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Zach Barocas, Diasporist Diarist

I’m Zach Barocas. I’m a drummer (I play Ludwig Drums), sometime poet (though not lately — see below for links), a publisher, a somewhat cranky cinephile, an amateur photographer, and a stationery shop owner in Brooklyn, New York City.

Measure Twice

Kimberley’s and my
stationery shop.

Poetry

The Cultural Society (2001-present)

Among Other Things (2005)

Looking Up (2010)

drumming

  • Press
  • New Freedom Sound
  • Jawbox
  • BELLS≥
  • Camorra
  • The Up On In
  • E. Fowlkes Sextet
  • Bright Christ
  • Drew O’Doherty
  • Imaginary Johnny

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Mostly Mornings

A tumblr blog of photographs spanning several years, taken mostly and eventually only in the morning, and eventually mostly from the same position of the same tree. I abandoned the project in 2018.

  • around the web
  • art
  • books
  • clap for sync
  • culture
  • day’s plays
  • drumming
  • film
  • listening
  • micropost
  • mornings
  • music
  • old blog
  • photographs
  • poetry
  • reading
  • record a day 2023
  • time machine
  • writing

Tag: inspiring beats

Inspiration: Hamid Drake

Format AudioPosted on December 7, 2022January 1, 2023Categories around the web, art, drumming, listeningTags chicago, corbett vs. dempsey, drums, hamid drake, inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, united states

Nate Smith + Kinfolk + Strings

Format VideoPosted on December 2, 2022Categories around the web, listening, musicTags inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, kinfolk, memphis, Nate Smith, united states

Morning Pages (Sound Up)

https://zachbarocas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/My-Movie-1.mp4

Format VideoPosted on November 10, 2021Categories drumming, listeningTags cowbell, drumming, inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, New Freedom Sound, percussion

Clap for Sync: Stop Me If You’ve Heard this One Before

Format VideoPosted on March 4, 2021Categories clap for sync, drumming, listening, musicTags beats, dream cymbals, drumming, drums, inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, ludwig drums, rhythmtech

Clap for Sync: Tumbling Rumbler

Format VideoPosted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021Categories clap for sync, drumming, listening, musicTags beats, dream cymbals, drumming, drums, inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, ludwig drums, rhythmtech

Clap for Sync: New Beat Defeats Loud Neighbor for a Moment

Format VideoPosted on February 23, 2021February 27, 2021Categories clap for sync, drumming, listening, musicTags beats, dream cymbals, drumming, drums, inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, ludwig drums, rhythmtech

Clap for Sync: An Old Beat Backwards or a New Beat with a Ribbon Crasher

Format VideoPosted on February 19, 2021Categories clap for sync, drumming, listening, musicTags beats, dream cymbals, drumming, drums, inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, ludwig drums, rhythmtech

Clap for Sync: Riding New Ride

Format VideoPosted on January 28, 2021Categories clap for sync, drumming, listening, musicTags beats, dream cymbals, drumming, drums, inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, ludwig drums

Clap for Sync: Sort of Like That Other One but Inside Out

Format VideoPosted on January 27, 2021January 28, 2021Categories clap for sync, drumming, listening, musicTags beats, dream cymbals, drumming, drums, inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, ludwig drums

Clap for Sync: Self-Conscious, Clockwise

Format VideoPosted on January 26, 2021January 28, 2021Categories clap for sync, drumming, listening, musicTags beats, dream cymbals, drumming, drums, inspiring beats, inspiring rhythms, ludwig drums

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