Sedayne : 7412 - Guitar & Singing Bowl Improvisation, Monday 29th December 2008

The guitar is a vintage Hofner Congress (serial #7412, circa 1958) which had its frets removed thirty years ago; also from thirty years ago are the black tape-wound strings of which only four remain. The beater is an antique, as used in the music halls of Northumberland circa 1920, and the singing bowl was bought from a market in Leeds (or possibly York) back in 1996 when such things could be had for a fraction of the price you would expect to pay today. The bridge on the guitar is a home-made thumb-piano (circa 1988) with tongues of split bamboo; the drone is provided by an electronic Shruti Box bought earler in the year off ebay.

I think it was Nigel Coombes who once prophesied that the final context for free improvisation would be in our front rooms, which is exactly what you have here - albeit in my back room. Whilst I have been improvising thus for 30 years or more, it is now by way of domestic amusement rather than public performance, though I might play such a music in public maybe once every four or five years. Whilst this isn't all that I do musically, it remains the pure heart of my musical faith which, for the want of an audience, remains, for the most part, unheard.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Free
• Improv
• Improvisation
• Experimental
• Music
• Folk
• Singing
• Bowl
• Guitar
• Hofner
• Congress
• Shruti
• Box

[BeninMusik]

u shure that it's a guitar? never seen a guitarr with a "f-hole" before... but I love it! sounds great! Check out my vids, if you have time, I improvise a lot myself.

[DannyDesperate]

as much as i can hear of this there's so much more i can't - but i know it's all there wobbling the etha, somewhere, or in my head...