YOUR QUESTION

11/18/2020

Hey Trevor, I've been really enjoying listening to some of your solo bass works lately. I love all of the different techniques and unexpected sounds you manage to get out of your instrument. I've never even heard a prepared contrabass piece before. I love the way you push its voice to its limit! I ended up throwing some of "Pentagram" into Ableton to experiment with and all of the different sounds and eccentricities led to some really interesting discoveries with the just simplest of manipulations.
This got me wondering. Have you ever worked with any electronic musicians or dipped your toes into electro-acoustic music yourself? I'd love to hear it if so! Your playing seems like perfect material for an experimental producer to work with. I'm just imagining all the various textures and sonic intricacies that you could create with this extra set of tools at your disposal. Sounds like a dream.
Anyways, I'm gonna look for some more of that solo work. Hope you're well!

MY ANSWER

I owe a lot of my knowledge about extended technique on the contrabass to Bertram Turetsky, Mark Dresser and Fernando Grillo. I’ve worked with several electronic musicians over the years. If you haven’t yet, check out my duo SpermChurch. I’m playing electric bass, and sometimes it’s impossible to tell who’s doing what, but you might dig it. I’ve also used an array of stomp boxes with contrabass. Probably something I’ll do more of eventually.