GINA FERRERA - Constant...
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Gina Ferrera is a visionary with a passion for folkloric drum, dance music and their combined expression in electronic music. Gina is a seasoned drummer & percussionist, an educator, and a specialist in African music and emerging technology. Her explosive polyrhythmic performances feature a hybrid of live percussion and electronic drums, juggling different styles of African traditional drum & dance music. She seamlessly fuses ancient tribal rhythms, both intimate and driving, with live production, looping, sampling and vocal effects. GINA FERRERA www.ginaferrera.com [email protected]
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Gina Ferrera is a visionary with a passion for folkloric drum, dance music and their combined expression in electronic music. Gina is a seasoned drummer & percussionist, an educator, and a specialist in African music and emerging technology. Her explosive polyrhythmic performances feature a hybrid of live percussion and electronic drums, juggling different styles of African traditional drum & dance music. She seamlessly fuses ancient tribal rhythms, both intimate and driving, with live production, looping, sampling and vocal effects.
GINA FERRERA
Utilizing a hybrid of organic percussion, the alternate mode trapKAT (custom electronic drum setup), xylophones and a unique rhythmic dialogue, Gina Ferrera weaves her tale: “Laws of Nature.” Breathtaking in its sonic range and richly evocative in content, the album seamlessly bridges the ancient and the contemporary, unfolding a world of contrasts and textures that reveals new layers with each listening.
album debut
Genre: downtempo, electronic, percussion, tribal, organic, ambient, folkloric.
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Performer+ producer
WorldTown Productions | collaboration with Ben Arsenal featured track: “Lazarus” & “Rumba”
Baby Loves Disco | created “Disco Boogie” soundtrack music for iphone app/game
Produced “Axis Mundi” and “The Logo Tree-” | music curated for Archedream for Humankind
PERFORMED AT:
PEX Summer FestCamp BiscoTED X PhiladelphiaThe Kimmel CenterWorld Cafe LiveMontreal Jazz FestivalPercussive Arts SocietyThe NAMM showBaby Love DiscoABC/Sony Studios Shark Tank Premier“Gratitude”NYC Festival of Light
(1) Gyil: traditional Ghanaian (West African xylophone)(2) TrapKAT: a midi drum machine
(3) MalletKAT: a MIDI 4-octave marimba(4) Other: vocals, batá drums, shekere, conga, mbira (thumb piano),
traditional Ewe drums, rudiments, snare drum, djembe, cajon and frame drum
instrumentalistGina has made two independent research trips to Ghana to study Gyil with Kakraba Lobi, Bernard Woma. She studies ancient Cuban, Nigerian, Ghanaian, Afro-Brazilian and Zimbabwean music. Ferrera is sponsored by Alternate Mode MIDI electronic percussion to further develop the trapKAT and other new electronic drum devices (including the new sensor point: Jambe).
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educational programs
Multi-Cultural Arts & Education | Children’s World Music | Assembly Programs | Residency Programs | Thearapeutic Teaching Artist | Creative Performing Arts | Preschool Music | Community Outreach | Universities & Colleges | Drumming-for-Wellness | Media/Technology | Emerging Arts
“What I find most inspiring about African music is the idea of ‘collective-awareness’ or ‘individual-togetherness’. I teach my students to draw connections between arts-integrated experiences and life experiences, developing communication skills, identifying with society and opening their awareness.”
-Gina Ferrera
