LIVE at the BIMHUIS in Amsterdam: David Dramm's Fuzzbox Logic

LIVE at the BIMHUIS in Amsterdam: David Dramm's Fuzzbox Logic (2010) for Electric Violin, Five Fuzzboxes and Soundtrack.
Film: VPRO
sound: Frank van der Weij

American/Dutch composer David Dramm, whose music was described by critics as 'the groundbreaking terrain between Charles Ives, Jimi Hendrix, and Lou Reed', leans heavily on his background as a rock guitarist in his new work for solo electric violin, fuzz boxes and soundtrack: Fuzzbox Logic.

Notes by David Dramm:
An electrical storm -- a sound world made up of equal parts classical violin and electric guitar -- marks the beginning of David Dramm's Fuzzbox Logic. A slowly changing violin line of two notes which produce a third note called a 'difference tone' moves in slow motion against a fast moving soundtrack of Hammond Organ bass pedals and percussive distortion. This multi-layered texture of hum, distortion and bass releases into a series of sections which dovetail between unison and two-part violin and Hammond textures.

A set of five distortion pedals - 'fuzzboxes' - is laid out on the floor, allowing the violinist to 'cascade' the levels and types of distortion in order to bring out various colours and pitches. A fuzzbox is very good at making small sounds sound larger than life, and the electric violin acts as a magnifying glass, allowing us to hear small things that wouldn't grab our attention on an acoustic violin.
The fuzzbox parts, as well as the difference tones, were worked out in close collaboration with Monica Germino. Fuzzbox Logic was composed for Monica with financial support from het Fonds Podiumkunsten.

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