Category: music

Church Organ

I was practising double stops when I realized it sounded much like a church organ, so I recorded it together with a church mass footage.

I may employ this technique later on for some sacred composition of sorts. In a similar fashion Liszt reproduced the church bells ringing on his Vexilla Regis Prodeunt.

There are a few mistakes on this performance but to my defense, I add that I did not use any additional pressure on the bow other than the usual for a single string (unlike the usual practise for double stops), because I wanted to produce the most pure tone from each string. I believe I achieved my goal at about 1 min from the start.

Images from Eucaristia Dominical in Igreja de Nª Srª dos Remédios in Lamego, Portugal, Feb 20, 2022.

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This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.

Edgar Allan Poe

No more than any other talent, is that for music susceptible of complete enjoyment, where there is no second party to appreciate its exercise. And it is only in common with other talents that it produces effects which may be fully enjoyed in solitude.

Edgar Allan Poe, in The Island of the Fay

Birds singing

I tried to reproduce birds singing with the violin.

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The video source is here.
This recording is kept for historical reasons since it is not recent and I am practising & improving everyday. It is about the development process, not the actual technique.