MusicAnd Acoustic Sound Trip #2
TIP-JAM
Turkish handdrums
Reduce your instrumental playing to the elementary level: then, increase your sensitivity for sound quality.
First, answer the next question: What is TIP-music?
Discuss together, if you aren't alone, and refresh your prejudices.
1. Tip-sensitivity for two
Find a very silent place for the next tip-jamming session. All of you take an acoustic surface, like the acoustic guitar soundboard, membranes (drum, daily surfaces).
(Look at The Gallery of Sound Objects and The Gallery of Ethnic Instruments< click)
- SOLO: TIP fast and lightly: use all of your fingers and TOUCH the acoustic vibrating sound membrane (see the Turkish hand drum pictured above).
Explore slowly the whole surface while tipping.
Discover various timbres and rhythms while tipping the surface of the smaller drum.
What is resonating? (e.g. the tambourine pictured with the little rings).
The second player has observed the soloist and starts imitating the tip session of his partner. The other one looks at the act of his friend to check.
- DUET:
Sit down, face-to-face, around the SAME larger hand-drum, and play a tip-DUET.
1. Please don't worry about the time: enjoy the process and evolution of sound and rhythm during your improvisation session.
2. Vary both the tip acts (soft, fast, strong, ...), and try to feel the same groove (tip-tempo).
3. Listen only for TEN seconds to your partner, and try to tip just the same groove.
Concentration and imitation increase your musical sensitivity.
2. Seek for tip friendly surfaces
Search with your group for (other and unusual) tip friendly surfaces: a metal or glass table, the polished hood of a car, a pan, or ... various types of paper.
Note: explore and observe that not all surfaces are musically interesting instruments.
Take a large poster or advertising paper and hold it over your head.
Your partner tips on your "head", and you may listen to the head-music of your friend(s).
Turn and bow the large paper surface to an arch: speak and "sing to heaven". The "heaven" has the ability to communicate with a tip message.
The tips change while changing the sound hollow.
All Rights MusicAnd© P. Timmermans
Reduce your instrumental playing to the elementary level: then, increase your sensitivity for sound quality.
First, answer the next question: What is TIP-music?
Discuss together, if you aren't alone, and refresh your prejudices.
1. Tip-sensitivity for two
Find a very silent place for the next tip-jamming session. All of you take an acoustic surface, like the acoustic guitar soundboard, membranes (drum, daily surfaces).
(Look at The Gallery of Sound Objects and The Gallery of Ethnic Instruments< click)
- SOLO: TIP fast and lightly: use all of your fingers and TOUCH the acoustic vibrating sound membrane (see the Turkish hand drum pictured above).
Explore slowly the whole surface while tipping.
Discover various timbres and rhythms while tipping the surface of the smaller drum.
What is resonating? (e.g. the tambourine pictured with the little rings).
The second player has observed the soloist and starts imitating the tip session of his partner. The other one looks at the act of his friend to check.
- DUET:
Sit down, face-to-face, around the SAME larger hand-drum, and play a tip-DUET.
1. Please don't worry about the time: enjoy the process and evolution of sound and rhythm during your improvisation session.
2. Vary both the tip acts (soft, fast, strong, ...), and try to feel the same groove (tip-tempo).
3. Listen only for TEN seconds to your partner, and try to tip just the same groove.
Concentration and imitation increase your musical sensitivity.
2. Seek for tip friendly surfaces
Search with your group for (other and unusual) tip friendly surfaces: a metal or glass table, the polished hood of a car, a pan, or ... various types of paper.
Note: explore and observe that not all surfaces are musically interesting instruments.
Take a large poster or advertising paper and hold it over your head.
Your partner tips on your "head", and you may listen to the head-music of your friend(s).
Turn and bow the large paper surface to an arch: speak and "sing to heaven". The "heaven" has the ability to communicate with a tip message.
The tips change while changing the sound hollow.
All Rights MusicAnd© P. Timmermans
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