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Re: What's experimental?
In a lot of instances, I'd find that the restraint of having a familiar
sound to work with initially provides a solid foundation for creative
development. I'm particularly interested in how conventional guitar
techniques, especially picking styles, can be manipulated with technology
to
bring about a new performance approach, especially in the performance
practice (rehearsal) of an instrument. I agree with Andy in that there is
a
lot out there that has yet to be discovered and/or developed.
My two cents.
Ricky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daryl Shawn" <highhorse@mhorse.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 4:20 PM
Subject: 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.
>
>
>
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