Times Impose Magazine Clocktower Radio   recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact bio: Booker Stardrum is a composer,... http://bookerstardrum.com/recordings Sun, 04 Nov 2018 01:11:48 +0000 Booker Stardrum 296365  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact ‘Close-up On The Outside.’ We Jazz Records. 2026. Close-up On The Outside by Booker Stardrum How You Been // SML International Anthem. 2025.How You Been by SML Rafting / Tall Grass // Evan Shornstein &amp; Booker Stardrum Extravagant Frequencies. 2025. Rafting / Tall Grass by Evan Shornstein &amp; Booker Stardrum ‘Small Medium Large’ // SML International Anthem. 2024. Small Medium Large by SML ‘CRATER.’ NNA. 2021.&nbsp; CRATER by Booker Stardrum ‘Mycelial Echo’ // Lisel + Booker StardrumLuminelle. 2021. Mycelial Echo by Lisel ‘Temporary etc.’ NNA. 2018.&nbsp; &lt;a href="http://bookerstardrum.bandcamp.com/album/temporary-etc"&gt;&amp;#39;Temporary etc.&amp;#39; by Booker Stardrum&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; ‘Dance And.’ NNA. 2015.&#39;Dance And&#39; by Booker Stardrum   recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact ‘Close-up On The Outside.’ We Jazz Records. 2026.... http://bookerstardrum.com/splash Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:24:32 +0000 Booker Stardrum 288450  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact http://bookerstardrum.com/lessons-recording Fri, 04 May 2018 03:05:56 +0000 Booker Stardrum 268614  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact LESSONS Available for in person (Hudson Valley, NY) and remote drum/music instruction.Please contact me to set up a lesson, pricing, and any other questions: booker.stardrum@gmail(dot)com RECORDING Available for in person and remote drum recording. Also available for experimental production/sound design. Hit me up for rates and with any questions.  &amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://promnightrecords.bandcamp.com/album/motel-sunshine-soldier"&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Motel / Sunshine Soldier by Sunshine Soldier&amp;amp;amp;amp;  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact LESSONS Available for... http://bookerstardrum.com/discography Fri, 04 May 2018 02:24:21 +0000 Booker Stardrum 268612  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact sample pack: Booker Stardrum Splice Sample Pack: Tactile Wood scoring: An Impossible Address, Suneil Sanzgiri. 2025 Like a Phantom Near or Far (An Occasional Figure Moving), Mariam Ghani + Erin Ellen Kelly.&nbsp;2024 Two Refusals, Suneil Sanzgiri.&nbsp;2023 Golden Jubilee, Suneil Sanzgiri.&nbsp;2021Letter From Your Far-Off Country, Suneil Sanzgiri.&nbsp;2020 Ouchie, Miranda Javid.&nbsp;2019 Millenium Fall, Hrafnhildur Helgadöttir.&nbsp;2019 select discography: Booker Stardrum, Close-up On The Outside. We Jazz Records, 2026 SML, How You Been. International Anthem, 2025 Booker Stardrum + Evan Shornstein, Rafting / Tall Grass. Extravagant Frequencies, 2025 Hannah Cohen, Earthstar Mountain. Congrats Records, 2025Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Gift Songs. Mexican Summer, 2025 Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder. American Dreams, 2024 SML, Small Medium Large. International Anthem, 2024 