Guitar With No Frets

Improvisation on fretless guitar and interactive electronics.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• fretless
• guitar
• looping
• live electronics
• livelooping
• Seymour Duncan Little '59
• ambient
• Robin Guthrie
• Harold Budd
• David Torn
• soundscape

[veganandgreen]

very beautiful. how do you make the long sustain?

[perboysen]

@veganandgreen Well, playing with shaping note attack by the guitar's volume knob use to give the impression of "long sustain" (I've swapped order of the volume and tone knob on this Telecaster). There is also this reverb plugin called Eos where I use an Envelope Follow process mocked up in Bidule to almost freeze the reverb when there is no sound incoming. So it kind of creates an artificial room space that resonates infinitely with the last played note/sound. Maybe that's what you were meant?

[veganandgreen]

@perboysen Oh, I asked because I thought one would need something like a Fernandes sustainer or StealthPlug Sustainiac to do this. Good to know that it's possible without. Your guitar playing and Chapman stick playing is great. Thanks!

[perboysen]

@veganandgreen Aha, I see! No sustain fix applied here. Just the optimally trimmed fretless guitar (string action super low, thick strings tuned down, as hard fingerboard as possible - I planed it with sand paper). But it would be fun to have a Sustaniac mic! Maybe I'll get one for my other fretless guiter. Have been playing a lot with ebow lately and it's so fun.

[veganandgreen]

@perboysen Oh, I asked because I thought one would need something like a Fernandes sustainer or StealthPlug Sustainiac to do this. Good to know that it's possible without. Thanks!

[Blender19111992]

AWEEEESOOOOME :D it hypnotized me :D

[Stckmand]

lækkert ...!!!