Jesta Air competition:Show us your virtual skills in the jesta Air Competition to win a great prize! - An IPOD SHUFFLE to the lucky winner!!
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Previous competition winners We are the East Sussex Electric violin group and for our prize in the Hosepipe competition we chose a visit from violinist and ESTA ambassador, Steve Bingham. He came along to one of our sessions with all of his equipment to give us a recital and workshop. He began by playing us a variety of music that used his looping equpment and electric violin. The first piece was a Telemann Canon where he recorded what he played and then played it back with a one bar delay. It was really strange hearing two violins but only seeing one! He also used his acoustic violin to play us an arrangement of a YES song Owner of a lonely heart which was fantastic! He was constantly shifting around the violin, double and triple stopping and used lots of left hand pizzicato. It was then our turn to play.  We performed a piece called Wizard
Blues that we had been working on. This is a piece that has a
written out melody in three parts, but also has bars where we could
improvise. Steve helped us to develop our improvised solos by giving
us tips and showing us different effects we could use. He then got
us all to stand up (parents and teachers included) and clap the
football rhythm. He split us in to two groups, one of which kept
clapping the rhythm over and over, but the other group started with
a one beat delay. After clapping it four times they then had to add
another beat delay so the two groups were getting further and
further apart. We ended up clapping it over 100 times!Steve then asked us to improvise something from nothing. He got one per  son to start a rhythmic pattern and everyone else had to add
something on top of it, until one person created a melody. It was a
really simple idea but was very effective and something we now do on
a regular basis. Steve's final piece was a performance of "Time
Lapse" by Michael Nyman. This was fantastic as there were so many
different layers that he kept looping onto each other. He had to be
absolutely precise with his timing or the whole piece would fall
apart. At the end Steve let us all have a go on his equipment, which included his looping software, a five string electric violin and a bass violin! The strings on the bass violin were really thick but it sounded amazing, so we have now bought a set of octave strings for one of our violins. Steve was very friendly to all of us and really encouraged our playing. It was such an experience to have an amazing violinist performing to our group and we recommend checking out his website and youtube clips. Written by Ben, David, Josh, Maxim, Nico and Tom.  La Cuacaracha CompetitionThe winner of this competition is David Antonia. Listen to his winning entry here - on the JESTA website! Congratulations! David Antonia's winning entry for Jesta's La Cuacaracha competition. |
Yes that’s right. Brush up your skills, show us your turns - we
want to see your finest Air playing, Air Viola, Air Cello or Air
Bass! Send us a video, (preferably with soundtrack so we know what
you’re miming to!), and let the judges decide your fate!