Chris Cohen, Paint a Room. Hardly Art, 2024Booker Stardrum + Chris Williams, Relay. Cached Media, 2023 Helena Deland, Goodnight Summerland. Chivi Chivi, 2023 Westerman, An Inbuilt Fault. Partisan Records, 2023 Spencer Zahn, Statues. Sudden Records, 2023 Booker Stardrum, Crater. NNA, 2021 Booker Stardrum + Lisel, Mycelial Echo. Luminelle, 2021 Olden Yolk, Living Theatre. Trouble in Mind, 2019 Field Guides, This Is Just A Place. Whatever’s Clever, 2019 Booker Stardrum, Temporary etc. NNA, 2018 Michael Coleman, Rocketship 5. Self-released, 2017 Sunshine Soldier, Thump. Prom Night Records, 2017 Landlady, The World is a Loud Place. Home Tapes, 2017 Weyes Blood, Front Row Seat To Earth. Mexican Summer, 2016 Sam Evian, Premium. Saddle Creek, 2016 Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Rest in Fleas. Northern Spy Records, 2016 Booker Stardrum, Dance And. NNA, 2015 VaVatican, I Love You (Dora Lee). NNA, 2014 Landlady, Upright Behavior. Home Tapes, 2014 Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Rocks or Cakes. Northern Spy Records, 2014 Field Guides, Boo, Forever. Muir Woods, 2014 VaVatican, SoSoviet (I Loved You and You Broke My Heart). Prom Night Records, 2012 Sunshine Soldier, Self-titled. Prom Night Records, Brooklyn, 2011 Landlady, Keeping To Yourself. Museum People Records, 2011   recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact sample pack: Booker Stardrum Splice Sample... http://bookerstardrum.com/events Fri, 04 May 2018 01:06:33 +0000 Booker Stardrum 268605  recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact 2026 3/26 SML Residency @ Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, TN) 3/27 SML Residency @ Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, TN)3/28 SML Residency @ Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, TN) 3/29 Gregory Uhlmann @ Big Ears Festival (knoxville, TN) 4/15 Ro Lundberg @ 2220 Arts + Archives 4/16 Gregory Uhlmann @ Zebulon (Los Angeles), CA) 4/19 Play Time @ Artifact Series @ Sleepwalk (Brooklyn, NY) 4/22 Gregory Uhlmann @ Public Records (Brooklyn, NY) 5/8 Adam Schatz + Booker Stardrum @ Troy Listening Room (Troy, NY)5/16 Gregory Uhlmann, @ Thing In The Spring (Keene. NH) 7/12 SML @ North Sea Jazz Festival (Rotterdam, NL) Past shows...1/10 Bex Birch @ Winter Jazz Festival (NY, NY)1/15 Bex Birch @ Avalon (Catskill, NY)1/23 Improv Nights 2026 @ Roulette (Brooklyn, NY)2/6 SML @ Festival Sons d’Hiver (Paris, France)2/25 SML @ The Loft @ UCSD (San Diego, CA)2/26 SML @ SF Jazz (San Francisco, CA)2/27 SML @ SF Jazz (San Francisco, CA)3/3 Josh Johnson, Gregory Uhlmann + Booker Stardrum @ LAX / Dublab (Los Angeles, CA)3/11 SML @ Portland Jazz Festival (Portland, OR)3/20 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma + Booker Stardrum @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY) 2025 1/7 Booker Stardrum + Evan Shornstein @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)1/11 SML @ Winter Jazz Festival (NY, NY)2/7 J. Ashdown + Booker Stardrum / LA Fires Fundraiser @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)3/2 SML @ Empty Bottle (Chicago, IL)3/19 SML @ Lodge Room (Los Angeles, CA)3/20 SML @ Tractor Tavern (Seattle, WA)3/29 SML @ Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, TN)4/4 - 4/5 SML @ Rewire Festival (The