Reaching for the utmost limits – Making a process visible with The Hands, the Bow, and the Bass

Johannes Nästesjö

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Can I, by reaching for the utmost limits on my instrument, in dynamically, technically and pitch related ways both find, for me, new contemporary techniques and expand the ways on how to play and perform them on the double bass? Can I, by illuminating, documenting, studying, organizing and re-documenting my musical process, design a toolkit for improvising bassists with contemporary techniques? Can I, in my musical process both act as the first person, i.e. the subjective musician and as the third person, i.e. the objective observer?  If so, can I, as the observer objectively observe and organize the ”discoveries” that I am doing in my daily work as first person. Can I create this tool kit through the limitations that my instrument offers acoustically (the hand, the bow and the bass). And can I through this immerse and widen my musical expressions? - A richer language - more elastic - with more colors.

type	research exposition
keywords	contemporary techniques for the double bass, double bass, improvisation, double bass archive, Soloist, APD studies, RMC alumni
date	11/05/2021
published	22/04/2025
last modified	22/04/2025
status	published
share status	public
copyright	Johannes Nästesjö
license	All rights reserved
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1255329/1255330
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rmc.1255329
published in	Rhythmic Music Conservatory, Copenhagen
portal issue	0. Published Research by Advanced Postgraduate Diploma students
external link	www.nastesjo.com

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