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Mia Asano (born November 12, 1999) is an American violinist and electric violinist from Denver, Colorado.Her classically trained performance career as a violinist and electric violinist has led her to record and tour with ensembles specializing in contemporary classical music and hybrid orchestral works.
Dr. Draw often plays with his band composed of a guitarist, an electronic keyboardist, an electric harpist, an electric cellist, a rock bassist, and a drummer. Performing in many parts of the world led him to develop a musical style which blends elements of classical violin, jazz-rock fusion, folk and pop.
This is a list of violinists notable for their work with electric violin This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Acoustic violins may be used with an add-on piezoelectric bridge or body pickup, or a magnetic pickup attached to the fingerboard end. Alternatively, an electrodynamic pickup can be installed under an acoustic violin's fingerboard avoiding interference with any tone-producing parts of the violin, and therefore keeping its acoustic resonances and tone intact.
Ed Alleyne-Johnson (born 1959) is a British electric violinist and busker.He has been busking since he was a Fine Art student at Oxford University in the early 1980s. He uses an electric violin he carved with a kitchen knife, [1] a custom pedalboard and portable amplifier.
Jazz violin is the use of the violin or electric violin to improvise solo lines. Early jazz violinists included: Eddie South, who played violin with Jimmy Wade's Dixielanders in Chicago; Stuff Smith; and Claude "Fiddler" Williams. Joe Venuti was popular for his work with guitarist Eddie Lang during the 1920s.
The Dharma at Big Sur is a composition for solo electric violin and orchestra by the American composer John Adams.The piece calls for some instruments (harps, piano, samplers) to use just intonation, a tuning system in which intervals sound pure, rather than equal temperament, the common Western tuning system in which all intervals except the octave are slightly impure.