Hague, NL)4/6 SML @ BRDCST Festival (Brussels, BE)4/6 Gregory Uhlmann + Booker Stardrum @ BRDCST Festival (Brussels, BE)4/29 Play Time (Vida/Epstein/Stardrum) @ The Avalon (Catskill, NY)5/9 Play Time @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)5/11 SOLO @ Roulette (Brooklyn, NY)5/29 Evan Shornstein (Photay) + Booker Stardrum @ Zebulon (Los Angeles, CA)5/31 SML @ The Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA)6/14 SML @ SF Jazz Festival (San Francisco, CA)6/19 Play Time @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)6/28 Play Time @ The Campus (Hudson, NY)7/2 Silk Fence (Shafiee/Frye/Stardrum) @ Union Pool (Brooklyn, NY)7/3 Silk Fence @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)7/18 Nels Cline, Yuka Honda, Spencer Zahn + Booker Stardrum @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)7/19 Exo-Tech @ PS21 Chatham (Chatham, NY)8/2 - 8/3 SML @ Pickathon (Happy Valley, OR)8/23 Emile Mosseri @ The Getty (Los Angeles, CA)9/1 Play Time @ Maverick Concerts (Woodstock, NY)9/20 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma @ Making Time Festival (Philadelphia, PA)10/31 SML @ Hulaween (Live Oak, FL)11/5 Jefre Cantu-Ledesma @ Public Records (Brooklyn, NY)11/12 Play Time @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)11/18 SOLO @ Total Refreshment Center (London, UK)11/19 SML @ KOKO (London, UK)11/20 SML @ Church Of Sound (London, UK)11/21 SOLO @ We Jazz Festival (Helsinki, Finland)11/30 Chris Speed, Joshua White + Booker Stardrum @ Justine’s (Los Angeles, CA)12/1 SML @ Zebulon (Los Angeles, CA)12/2 SML @ Zebulon (Los Angeles, CA)12/3 SML @ Zebulon (Los Angeles, CA)12/6 Silk Fence @ Union Pool (Brooklyn, NY)12/11 SML @ Solar Myth (Philadelphia, PA)12/12 SML @ The Sultan Room (Brooklyn, NY)12/13 SML @ The Sultan Room (Brooklyn, NY)12/14 SML @ Thalia Hall (Chicago, IL) 2024 1/5 Gregory Uhlmann, Anna Butterss + Booker Stardrum @ Gold Diggers (LA, CA)1/13 Jeremiah Chiu + Booker Stardrum @ 2220 Arts + Archives (LA, CA)1/27 Odeya Nini, Patrick Shiroishi + Booker Stardrum @ Darkness Sounding (LA, CA)1/29 Jeremiah Chiu + Booker Stardrum @ Zebulon (LA, CA)1/30 All-Time Extra Stripes @ Moryork (LA, CA)2/3 Photay + Booker Stardrum @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)5/8 Joseph Shabason + band @ Public Records (Brooklyn, NY)5/25 Ben Vida, Will Epstein + Booker Stardrum @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)6/26 Horse Lords @ LPR (NY, NY)6/27 Lisel + Booker Stardrum @ The Stone (NY, NY)6/28 Horse Lords @ Solid Sound Festival, Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA)6/30 Horse Lords @ Vancouver International Jazz Festival (Vancouver, BC)7/1 Horse Lords @ Elks Temple (Tacoma, WA)7/2 Horse Lords @ Vera Project (Seattle, WA)7/3 Horse Lords @ Mississippi Studios (Portland, OR)7/5 Horse Lords @ The Lab (San Franciso, CA)7/6 Horse Lords @ 2220 Arts + Archives (LA, CA)7/8 SML RECORD RELEASE @ Zebulon (LA, CA)7/9 SML RECORD RELEASE (night 2) @ Zebulon (LA, CA)7/17 Ben Vida, Will Epstein + Booker Stardrum @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)8/23 Sam Lisabeth + Henry Fraser + Booker Stardrum @ Avalon (Catkill, NY)9/24 Carl Stone + Friends @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)9/28 SOLO @ Marz Brewing (Chicago, IL)9/29 SML @ Salt