2008/9/24 Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What Gordon is doing is a bit puzzling and I thought it was worth
talking about. What's your problem with that?
Nothing. What do you want to discuss?
Rob
The preluding bit. Gordon's video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/bananamunga
There is about 50 seconds of preluding or toccata-ing before th epiece.
Is Gordon strumming each successive chord of the ground? Anyway: each
solitary strummed chord is followed by (given the recording set-up?)
almost inaudible very fast scale passages played as ligados.
Rob suggests it a kind of jokey thing - which it might be, of course.
But I can't see anything in the presentation or demeanour that suggests
it. Perhaps for one passing moment, the slightly flamboyant hammer-on
(which I misdescribed as an harmonic) might be seen as tongue-in-cheek.
But not obviously so.
Given the context - the laudable one of promoting a CD - it seems a
little strange to have a chunk of rather enigmatic humour before
actually playing the piece.
And jokes often have a point, or point of reference. Is it a parody of
something or someone? Les Buffons is about as basic as is gets as a
tune/ground. It's just a strong little tune. So why would you want to
preamble towards it in so florid a way?
Stuart
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