Kent Multer This is Me

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1. 1. KOBUSHI drummers -- taiko drumming and world percussion ensemble, Dallas, Texas USA

   www.kobushi.com/drummers.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/12/2008   Last Visited: 1/12/2008

   Kent Multer has been an amateur percussionist and student of Japanese culture for most of his life. He started playing taiko in 1992, and founded KOBUSHI in 1994. He also performs other types of percussion music around the Dallas area, and leads a weekly "drum circle" (open jam session). He is also a published author and a free-lance computer consultant; for more information, see his own Web site. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

2. 2. dfw.LifeontheNet.com - Entertainment/Music

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   Published on: 12/15/2000   Last Visited: 5/13/2002

   But since the middle ages, there has also been controversy between some forms of spiritual music and the church, according to Kent Multer, who has done research in music history, in particular, drumming. Besides being a member of a Japanese taiko drumming group called Kobushi (www.kobushi.com), Multer is also the host of a drum circle that takes place at Betwixt and Between (www.betwixt.org), a Fair Park venue catering to believers in earth-based religions.
   
   "In the Middle Ages, Christian churches deliberately suppressed the use of drumming, loud music and dancing in religious ceremonies because they found that it empowered people, gave them a free spirit and made them hard to control," Multer says.
   
   "The truth is that God accepts all people, and so do we. We are not trying to exclude anyone; we are not separatists. Besides, all people are sinners, and we are all suffering the consequences of sin."
   
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   Multer says spiritual music definitely influences unification. "I am a big believer that music and rhythm have the power to not only heal people but build communities,"Multer says.
   
   "People have access to music everywhere. It is in the car, in the home, in your Walkman - there is always music playing," he continues. "So, it is obvious that people have this real strong attraction to music, but we have forgotten the spiritual power that music has in our lives. Music has a power that we all take for granted."
   
   dfw.LifeontheNet.com

3. 3. dfw.LifeontheNet.com - Entertainment/Music

   www.dfw.lifeonthenet.com/Music - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/15/2000   Last Visited: 4/16/2002

   But since the middle ages, there has also been controversy between some forms of spiritual music and the church, according to Kent Multer, who has done research in music history, in particular, drumming. Besides being a member of a Japanese taiko drumming group called Kobushi (www.kobushi.com), Multer is also the host of a drum circle that takes place at Betwixt and Between (www.betwixt.org), a Fair Park venue catering to believers in earth-based religions.
   
   "In the Middle Ages, Christian churches deliberately suppressed the use of drumming, loud music and dancing in religious ceremonies because they found that it empowered people, gave them a free spirit and made them hard to control," Multer says.
   
   "The truth is that God accepts all people, and so do we. We are not trying to exclude anyone; we are not separatists. Besides, all people are sinners, and we are all suffering the consequences of sin."
   
   ...
   Multer says spiritual music definitely influences unification. "I am a big believer that music and rhythm have the power to not only heal people but build communities,"Multer says.
   
   "People have access to music everywhere. It is in the car, in the home, in your Walkman - there is always music playing," he continues. "So, it is obvious that people have this real strong attraction to music, but we have forgotten the spiritual power that music has in our lives. Music has a power that we all take for granted."
   
   dfw.LifeontheNet.com