Double bassist Dean Ferrell is a performer that youve got to see to believe. Putting a label on what Dean does in simply impossiblethe best I can do is to call his performances historically informed alternate tuning performance art.
Dean did an hour-long performance at the 2007 ISB Convention featuring music from Captain Tobias Hume. This years performance is titled Ode to Per Questa. Enough saidcheck it out (approx. 45 minutes):
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I have another half-dozen or so videos of Dean that I recorded on another occasion during this past convention, and Ill be putting them out over the next few weeks as well.
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