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The art of chopping (2021)

Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez
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Traditionally, the violin is seen as a melodic solo instrument and on rare occasions it assumes rhythm and harmony as a principal function, as in the case of, for example, a second violin in a string quartet or an orchestra. When I started to play the guitar eight years ago, it fuelled my interest into how I could possibly translate the feeling of being a guitarist or percussionist into that of a fiddle player. Immediately after this I discovered Turtle Island String Quartet, a classical string ensemble specializing in modern styles such as jazz, rock and funk. In their performances they made use of advanced percussive bow techniques, commonly called “chopping” or “chop”. Upon starting my master studies, my main teacher, Christiaan Van Hemert advised me to check fiddler Casey Driessen (1978, Owatonna, Minnesota, United States). He is an American bluegrass fiddler and singer who has performed with many well-known artists such as Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn, Steve Earle, Tim O'Brien and Darol Anger. His use of advanced percussive bow techniques (chop) was outstanding. It made me realize that it was possible to use the violin as a groove-rhythm instrument. ARTISTIC RESEARCH QUESTION How could I expand my knowledge and use of percussive-bowing techniques used by fiddler Casey Driessen through the analysis of his music, and the translation of vocabulary from the flamenco cajón, so that I could incorporate them into my solo compositions and rhythmical improvisations?
typeresearch exposition
date07/12/2017
published01/03/2021
last modified01/03/2021
statuspublished
share statuspublic
affiliationCodarts, University of the Arts
copyright(c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/412175/412176
published inCodarts
portal issueCodarts Artistic Research Reports.
external linkwww.codarts.nl


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412182 ARP - The Art Of Chopping - Pablo Rodriguez (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412187 1st Intervention - Basics_Kick Drum (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412189 1st Intervention - Basics_Slides (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412191 1st Intervention - Basics_Subdivision (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412193 1st Intervention - Basics_Triple Chop (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412195 1st Intervention - Castillo de Castellar - Variations (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412197 1st Intervention - Tanuki Attack exercises (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412199 2nd Intervention - Rhythm glyphs and chop - Partitura completa (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412201 2nd Intervention - Sonor cajon exercises (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412203 2nd Intervention - XSyria exercises (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412205 Tanuki Attack - full score (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412207 Working in a building - full score (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412214 00 - 1st Reference Recording (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412216 01 - Casey Driessen - Interview examples (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412218 02 - Working in a Building- Casey Driessen - SYNC SCORE (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412221 03 - Tanuki Attack - Casey Driessen - SYNC SCORE (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412223 04 - EXERCISES - Basics - Cycle Slant (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412225 05 - EXERCISES - Basics - Triple chop (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412227 06 - EXERCISES - Kick drum & chop (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412232 07 - EXERCISES - Slide exercises (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412234 08 - EXERCISES - Casey Driessen fills & patterns from Tanuki Attack (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412237 09 - EXERCISES - Castillo de Castellar - Chop Variations (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412239 10 - 2nd Reference recording (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412241 11 - 1st Reference Recording (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412244 12 - Udo Demandt Interview - examples (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412247 13 - For Syria - Ruven Ruppik Cajon solo - SYNC SCORE (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412249 14 - Sonor demo - Ruven Ruppik Cajón solo - SYNC SCORE (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412251 15 - Exercises using displacement and rhythm glyphs (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412253 16 - Extended Exercises - Ruven Ruppik patterns and fills - For Syria (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412256 17 - Extended Exercises - Ruven Ruppik patterns and fills - Sonor Demo (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412258 18 - Artistic Outcome - Percussion Solo (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412261 19 Udo Demandt - full Interview (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved
412265 20 Casey Driessen - full interview (c) Pablo Rodriguez Gonzalez All rights reserved

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