Pamelia Kurstin's Abacus Sequencer!
The amazing Pamelia Kurstin!! Ever since Maf & I saw her pluck & caress the waves of her Theremin 7 years ago in Birmingham with Sebastien Tellier, we've been smitten with her.Here she is at NAMM last year:
I'm excited to share with you this excerpt from her Myspace bulletin board today, which delighted me more than my big bowl of almond milk and strawberry granola...
"....and then... i am sitting at a piano next to my friend dalit and she is playing a piece for me and i realize it is one of my songs... but she changes one of the chords (actually just one of the notes) in it and i tell her... wait! it's THIS chord and she says 'i know but this is how i programmed it ' and then we are looking at some sort of machine
that is like a sequencer but the way that this sequencer works looks very similar to those things that you knit together beads with. i could see which beads in the sequencer should be moved to make the chord the way it was supposed to be.
this would be a wonderful type of music sequencer. it still makes sense in my waking hours!!
ok.. how do i describe this?? well... another way of what it reminds me of is an abacus... (you know those old chinese calculators?)
oh blah.... too much to describe... but anyhooo...
i am still scratching my head over this one!!!"
My analysis? Well i think The beads should be playing as you slide them into place but the pitch bends as you slide the beads on the wire, into place. Not too hard to imagine...This also puts to rest any absolutes about what "pitch" really is.If someone tries to say "I have perfect pitch!! That's wrong!!", you can just slide a bead at them. ha.
I imagine lovely hidden dissonant, oscillating chords, new chords...Abacus + sequencer + Ondes Martenot /Theremin style sequencer....Anybody with me?? Run that through my MF104 & see what happens.....Perhaps it'll also improve my mathematics skills.
Draw me a picture!!
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