Guitarviol

Hugh Doolan

2017_07_23

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My recordings as I learn a bowable guitar.  The guitarviol is an amazing instrument.  Music is a bit scratch but we're getting there!

Learning The Guitarviol

The Christmas break gave me more time to practice on the guitarviol bringing the quality of performance up another level.  This piece is something that popped into my head crossing the Liffey today.  The sky looked angry...


Menaçant

A tribute to Ennio Morricone and Kevin Kiner.  This is part of a soundtrack of a western that was never made.  Quite proud of it.

A mix of dobro, hitting pens against the dobro, beating the dobro with my fist, my vocals (a first) my girlfriend's ukulele debut and some other nonsense. There are no samples or synths on this.  

A campanion blog: http://brunkard.com/on-film-scoring/

Chain Gang Blues - A Soundtrack To A Western That Never Was

A sequel to GBH kind of.  Thinking of  Serge Gainsbourg's Cannabis soundtrack. 

Actually fell down the rabbit hole properly making this one.   It's quite sad.  Sorry.  I'm very cheerful in real life.

It's a bit of a slow burner but it gets there eventually...  

I'd also like to thank @musicaserj-ii - who very kindly complemented the mood which is something he does more properly truthfully.    So many wonderful sounds up in this cloud...


1967 - Closing Credits

It's a been a while and I've been mute on Soundcloud.  Frankly the response to my last piece blew me away and honestly I put so much into that Elégie it was very hard to do something else.  

In the end I stopped trying to force music and sat down and just played and this came out.  

I just finished getting my studio out of boxes and I've been gigging very heavily at the moment.  My hands are in poor condition as a result, hence the title.  This is the sound of my Guitarviol on it's own.  Some of you asked to hear it solo so here it is.  

This was improvised with in two takes (I took a short break as I'm in agony, sympathies please!).   

I recorded it with two new microphones - a wide diaphragm condenser and a ribbon microphone.  The mix has been astounding in terms of the sound. 


Picture - This was hanging up in Erfurt Cathedral.  Colours are quite vivid in real life considering it's older than most countries.

Broken Hands Improvisation

Thanks for all the support with this track folks.  Help me make more by buying a copy!  https://itunes.apple.com/album/jaspe-ep/id968944444

Every note of this came from a really real instrument.  Mainly my guitarviol and a nylon string guitar.  It's a funny form.  



By the by, it's not a cello or violin folks but a Guitarviol.  Amazing instrument.

About

Hyphenated

Whilst still struggling with learning the skills of fatherhood I'm posting this to let everyone know that I'm still alive and potentially about to get back out my bow, plectrum and pens and interrupt your stream with my usual mix.  

The title In A Glass Darkly, is from a story by Irish author John Sheridan LeFanu.  The image is of St Michan's in Dublin.  A read-up on both is recommended.  

Strings are from my Guitarviol.

In A Glass Darkly

I'm surrounded by the commemoration of the Easter Rising here in Dublin and it has rubbed off on me.  An Irish rebel song for the day that's in it! 

This is an interesting track as the melody is quite ancient.  I couldn't resist tinkering with the arrangement to get my own mark on it!


The Foggy Dew

This is a concept piece.  I know.  Dirty word.  It's about dreaming of someone when you're a child then meeting them and everything's amazing but then something's a little unsettling and then, of course, everything gets whacky.  

Literary vampires are very much a Dublin invention and this composition is based on my fellow Dub Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's take on costly immortality - Carmilla.   You can read it here for free as it's 154 years old http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10007 

It's guitarviol mainly with some treatments applied to dose up the weird  as required.  I used some ribbon microphones in the room to make the main lines at the start more earthy and homely as though you're in the room with the performance.  Lots of audible breathing, chair squeaks, and even seagulls if you listen closely.


Carmilla

Bendy and the Ink Machine - Gospel of Dismay (Piano Version) DAGames Chapter 2 Song

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Track : Gaslight
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Gaslight

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James Maloney - Gaslight

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Arranged and Performed by David Park

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Starlight (Piano Version)

#1308: Jul. 15, 2017: Loved him then, than she thought possible..
== Photo: The old Japanese house beside Ise Shrine ==
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this makes you feel peaceful.. : )

Regards,
Hitoshi Yasui, chair house, roppongi, tokyo, japan
http://www.chairhouse.club/

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### Today's Creation-Note in google translated English ###

In the everyday everyday time I could see a flow of songs coming down freely like a stream of clouds and winds. Simple, calm and quiet music in a fortunate way. This might be full of Japanese sense. Creation of unique music for the 8 million gods as long as that day. Famous Japanese Manga,"Hikaru no Go" taught me. While creating hundreds and thousands of songs, I want to create "a tune of gods" someday.

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chair house, Best Selection from #1 to #650 of the Dailiy Piano Improvisation project; Piano Ten Thousand Leaves

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STREAMING HUB

Loved Him Then More Than She Thought Possible  - #1308  By Chair House 07152017

I came home from work and picked up the Guitarviol and played this.  I couldn't resist one sneaky over dub but essentially this is simply playing stream of consciousness improvisation.  I haven't even listened to the whole lot of it.  

The microphone is a mile away from the instrument.  As the accompanying balcony photo can attest, it's raining in Dublin today.  Listen closely and you can hear the summer getting washed out into the Liffey.  Meteorological misery.  :)

Practice Inventions No. II

Yes, you read it right! MOAG sang on one of our songs...and made it his own. We hope it won't be the last time. Enjoy.

