Exposition

Mediating Musical Identity (last edited: 2022)

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Per Anders Nilsson

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A salient feature in all forms of jazz accompaniment since the 30s is the walking bass, which is “a line played pizzicato on a double bass in regular crotches in 4/4 metre, the notes usually moving stepwise or in intervallic patterns not restricted to the main pitches of the harmony”. The most developed virtual instrument of mine is the Walking Machine, which is thoroughly described in my thesis A Field of Possibilities (Nilsson, 2011) as well as in the ICMC 2008 proceedings. There are however a number of predecessors, as well as successors up to a present rendering, which together make up a work story of virtual walking bass instruments. Heard in the rear-view window, despite using quite different technologies, concepts and algoritms, it displays different sameness, variations of a permanence that mediates aesthetic preferences of its inventor and player, in this case within the realm of walking bass accompaniment.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsJazz, electronic music, Walking Bass, Musical Identity, musical and artistic development
date03/06/2019
last modified24/04/2022
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationAcademy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg
copyrightPA Nilsson
licenseAll rights reserved
languageAmerican English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/640915/640916


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