{"id":117,"date":"2012-05-04T02:55:35","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T06:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/?p=117"},"modified":"2017-01-31T19:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:50:26","slug":"the-search-for-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2012\/05\/04\/the-search-for-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"The Search for Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you didn’t know, I play violin. I’ve heard plenty of people far better than me, but if you need a strings guy, I’ll do in a pinch. After a long dry spell, I started playing again as of… last year. Next thing I knew, I loaned out my only violin. It came back, but not being able to play while it was gone was intolerable. So I picked up an electric violin as soon as I possibly could. It’s an entry level NS Design<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 Wav 4 violin<\/a>. It’s electric. So of course I want to do something different. Heck. I want to do something I wouldn’t even imagine doing with an acoustic.<\/p>\n

Figuring out this electric violin thing is already quite a journey. I’m still at the “what-do-I-need-to-make-this-work?” phase. Any week now (before fall, please?), I’ll be plugging my violin into my computer to figure out how I can mangle, stretch, and otherwise distort the sound.<\/p>\n

Tonight, I took a brief look at the electric violin world through the eye of YouTube. First up, Vanessa Mae:
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