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Buzzing Strings/Resonant Beauty (last edited: 2025)

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The project “buzzing strings/Resonant Beauty” is about exploring aesthetic choices related to tone production in string instrument playing, especially violin playing. I wanted to explore possibilities of sound conceptualized as beautiful, and challenge my learned concepts as what qualifies as a ‘beautiful’ tone production, the make and sound of an instrument, and testing biases that have been taught to me through western classical musical pedagogy and canon.

type	research exposition
keywords	violin, resonator
date	30/10/2024
last modified	14/01/2025
status	in progress
share status	public
copyright	Leslee Smucker
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3139245/3139246
external link	www.lesleesmucker.com

References

Smucker, Leslee, “What Is Beauty for You? I Know What It Is for me...Sometimes”, ed. by (Self, 2022)

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