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
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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

Excellent stuff. Thank you for pointing him out. I just finished
writing to a sitar player who studied with Mark Deutsch (string bass
with 29 sympathetic strings), and he has a chart of the tunings of the
sympathetic strings and their relation to the main strings on his
bass: http://www.bazantar.com/instrument.html
There are audio samples of his CD "Fool" also:
http://www.bazantar.com/chart.html

John Starrett