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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2008-08-18 19:12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMBrsAuLyd4
Wayne Siegel's 'Jackdaw'. Originally for bass clarinet and live electronics or tape - here done on a wind controller.
As someone coming up to a performance on bass, I have to say that not being able to squeak on the HUGE jumps would be very nice indeed!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2008-08-18 20:29
Yer rite, D B, I haven't seen anything like it for quite a while ! My computer's playing ability is a few seconds each minute, HELP needed? What inst is being played??, Looks more like an alto cl to me. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2008-08-18 20:33
Don - it's a (Yamaha I assume) wind controller, the 'electric clarinet' if you like.
I don't know much about the way they work, only that they use some kind of pickup much like a guitar does on a vibrating string but instead with a vibrating air column.
I definitely prefer the piece on bass - but of all the pieces to play on a controller this seems to work well.
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Author: timg
Date: 2008-08-18 23:40
Windcontrollers aren't really like electric guitars, in that their sound is entirely synthetic. Guitars, acoustic or not, generate the sound from the vibrating strings. (Of course the sound from an electric guitar may be heavily modified by the amplifier.)
In the windcontroller there is no vibration to pick up. It senses the air flow, pressure from the jaw, and the finger positions, and feeds this stream of data into a synthesiser. There is no resonance in the instrument itself, and the fingers touch switches rather than tone holes.
The comparison between a clarinet and a windcontroller is rather like the comparison between a piano and a conventional keyboard synthesiser.
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Author: blazian
Date: 2008-08-19 18:40
Wow. I had no idea this song existed, and now it's running through my head constantly. Any idea where I could find a recording of it? And a hard copy of the sheet music?
- Martin
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Author: Danny Boy
Date: 2008-08-19 19:07
I got hold of my copy of the score and tape through my teacher who, I believe, got it from Harry Sparnaay. Mr Sparnaay has a recording of it which is available through iTunes. The playing is spectacular. As far as I'm aware it's not published - the Danish Arts Foundation commissioned the work and may be able to help.
Timg - that's very interesting, I yet again learn something from this board.
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Author: blazian
Date: 2008-08-22 01:28
If it's not published, does that mean it's also not copyrighted?
- Martin
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2008-08-22 01:38
blazian wrote:
> If it's not published, does that mean it's also not
> copyrighted?
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No (though publication brings forth other very important rights). It probably meets the copyright statute's definition of published, though:
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“Publication” is the distribution of copies or phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending. The offering to distribute copies or phonorecords to a group of persons for purposes of further distribution, public performance, or public display constitutes publication. A public performance or display of a work does not of itself constitute publication.
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