We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Perplexual Movement No. 1

from Norwegian Wood by Gregg Miner

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Physical CD

    Includes unlimited streaming of Norwegian Wood via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days

      $15 USD or more 

     

  • Full color, fully-illustrated 90-page book on the instruments and tunes: The ultimate in liner notes!
    ships out within 3 days

      $19 USD or more 

     

  • Physical CD and 90-page book

    Includes unlimited streaming of Norwegian Wood via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days

      $25 USD or more 

     

  • PDF of the 90-page book, emailed

      $9 USD or more 

     

about

Performed on Knutsen harp ukulele & harp steel guitar.
This and PM2 below are examples of “abstract music” – i.e: they are not “about” anything, but little experimental “studies.” They made me think of perpetual movement – simple repeating motifs with endings that presumably go on forever. Being a bit weirder than, say, Poulenc’s “Mouvements Perpetuels,” I combined that with “perplexing” to create a more applicable term. Each started out with an unfinished idea on a single instrument. In this case it was something I came up with ages ago on my Dobro in this close tuning. The three sections I remembered virtually verbatim and transferred to this Knutsen 12-course harp steel, then came up with the “clockwork uke” idea. The unique configuration of Knutsen’s seemingly limiting harp steel enables the illusion of multiple instruments with its Hawaiian-style neck, two sub-bass strings and a mere four chimey super-trebles, for this experiment strung in Nylgut to counterpoint the harp uke.

credits

from Norwegian Wood, track released November 25, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Gregg Miner image

Gregg Miner Los Angeles, California

Gregg Miner is a plucked stringed instrument collector, scholar, recording artist and performer, best known for his work with harp guitars. For more, visit his 3 web sites!

contact / help

Contact Gregg Miner

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Gregg Miner, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now