{"id":844,"date":"2012-04-28T15:17:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T14:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2012-04-28T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T15:03:17","slug":"improvisation-on-my-new-waterphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/improvisation-on-my-new-waterphone\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quiet Little Improvisation Featuring My New Waterphone"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a new Waterphone, a “Whaler” – much smaller than my original “Megabass”, and a lot easier for me to play live.<\/p>\n

\"\"the Whaler and the Megabass Waterphones, side by side (note to self: I must tidy up and fix the rope on the “exhaust” of the big one…)
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you, Richard<\/a>!<\/p>\n

It arrived for my birthday, but I was out of the country. A neighbor took care of it, and handed it over to me on Tuesday – just in time for our almost regular Wednesday jam. We played for about an hour. Here are the last 11 minutes and a quarter – a bit of slightly oriental sounding abstract ambiance, very quiet, mainly Bass and Guitar: Reprise<\/a> (12.5 MB, in the iTunes\/iPod MPEG4\/AAC format, opens in a new window).<\/p>\n

Bellows: Allsorts, including the Wok and Pebbles which I have already used on several Cork City Gamelan pieces
\nMetalizer: Electric Guitar
\nSonikjahz: Bass Guitar
\nYours Truly: my new “Whaler” Waterphone<\/p>\n

Most of the time my Waterphone is just barely there in the mix, but I like it a lot. I don’t always need to be loud and obvious, eh? Actually, I am using a new extended technique about three quarters into the piece which is loud and obvious – but it doesn’t sound like a Waterphone: I placed a metal protector for a saxophone reed on the top of one of the rods. Striking the rod produces a very subtle complex rattle.<\/p>\n

Enjoy and feel free to share, but don’t remix, please – see, it is a group improvisation and not entirely my own composition. I’ll be posting music for remixing again, promise…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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