Re: AW: another survey (wasRe: OT, but getting close to not-OT: guitar/sax improv sessions)

[Paul Mimlitsch <pmimlitsch@mac.com>]

On Oct 6, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill wrote:
>
> That being said...
>
>> 1) how many people on the list do solo non looping gigs?
> Mhmmm, is it a solo gig if I play piano and sing at the same time?  
> I believe
> within the scope of your question, rather not. I played a few solo  
> gigs in
> the past, most of them on the piano, although some on the trombone  
> as well.
> Some of the piano gigs not with original material, though (jazz  
> piano). Is
> it also considered "solo non looping" if I use a delay? A chorus?

Yes, though adding processing creates a different instrument/  
approach than that on a "dry" instrument.  I should have been more  
specific: "non processed/ natural/ dry/ naked" instrument.

>
>> 2) "the beauty of the single not line" - how many guitar
>> players/ players of multitimbral instruments can do an
>> improv. gig using only single note lines and hold an
>> audiences attention? for how long?
> I never tried that on the piano. I believe on the piano it might be  
> even
> harder than on the guitar, because you don't have that many means  
> of putting
> expression into a single note (bending, volume pedal, vibrato,...)

Something to explore (?) .....

>
>> 3) if you're not comfortable doing this, is that because of
>> preference (ie: vertical vs. linear hearing)?  Being raised
>> on a particular instrument?  Or did you gravitate towards
>> your preferred instrument due to how you hear things?
> See above
>
>> 4) if you play a mono timbral instrument (horns etc) is the
>> desire to "loop" a means of filling up vertical space to
>> compliment your single note line play?
> Among other things (sound design, multiinstrumental stuff). I also  
> did that
> non-looping by using the technique of playing notes alternatingly in
> different registers of the instrument, thus giving the impression  
> of two
> lines happening at once (something like Bobby McFerrin on trombone).
>
>       Rainer
>