But in the hands of the performers of Kodo, drums are not primitive but powerful — emotionally expressive and even spiritual.

If you’re looking to learn the art of playing Japanese drums, or Taiko, this hack, done as a school project by [Cornell] students, could be a really helpful aid. The project write-up is very ...

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There's a metaphor in the the title if you care to find it, but of course, there's also just going to be a bunch of ripped musicians whaling on rad Japanese drums. Every two years since the group ...

His taiko group, Wadaiko Rindo, began with just four members and now is 130-strong; around 80 per cent of the students are non-Japanese. The word taiko means any kind of drum or percussive ...

The instrument is just one of the many types of drums used in the Japanese tradition of taiko. “This is a good demonstration of how we merge the Japanese drum with Hong Kong culture,” pointed ...

“Drums are linguistic because they can convey emotional waves,” Yoyoka said. “I learned it before Japanese, so it is my first language.” In September, Yoyoka, her parents and her sibling ...