My PyConDE 24 talk is online!

It took some time, but the video of my PyConDE 24 talk is now available on youtube!

Voice Harpejji Improvisation

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.

L’inspiration de la musique persane m’a poussé à chercher de nombreuses sonorités différentes, en plus du tapping “normal”: des effets de sourdine, gratter les cordes, du slap, divers effets percussifs, …

Harpejji Baroque Improvisation

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.

The 'Harpejji Solo' project

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.

PyConDE 2024

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.

rpi as a DIY fx pedal

My experience trying to use the raspberry pi as a DIY FX box.

Wifi Client Mode for Mugic

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!

Linux USB audio latency reduction

A magical kernel update dropped the audio latency of my gigging machine in a very spectacular way.

Bye bye, rt-kernel!

Until recently, I was convinced that it was still necessary to install an rt-patched kernel for making low-latency sound processing on Linux…

Harpejji hand independance

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!).