:: Art of the Bow with François Rabbath ::

If you would like to be contacted when the Art of the Left Hand with François Rabbath DVD is finally completed, please email me from the contact form on this page. As of the end of September much progress has been made on the Art of the Left Hand. Forty-five minutes of interviews and twelve live performances are completely finished. The lecture-demonstrations have been edited, but titles and transitions are left to be done. The biggest hurdle that currently remains is with the animation team. After nine months of work we were finally successful in overcoming the difficulties of getting the biomechanics data to export into the animation program. The animators have now competed the modeling of the three independent objects: François, the bass, and the bow. Now comes the tricky work of making the three objects work together and of refining the subtleties of François’ fingers. We are still not sure how realistic we will be able to make things look given the restrictions of the technology, but once we are able to complete a natural looking trial, then we believe things will go quickly. At this point we hope to have some 50 animated trials including 2 performances of unaccompanied movements of Bach. Please click on the thumbnails below to see images from the work in progress.