Christian Pincock - September 28, 2014
I will be performing four new pieces on valve trombone and an instrument I’ve developed from a 13-note electric organ pedalboard. Routed through a micro controller and MAX/MSP graphical programming environment, the pedals control sounds and trigger clips in Ableton Live in a variety of ways. I added additional buttons on the top for functionality and extended the length of the pedals so I can use some “toe-heel” techniques used by organists. In addition, an accelerometer attached to the end of my trombone allows up/down and side to side movements to control aspects of the generated sounds including volume and timbre.
For the open session which follows, I will invite musicians to explore some of the musical concepts from the conducted improv sign language I use in my other music projects.