Nathan Goheen
NathanGoheen
New York, NY, USA
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I was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas to two high school teachers. I was around 12 when I started playing bass. I moved to New York City, transferring into Manhattan School of Music in September of 2002.
I began studying acoustic bass and became interested in playing jazz. I've been fortunate to have played with masters Bobby Watson, Stephen Scott, Winard Harper, and Logan Richardson. Another performance hi-light was playing the U.S. premier of Michael Gordon's Decasia. I played in other classical music settings as well as everything from rock to singer/songwriter and world music.
In 2013 I began to write and record my 'own' music. I released my first album napago - 777 in 2015. This was followed up by Symbioh: Music for Dance, Blues in Brown, Signs of Summer, Nancy's Hands, Fishers of Men, Live Improvisations, Meditation, and φ. Currently I'm writing and recording music based on the physical nature of sound and the harmonic series.
Nathan Goheen
I was born and raised in Topeka, Kansas to two high school teachers. I was around 12 when I started playing bass. I moved to New York City, transferring into Manhattan School of Music in September of 2002.
I began studying acoustic bass and became interested in playing jazz. I've been fortunate to have played with masters Bobby Watson, Stephen Scott, Winard Harper, and Logan Richardson. Another performance hi-light was playing the U.S. premier of Michael Gordon's Decasia. I played in other classical music settings as well as everything from rock to singer/songwriter and world music.
In 2013 I began to write and record my 'own' music. I released my first album napago - 777 in 2015. This was followed up by Symbioh: Music for Dance, Blues in Brown, Signs of Summer, Nancy's Hands, Fishers of Men, Live Improvisations, Meditation, and φ. Currently I'm writing and recording music based on the physical nature of sound and the harmonic series.
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This composition is a further exploration of the physics of sound.
The most basic representation of sound is a single sine wave. And many different sine waves are all contained within one single 'note'. The amplitude that each sine wave is present at helps inform us what resonator is 'making' the sound. It is one of the ways humans differentiate between a piano, a trombone, and a guitar all playing the exact same pitch.
Mind you the order these sine waves appear is a constant in nature. It's called the harmonic series, and it is present everywhere in the physical world.
What this composition does, then, is it takes 2 base notes and plays with the overtones found in each of them to create both melodic and rhythmic harmonies.
Both the relation in pitch and the timing in the shift from note 1 to note 2 to note 1 to note 2 etc... is roughly A + B is to A as A is to B, or the golden ratio, represented by the Greek letter phi (φ).
The ideas within this composition were influenced by Paul Hindemith, Éliane Radigue, Arvo Pärt, and Brian Eno.
released May 1, 2020
Written, performed, recorded and produced by Nathan Goheen on a Behringer Model D and Yamaha MODX
Mastered by Mike Reina at the Brink -- thejackfields.com
Painting by Anne-Marie Eugene -- www.exploringsoul.commore
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Nancy's Hands
released January 31, 2019
Written, performed, recorded, and produced by Nathan Goheen.
Nathan Goheen -- electric guitar, synth, electric bass, background vocals, mixing.
Featuring:
Antwayn Hopper -- vocals
Paul Wood -- electric guitar
Boris Skalsky -- additional recording
Mastered by Nacor Zuluaga Morelo.more
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