Here is a collection of film clips and recordings from our workshop in Helsinki.
Preparations
Weaved × 2
Guitar – two middle size clipped around string 5 and 2, resting on 6, 4 and 1, 3
Over the sound hole
Db – two ”shaker” type weaved, c. Middle of the playing board, one from each side. Resting on top of each other.
Films:
Db:
20200227_111913
20200227_103352
Guit
20200227_103335
Weaved × 2 extra
20200225_153238.mp4
20200225_155258.mp4
Jumping pin no. 1
Guit – one middle reversed clothes pin attached to string 5. Play material from bar 1-?
Jumping pin no. 1b
Two on string 5 and 3. Play by moving guitar, lifting it up, leaning forward etc. To make pins jump and move.
Film:
towards the end moving guitar 20200227_113235
20200226_110958 one pin, scratching on string producing jumping
20200226_112953 one pin, scratching and rubbing with hand
20200226_112147
Jumping pin 1a
Db – player sitting down, bass lying down, resting on leg. Two middle clothes pins attached to a and d string one small clothes pin clipped around A string. Playing senza arco (producing tones with left hand gripping notes) and other gentle ways.
Film: 20200226_111053
20200226_112041
20200226_105717
20200226_105247
Jumping pin 1b
Db – add normal size clothes pin let it slide from playing board side to bridge.
Film: 20200227_113235
Jumping pin 2 ”chords”
Guit – Playing chords, as proposed on sheet music, developemnet and variations on them. One middle clothes pin attached to string 4 over the sound hole.
Db – shaker pin weaved around textile spun ends of strings, behind the bridge. Play on pin with bow, making the pin vibrate. Find a position where both low and high tones could be heard.
Film:
Db: 20200226_115813
20200226_115437
Guit: Did miss to film this apparently…
”bells”
Guit: small reversed pins on every string (very short rhythmic clip)
Bass:
20200226_150029
20200226_141157
20200226_140852
Recordings
Combination of ideas:
InventorNames_Combination.mp3
Jumping_pin_BellCombination.mp3
Rhythmic_pinnames_toBells.mp3
Rhythmic_pinnames_toBellsCombinations.mp3
Bells:
Bells_mystic.mp3
Bells_soft_machinepulse_end.mp3
Chords:
Chords_frictionbass.mp3
Inventor’s names:
Inventornames_.mp3
Inventornames_tryout.mp3
Jumping Pin:
JumpingPin_a.mp3
JumpingPin_b_soft.mp3
Weaved x 2:
weaved_x2_Nypa_talk.mp3
weaved_x2_pinpince_variation.mp3
weaved_x2_Pyykki.mp3