Coloring Book for the Harpist (excerpts)

"ColoringBook for the Harpist" is a music video realized created from the musical, visual, electronic and performative elements of my concert piece for solo harp from 1969.
The piece has a graphic score and introduced original ideas of notation in general and sound production on the harp. The composer provides a colored ready-made score and also, like with a children's coloring-book, at kit for the performer to create his or her score from blanks outlines, cut-outs and stick-ons.
Sound is produced on the harp exclusively by using two combs of different sizes. Through practice and experimentation, harpists invented an array of rich cluster techniques which can be only produced by the teeth of the combs. In 2005, we created a concert version of the work using audio processing, live video projection of the performing hands, and a color organ and real-time projections using Isadora software.

Coloring Book For The Harpist

Music: Yehuda Yannay
Harp: John Manno
Image: Dale Kaminski
Videography: Jerome Fortier
Electronic Score: Kevin Schlei
Electronic Performance: Steve Schlei
Color Organ: Ruben Fortier and Dale Kaminski

Music Score Publisher: Media Press

Category:

Music

Tags:

• music
• video
• experimental
• harp
• Yehuda
• Yannay

[devostm]

Incredible! Applause to Yannay for pushing the musical envelope to newer and stranger sonic landscapes.

Thank you.

[yehudayannay]

thanks for your kind comment: the entire video is on the vimeo site. I composed this piece 40 years ago and the current version is a wonderful realization by all my collaborators as listed in the credits

[GreatestPotential]

~quite beautiful~

[yehudayannay]

Thanks for your kind comment. The entire video can be seen on my VIMEO site.

Yehuda Yannay

[Gbeaklini]

Bravo, John. I'm working on a similar piece. I hope I can post it on YouTube too.

Gustavo Beaklini