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| a few yrs back i recorded 2 or 3 cd's worth of loop explorations using altered tunings, i had just finished my semi-hollow solid rosewood neck telecaster gtr (the lefty ala SRV trem was mounted flat for stable tuning). i think i was inspired by an interview by dweezil zappa from his 1st album on vai's label, where on one song he just tuned the guitar to some random tuning and played it (can't remember song-and actually i'm not sure if i've ever heard it). but it was fun to play around w/ different tunings-it sure was floppy string madness- i was down to C on a couple of experiments. & then i looped & processed it back when i was in my recording everything jag... i was thinking of sonic youth in their explorations, & some John Fahey (i was going through that phase at the time) etc. it was fun to explore, & i was just doing a lot of random things
probably based off variations of drop D, open D and open G,etc-to get different voicings, etc. in listening back to the stuff, i remember thinking: "boy you don't have to worry about cover tunes in these tunings, (haha), and then i kept thinking well this is some nice noise (& i like noise), & then i wondered why even bother tuning at all? but it is a good way to explore some crazy sonic mayhem.... on an OT note-i just got Henry Kaiser's "Zen Kaiju", it's some free improvs he does w/ kiku day-she plays some strange long bambu like wind instrument (japanese i think?) that makes some wonderful weird/stange noise & HK plays gutiar of course (electric & acoustic). i wasn't sure if i'd like it, but it really is growing on me. just some interesting interplay & sounds. & for a bonus there is some video of them doing improvs together-i didn't think an electric guitar and a bambu-like wind instrument would sound good, but they really play off each other nicely, fun to see a bit of the video interaction they had. i did see a youtube vid of one segment of their playing-it was him on one of his acoustic guitars, there is intercut of a forest fire it looks like. strange, but interesting. thought i'd share....oh, note-there isn't any liner notes on the cd, and i'm not sure if HK does any looping in it, but boy he makes some great noises! s-- www.myspace.com/scotthansen http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=235503632389016121 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5791548553161416906&hl=en |