At Repercussion we envision the drum making activity alike housing : there are a lot of very skilled craftsmen acting primarely for « interior architecture » tailoring visual aspects to one’s needs, and there are fewer architects working on the fundamental functions and global experience of your home – or your drum in our case – understanding the science beneath it and procuring design breakthrough for innovative concepts.
We – of course – respect both of these worlds because you will feel better and play better if you like what you play for a number of perceptive or non perceptive reasons (look, sound, image, culture…), but our feeling is that the balance between efforts put into acoustic innovation and « nice-looking » drums is yet not reached on the market today.
Our focus is clearly in the acoustic design research, proposing to the demanding artists innovative concepts to enhance his/her choice. There are certainly many ways to build a drum, all ending with their acoustic and aesthetic pros and cons, but the refined understanding of the physics of sound generation for a drum is yet to be written.