tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-665027803498013782024-03-13T21:47:16.663+01:00PREPARED GUITARA place to support Independent Sound Art Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1799125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-89721764285753928302020-06-28T11:15:00.033+02:002020-06-30T19:15:13.516+02:00Larry Polansky: These Are the Generations, a conversation with Elliot SimpsonLarry Polansky (1954) is a composer, guitarist, mandolinist, and a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a founding member and co-director of the composer's collective Frog Peak Music. He co-wrote HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) with Phil Burk and David Rosenboom.His new cd These Are the Generations, is now available from New World. A work with Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-45344017473744536382020-06-20T10:58:00.006+02:002020-06-20T12:59:50.681+02:00Sergio Sorrentino's magical artSERGIO SORRENTINO promotes the classical guitar and electric guitar contemporary repertory.As a composer and improviser his music is based on sonic research and combines elements of contemporary classical music, minimalism, avant-garde, ambient, experimental.His CD Dream - American Music for Electric Guitar (Mode Records) contains works for electric guitar by John Cage, David Lang, Jack Vees, Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-70130950034813694172020-05-15T14:35:00.076+02:002020-06-19T18:25:37.175+02:00Charlie Rauh ~ The BluebellNYC based guitarist/composer Charlie Rauh has been invited to be resident composer by such organizations as the Rauschenberg Foundation, Klaustrid Foundation, and the Chen Dance Center. His work as a soloist has been supported by grants from Meet The Composer, The Untitled Artist Group, and The Fractured Atlas Group. Rauh’s approach to solo guitar composition takes inspiration from folk Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-1826621451825858252019-11-11T19:11:00.005+01:002019-11-11T19:11:56.671+01:00Captain Beefheart - Poetry Reading (1993)
Captain Beefheart (1941-2010)
Poetry Reading (1993)
Guitars, Wood Guitars (Dec 1977)
A 1993 poetry reading CD was included in the Stand Up To Be Discontinued exhibition book and later reproduced in the Pearls Before Swine book.
At the time, many found the recording shocking and upsetting. This was the first time Don Van Vliet had been widely heard in public since 1982’s Ice Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-43631223573509404412019-11-10T13:39:00.000+01:002019-11-10T15:28:30.080+01:00Les Filles de Illighadad
Les Filles de Illighadad is a Tuareg band founded by Fatou Seidi Ghali in Illighadad, a village in the Sahara Desert in Niger. Ghali, it is claimed, is the first Tuareg woman to play guitar professionally.
Ghali taught herself to play on her brother's guitar; while women did perform music among her people, they didn't play guitar; rather, they played a style of music called tende, centered Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-17491343760627632852019-11-09T15:54:00.002+01:002019-11-10T15:27:43.832+01:00Rudra Veena: Jyoti Hegde
Jyoti Hegde (Sanskrit: ज्योती हेग्डे, IPA: [dʑjoːtɪ ɦeːɡɖeː]) is a Rudra Veena and Sitar artist from Khandarbani Gharana. She has pursued music since age 12 and completed her Masters in Music from Karnatak University of Dharwad. Vidhushi Jyoti Hegde is the first and only woman player of Rudra Veena in the world. She is a Grade-A artist of Rudra Veena and Sitar with the All India Radio and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-16048483439923545762016-09-05T13:53:00.000+02:002016-09-05T13:53:17.989+02:00Tone Wood Stradivari brown
Stradivari brown
The old 16e century Italian masters applied a slightly tinted oil- resin layer on top of an oil varnish filler layer. Red pigment vermilion was used to give the instrument a warm red look. Due to the ultra violet light the wood gets darker when it ages.
The color changes to more dark brown over the years. The red pigments once used will fade Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-22402629136964276222016-08-29T09:52:00.001+02:002016-08-29T09:52:36.061+02:00Tone Wood The Nyquist stability criterion
The Nyquist stability criterion
If you want a long sustain you should have very little coupling from the string to the sound box. We can achieve that by making the breakover angle from your string over your bridge almost flat. Almost no force component will drive the top this way. If the string doesn’t have to deliver labor it will oscillate longer. Another method is using a Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-22275677960329487932016-07-18T13:59:00.000+02:002016-07-18T13:59:01.987+02:00Tone Wood Le Grande Arche
Le Grande Arche
Most steel string guitars use about 12 braces
for the top and 4 heavy braces for the back. These braces are absolutely
necessary to give the thin top and back enough strength to withstand
the 700N force from the strings.
