Brian Viglione’s “Found” Drum Kit

Written By: evan on June 2, 2010 One Comment

Brian Viglione just posted a pair of videos showing off the drum kit he created for use in Trent Reznor’s Ghosts album. Apparently, the pair wanted to see what sort of rhythm section they could create from scratch in a single day.

I showed up at Trent’s house for the first day of recording and said he thought a “fun art project for the day” would be to have me build a drum kit out of found objects and whatever I could piece together that afternoon and then improvise on it that night. I spent the afternoon on the hunt and put it all together that evening.
When it was all ready, he gave me the headphones and a tempo to follow, and said, “just play what comes to you…” [1]

The next day after recording, I came into the mixing room to find Atticus Ross and Alan Moulder integrating the drum parts I played the night before into one of the songs for the album, backed by a total wall of noise recorded before hand by Adrian Belew. [1]