ICMC/25/d6/1400 Concert 17/04 Country Roads
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- 384
- 1st movement - fun. there were little samples of pigs, etc all reacting to his techniques. it was clearly jacked in. a bit of a ho-down vibe.
- it's kind of a deconstruction of a ho-down.
- 2nd movement uses some kind of wooden stick or bow - a drum stick I think.
#Description
- Country Roads Although I have never been particularly interested in country music, I find myself attracted to many aspects of the guitar playing:
- the control over string bend intonation
- the pedal-steel emulations
- oblique motion where one string remains stable while another bends
- polyphonic potential of hybrid picking
- open sonorities of the double and triple stops.
- Country Roads explores these techniques, re-contextualized in a contemporary setting and augmented with electronic elements. The first movement is largely concerned with string bends.
- The second movement employs Travis picking in the right hand, a classic country fingerstyle developed by Person/Merle Travis .
- Movement three reveals itself to be a duet of sorts; the left-hand plays solo while the right hand renders the other part by bowing the lowest string with a drumstick.
- Person/Michael Frengel
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- #Bio
- Mike Frengel is a composer, performer, researcher, software developer, and educator.
- He holds degrees in electroacoustic music from San Jose State University, Dartmouth College and City University, London.
- Mike had the great fortune to study with Jon Appleton, Charles Dodge, Larry Polansky, Denis Smalley, Allen Strange, and Christian Wolff.
- His works have received international recognition and have been included on the Sonic Circuits VII, ICMC’95, CDCM Vol.26, 2000 Luigi Russolo and ICMC 2009 compact discs and are performed at music events around the world.
- His book, Person/Michael Frengel/Book/The Unorthodox Guitar: A Guide to Alternative Performance Practice, is available through Oxford University Press. His latest compact disc, Music for Guitar and Electronics, is available through Ravello Records. Mike is currently on the faculty of the music department at Northeastern University, where he teaches courses in music technology. He is also founder of Boom Audio Technologies—a software company devoted to bringing high-quality audio software to market. Their first product is Soundbug, an audio editor for macOS. Mike’s latest music endeavor is a trio (guitar, bass, drums) playing his original new music recontextualized into a jazz setting. The trio plays regularly at jazz venues in New England.
