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you definitly have to record that. I really want to hear it! Charlie On 9/10/06, Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote: > > > 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