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Recorder Research

  • Sound, Design and Acoustics
    • 1. Terminology
    • 2. Sound Production
    • 3. Types, Bores, Sizes
      • 3.1 Recorder types today
    • 4. Pitches and Tuning systems
    • 5. Fingerings
      • 5.1. Cross-fingerings
      • 5.2. Alternative Fingerings
      • 5.3. Keys
      • 5.4. Using hole no.8
      • 5.5. Pitches available playing with one hand only
    • 6. Registers
      • 6.1. Ranges of Registers (synoptical table)
      • 6.2. Extensions of Registers
    • 7. Dynamics
    • 8. Some thoughts on microphones
  • Recordertypes
    • 1. Medieval
    • 2. Renaissance
      • 2.1. Renaissance: conical bore
      • 2.2. Renaissance: cylindrical bore
      • 2.3. Renaissance: with chamfer
    • 3. Baroque
    • 4. 20th and 21st century: new developments
  • Sounds and Techniques
    • 1. Articulation and Blowing
    • 2. Flageolets
    • 3. Fluttertongue
    • 4. Glissando
    • 5. Labium
    • 6. Two or more Recorders, one Player
    • 7. Microintervals
    • 8. Microphones
    • 9. Multiphonics
    • 10. Voice
    • 11. Objets Trouvés
    • 12. Perkussive Effects
    • 13. Preparations and Dismantlings
    • 14. Noisesounds
    • 15. Triller and Tremoli
    • 16. Vibrato
    • 17. Circular Breathing

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16.03.2022: Presentation “Fast nur Luft”

Posted on 13. March 202214. March 2022 Posted in All blog posts, AllgemeinLeave a comment

16.03.2022, 12.00     Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Kleine Zavel 5, 1000 Brussels, Room 070: Presentation “Fast nur Luft” – phd Tomma Wessel, focussing on vibrato techniques, as part of “Research Days of Collective Creation”.

22.02.2022: Presentation „Fast nur Luft“

Posted on 21. February 202214. March 2022 Posted in All blog posts, AllgemeinLeave a comment

22.02.2022, 14.00     Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles, Rue du Chene 17, 1000 Brussels: Presentation “Fast nur Luft” – phd Tomma Wessel, as part of “La journée de la curiosité – la recherche artistique au Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles”

07.05.2021: Lecture „Fast nur Luft – A Portrait of the Recorder“

Posted on 29. April 202114. March 2022 Posted in All blog postsLeave a comment

07.05.2021, 17.30     Tomma Wessel gives a lecture at the Institut für Alte Musik Wien: „Fast nur Luft – A Portrait of the Recorder“, which can be seen via livestream.

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