Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Chris Moran wrote:

Just start breathing into the flute with all fingers down, get to pitch, sustain it for as long as comfortable and decay it as gently as you can -- not (much) longer than 10 seconds, if that.

OK,
1) get to pitch (I assume you mean to crescendo) - about 5 seconds
2) sustain it for as long as comfortable - about 4 seconds
3) decay gently - another 5 seconds


I'm having difficulty getting it down to 10 seconds. 14 seconds is about the shortest I can get it without it feeling rushed, at least for a crescendo, sustain, decay sort of thing.

Edit --- Here's what I got, still more than 10 seconds, but is it OK? http://www.4shared.com/file/256009814/b … nline.html


Also, I know you're trying to keep this simple so the project is more feasible, but I think you might get more interesting results if you allow for some creativity, ie, longer tones, different dynamic variations, whatever that pulsing breath is called, flutter tonguing, etc... That should give you some real fodder for layering and looping.

Last edited by radi0gnome (2010-04-03 09:03:22)

I really need to get at least one hundred RO from 100 people to make this thing "work."

Email for contributions will be posted soon.

If I can get everyone's performing name onto the CD card, I will. So please send me your performing name as you want it appear on the card -- if I can make that happen. Otherwise the artist is just going to be listed as Shakuhachi Forum with no further detail.

Hey thats a nice projekt, are a 2.0 also welcome?

Chris Moran wrote:

The whole thing may be dissonance.

...'may' be?

Well, now you have upped the anty (sp?).  First it was minimalist, now conceptual.  I'm in.

Jon wrote:

out of all my flutes i don't have a 1.8 right now. my jiari is waiting for me to do some urushi work on it.

No excuses for shakuhachi maker!

1. Find a bamboo pole

2. Cut to 1.8

3. Cut utaguchi.

4. Blow!

It's all about the RO.

Christopher B. wrote:

Same Problem here, I dont own a 1.8 just a old 55cm flute that is really flat (It plays like a 1.9). I just have 2.0 and 2.3 maybe I can bring the 2.0 down to D

Just play the "C" or "C-ish" Ro on 2.0. Perfect. Don't worry.

A shakuhachi maker has no excuse, though. 1.8 laundry pole alá Watazumi. Sked 40 PVC.

Last edited by Chris Moran (2010-04-07 16:44:04)

Just sent a nice wav file of my jiari 1.8. A nice RO of about 10 seconds.

Deep bow alongside Perry.

Dave

waryr wrote:

Oops! My bad. I sent the wav file before I read the whole outline for the CD.

Still a nice RO Otsu!

Dave

I'm not sure I understand what the problem was. I'm assuming it's that you sent a .wav instead of an mp3.

If that's the case, I think I know why it may have happened. If you use Audacity for the recording, by default it exports recordings as .wav's. If you want to export your recording as an mp3, you have to get the LAME.dll file. For the new Audacity beta it's easy to find the LAME.dll download on the Audacity site. For older versions of Audacity the LAME.dll is hard to find.

And Chris, I'm not sure how close you are to getting 100 submissions, but my guess is that the number of submissions is probably lower than it would be if it was easier to create an Mp3 recording. I found it difficult when I got it working a few years back. The free software of choice seems to be exclusively Audacity, although there may be better software choices that aren't free. The biggest difficulty I ran into was what kind of mic to use. Some work without a pre-amp and others won't. I ended up getting an M-Audio FastTrack device, it's essentially a pre-amp and somehow bypasses your computer sound card. A simpler solution would probably have been to get the right kind of microphone, I'm not sure but I think most USB mics work.

Another possibility that could make things easier for those new to computer recording would be to use your webcam and webcam microphone to make a video recording and then find some software to strip out the audio track.

Yet another possibility would be a portable Mp3 recorder. Even though I got my computer to record using my favorite vocal mic and the M-Audio Fastrack device, my method of choice for recording has been a portable recorder. I went out and purchased a 4 track recorder, but for simple recording many mp3 players have a recorder built-in. With that you should be able to use either the internal mic or a simple computer headset mic.

It sure would be a lot easier to just hit "play/record" on the old cassette player and send the cassette in the mail. Digital media has a lot of advantages, but ease of use isn't one of them.

Done.