I met twice with Robert and we had inspiring conversations and exchanges of thoughts.
these were my questions
- What unusual playing techniques could I use?
- What were your influences?
- Recommendations on music to listen to
- thoughts on looping.
findings
Recommendations and influences:
- Stefano Scodanibbio
- Barre Philipps
- Mark Dresser
- Epic Conversations Rick Rubin & Pharrell Williams
- Spotify Playlist
Playing techniques: (sound examples will follow)
- don’t press fingers totally to get overtones above the string (Pic!).
- turn the bow around and bow with the wood
- press the string over the fingerboard
- pull the string from the side, touching the fingerboard and bow with great force
thoughts on looping
In our conversation he mentioned one thought, which stood out to me: When a loop plays, it should modulate over time to stay interesting.
That inspired me to write a user action which randomises the start and end point of loops in ableton and another user action put these markers back to their original position.
morning jam
I did a morningjam with the techniques I learned with him, see here
