My composition Ediacaran Garden for classical guitar has been selected for performance by Kenji Haba in New York City June 26 2011 as part of the Fifteen Minutes of Fame with Kenji Haba Vox Novus series. A requirement was that the piece not…

download full quality video (157 MB) http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/Dead_Sea.wmv This is a guitar piece in classical style in 17 notes per octave using the 17 version of the phyrgian mode. In normal 12 equal tuning phyrgian mode starts on…

This is a video piece made for the ImprovFriday drone theme event which used my DIY 9 string canon, DIY electrified 8 string psaltery, viola bow, ebow, and fingers. The tuning in unknown – just something I did by ear. Pictures, streamable video…

This is a motet I wrote for theory class slowed down by a factor of 12 and sung by 4 different choirs. A contribution to the ImprovFriday drone fest. And I made a video too.

with video, images by William Shannonhouse

Pictured about is my new 19 note per octave guitar which was used extensively for this piece. For more production information http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=800 The text is from an interview with a Japanese woman after the 3/11/2011 earthquake…

Take me back to ole Virginia Lord, he's pluggin' in a mic. I dig the cheesy Farfisa Rotary patch...... Here's a song to sing a fairy tale no mountain high or oceans to sail no darken nights in the belly of a whale no hammer's throne or red…