This is a study on using split keyboards and virtual instrument layering for live performance. More information is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1050 if you are into that sort of thing. Also Lucian Freud has died today. I’m using one…

I’ve been looking for the formula and science of my dreams They’ve been following me around and keeping me up at night and sleeping through the day eyes wide and trembling and dreams won’t come, dreams won’t come and then they…

Part of "Black Sun Music" Inspired by the Harry Crosby poem of the same name

Tu aaja tu aaja Mujhko meri saza to suna jaa Wo aahe haa wo aasu Mere hisse ke mujko rula jaa Sapne tere sare, jinme mein rehti thi Tukde banke mere jakm sine mein kar gaye ho Meine mere jaana kyun nehi jaana Ishq tera dard tera aaa…

Johnny Stones fabulous tune was playing on the juke-box in the cellar last night and Robert got up to do his thing but Reg told him to step down and let him have a go.Reg took over proceedings and blew everyone away down the cellar with his take…

Just a fun random little ditty I like to play. Much of the syncopation has been stripped, leaving the basics of the song structure while I have fun sliding down the learning curve of Cakewalk...

Towards the end of the recording/learning session, I should have checked the volume levels on the overdub. Again a much older tune that I have spruced up over the years, the original is much different.

Very much a work in progress. I have not even decided what kind of effects to use and when. Again another 1-shot recording to capture the essence of this rambling piece.

Another one-shot recording with an simple overdub. A much older song I started writing back in the 90's. There is much much more to the song than what is captured here, still getting used to the software... As a side note, I really like the…

new track for an upcoming xenharmonic/microtonal "pop" album

Until I write something better, this is what I want played at my funeral. Also, I want the only words spoken at my funeral to be bar jokes and pickup lines.

Recorded for ImprovFriday - yes I flub some notes badly and that G minor had no right being there!! - that's the danger of a live improvisation, at least at my skill level. The guitar is an Epiphone C70CE classical acoustic with piezo pickup…