keithsandra wrote:Nanohedron, can you give us an example of what you think I might be talking about?
Back to that vid of Conal Ó Gráda that bigsciota provided: there's some pedal point (wrong terminology, maybe?) at 3:10, BGAG, where the Gs are overblown. Of course Conal does this all over - it's something he's noted for - but it's not random by any means, and I think this little BGAG run suggests overblowing's artistic potential nicely. I have never actually heard a universal word for it, unless it's "overblowing". We need something catchier and fresher-sounding than that stodgy word. I propose "spanking". Spank that note.
There was a studio producer who found himself taken aback by a respected trad fluteplayer's sound. Now by our standards, she is as excellent a player as you could ask for, and the producer was well aware of her standing in the broader trad and folk community. Apparently, though, he had never actually heard Irish or Scottish fluteplaying before, and he complained to me, "Why is her playing so quinty?". I didn't know what he meant by "quinty", so we had to get to the bottom of that. Once I realized he was referring to the overtone-rich style of playing, I assured him that, in our vernacular, such a sound was not only traditional, it was very much approved of and sought after, but even so he still wasn't convinced that it wasn't just bad fluteplaying. If your world is limited to knowing only one set of standards, that's how your thinking runs, too.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
