2004 – Singer-Songwriter/Electric violin. Original songs plus Hendrix, Beatles, Gershwin, Santana. Featuring Victor Wooten, Roy Wooten. All vocals and violins and violas, electric and otherwise, played by Tracy Silverman. (Most of the stuff that sounds like electric guitar is actually electric violin. The only tracks with guitar are “Peace and Quiet” and “Sidewalk Vigil”)
All songs written by Tracy Silverman, From The Gut (ASCAP) except:
3rd Stone From The Sun – Jimi Hendrix, Experience Hendrix, LLC (ASCAP)
Europa – Carlos Santana, Tom Coster, Light Music – c/o wixen music publishing (ASCAP)
But Not For Me – George and Ira Gershwin, wbmusic corp. (ASCAP)
Here Comes The Sun – George Harrison, Harrison Songs, Ltd., c/o Wixen Music Publishing (ASCAP)
Are You Sleeping, Mary Ann – Tracy & Louisa Silverman, From The Gut Music (ASCAP)

Album Personnel:
Jeff Coffin – Flute
Brian Haley – Drums
Mark Polack – Bass
Gyan Riley – Guitar
Alana Rocklin – Upright Bass
Graham Spice – Clarinet
Thea Suits – Recorders
Roy “Futureman” Wooten – Cajon & Bongos
Victor Wooten – Bass

I'd Rather Be Dreaming

3rd Stone From The Sun

If Love Ain't In The Picture

The long awaited holiday CD from Tracy Silverman is now available. May All Good Things… is a collection of holiday classics and seasonal music, reinterpreted on 6-string electric violin. Highlighting Tracy’s unique and groundbreaking instrumental style, this CD also features some of Tracy’s long-time friends and collaborators, including pianist Jim Brickman, Brazilian percussionist Caito Marcondes, flutist Thea Suits and chantreuse Annie Sellick, who sings Tracy’s original composition, “Christmastime is Near”.

Album Personnel:
Tracy Silverman – Electric 6-string violin

Holiday Medley

Christmastime Is Near (Fa La La)

The album’s title work, Between the Kiss and the Chaos, is a chamber version of Silverman’s second concerto for electric violin, performed with the acclaimed Calder Quartet. Each of the piece’s five movements is inspired by iconic masterpieces of visual art. The piece began as music for a puppet opera with dramatic scenes about the creation of iconic artworks, with the score a sort of “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Silverman later orchestrated the music to create his second concerto for electric violin. This album’s electric violin-plus-string quartet version documents the work’s original instrumentation. As for the piece’s title, Silverman writes in the album’s extensive, engaging liner notes: “The title is from a lyric to a song I wrote about 20 years ago… I think it’s a good metaphor for the creative process, this tension between the kiss of inspiration and the compulsive chaos of the artistic struggle within people who are desperately trying to get it right on the canvas. It’s about that need to share an idiosyncratic vision. There is something innately human about the need to tell someone, to share your experience, to get someone else to see the world through your eyes.”

For the album’s companion work, Axis and Orbits, a suite of pieces for electric violin and loop pedal, Silverman explores different ways of using loop pedals, in some cases introducing indeterminacy for the sake of humanizing something inherently repetitious. “By overlapping loops of differing lengths, it’s possible to construct pieces so that there is unpredictability to the way the music unfolds. The harmonies can change in surprising new ways and I have to respond creatively in the moment, just as if I were playing with other musicians.”

Album Personnel:
Tracy Silverman – Electric 6-string violin
Calder Quartet

Mojo Perpetuo

Sacred Geometry

Camshaft

Axis And Orbits

Picasso: Guernica

Van Gogh: The Starry Night

O'Keeffe: Red Poppy

Matisse: La Danse

Michelangelo: David

New composition by electric violinist/composer Tracy Silverman for multiple electric 6-string violins using just intonation and difference (subtraction) tones. Available Oct 16 on iTunes and all digital outlets thanks to dartmusic.com. 
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/resonance-2.3-single/id1048644990
Art by Rachel Kice. @rkice

Resonance 2.3

Lauded by the BBC as “the greatest living exponent of the electric violin”, Tracy Silverman’s groundbreaking work with the 6-string electric violin defies musical boundaries. 

The world's first concert electric violinist,
Silverman was recently named one of 100 distinguished alumni by The Juilliard School. Formerly first violinist with the innovative Turtle Island String Quartet, Silverman premiered a new concerto by legendary composer Terry Riley with the Nashville Symphony at Carnegie Hall on May 12, 2012. 

Silverman has worked with a who's-who of rock, new music, and jazz, including Pulitzer winner John Adams, who composed his electric violin concerto, “The Dharma at Big Sur,” specifically for Tracy, recorded on Nonesuch Records with the BBC Symphony. 

Silverman tours internationally as a soloist with orchestras, with his one-man  performances, and as a collaborator with many other artists and chamber ensembles. Tracy  teaches at  Belmont University  and  Vanderbilt University and lives in Nashville, TN.

www.tracysilverman.com

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