My first webbed performance
Oct. 22nd, 2003 03:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslCompletely Improvised - Two People Arguing.AVI
This sort of imitation of human conversation on strings was inspired by a performance by Fiddlers Four members Darol Anger and Rushad Eggleston. I'm now working on producing the intonation of questions. Next may be "asking for a favor by appealing to sympathy". It seems only a few types of utterances have a strong enough intonation to be easily recognizable from the intonation alone. Maybe one day I'll get good enough to easily copy speech I just heard into the violin. It is perhaps interesting to contrast my ability to recognize/remember/transcribe speech tunes with my ability to recognize/remember/transcribe songs on the western scale, since I have no system for solfeging sounds in a continuous pitch domain. One of my theories is that solfege is very helpful in compressing songs through common solfege patterns: it's easier to manipulate the language of solfege syllables than the language of unnamed, "felt" pitches. Kind of like "when you can explain your idea in words, then you know you *REALLY* understand it". It is easy to fool oneself into thinking one has understood something until one has to write it down.
Other sound effects I can do this way: race cars, train (Orange Blossom Special), ambulance with Doppler effect.
This sort of imitation of human conversation on strings was inspired by a performance by Fiddlers Four members Darol Anger and Rushad Eggleston. I'm now working on producing the intonation of questions. Next may be "asking for a favor by appealing to sympathy". It seems only a few types of utterances have a strong enough intonation to be easily recognizable from the intonation alone. Maybe one day I'll get good enough to easily copy speech I just heard into the violin. It is perhaps interesting to contrast my ability to recognize/remember/transcribe speech tunes with my ability to recognize/remember/transcribe songs on the western scale, since I have no system for solfeging sounds in a continuous pitch domain. One of my theories is that solfege is very helpful in compressing songs through common solfege patterns: it's easier to manipulate the language of solfege syllables than the language of unnamed, "felt" pitches. Kind of like "when you can explain your idea in words, then you know you *REALLY* understand it". It is easy to fool oneself into thinking one has understood something until one has to write it down.
Other sound effects I can do this way: race cars, train (Orange Blossom Special), ambulance with Doppler effect.