Extended technique
Extended technique is a term used in music to describe unconventional, unorthodox or "improper" s of singing, or of playing musical instruments.
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Music - Musical instrument
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Examples include:
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- added electronics or MIDI control
- unusual bowing technique: double stops and multiple stops, sul ponticello, sul tasto, Col legno
- breath technique or articulation: multiphonics, tonguing or flutter tonguing, continuous breathing or circular breathing, trumpet half-valve playing, humming while blowing, double buzz, blowing a disengaged mouthpiece or reed, unusual mutes
- Sprechstimme (speech-singing)
- ululation
- prepared piano and prepared guitar
- Unusual harmonics, including multiphonics
- glissandi, tuner glissando
- String microtones (vertical and linear)
- exaggerated tremolo
- exaggerated brass head-shakes
- activating keys or valves without blowing
- tapping or rubbing the soundboard of stringed instruments
- alternate fingerings
- Plucking the strings of the piano.
- composer Sofia Gubaidulina
- vocalist Joan La Barbara
- vocalist Shelley Hirsch
- vocalist and composer Meredith Monk
- vocalist Maja Ratkje
- composer and multireedist Joseph Celli
- pianist and composer David Tudor in his own work and in the prepared piano techniques of Cage and the New York School
- cellist and improviser Frances-Marie Uitti, two bows and curved bows
- violinist, violist and improviser Ernesto Rodrigues, curved bow
- rock flautist Ian Anderson
- composer Robert Erickson
- trombonist Stuart Dempster
- bassist Bertram Turetzky
- rock guitarist Tom Morello
- guitarist Derek Bailey
- classical guitarist ?t?pán Rak
- jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk
- bassist Michael Manring
Well known performers and composers who use a notable amount of extended techniques include:
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