THE TALKING DRUM (TTD) - the Kele/Lokele two-tone drum language (Carrington via Gleick): low/high be
THE DUNDUN (DDN) - the Yoruba three-tone tension drum (high/mid/low, ~1.58 bits/beat): squeeze the c
THE BATA (BTA) - the Yoruba ciphered drum: fixed heads can't bend pitch, so it ENCODES speech via en
It is widely known that Yorùbá drummers communicate through their native drums. This paper investig
Abstract The inevitable incursion of modernity and technology in post-colonial Afri