Re: Re: Open Ears festival report...

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Jeffrey Collins wrote:
>
> No looping, but for the guitarists, Matt Rogalsy’s Discipline was a 
> wicked cool installation.I see a few days ago he put a vid here: 
> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsKeRLzkSyw_.In a nutshell – 12 
> guitars, each tuned to one note (though over different octaves), p/u’s 
> are reverse wired and generate a signal matching the tuned note.The 
> signal is a classic rock radio station, that has the signal route and 
> split up.The strings vibrate when that note is played on the 
> radio.Very ethereal!The sound was like 12 e-bowed guitars, but the 
> sound waves were slow and gentle or string-rattling...
>
God, the description sounds awesome.

I'm really into the concept of sympathetic vibrations lately.

My living room has so many resonant instruments (including a half a 
dozen chromatic and open tuned zithers and harps that
if I play anything loudly and acoustically (including just singing), you 
get a lot of sympathetic resonance from the all the instruments.

This is why I so love the Bowed Psaltery: Because it has a chromatic 
scale, every single note you bow will have sympathetic resonance
with anything that is an octave or a fifth away from it. This gives some 
very beautiful, if subtle dissonance when playing
some kind of scale.

It is why I've always described the instrument as being a perfect cross 
between the dissonance inherent in glass harmonica ( resonated crystal 
goblets)
and a violin.

I'm off to watch the video now. Thanks for posting it, Jeffrey. I'd love 
to hear your own looping music (or non-looping music for that matter).

yours,
Rick Walker