Or if you don't have a giga-rackett, you could replace that part with a pneumatic drill or something like that. I guess you'd need to box it in like an organ to get dynamics, though. Seriously, I like the music. Really nice contra playing.
i can't help it. but it kinda sounds like a harley driving by every now and then. But still, i really love the atmosphere and the profoundness of the composition.
Some parts (especially in the beginning) actually sounds kinda nice. Probably I'm gonna take inspiration (cough copy cough) from it for some Contrabassoon solos I planning to write.
This just sounds like the background music when the protagonist is walking through a dark forest at night with a dimly lit path calmly comforting his dog while a comically bad-at-his-job villainous henchman is setting up a simple rope trap that the protagonist can deflect without even flinching, approximately 112 metres ahead on the path while the protagonist drones on about his stereotypically somewhat terrible words of comfort that the dog cannot realistically comprehend.
I'm sorta interested in making a gigarakett just because. Do you have a .CAD file for the gigareed and the braces? Do you also have information on how long each segment in between the vent holes have to be? How much pvc, elbow joints, t-joints, and rubber stoppers will you need? And is there anything else you would need to make one of these?
Would the score be available anywhere? By using a small (1 octave) MIDI pedal board triggering a synth module for the gigarackett part, you could do this in real time. I don't know if I could get the smoothness of the contra playing but I would like to try.
If you're talking about the lowest C, I recorded this on a 3D-printed English-horn style low C bell I was trying out. Low C became massively sharp. I probably should have notated it that way, but forgot.
@@pukalo No problem; that was a mistake too (still don't know how I ended up playing that Bb so flat), but I covered it up by notating it that way after the fact.
Yes; I probably should have used free/positional notation for this. I didn't actually notate it beforehand; this was an after-the-fact transcription of me goofing around.
I have fingerings I've worked out to include in the next version of my contrabassoon fingering chart, but don't have them handy at the moment. First of all, as with any woodwind, don't expect perfect quarter-tones; be prepared for dubious intonation, poor and inconsistent tone, and awkward transitions. Within those significant limitations, everything but the bottommost register (below F#1) is technically doable. However, contrabassoonists don't have many opportunities to play "experimental" music, so don't expect anyone to have fingerings memorized.
