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Re: What's experimental?
You know, I agree with you in the sense that I do not believe that
everything under the sun has been done before. If I truly believed that,
I don't think I could ever make music at all...!
I was thinking of it a bit more absolutely, in the sense that the guitar
has been explored so extensively over the past 150 years (particularly
the last 60) that if you pick up a conventional electric axe and play it
with fingers or pick through a typical amp, both the sound and technique
will be extremely familiar before you ever start. But for content, yes;
that's where we break new ground, or hope to.
Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com
www.chinapaintingmusic.com
>
>> To do something truly unheard before with, say, a guitar, you'd
>> pretty much be prohibited from laying fingers on the fingerboard, or
>> even putting strings on it for that matter.
>
> Respectfully, I disagree with that.
> There's lot's of ways in which a piece of music could be different to
> what has gone before, many of them possible using standard timbres.
>
> 1) Rhythm, there's plenty of unexplored concepts there.
> 2) Melody, doesn't have known boundaries, not understood through any
> theory
> 3) Has every technique for changing the sound of a regular note played
> on guitar been found yet? 4) While it may be true that "every
> harmony has been tried", by combining using harmony with
> different timbres, and over different rhythms I'm sure it's possible
> to create something unexpected.