I was recently poring over a mailing list from the International Society of Bassists, attempting to locate an actual double bass faculty member with actual working contact information. My task: find out if there’s a bass instructor, get his/her email address,...
Several people at the 2009 International Society of Bassists Convention remarked to me that their all-time favorite video on the blog was the “Duets” video featuring a bassist wearing, off all things, a Santa hat (!), and demonstrating quite an innovative...
A recent post from Michael Hovnanian (Chicago Symphony, DePaul University, Discordia Music, and a Contrabass Conversations guest as well) reminded me of a post I wrote a while back called The Babbling Conductor. I wonder if the conductor I referenced (albeit in a...
Double bassist Christian Buchholz has compiled a great set of photos featuring double bassist Guy Tuneh (also a former Contrabass Conversations interview guest). I put together the following video featuring some of these photos, with excerpts from Guy Tuneh’s...
From Wired–Clay, the photographer in this video, has an energy that I really like and a great D.I.Y. spirit:
