Juergen Kufner 4 drones

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The central idea behind this composition (work in progress) is to explore in detail the limitations and effects of fine-tuning guitar strings.

The following text is most easily understood by people who have got a basic understanding of just intonation harmonics and string instruments.

This track consists of four recordings of e-bowed strings. Every minute a new string is added and tuned. The strings are being tuned in the harmonic relationships of 1/1 (132 Hz), 32/31, 32/30 and 32/29. Therefore, the acoustic focus in the first four minutes is on experiencing the transformation of the beats during the tuning process. The tuning accuracy is approximately 1/10 Hz

In minutes four to seven the E-Bow position of each string is changed with the aim of amplifying the 32nd partial tone of the first string (4224 Hz). I consider this the second stage of tuning: Tuning the resulting sound of a string by altering the position of the E-Bow and its distance to the string. The results are dramatic changes in the frequency spectrums produced by the strings. The change in colour of the video signifies the start of this second step.

No additional sound altering devices (such as distortion, reverb etc) have been used.

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• just
• intonation
• e-bow
• tunig
• drones
• juergen
• kufner
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• glen
• branca
• lee
• ranaldo
• albert
• dambeck

[paulchillage]

very nice

[xmfdibujito]

interesting, keep going