Re: What's experimental?

[Daryl Shawn <highhorse@mhorse.com>]

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.