Shed (Chicago, IL)9/29 Sister Nancy w/ SML @ Salt Shed (Chicago, IL)10/11 Hannah Cohen @ The Old Dutch Church (Kingston, NY)10/15 Nels Cline, Susan Alcorn + Booker Stardrum @ Solar Myth (Philadelphia, PA)10/19 SML @ 55 South (New Orleans, LA)11/14 Wendy Eisenberg Viewfinder @ Union Pool (Brooklyn, NY)11/20 A.C. Newman @ City Winery (Boston, MA)11/23 A.C. Newman @ Miracle Theater (Washington D.C)11/24 A.C. Newman @ City Winery (Philadelphia, PA) 12/3 SML @ Public Records (Brooklyn, NY)12/6 A.C. Newman @ Baby’s All Right (Brooklyn, NY)12/20 Ben Vida, Will Epstein + Booker Stardrum @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY) 2023 1/28 Yuka Honda + Booker Stardrum @ The Old Dutch Church (Kingston, NY)2/3 Sam Evian + co @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)3/7 Horse Lords @ Raindogs (Savona, IT)3/8 Horse Lords @ Spazio Teatro 89 (Milan, IT)3/9 Horse Lords @ Spazio Zut (Foligno, IT)3/10 Horse Lords @ Bronson (Ravenna, IT)3/11 Horse Lords @ Die Bäckerei (Innsbruck, AT)3/12 Horse Lords @ Kantine (Nürnberg, DE)3/13 Horse Lords @ Point Ephemere (Paris, FR)3/15 Horse Lords @ Pole Etudiant (Nantes, FR)3/16 Horse Lords @ Le Grand Mix (Tourcoing, FR)3/17 Horse Lords @ De Boer (Gent, BE)3/18 Horse Lords @ Beursschouwbourg (Brussels, BE)4/2 Chris Williams + Booker Stardrum @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY)4/9 Chris Williams + Booker Stardrum @ seCret loCation (Brooklyn, NY)4/12 Jeremiah Chiu + Greg Uhlmann + Josh Johnson + Anna Butterss + Booker Stardrum @ ETA (LA, CA) 4/13 Jeremiah Chiu + Greg Uhlmann + Josh Johnson + Anna Butterss + Booker Stardrum @ ETA (LA, CA)4/15 SOLO @ Feels Like Floating (LA, CA)4/20 Wendy Eisenberg: Eye Music @ Roulette (Brooklyn, NY)7/30 SOLO @ The Windjammer (Queens, NY)9/17 Lee Ranaldo + Booker Stardrum @ Littlefield (Brooklyn, NY)9/26 PC Worship @ Union Pool (Brooklyn, NY)10/10 Chris Williams + Booker Stardrum @ Sundown (Queens, NY)12/9 Carl Stone 70th Birthday Concert @ Roulette (Brooklyn, NY)12/28 Patrick Shiroishi, Jeremiah Chiu, Ben Lumsdaine + Booker Stardrum @ ETA (LA,CA) 20221/9 Jeremiah Chiu + Booker Stardrum @ Feels Like Floating (LA, CA)1/12 Diego Gaeta + Logan Hone + Booker Stardrum @ Ace Hotel (Palm Springs, CA)1/13 Diego Gaeta + Logan Hone + Booker Stardrum @ Townhouse (LA, CA)1/30 Lisel + Booker Stardrum @ TV Eye (Queens, NY)2/16 Juka Ren @ Senate Garage (Kingston, NY)3/27 Lisel + Booker Stardrum @ Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, TN)4/8 SOLO @ Avalon (Catskill, NY)4/14 Wendy Eisenberg (+ensemble) @ Roulette (Brooklyn, NY)5/10 Adam Schatz’s Civil Engineering @ Union Pool (Brooklyn, NY)5/21 SOLO @ Kiezsalon (Berlin, DE)5/26 Brad Henkel, Dan Peter Sundland + Booker Stardrum @ Sowieso (Berlin, DE)5/27 Owen Gardner, Quentin Tolimieri + Booker Stardrum @ Sowieso (Berlin, DE)5/28 Horse Lords @ KM28 (Berlin, DE)5/29 Horse Lords @ OCCI (Amsterdam, NL)5/30 Horse Lords @ Cafe Oto (London, UK)5/31 Horse Lords @ Kazimir (Liverpool, UK)6/1 Horse Lords @ Dareshack (Bristol, UK)6/2 Horse Lords @ The Green Door (Brighton, UK)6/3 Horse Lords @ Les Ateliers Claus (Brussels, BEL)6/4 Horse Lords @ Het Bos (Antwerp, BEL)6/5 Horse Lords @ Moers Festival (Moers, DE)6/5 Chris Williams + Booker Stardrum @ Moers Festival (Moers, DE)6/6 Horse Lords @ Moers Festival (Moers, DE) 6/6 Jasper Stadhouders, Luke Stewart + Booker Stardrum @ Moers Festival (Moers, DE)6/7 Horse Lords @ ISC (Bern, SUI)6/8 Horse Lords @ Beaches Brew Festival (Ravenna, IT)6/10 Horse Lords @ Off Tune Festival (Prato, IT)6/11 Horse Lords @ A Forest Festival (Cigole, IT)6/14 John McCowen, Ryan Packard + Booker Stardrum @ Mengi (Reykjavik, IS) 8/23 SOLO @ Ars Nova Workshop (Philadelphia, PA) w/ Jeremiah Chiu + Marta Sofia Honer8/24 SOLO @ Public Records (Brooklyn, NY) w/ Jeremiah Chiu + Marta Sofia Honer 8/25 SOLO @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY) w/ Jeremiah Chiu + Marta Sofia Honer 9/16 Yuka Honda + Booker Stardrum @ The Stone (NY, NY) 10/11 Karen NG, Jasper Stadhouders, Priya Purushothaman, Booker Stardrum @ Downtown Music Gallery (NY, NY)10/27 Jeremiah Chiu + Greg Uhlmann + Anna Butters + Booker Stardrum @ ETA (LA, CA)10/30 Diego Gaeta + Logan Hone + Booker Stardrum @ Townhouse (LA, LA)11/2 SOLO + Ensemble @ Gold Diggers (LA, CA)11/5 SOLO + Ensemble @ Indexical (Santa Cruz, CA) 11/19 SOLO @ Teffia: Primary (Kingston, NY)12/9 Photay + Booker Stardrum @ Tubby’s (Kingston, NY) 2021 2/18 Lisel + Booker Stardrum + Gwendolyn Gussman @ National Sawdust (Livestream)8/19 Michael Thieke, Nick Dunston + Booker Stardrum @ Au Topsi Pohl (Berlin, DE)8/20 Brad Henkel, Dan Peter Sundland + Booker Stardrum @ Sowieso (Berlin, DE)8/24 Horse Lords @ Rotundes (Luxembourg, LU)8/25 Horse Lords @ Ateliers Claus (Brusseles, BE)8/26 Horse Lords @ Grrrnd Zero (Lyon, FR)8/27 Horse Lords @ L’embobineuse (Marseille, FR)8/28 Horse Lords @ Festival Baignade Sauvage (Valleé du Tarne, FR) 8/29 Horse Lords @ Teri Aki Festival (Le Mans, FR)9/4 Horse Lords @ Kilbi Festival (Düdingen, CH)9/10 Horse Lords @ Stadtgarten (Köln, DE)9/11 Horse Lords @ Rewire Festival (Den Haag, NL)9/16 Horse Lords @ Festival Musica (Strasbourg, FR)9/17 Horse Lords @ Le Ciel (Grenoble, FR)9/18 Horse Lords @ L’Autre Canal (Nancy, FR 10/25 Dustin Wong + Jeremiah Chui + Booker Stardrum @ Zebulon (LA, CA) *w/ Micaela Tobin, Pauline Lay + Patrick Shiroishi 11/2 Lisel + Booker Stardrum @ The Echo (LA, CA) *w/ Half Waif11/3 Lisel + Booker Stardrum @ The Chapel (San Franciso, CA) *w/ Half Waif11/5 Lisel + Booker Stardrum @ Mississippi Studios (Portland, OR) *w/ Half Waif11/6 Lisel + Booker Stardrum @ Barboza (Seattle, WA) *w/ Half Waif12/3 Weston Minissali + Booker Stardrum @ Avalon (Catskill, NY) *w/ Arone Dyer12/15 Arian Shafiee + Justin Frye + Booker Stardrum @ IRL (Brooklyn, NY) *w/ Jaimie Branch, Joanna Mattrey + Lester St. Louis 2020 1/3 Michael Coleman, Eli Crews, Ava Mendoza + Booker Stardrum @ Owl Music Parlor (Brooklyn, NY)1/9 Arian Shafiee, Justin Frye + Booker Stardrum @ Union Pool (Brooklyn, NY)1/10 Skellettes (Ajemian, Morgan, Morris, Stardrum) @ Winter Jazz Festival @ Nublu (NY, NY)1/12 Booker Stardrum + John McCowen + visuals by Miranda Javid @ Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (Brooklyn, NY)1/17 SOLO @ drumxdrum: Festival of Polyrhythms @ H0l0 (Queens, NY) 1/22 d.gaeta + b.stardrum @ Adamae (LA, CA) 2/12 d.gaeta + b.stardrum @ Adamae (LA, CA)2/23 Dustin Wong + Takako Minekawa + Booker Stardrum @ Gold Diggers (LA, CA)2/26 d.gaeta + b.stardrum @ Ace Hotel (LA, CA)3/3 Dustin Wong + Jeremiah Chiu + Booker Stardrum @ Zebulon (LA, CA)3/9 Zebulon