Instruction in listening, playing, instrument building,and composing. Emphasis on all aspects of the world of music and on the musics of the world. Specializingbeginningadults. In theLeschi/Mt. Baker(Seattle) neighborhood, Private individual lessons in piano, cello, string bass, bass guitar, guit...
–I continue to remind myself not to centre western classical art music practices, notation, and techniques….but I also need to stop justifying the inclusion of musical practices outside of this dominant tradition (as if I’m still needing to convince my no longer present profs and teachers)...
Tubes vs Transistors In Electric Guitar Amps ( PDF ) by W. Stephen Bussey, Robert M. Haigler, Proceedings of the IEEE, Ch. 1610, May, 1981 Tubes vs Transformers - What good tube "tone" looks like - An examination into the esoterica shrouding audio output transformers, tubes and "tone"...
From moving to New York City, where Booker Little peeled away the Big Apple’s skin for an easier bite, and where he jumped into the pond of Chico Hamilton’s band, to the path of illumination he now walks, there’s more than a lifetime’s worth of creative impulses to map along th...
(A condensed version of this review originally appeared in the July 2021 issue ofThe New York City Jazz Record, a full PDF of which is availablehere.) Masabumi Kikuchi: Hanamichi June 15, 2021 Hanamichiis the final recording of Masabumi Kikuchi (1939-2015), a pianist whose fingers left inde...
-New Silence Length: -In some cases you may want to replace long periods of silence with shorter periods. Choose a fixed length to reduce these longer periods to. Audio will be removed from the middle of the original period, to avoid clipping the ends of the audio surrounding the silence....
“One of my favorite moments was at the M-Prize competition. Our tenor sax player was given the line ‘A Single Egg Motionless in the Desert,’ and he made the choice to not play. It was amazing — we just let the sound of silence sit there for a while and then moved on. Sometime...
The resulting sound becomes more important than live performance, which must be reduced or eliminated because of its association with the heritage of classical music. For many artists, a customary laptop with largely pre-recorded sound material becomes the sole performance instrument. Yet from the ...
The problem is that the ends of notes appear to be suddenly squelched rather than dying smoothly away to silence. In the latter case, it is better to round the shifted result up or down, based on the value of the lost bits and possibly some random bits as well. This random rounding,...
Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel is one of a handful of guitarists whose influence is as robust as his humility. Muthspiel began his musical training in classical violin, shifting to guitar in his teens. And yet, while he is now firmly entrenched in jazz-defined spaces, he has never let...