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The Electric Bass Revisited: a creative study about the potentialities of the instrument
| Resumo: | This artistic investigation, a work in progress, aims to expand the possibilities of performance and musical creation for the electric bass by developing a proposal for its harmonic use. Organologically classified as melodic, the instrument has tonal and ergonomic characteristics that enhance its use beyond this designation. In this perspective, an increasing number of bass players are looking to use the electric bass as a harmonic instrument, however, the lack of research on this approach hinders its development. Based on an alternative tonal system to consolidated practice, called LCCTO (Russell, 2001) and guided by a research design structured according to the concept of Affordances (Gibson, 1977) and on the theory called Perceptual Learning (Gibson & Pick, 2000), the investigation seeks, through experimentation, (i) the definition of a harmonic vocabulary for the electric bass and (ii) the creation of musical works from this vocabulary. The result of this work is intended to contribute to the construction of a new paradigm for the practice of the instrument, for the academic discussion about it and, consequently, bring pedagogical implications. The results achieved so far point positively to the potential of the electric bass for the development of a, here called, Harmonic Approach to the Electric Bass. The experiments already concluded provided a number of 1153 viable possibilities for playing chords on the instrument, which have been organized in the form of a dictionary, as well as an extensive material resulting from the articulations (simultaneous execution) between these chords and the different scales proposed in the LCCTO. Also included in this material resulting from the experiments, are the ?Creative Applications?, organized in the form of studies and which reflect, through composition, the musical use of the contents already obtained. |
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| Autores principais: | Pizzol, Fausto |
| Outros Autores: | Carvalho, Paulo Vaz de; Dalagna, Gilvano |
| Assunto: | Electric Bass Affordances LCCTO |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | documento de conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Aveiro |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RIA - Repositório Institucional da Universidade de Aveiro |
| Resumo: | This artistic investigation, a work in progress, aims to expand the possibilities of performance and musical creation for the electric bass by developing a proposal for its harmonic use. Organologically classified as melodic, the instrument has tonal and ergonomic characteristics that enhance its use beyond this designation. In this perspective, an increasing number of bass players are looking to use the electric bass as a harmonic instrument, however, the lack of research on this approach hinders its development. Based on an alternative tonal system to consolidated practice, called LCCTO (Russell, 2001) and guided by a research design structured according to the concept of Affordances (Gibson, 1977) and on the theory called Perceptual Learning (Gibson & Pick, 2000), the investigation seeks, through experimentation, (i) the definition of a harmonic vocabulary for the electric bass and (ii) the creation of musical works from this vocabulary. The result of this work is intended to contribute to the construction of a new paradigm for the practice of the instrument, for the academic discussion about it and, consequently, bring pedagogical implications. The results achieved so far point positively to the potential of the electric bass for the development of a, here called, Harmonic Approach to the Electric Bass. The experiments already concluded provided a number of 1153 viable possibilities for playing chords on the instrument, which have been organized in the form of a dictionary, as well as an extensive material resulting from the articulations (simultaneous execution) between these chords and the different scales proposed in the LCCTO. Also included in this material resulting from the experiments, are the ?Creative Applications?, organized in the form of studies and which reflect, through composition, the musical use of the contents already obtained. |
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