Tines of Change, by Mark Dresser

Tines of Change

by Mark Dresser

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1.	Prolotine 03:55	buy track
2.	Tynalogue 03:15	buy track
3.	Harmonity 07:36
4.	Melodine 03:49	buy track
5.	Bitonetime 03:20	buy track
6.	Gregoratyne 06:07	buy track
7.	Augmentine 06:48	buy track
8.	Chordone 03:25	buy track
9.	Nakatanitine 07:27	buy track
10.	Tonologue 05:05	buy track
11.	Narratone 05:21	buy track
12.	Epitine 02:10	buy track

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I think of the bass as an orchestra. Its sonic properties offer colors that are beautiful, dimensional, and idiosyncratic. Instrumental augmentation, decades of musical research, and hyper-specific recording techniques offer new musical potentials.

Luthier, engineer and bassist Kent McLagan has been building remarkably strong sounding, affordable basses from sustainable woods for over 20 years. McLagan’s instruments maximize clarity of pitch and power in all the registers with innovative functional design.

Our collaboration began in 2000, when he embedded hand wound magnetic pickups in the fingerboard of my bass, in two specific locations, which amplifies three different pitch segments per string. This new music was first documented on the recordings UNVEIL (CD, Clean Feed 2005) and GUTS: Bass Explorations, Investigations & Explanations (CD/DVD, Kadima Collective 2010).

In 2014 I asked Kent to build me a bass with a removable neck and built in neck pick-ups that would weigh under the 50 pound limit for overweight airline charges. I also proposed an idea for an attachment to the bass that could be bowed and plucked, a set of metal tines, a cross between an African mbira and stroked rods designed by late composer, Robert Erickson, first recorded on Modicana (No Business, LP 2017)

In 2021 on a visit to Denver, Kent showed me a 5-string bass with a low B he had recently completed for himself. It was exceptional in its power and projection. I commissioned him to build me a five string with neck pick-ups and tines that could be strung with either a low B or a high C.

Alexandria Smith recorded and mixed this CD. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Loyola University, New Orleans. I first met Alexandria in 2017 when she was a graduate student at UC SanDiego. I showed her my McLagan bass with the tines and she offered to record me. I knew she as a gifted engineer she would capture the details ofmy performance and this new instrument.

Mark Dresser – December, 2022 Encinitas, CA

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released May 5, 2023

Produced by Mark Dresser and Alexandria Smith
Executive Producer - Kris Davis

Recorded at UC San Diego July 21, 2019 and November 13-14, 2022 Cover design - Ligorano Reese
Back cover photo - Alessandro D’Amico

Tracks 4, 8, 11, 12 performed on the McLagen 5 string bass, (2022)
All others performed on the McLagan 4 string bass (2015)
Track 9 uses a Tatsuya Nakatani bow All music by Mark Dresser, Del Dresser Music /ASCAP

Music Video - Patrick Paxson

Special Thanks:
Carol Del Signore - MVP
Alexandria Smith- Recording, Mixing and Mastering
Jeff Albert - Mastering Assistant
Kent McLagan - Bass Maker, Pick-up design, Tine design
Mark Dresser uses Thomastik Spirocore Strings

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Mark Dresser San Diego, California

Mark Dresser is a Grammy nominated, internationally renowned bassist, improviser, composer, and interdisciplinary collaborator. At the core of his music is an artistic obsession and commitment to expanding the sonic, musical, and expressive possibilities of the contrabass. He has recorded over 150 albums with artists including Anthony Braxton, Tim Berne, Henry Threadgill, John Zorn and others. ... more

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