Yamaha Guitar - Examples of bracing
Archtops only use 2 braces for the top
and no braces at all for the back. From Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-14498543794326238252016-07-15T12:04:00.000+02:002016-07-15T12:31:10.008+02:00Morton Felman remembered by Tom Johnson
Artwork: Central Asian (mainly Uzbekistan) rug patterns
Remembrance
by Tom Johnson
I studied privately with Morton Feldman in his apartment in New York City, before he was to take the University post in Buffalo. During the period 1967-69 I would often visit him, whenever I had some new scores and enough money to pay for a lesson. It was a valuable experience for me, and 20 years later I Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-12469233117925335352016-07-15T12:00:00.000+02:002016-07-15T12:03:47.223+02:00Morton Felman remembered by Tom Johnson
Artwork: Central Asian (mainly Uzbekistan) rug patterns
Remembrance
by Tom Johnson
I studied privately with Morton Feldman in his apartment in New York City, before he was to take the University post in Buffalo. During the period 1967-69 I would often visit him, whenever I had some new scores and enough money to pay for a lesson. It was a valuable experience for me, and 20 years later I Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-3377956981533139172016-07-14T13:06:00.000+02:002019-11-10T03:25:02.904+01:00David Kollar The Son RMX 2016
The Son RMX 2016
by David Kollar, REMIXES by Terminal State
"I decided to record the album Son in the beginning of this year, when my son David
was waiting for a second surgery. It was very difficult and painful period, which I also took as a challenge to move somewhere else.
I recorded the feelings that were inside me and around me. I wanted to conceive the album differently than I did Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-50460498824188112242016-07-12T11:25:00.001+02:002016-07-12T11:44:07.818+02:00Guitaret by Ernst Zacharias
The Guitaret is an electric lamellophone made by Hohner and invented by Ernst Zacharias, in 1963. Ernst Zacharias (born 21 June 1924) is a German musician and engineer. In the 1950s and 1960s, he invented various electro-mechanical musical instruments for the German musical instrument manufacturer Hohner, including the Cembalet, the Clavinet, the Guitaret, and the Pianet.
The Claviola, a Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-37936386546385149942016-07-11T13:48:00.001+02:002016-07-11T13:48:23.099+02:00Tone Wood: Mirror Gloss Black finish
Mirror Gloss Black finish
Black is one of the most difficult
colors, it just tends to amplify even the tiniest imperfections. The
reflections of small light sources on a black finished object often show
swirls and scratches which can hardly be seen on lighter color mirror
gloss finishes. When you want that desired Steinway black shinny mirror
you need to do an extra Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-18594625995595984862016-07-09T14:32:00.000+02:002016-07-09T14:32:42.808+02:00A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste By Ezra Pound
The Mud Bath by David Bomberg 1914 – Oil on canvas. Tate Gallery
Introduction
An “Image” is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. I use the term “complex” rather in the technical sense employed by the newer psychologists, such as Hart, though we might not agree absolutely in our application.
It is the presentation of such a “complex” Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-41428079151350027152016-07-07T12:03:00.000+02:002016-07-07T12:03:02.376+02:00Z6 records by lukas Simonis
Z6 records was founded by Lukas Simonis as a WORM project in 2001. The original idea was to release 'experimental electronic music sometimes mixed with weird pop sounds'. At a certain point, Simonis decided to continue the label and make it his own playground, allthough it is still related to Simonis' activities for the WORM SoundStudio.
SOOTHE by LUKAS SIMONIS
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-32444623737477992432016-07-06T09:52:00.001+02:002016-07-06T09:52:08.441+02:00Ten Guitars by Michael Parekowhai
Patriot: Ten Guitars, 1999. Ten custom-made semi-acoustic guitars, with maple, spruce, rewarewa, kauri, ebony and paua, and fittings. Each 1200 x 570 x 500mm.
