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I believe Miya Masoaka has a number of other improv discs out as well. I saw her in a trio with Fred Frith and Larry Ochs (tenor sax player from the ROVA sax quartet) some years ago, it was a very very cool show. Sounds like a great trio, Kris! > Thanks. Henry's webmaster just sent me the same link. This is great. > > Kris > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Joseph Cavanagh > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 6:33 PM > Subject: RE: New Guitar/Cello/Koto trio > > > Kristen: > > > > All tracks of Séance, featuring Henry Kaiser et al, are available for > download at emusic: http://www.emusic.com/album/10920/10920616.html > > Joe Cavanagh > Producer of GaelSong Radio at http://www.live365.com/stations/omnicelt > > -----Original Message----- > From: Krispen Hartung [mailto:khartung@cableone.net] > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 5:11 PM > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > Subject: New Guitar/Cello/Koto trio > > > > I can't wait to talk about the new ambient/experimental/free improv >trio > I'm playing in now. It is with two women that I met, and who played at > the Boise Experimental Music festival, both music students/graduates. > The instrumentation is me on guitar, Gretchen on Koto (a really cool > sounding Japanese instrument - http://home.san.rr.com/koto/instru.htm), > and Jesse on cello. We had our first rehearsal last week and our first > gig is on October 8. > > The instrumentation and contrast of the different instruments is really > interesting, and I was wondering if anyone else on the list had played > with a koto player - because I'd like to hear what has been done to > leverage some ideas. I found one reference to such a trio, with Henry > Kaiser (guitar), Miya Masaoka (koto), and Danielle DeGruttola (cello), > and the CD is called Seance by Vex Records...but I can't find the thing > for sale anywere. Any clues? Gretchen lived in Japan for 10 years and > knows a fair amount about the music and instrument. At our first jam > session, I didn't do any looping, because I wanted to just focus on the > sound of my guitar and how it worked with the cello and koto. I used my > nylon string, but surprisingly, both of them requested that I play my > jazz electric next time, because they think the contrast of acoustic > instruments with my electric will be more unique. > > Our basic approach for playing is that Gretchen can tune the Koto to >any > scale....we start with a traditional Japanese harmonic structure (D Eb G > A Bb D) and play with that...and then after that point, she tunes it to > various modes (mixolydian, lydian, pentatonic, etc), and we play modally > over a tonal center, which is great for me with my jazz background. You > can do some great things with the koto, such as scraping the plectra > over the strings, bending the strings for other tones, etc. The fun one > is where she tunes the koto to the chromatic scale and we play > atonally...the three of us end up sounding like we're playing a 12 tone > piece, though there are no rows or permutations involved. > > Next rehearsal I'll be bringing my notebook system and looping. My plan > is to loop some ambient textures of basic melodic motifs based on the > tuning of the koto..and then we'll improvise over that...afterwhich I'll > continue manipulating the loops to evolve with the performance. It > should be fun. I hope to record the Oct. 8 performance. > > Kris > > > >************************************************************************** > Krispen Hartung / Improvisational Looping Guitar > www.krispenhartung.com / www.myspace.com/krispenhartung > My Tribe: http://people.tribe.net/krispen-hartung > info@krispenhartung.com / 1.208.724.5603 > Discography - http://www.krispenhartung.com/catalogue.htm > CD Baby Discography (CDs for only $5): http://cdbaby.com/all/khartung >