Dimanche dernier, Les Chemins de Traverse organisaient un plateau de lecture.
Ahmad Motalaei y est venu avec un poème de Rûmî qu’il s’est proposé de chanter plutôt que de simplement le lire à haute voix. Je lui ai proposé un accompagnement à l’harpejji et nous sommes partis dans une impro sans aucune préparation.
Les Chemins de Traverse viennent de publier la vidéo de ce moment.
I’ve been practicing classical improvisation on the harpejji for some months now, and while experimenting I came up with a prelude in C major that I thought was quite nice.
For various reasons this site has been mostly dormant recently, but that doesn’t mean that I’ve been doing nothing!
Among others, after having played mostly accompaniment on the harpejji for years, I decided to explore more what can be done with the instrument in a solo setting. (This exploration has been partly supported by a grant offered by the City of Neuchâtel, many thanks for that!)
I did not document my research on this website, but I did write about it on the website of Les Chemins de Traverse.
This is a companion post to my PyConDE 2024 talk Replacing Callbacks with Generators: A Case Study in Computer-Assisted Live Music to provide some context and additional information.
My experience trying to use the raspberry pi as a DIY FX box.
Getting the mugic into so-called “wifi client mode” turned up to be a little bit more difficult than I’d expected… but finally it works!
A magical kernel update dropped the audio latency of my gigging machine in a very spectacular way.
Until recently, I was convinced that it was still necessary to install an rt-patched kernel for making low-latency sound processing on Linux…
This is the fourth in a series of articles about harpejji technique. The first one was about major scales and the second and third ones were about right hand jazz voicings. This time, let’s talk about hand independence!
Of course, if you’ve been playing the piano before, hand independence is probably not the greatest challenge when picking up the harpejji. However, if you’ve been playing a melodic instrument or if harpejji is your first musical instrument, you’ll probably need to develop this skill (at least it was the case for me!).
Harpejjitabs, the new tablature editor for the harpejji, is available online!