Fernando Grillo, microtonal contrabassist

Hello all,

This one is worth a cross-posting to several lists:

I've been told by a couple of colleagues about Fernando
Grillo, a microtonal contrabassist and composer whom I hope
I get a chance to meet while in Italy.

Check out the terrific mp3 "samples" of his CD _fluvine_,
at the bottom of this webpage:
<http://www.ampersound.com/GRILLO.HTM>.

My review: "uno" has a wide variety of sounds and motives,
"due" is indescribably beautiful, "tre" is a weird and
simply amazing sonic experience (love those motorcycle
imitations!), and "quatro" is more reflective and again
has more variety than the middle pieces. It strikes me
as being sort of like a symphony, with "uno" and "quatro"
the "big" bookend movements, "due" the slow pretty one,
and "tre" the more wild scherzo-type movement.

Grillo has incredible mastery of playing harmonics.
So much of _fluvine_ is tuned in the harmonic subset
of low-integer JI... I think... any experts out there on
contrabass harmonics and acoustics?

love / peace / harmony ...

-monz
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Monz!
Another italian double bass (which if you think about it, is really
more like a bass oud than a bass violin) is Stefano Scodanibbio who has
worked with Terry Riley and have seen them live and was really impressed
with his playing. His own solo recording Voyage that never ends , does
not do him justice and often his playing with terry seems to degenerate
with terry stepping all over him as if everyone is supposed to just
follow him.

monz wrote:

> Grillo has incredible mastery of playing harmonics.
> So much of _fluvine_ is tuned in the harmonic subset
> of low-integer JI... I think... any experts out there on
> contrabass harmonics and acoustics?

-- Kraig Grady
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--- In tuning@y..., Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:
> Monz!
> Another italian double bass (which if you think about it, is
really
> more like a bass oud than a bass violin) is Stefano Scodanibbio who
has
> worked with Terry Riley and have seen them live and was really
impressed
> with his playing.

He can be heard
here:http://www.epitonic.com/artists/stefanoscodanibbio.html

--- In tuning@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_26662.html#26662

>
> Check out the terrific mp3 "samples" of his CD _fluvine_,
> at the bottom of this webpage:
> <http://www.ampersound.com/GRILLO.HTM>.
>
> My review: "uno" has a wide variety of sounds and motives,
> "due" is indescribably beautiful, "tre" is a weird and
> simply amazing sonic experience (love those motorcycle
> imitations!), and "quatro" is more reflective and again
> has more variety than the middle pieces. It strikes me
> as being sort of like a symphony, with "uno" and "quatro"
> the "big" bookend movements, "due" the slow pretty one,
> and "tre" the more wild scherzo-type movement.
>
> Grillo has incredible mastery of playing harmonics.
> So much of _fluvine_ is tuned in the harmonic subset
> of low-integer JI... I think... any experts out there on
> contrabass harmonics and acoustics?
>

"Tre" is, without a doubt, the most surprising... I don't even know
how he can make that sound so evenly... I've heard bass players do
this, but never so smooth...

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Joseph Pehrson

--- In tuning@y..., "John Starrett" <jstarret@c...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_26662.html#26669

> --- In tuning@y..., Kraig Grady <kraiggrady@a...> wrote:
> > Monz!
> > Another italian double bass (which if you think about it, is
> really
> > more like a bass oud than a bass violin) is Stefano Scodanibbio
who
> has
> > worked with Terry Riley and have seen them live and was really
> impressed
> > with his playing.
>
> He can be heard
> here:http://www.epitonic.com/artists/stefanoscodanibbio.html

Of course, the example on this page is of *much* more "traditional"
playing than the cat that Monzo was featuring....

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Joseph Pehrson