Gisbert Schürig's Blog News (29)

Since I´ve fallen in love with the tension of polyrhythmic ambiguity I was looking forward to performing my compositions from the"Fake African Memories" with more than one drummer/percussionist. I am happy that this has finally happened and turned out to be just as great as I imagined it to be.



This version of Mascara is taken from the first rehearsal with Peter Halves on percussion and Florian Dietz on drums, it´s the first time the two play together. I wanted the rhythmic feel to… Continue

This is a short sketch for a choir version of my composition Gogokokoroko, part of the Fake African… Continue

Here you see me trying different techniques for the 4-5 voices of the choir-version of Mascara. I´m playing around with different combinations of kargyraa, khöömi and jodeling.



The score for this version can be found here:…



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This is a demo version of my composition Mascara, that is also part of the Fake African Memories. Just like the other tunes belonging to this

category, I am also working on a choir version of this tune, replacing

the guitar accompaniment with jodeling. This is the first try:…



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I did some Scores of my compositions with the Tuxguitar Editor:

http://community.tuxguitar.com.ar/user/Gisbert/

This editor is not specialized on writing vocal music and overtone singing,
but it´s open source and I think the results are ok. If you have
suggestions for a better suited editor or thoughts on the scores, please
comment.

Jens Mügge helped me with embedding videos here, so here are two demo versions of Transit(thanks Jens!):…





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I decided to continue this blog on my music here:

http://gisberts.blogspot.com

Deutsche Version:
http://gisbertschuerigs.blogspot.com/

The reason is the possibility to embed videos and that overtone singing is only one part of my music.
Videos and blog post of interest to the overtone crowd will also be posted here - hopefully.

Here you find a video of me working on new… Continue

I´m currently working on a combination of overtone singing and central african polyphony. I discovered Pygmy music on a CD my brother gave me and where it is combined with works of György Ligeti and Steve Reich. What fascinates me is the high complexity of rythm - the voices seem so free, so independend, still they are connected. And secondly the collective nature of this music, the co-existence of many interdependent(does this word exist?) voices.



I bought "African Polyphony &… Continue