Ten Guitars is a work by Michael Parekowhai. Parekowhai is one of New Zealand’s most important contemporary artists. In addition to an extensive exhibition history, his work is held in significant public and private collections in Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-53920846006087554842016-07-05T11:02:00.000+02:002016-07-05T11:02:21.726+02:00Richard Pinhas & Friends
Richard Pinhas and Friends
live at Divan du Monde - May 7, 2014Featuring: Richard Pinhas with Noël Akchoté, Arthur Narcy, and Manuel AdnotGuests on the last piece: Patrick Gauthier, Duncan Nilsson-PissanVideo projections: Milosh LuczynskiFilmed and edited: Godefroy de Maupeou- djinnprod.com
Richard Pinhas 13 questions
Pinhas Deleuze Sound language
“De l'un et du Multiple"
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-75715518216709710922016-07-04T12:16:00.001+02:002016-07-04T12:16:34.809+02:00Tone Wood Epiphone Zenith restoration
Epiphone Zenith restoration
Everything ends to dust. How to judge what should stay a while or what would go forever.
This Epiphone Zenith from 1936 was in a very bad condition. If this
was a 1936 Gibson Super 400 in the same condition the luthiers will
stand in a row to do the very lucrative restoration.
For low end
archtop models like the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-67849074492952011152016-07-02T17:20:00.000+02:002016-07-02T17:20:12.805+02:00Joel Vinsen 13 Questions
Joel Vinsen (b. 1984) is a guitarist, composer and improviser, based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Joel has been described as playing the guitar with ‘equal parts respect and contempt’, his pedal board has been described as excessive, and his musical output as eclectic. He is 1/2 of Panhandlers (spoken word & soundscapes), 1/3 of Baby Took My Dingo/Plastic sheep (improvised noise trio), Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-58140231008404382112016-06-21T10:31:00.002+02:002016-06-21T10:33:03.913+02:00Neil Feather Sound Mechanics
Sound Mechanic Neil Feather has been creating radical and unusual musical instruments since 1970 and is increasingly known as one of the most original musical thinkers of his day. His instruments each embody uniquely clever acoustic and engineering principles, and are visually arresting. The music he plays on the instruments is equally original, embodying new principles and resulting Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-79543583444013254112016-06-20T11:00:00.002+02:002016-06-20T11:00:31.461+02:00Tone Wood: Gibson Super400
What is really superb
For 6 years old children Playmobil delivers the Super4 series toys. Whatever it is the sky-jet, pirates or the alian they all will inspire the kid for many hours of playing.
Kids grow older and once they get their driving-licence and the first car, the first upgrade often is the the exhaust.
Flowmaster delivers the Super400 delta flow muffler which Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-54752310509793322722016-06-18T11:55:00.003+02:002016-06-18T13:38:58.336+02:00Giovanni Succi 13 Questions
Giovanni Succi (1969, from Piedmont, Italy) musician, writer, readings performer. Author and guitar player in several different projects from 1994 up today: Madrigali Magri, Bachi Da Pietra, Spam And Sound Ensemble, La Morte…
Spacing from avant-blues to post-rock, dark-ambient, electronics and heavy oriented rock music. The first one in publishing order was Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-21110717952702511322016-06-17T12:36:00.001+02:002016-06-17T12:49:13.137+02:00La Monte Young Compositions 1960
The Compositions 1960 are a set of pieces written in 1960 by composer La Monte Young. These pieces are unique in the sense that Young heavily emphasizes performance art, through extra-musical actions such as releasing a butterfly into the room or pushing a piano against a wall.
In 1959, while studying at Berkeley, Young traveled to Darmstadt to study with Karlheinz Stockhausen. During Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66502780349801378.post-29173052025048599972016-06-14T09:39:00.002+02:002016-06-14T09:39:51.022+02:00Kinetic Works by Stephen Cornford
Three Piece (2008)
A kinetic sound sculpture for two electric guitars and one electric bass.
Taking its name from the classic rock combination of guitar, bass and drums, this fairground-esque installation invites the audience to navigate the space around and between the instrument-machine band members and wander through their perpetually aleatoric song.
Air Guitar (2008)
A single Unknownnoreply@blogger.com