Double bassist Leon Bosch (we’ve featured him several times in the past on Contrabass Conversations) performs the Serenata from Suite Andaluza by Pedro Valls with pianist Sung-Suk Kang in the following video:
I know I’ll probably get hate mail for putting up two cat posts in short order, but I can’t help but be amazed watching this cool cat. The duets between Nora and her person are really neat to watch:
My wife doesn’t think this instrument sounds very good (!), but I still think it’s pretty cool: About the Octobass, videographer Patrick Shannahan writes: The 12-foot tall Octobass plays so low, it’s lowest string when played fully open is barely in...
There were several concurrent revelations some years back that inspired me to look deeper into this frequency relationships and such. There were two books, “The Cosmic Octave” by Hans Cousteau and “Nada Brahma” by J.E. Berendt. Around the same time of reading these...
I sit here at campsite 17 in an undisclosed location in northern Minnesota, listening to the August screams of children treating the national forest campground as if it’s a Wisconsin Dells water park. Pity the mergansers, cedar waxwings, the confusing fall warblers,...
