Advancing the science of Digital Sound Modeling... The StringStation allows the entire expressive dynamics of human touch on strings to be the catalyst for any sound imaginable...

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It further introduces intricate and truly amazing 3D resonance factors that reveal an atmospheric, dimensional soundfield never heard before. Fingertips on strings instantly have detailed nuance and dynamics allowing extreme expressiveness in music and sound creation- The StringStations 40-strings are programmed in distinct groups (bass, melody, rhythm, orchestration...) that when captured together with its innovative surround pickup matrix, pulls pure 3D tone resolution that delivers an ultra wide, exceptionally dimensional panorama. It captures in vivid 3D, a 'fractal lattice of interpolations'. The powerful sonic force of its natural string tones further layered with any sound imaginable via digital sound modeling and computer control are the beginning of an extreme level of surround music innovation and communicative music power...

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Computer control allows levels of sound design, editing and programming never before available with stringed instruments. The StringStation computer is strategically interconnected providing every possible configuration of sonic control.

With detailed command over twelve separately processed harmonically interwoven groups of strings, a completely tailorable ultra hi-fi three dimensional surround spectrum is revealed.

 

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WHAT : The Stringstation is a custom 40-string music instrument designed to allow strings to advance future music in Surround Sound.

WHO : Developed by former Passport / Audion recording artist Jim Bartz. Bartz was signed as a guitarist pre-StringStation by Larry Fast of Peter Gabriels band while he was an engineer/producer at one of the midwests premier recording facilities.

WHY : Discoveries in late night recording studios led to the invention of this stringed instrument that could be split into a matrix of separate outputs, allowing the 3D resonance and layering of many different sound colors from one source with the ability to play bass, rhythm, melody and orchestrations simultaneously with just two hands.

WHERE : Somewhere in Seattle.

HOW : The StringStation utilizes every playing technique known to stringed instruments and many new ones evolved from the combination of 3 customized 8-string steel guitars, one 6-string, a 10-string Chapman Stick.

 

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