How do you play TIG?

The Immersive Guitar is played and listened to from the inside. In a sense, the guitar has been turned inside out with the strings inside the body of the guitar above the performer’s head, reached by standing on a platform. The six individual strings are tuned one octave below a guitar, with the top E replaced by a low D, one tone beneath the normal lowest note. Despite the absence of a fretboard, the instrument can produce a 3-octave-plus pitch range using harmonics, plucked open notes, pizzicato plucked notes with pinch stopping and/or a bottle slide. TIG’s strings can be plucked, bowed, hit or flicked with the hands, sticks or a credit card  as a plectrum and the body of the instrument and its soundboxes offer a large repertoire of percussive sounds. Strumming TIG is tempting, but not effective, however playing multiple strings at once, with multiple players and various techniques opens up new sound worlds.