darkpebble-bluewave presents: October Grounds (1-8)

October Grounds, 6, is the 1st of 2 album preview pieces that I am releasing.
I continue to evolve the mosesa instrument line, in this album I use a Cedar plate to filter and pre-amplify the string sounds, but I also use external and virtual pedal effects.
I improvise in what could be called "modern modal music", meaning that I reference each tone and timbre to the base tone of the instrument, but give myself full freedom of choices of tones and colors. 
Let me know how it sounds to you!
Download the full album here, pay as you wish https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/october-grounds-1-8
Enjoy!
Wilhelm Matthies

October Grounds, 6

October Grounds, 8 is the 2nd of two album preview pieces for the album
October Grounds (1-8)

In this piece I used my 8th mosesa. If you compare how the mosesa 8 sounds to the 9the one, you may hear that it has higher pitches, thinner strings and a thinner, lighter character.
As with October Grounds, 6, I mixed external and internal effects to get the sound quality that you hear, it is a semi-acoustic instrument using a thin wood bowl to filter and preamplify the sound quality before being processed. The intent is to have an instrument that is as versatile and as expressive as possible as established world instruments are such as the viola from Western Europe, the Kamnache from the Mid-East and the Erhu from the Far East but offering new sound qualities not heard by those instruments.

Compositionally speaking, this is an improvisation as the other 7 pieces are on the album, and this is the concluding piece, ie. summarizing the themes I used in the other pieces. 

As with “October Grounds,6”, this one is also a “modern modal piece,” meaning I intentionally use the physical and auditory vibrations of the instrument to find dominant tones and then to respond in contrast with sounds that cause expressive tension, but to also use sounds in degrees of concordance to blend towards resolution for expressive tension and release.

Please leave a comment on the track as it means a lot to me to hear how you think/feel about the presented piece. You can download the album, pay or do not pay as you wish here:
https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/october-grounds-1-8

Enjoy!
Wilhelm Matthies
10-21-18

October Grounds, 8

I share music that I have made here solo or in groups. I am bundling my work with some online friends as a project oriented, micro-collective. We are happy to share with you!

https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/

Wilhelm Mattthies, John Daly (aka Tuneind52), Paulo Chagas and Matthias Boss