Wonderful explanation, wonderful playing, wonderful shoes. You can tell a ton of work and planning went on making this as clear and concise as possible! This is how every RU-vid video should be.
"Composing for harp". Thank you greatly for the wonderful website you & Sabien Canton have created for composers learning to write for the harp. It's been so very helpful.
hmm seriously... can you actually sit down & listen to this? No reflection on any of the musicians involved but this just sounds like a bunch of randomdiscordant noises - the orchestra tuning up! "Its music, Jim ... but not as we know it" Reminds me of my daughter when she 3 yrs old banging on her toy xylophone . No criticism of you Ms Overlach just the nonsense written by the composer.
Harmonics have a rather small role in performance, but they have a huge role in tuning, or achieving "your sound". I'd be very interested to hear if you tune by ear, or use a tuner, or perhaps both. You may very well stretch certain intervals, disregarding the tuner, and deliberately tuning certain intervals sharp or flat. You might re-tune if a tune is in a certain key. Very interested to hear.
So useful, I just owe you for bars 99 and 100 of my arrangement of Corea's Crystal Silence, had a very short knowledge of the bisbigliando sound! Great videos!
Also, harmonics sound the best with the flat pedal. With natural they sometimes work and with sharp they almost never work. You can check out Debussy's sonata for flute, viola and harp. While harp is playing harmonics, viola and flute has sharps in the key signature but harp has flats.
