This month contest theme is:
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monophony is the simplest of textures, consisting of melody without accompanying harmony. Monophony may not have underlying rhythmic textures, and must consist of only a melodic line."
One of the first contest entries I made at KVR was in October 2006 and was a tribute to my sister who died then.
This month’s entry is a tribute for my wife’s brother who has just passed away last week.
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I felt that the simplest way to make monophonic music would be with the traditional tin whistle as with it’s six hole fingering it is impossible to play more than one note at a time.
The particular instrument I chose to use is an antique brass whistle in Bb, but is from the days when standard tuning was A=432Hz so the unison accompaniment, on acoustic baritone guitar and (unison tuned) Irish bouzouki has those instruments detuned by 32 cents to match the whistle. There is much discussion, these days, on the relative merits of this archaic tuning method and it’s possible therapeutic and aural effect.
Antique Joseph Wallis brass whistle
Dean acoustic baritone guitar
Ozark bouzouki
sEX1 condenser mic
ReaFir, ReaEQ, BackStageEQone, OvertoneGEQ, Q796, GlaceVerb,
REAPER V4.22
James