Residency: SOLO @ Zebulon (LA, CA)3/14 POSTPONED: Patrick Shiroishi + Booker Stardrum @ Coaxial (LA, CA) 3/16 POSTPONED: Zebulon Residency: Ben Babbitt + Booker Stardrum @ Zebulon (LA, CA) 3/16 SOLO @ Drive-In Concert (LA, CA)3/18 POSTPONED: d.gaeta + b.stardrum @ Adamae (LA, CA) 3/23 POSTPONED: Zebulon Residency: Celia Hollander + Jude Tedaldi + Booker Stardrum @ Zebulon (LA, CA) 3/30 POSTPONED: Zebulon Residency: Celia Hollander + Ben Babbitt + Jeremiah Chiu + Booker Stardrum @ Zebulon (LA, CA) 6/24 POSTPONED: SOLO @ Kiezsalon (Berlin, DE) 10/8 SOLO Livestream @ Experimental Sound Studio (ess.org/the-quarantine-concerts) 2019 1/5 Trio w/ Arian Shafiee + Justin Frye @ The Glove (Brooklyn, NY)1/6 Trio w/ Michael Coleman + Eli Crews @ Owl Music Parlor (Brooklyn, NY) 2/7 Duo w/ Dustin Wong in studio 2pm-4pm @ Dublab (LA) 2/7 perform Terry Riley’s “In C” @ Art Share L.A. (LA) 3/6 Booker Stardrum + Celia Hollander @ Zebulon (LA) w/ Carl Stone 3/17 Logan Hone, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Lauren Baba, Gregory Uhlmann, Karl McComas-Reichl + Booker Stardrum @ The Blue Whale (LA) 4/11 Patrick Shiroshi, Miller Wren + Booker Stardrum @ Battery Books (LA)4/19 Gregory Uhlmann, Marta Tiesenga, Patrick Shiroshi + Booker Stardrum @ Coaxial (LA)4/28 SOLO @ Coaxial (LA) 5/15 SOLO @ Alice w/ Amirtha Kidambi: Elder Ones (Copenhagen, DK)5/16 SOLO @ Melahuset w/ Amirtha Kidambi: Elder Ones (Oslo, NO)5/18 SOLO @ TBA (Berlin, DE)5/20 SOLO @ Potrvá (Prague, CZ)5/23 SOLO @ Grrrnd Zero w/ Guerilla Toss (Lyon, FR)5/25 SOLO @ Café de Paris (Paris, FR)5/30 Trio w/ Jasper Stadhouders + Harpo ‘t Hart @ De Ruimte (Amsterdam, NL)6/1 SOLO + Duo w/ Jasper Stadhouders @ West (The Hague, NL)6/5 SOLO @ Antenne (Rotterdam, NL)6/6 SOLO @ Steim (Amsterdam, NL) 6/13 Booker Stardrum + Jessica Pavone + Angela Morris @ St.Lydia’s (Brooklyn, NY) 7/2 Duo w/ Patrick Shiroshi @ Coaxial (LA)7/25 Pauline Lay’s “5:4:1” ensemble composition @ Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park (LA)7/30 Booker Stardrum w/ Patrick Shiroishi, Marta Tiesenga + Logan Hone @ Zebulon (LA)8/5 Duo w/ Tashi Dorji @ The Mothlight (Asheville, NC) 9/4 SOLO @ If Art Gallery (Columbia, SC)9/6 Trio w/ Jaimie Branch + Luke Stewart @ Neptunes @ Hopscotch Music Festival (Raleigh, NC)9/6 SOLO @ Fletcher Theater @ Hopscotch Music Festival w/ Milford Graves + Susie Ibarra (Raleigh, NC) 9/28 Trio w/ Patrick Shiroishi + Tashi Dorji @ You’re Welcome (LA)9/29 “A Passage or Time in a Hanging Truth:” Composition for 9 Saxophonists @ Human Resources (LA)10/7 SOLO @ Zebulon (LA)9/21 - 11/3 Ari Benjamin Meyer: Kunsthalle for Music @ Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (SB, CA) 11/6 d.gaeta + b.stardrum duo @ Blind Barber (LA) 11/16 Corey Fogel + Booker Stardrum duo @ Character Projects (LA) 11/23 Jesse Harris @ Zebulon (LA) 12/4 d.gaeta + b.stardrum duo @ Blind Barber (LA, CA)12/12 SOLO @ Creosote House presented by wild Up (Joshua Tree, CA)12/18 d.gaeta + b.stardrum @ Adamae (LA, CA) 2018 1/20 Jerry Paper @ Teregram Ballroom (LA)1/23 - 1/25 Jerry Paper West Coast tour2/10 SOLO @ Character Projects (LA)2/22 - 3/12 Lee Ranaldo Euro Tour3/28 'Displaced Horizons', a multimedia performance work for multi channel video and music ensemble @ Ghost (Santa Fe, NM) 6/6 2 Drums 2 Guitars Quartet