LES EXPLORATIONS ST ETHIQUES

9-tone-Shadow-Sky-electric-guitar

I was always dreaming about an other type of electric guitar. The simplest way I found is to move the bridge to disturb the 12-tone scale ratio fixed by the distance between the bridge and the "sillet". The frets' position on the neck was done to divide this distance-interval in 12 parts. By putting the bridge on rails to modified this distance-interval, the proportions are modified and generate new scales: I have 2 scales one after the other: octave divided by quasi 9 tones and octave divided by quasi 8 tones. In the future I would like to put also the mic on rails to have more room to move the bridge. It will give a bigger distance to change the scale's ratio from micro-interval to macro-interval (if they are some handy[wo]man interested to do it, please contact me at centre_bombe@hotmail.com). On the right side of the bridge I have 6 strings' lyre sounding like a steel drum. On the left side of the bridge when I turn off the left mic I get sounds like a Gamelan. I can mute the right lyre-resonator strings and get a strange unknown string instrument. The tenses of the strings are soft, this gives me the possibility to modulate the timbre and the pitch like the usual portamento. The bass strings are very low tuning and the high strings very high, that make the range very larger than normal guitar. I use a keyboard amplifier rather than guitar amplifier because of the larger range.

"Les Explorations St Ethiques" means The Holy Ethics Explorations and there is a play of words with "St Ethiques" it sounds like "Synthetique" synthetic. This title says that we can make music beyond our western music theory.

§. 4th occupation in 3 works

10:36

§. La faim de l'Humain, la panse de la faim, l'agonie de la fin. [the hunger of the Human, the paunch of the hunger, the agony of the end.]

7:56

§. ballade quelque part dehors

4:05

§. Serious parenthesis

0:25

§. Song # 47

5:07

§. Song # 48 a & b

7:10

§. trompette et guitare aux pieds

7:35

§. Song # 49

3:23

§. 1rst occupation in 6 works

30:40

§. 2de occupation in 3 works

15:04

total time 1:34:58

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"After Derek Bailey and Fred Frith, here is the next generation of guitar 's explorator: Mathius Shadow-Sky. Is it still jazz music? Shadow-Sky cross the limit of what we consider music. We can listen his performance at the Jazz Club de l'Odeon around 10 pm. Don't miss this important step in our jazz history." Denis Mercier, Pariscop

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