About Cucumbers & Gin
This film takes you inside the studio recording of Cucumbers & Gin, a virtuosic piece for solo violin. We funded the project on Kickstarter, created custom cocktail recipes for our backers, and in the end needed about a metric ton of people and equipment to make the film. It was an incredible experience. Thank you to everyone who worked on, backed, or just watched Cucumbers & Gin.
| Check out our cocktail recipes | Watch Cucumbers & Gin with the score | Watch our goofy Kickstarter video | Read about how we did it |
Download the score
If you want to play this piece, download this little pdf, and tape it together with two copies of page three, so you can turn the page right at the end of the really slow section in the middle. See that rest before measure 55? There. That’s where the page turn is. If you can’t figure out the fingering, take a look at the film to see how Sean did it. If you think I’m a horrible person for writing that double stop or that left-hand pizz, sorry about that. But for now just grab the file, fire up your printer, and resin up your bow.
Thanks to the artists behind the film:
Sean-David Cunningham, Violin
Zach Herchen, Music Recording Engineer
Alan Jeffries, Director, Editor, DP
Michael Feldman, Associate Producer
Dave Yim, Assistant Director
Kate Perkins, 2nd Camera Operator
Gillian Arthur, Production Sound
Ben Horowitz, DIT
Victoria Nece, Layout and Design
Special Thanks:
Special thanks to Wes Clark and Maxine Rockoff who didn’t just back the project, but welcomed the production into their home. We kept them up till midnight while we made a movie, and they were incredible hosts.
Special thanks also to Dennis Clark, Orlando Klass, Jessica Lynn Peck and Victoria Nece for their help inventing, testing and photographing our custom cocktails.
4 comments
Zach Herchen – Cucumbers & Gin says:
Jul 26, 2011
[...] above video is the final result of Kevin’s project. You can read all about the project, watch the video alongside the score using Noteflight, and check out cocktail recipes created for [...]
Alison says:
Jul 28, 2011
“Cucumbers and Gin” is fabulous, and Sean-David, incredible! I look forward to a time when my students can play it. Maybe your cousin, first.
You have created a piece that is enviable in its “invisibility.” At no time are we drawn out of the mood into an awareness of the composition techniques employed.
But since technique doth the piece create, I will mention that your tempo changes work beautifully and those slow down bows that end in tremolo were used to great affect.
And the video recording— artistic, seamless and gorgeous.
Bravo to all parties involved! I hope you’ve toasted often over this one. Keep on cooking…
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Aug 3, 2011
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Daniella Jaeger says:
Nov 6, 2011
Great!!