w/ Jesse QT, Meg Duffy, Gregory Uhlmann @ Battery Books (Pasadena)6/15 Percussion Duo w/ Jordan Glenn @ Adobe Books (San Francisco) 7/8 Duo w/ Adam Schatz @ Troost (Brooklyn)7/10 Trio w/ Arian Shafiee + Justin Frye @ Secret Project Robot (Brooklyn)7/15 Lee Ranaldo Trio @ Le Poisson Rouge (NYC) w/ Los Mutantes + more8/20 Lee Ranaldo Trio @ Rock al Parque Festival (Bogota, Columbia)8/25 Lee Ranaldo Trio (Santiago, Chile)8/26 Lee Ranaldo Trio @ Niceto Club (Buenos Aires, Argentina)9/6 Lee Ranaldo (duo) @ Hopscotch Music Festival (Raleigh, N.C.) 9/13 Duo w/ Logan Hone @ Coaxial (LA)10/25 SOLO @ 2640 (Baltimore, MD)10/26 SOLO @ Jerry’s on Front (Philadelphia, PA)10/28 SOLO @ Union Pool (Brooklyn, NY)10/29 SOLO + trio w/ Dave Rempis + Beth McDonald @ Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago, IL)10/30 Trio w/ Katie Young + Matt Mehlan @ Comfort Station (Chicago, IL)11/10 SOLO @ Beatnik Lounge (Joshua Tree, CA)11/14 SOLO @ Zebulon (Los Angeles, CA)11/15 SOLO + w/ Sontag Shogun’s Braided Sound @ The Luggage Store Gallery (San Francisco, CA)11/17 Duo w/ Andrew Bernstein @ Coaxial (Los Angeles, CA)11/18 SOLO @ SDCP (San Diego, CA)12/7 Ceiling Dweller @ House Show (LA, CA)12/9 w/ Adam Schatz @ Bootleg Theater (LA, CA)12/10 SOLO @ Gold Diggers12/11 Chris Cohen @ Teregram Ballroom (LA, CA)12/16 Skellettes (Jason Ajemian, Angela Morris, Nathaniel Morgan) @ Home Audio (Brooklyn, NY)12/17 Skellettes (Jason Ajemian, Angela Morris, Nathaniel Morgan) @ Threes Brewing (Brooklyn, NY) 12/21 Lee Ranaldo Trio @ Union Pool (Brooklyn, NY) 20171/3 SOLO @ Threes Brewing1/13 Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ The Glove1/25 Landlady @ House of Yes2/1 Skellettes (Angela Morris, Nathaniel Morgan, Jason Ajemian) @ Rye2/3 SOLO @ Union Pool w/ Open House2/16 - 2/26 Weyes Blood West Coast Tour3/25 Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ The Glove3/31 - 4/21 Cloud Becomes Your Hand Euro Tour4/23 SOLO @ OCCII (Amsterdam)4/29 SOLO @ Slate Arts (Chicago)6/7 Tribute to Alessandro Alessandroni @ Zebulon (LA)6/27 SOLO @ Bootleg Theater (LA)7/14 perform in "We of Me" by Molly Surno @ The Getty Center (LA)7/26 SOLO @ Ham and Eggs (LA)7/30 Jerry Paper @ HM157 (LA)8/1 Adam Schatz's Civil Engineering @ Bootleg Theater (LA)8/8 Ceiling Dweller @ ETA (LA)8/9 SOLO @ Bootleg Theater (LA)8/24 w/ Nels Cline @ The Stone (NY)8/28 SOLO @ Secret Project Robot (NY)9/13 Jerry Paper @ Zebulon (LA)9/15 Jerry Paper @ Skidmore College (NY)9/16 Jerry Paper @ Baby's All Right (NY)10/15 Jerry Paper @ Desert Daze Festival (Joshua Tree, CA)10/24 - 11/11 Lee Ranaldo US Tour12/30 SOLO @ Coaxial Arts 2016 1/3 Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ Secret Project Robot w/ Ava Luna and Palberta. Planned Parenthood benefit!2/17 Quartet w/ Jason Ajemian, Nathaniel Morgan and Angela Morris @ House Show (Los Angeles)2/18 Quartet w/ Jason Ajemian, Nathaniel Morgan and Angela Morris @ Curve Line Space (Los Angeles)2/20 Folk-Lords @ Human Recourses (Los Angeles)3/4 Ceiling Dweller @ The Airliner Nightclub (LA)3/16 Solo @ Whistle Stop (San Diego)3/17 Solo @ Caja Fuerte at Pasaje Rodríguez (Tijuana)3/18 Solo @ The Wulf (Los Angeles)3/20 Solo @ Life Changing Ministeries (Oakland)3/21 Solo @ Richards' Goat Tavern and Tea Room (Arcata)3/23 Solo @ Hollow Earth Radio (Seattle)3/24 Solo @ Human Flesh Body World (Portland)3/25 Solo @ Reed College (Portland)3/27 Solo @ Mills College (Oakland)3/28 Trio w/ Aram Shelton and Owen Stewart-Robertson @ Studio Grand (Oakland)4/16 Cloud Become Your Hand @ Silent Barn4/20 Cloud Worship (CBYH + PC Worship) @ Palisades4/21 Landlady @ Rough Trade w/ Sex Mob4/25 Delicate Steve @ Underground Arts (Philly)4/26 Delicate Steve @ The Crown (Greensboro, NC)4/27 Delicate Steve @ The Earl (Atlanta)4/28 Delicate Steve @ Gasa Gasa (New Orleans)5/1 Delicate Steve @ Levitation Festival (Austin)5/4 Delicate Steve @ Pinhook (Durham, NC)5/5 Delicate Steve @ Metro Gallery (Baltimore)5/9 Landlady @ Relic Room (NY, NY)5/27 - 6/4 Cloud Becomes Your Hand "Rest In Fleas" Release Tour6/8 SOLO @ Palisades6/10 Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ Northside Fest @ Aviv6/17 Delicate Steve @ Destination Moon Festival (Wurtsboro, NY)6/18 Cloud Becomes Your Hand "Rest in Fleas" RECORD RELEASE SHOW @ Secret Project Robot6/19 SOLO @ Firehouse Space6/22 Quartet w/ Jason Ajemian, Nathaniel Morgan, Angela Morris @ Manhattan Inn7/16 - 7/29 Cloud Becomes Your Hand "Rest In Fleas" Release Tour8/4 - 8/15 Landlady tour8/16 SOLO @ Troost8/25 SOLO @ Threes Brewing9/14 Landlady @ The Sinclair (Boston)9/15 Landlady @ The Sinclair (Boston)9/16 Franz Pavo @ Bowery Electric9/19 Landlady @ 9:30 Club (D.C.)9/26 SOLO @ 65Fen10/2 SOLO @ Trans Pecos10/5 Cantina @ C'mon Everybody10/9 Trio w/ Logan Hone and Christopher Hoffman @ Muchmores10/21 Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ Alphaville10/27 - 11/10 Weyes Blood US tour11/12 - 12/3 Weyes Blood Euro tour12/10 Landlady @ The Bell House12/15 Weyes Blood @ The Echo (LA) 201510/6 Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ Palisades10/10 Delicate Steve @ Capitol Theater (Port Chester NY) w/ Mac Demarco10/22 SOLO @ Houseworld10/28 Cantina @ Palisades10/29 HAIR @ Trans Pecos11/5 Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ Machines Like Magnets (Pawtucket RI)11/6 Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ Boston Hassle Festival- Brighton Music Hall (Allston MA)11/13 Landlady @ Cuisine En Locale (Somerville MA)11/20 "oh, and one more thing"... a performance piece by Becky Sellinger @ Skowhegan Gallery (7:30pm)11/20 Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ Palisades w/ Zs, Wume, Sunwatchers11/21 SOLO @ Red Room (Baltimore MD) w/ Andrew Bernstein11/22 SOLO @ Union Arts (Washington D.C.) w/ Andrew Bernstein12/3 Landlady @ Vassar College (Poughkeepsie NY)12/4 Landlady @ BSP (Kingston NY) w/ Dan Deacon12/6 Landlady @ The Bell House12/9 SOLO (with percussion ensemble) 'DANCE AND' TAPE RELEASE @ Trans Pecos w/ Andrew Bernstein + JOBS12/10 SOLO @ Deep Thoughts (Boston MA) w/ Andrew Bernstein12/11 SOLO @ The Brickhouse (Turners Falls MA) w/ Andrew Bernstein12/12 Delicate Steve @ Half Moon (Hudson NY) w/ Luke Temple12/14 SOLO @ Manhattan Inn w/ Cuddle Magic12/19 Delicate Steve @ 3S Artspace (Portsmouth NH) w/ Nat Baldwin12/23 Delicate Steve @ Stanhope House (Stanhope NJ)12/27 6pm Downtown Music Gallery w/ Nels Cline, Michael Coleman, Ben Goldberg   recordings about events discography lessons +recording photos contact 2026 3/26 SML Residency @ Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, TN) 3/27 SML...