Joel plays the intro of Einaudi – I Giorni on his Eigenharp Tau just one day after he got his. Amazing! Really looking forward to see where he’ll be taking the Eigenharp!
Yesterday, I finished the setup of my Eigenharp with microphone, together with an additional dynamic microphone for Nathalie with in-ear monitoring for both. I’m feeding back Nathalie’s voice back into EigenD so that I can hear her and vice-versa.
I was afraid of latency, but it turned out great and the virtual channels of my Metric Halo ULN-2 once again proved invaluable.
It looks like we’re technically set for our first duo Eigenharp gig next Saturday.
It seemed to me that it would be interesting to draw out the whole routing and connection diagram, with all the gear I use. Even though this is quite specific to the capabilities of my Metric Halo audio interface’s virtual channels, I think it might help some people to understand what the possibilities are and how much functionality is gotten out of just a few pieces of gear.
On stage, this presents itself very cleanly with just me with my Eigenharp and Nathalie with a microphone.
If you want more information about this setup or about specific parts of it, let me know. I might be persuaded to record a walkthrough video with commentary about the parts that seem to interest people.
I met up with Nick Batt from SonicState at MusikMesse 2012 and we recorded this 10 minute video about the Eigenharp software improvements since launch, two years ago.
Robin Fairey has posted a series of excellent live recordings of a recital that was performed at Emmanuel College Music Society in Cambridge.
This is my personal favorite:
Chasing Cheese, Uncranked Reel, Starling’s Scorn
The tunes are Chasing Cheese, Uncranked Reel and Starling’s Scorn, all written by Will Bainbridge.
Starling’s Scorn is described by Will as sounding like ‘A small fluffy thing getting very angry’ (at least when playing it through his music notation program). We therefore refer to this tune affectionately as ‘Angry Birds’.
All the recorded audio can be listened to on SoundCloud also:
Fiddle – Tom Furnival
Fiddle – James McNamara
Guitar – Will Bainbridge
Eigenharp – Robin Fairey
