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to our interdisciplinary photo page! From time to time, we will
post new photos of the Arianna Quartet giving lectures and demonostrations
in other departments at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and
in the public schools. |
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Here,
Rebecca demonstrates how shortening and lengthening the string
with the left hand effects our point of contact with the right
hand, both in the bow and with pizzicato. Increasing the
resonance of any string instrument is largely dependent on increasing
one´s awareness of the physics of the instrument. We must
be aware of gravity, tension, elasticity, pressure, speed, weight,
and the angle of the bow if we hope to get the string to “spin”. This
is very exciting stuff!! |
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| On
a recent visit to the physics department at UM-St. Louis, we
talked with physics students about the resonance and vibration
patterns found in string instrument playing. We were accompanied
by equipment that analyzed our sounds as we performed, and projected
the data on a screen behind us! |
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| Another
interdisciplinary project that is of interest to the Arianna Quartet
is the exploration of links between the visual and performing arts. To
explore this relationship, we visited an art class three times, rehearsing
and performing Arnold Schoenberg´s expressionist Second String Quartet
for the same group of students as they drew and sketched. The
idea was for the students to draw and sketch in the expressionist
style, and to experience the music as they worked. The four renderings
of the ASQ below are from this project. |
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