guitar can do it all. its emotive range extends far beyond just the obvious sweet and gentle to stormy and fiery. In between its wooden body holds the power to evoke every feeling from nostalgia to yearning, reverie to regret, sadness to triumph, fear to melancholy.
I love discovering new ways to get different sounds from an acoustic guitar. Using a combination of plucking, hitting the strings, hitting the body of the guitar, using both a violin bow, and a slide, I was picturing looking towards a horizon and imagining what possibilities lie out there.
More experimenting with using the guitar as a drum and as a violin (as well as a guitar of course), this time to build feelings of tension, anxiety, fear, drama. I’ve gone to town with effects, amps, ludicrous distortion and feedback – oh, and spot the places where I”ve played some samples backwards!