Lenny (feat. man On a grill)

This is the second song which I have had the great honor of making with Janine Levinson. 

Our first song can be found here:
https://soundcloud.com/dan-lockhart/what-did-she-do-featuring-janine-levinson

You can find her great music here:
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This song is in 3/4 time.  I find this song to be very theatrical in feel.  I think it would feel at home in a musical.  You can find the video here:
https://youtu.be/ZIkKHkWPLxk

Here are the lyrics:
Bee in the Bloom

The wind is a flirt
He’s blowing my skirt
The breeze is a bully kicking the dirt

But nature is cruel 
She’ll make you a fool
Fill you with love
Then clean your clock
Take you to school
Give you a boil
And drown you a little
Then choke you a lot
Sting in the pitch
Bee in the bloom

The wind is a bitch
She don’t give a stitch
Gravity’s cruel
She uses the minutes
As her special fuel
She thinks you’re a sap
She’s made you a fool
A sting in the pitch
A bee in the bloom
A bee in the bloom

You want beauty?
I’ll give you beauty.

Or a brown recluse
And a seven point nine
That swallows your home
Or just think of … time
 (tick tick tick tick tick)

Your heart is a brute
He tightens your suit
A squeeze and a stab and
A knot in your stomach
Are his favorite tools

A bee in the bloom
A bee in the bloom

Bee In The Bloom (Featuring Janine Levinson)

https://open.spotify.com/track/0mQOhNS7GoLASeYH6e5grg

One of my favorite bands of all time is the Swedish electronic duo "The Tough Alliance" and in the electronic genre I would say that they are my absolute favorites. I always nursed a dream of making some music that's at least reminiscing of their sound and now my dream came true, and I didn't even need to do it my self.

My newly acquired friend Jayber.C, an italian musician who makes amazing electro-pop, asked me for a collaboration. Said and done, I sent him the vocals to your dreams and he started to make his interpretation. And I couldn't be more happy with the result, so therefore I present for you "Your Dreams (Jayber.C Summer Remix).

Your dreams (Jayber.C Summer Remix)

All-encompassment

'''NIAGARA''' (SALVADOR NAVARRA).WAV

I read some pretty dark history last night so I've called  this Lament For Mary Connell.  It’s just me on my guitarviol.

I researched her story. Warning, it’s pretty bleak.

In 1882, Mary Connell came from Meath to keep house for a farmer, Nicholas Archbold in Grallagh, north county Dublin.

The newspapers tell of Archbold “seducing” her, he being 20 years her senior. Neighbours and priests compelled him to marry her and he made promises to buy wedding rings in Dublin or Drogheda.

Archbold’s sister did not approve of his intentions and put pressure in him to abandon Mary. She was trying to protect her.  

In any case on Sunday, 18th January, 1885, Archbold sent his labourer Henvey to get bread. When Henvey returned the cottage door was locked.

Henvey fetched Mary’s brother, James Connell and he broke down the door. There was no sign of either Archbold or Mary. They searched the quarters, the kitchen and the dairy.

Mary had quarters in the loft above the kitchen. Henvey mounted the kitchen table and got to the door. 

The dreadful nature of the tragedy was not immediately apparent in the dimly lit room.

The floor was a sea of blood. Archbold’s body lay lifeless by the door. Furniture was scattered and broken and in the corner lay Mary Connell.

Archbold held a blood drenched pocket knife, his neck gaping with a wound from ear to ear. An open razor lay at his feet. Mary had been almost decapitated by it and her broken body bore the wounds of her struggle with Archbold.

Police were summoned from Balbriggan and the next Morning the coroner Davys arrived. The whole area was in total shock. There would be no justice for Mary.

Three days later, Archbold’s body still lay in his house. Any attempt to bury him was met with resistance. From Grallagh, to Westpalstown to Balscadden, Fingallians physically blocked and resisted Nicholas Archbold’s internment guarding cemeteries night and day.

They wanted to burn the house with his body in it rather than have him by their ancestors. In the end a compromise was made and Archbold’s corpse was donated to medical science. 

His evil heart possibly still suspended in formaldehyde on a dusty shelf...

Lament For Mary Connell

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How wonderfully malleable is music? I grew up and live in a country drowning in music of so many sounds. 

I dabble with all sorts of styles and genres but I like to think that it all still sounds like me. 

There's no grand mission for me on Soundcloud beyond finding music that I love and dialoging with other musicians. 

I'm always open to suggestions for collaboration and other adventures.

I don't repost here - not because I'm a miserable person but just because I use this page to sell my wares so to speak. That said I do listen to music on here religiously and I'm very proactive in sharing it around and building links with people that might like the sounds I find appealing. 

I'm working on ways of getting more people from outside Soundcloud plugged in to the wonderful art on display here. I do my bit!

I don't leave comments as link bait or for "karma". I'm very plain spoken so if I comment it's because I have something to say. I use my real name for that reason - my name and my word go together so if you get a compliment or critique its intended as though I gave it face to face.

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If you would like to use the music or commission me to write something new just get in touch with me through here or on my website. I offer free licenses for non-profit ventures with some small conditions and I also excellent rates for profitable ventures! 

Instruments:

Guitars, guitarviol and guitar like things. I use virtual instruments sparingly and keep the focus on real sounds so to speak.

Practice Inventions No. II

Thomas Brunkard