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12 string improvisation - vaguely in an eastern Indian mode.
Feel free to use this in something if you'd like - just post a link in the comments here so I can find it.
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12 string improvisation - just a chord progression.
Feel free to use this in something if you'd like - just post a link in the comments here so I can find it.
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a little short story I tried writing but keep failing.
a couple fugups on the words but other than that I like so far
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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…
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If my memory recalls right this one was recorded in 1999 when I first picked up a guitar. It was recorded on a vhs camcorder and then later recorded onto my pc back then. I am on the acoustic doing the rhythm while my friend Sean is on the lead…
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The answer to the question:
What if The Eagles wrote for elevators?
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Instrumental, came out of nowhere off a drum beat and a single riff and now it's psychedelic jam instrumental :)
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Just an instrumental.
more experimenting with different tunings.
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5 string bass
vocal A
vocal B
2 baritone guitar
rhodes piano
session drummer 3
chinese cymbals played and sampled and processed in various ways.
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chai bhi peeni hai, paan bhi khaana hai
yaad mai oski sutta bhi jalana hai
piyar bhi nibhana hai tu milnai dur jaana hai
paidal chal k kiraya bachana hai
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This is a solo classical guitar piece in 12 equal. The recording was produced by playing an Epiphone C70CE through a Marshall amplifier's clean channel with reverberation and recording with a Zoom H2. Minimal post - processing was done to the…
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done back in april and originally intended to become a jemima's kite song but we got sidetracked so for now it stays a solo venture. my inner puppy needs to let it be aired.
Take my hand
And count to ten
And count to ten
Then let go…
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Genre:
Rock/Pop: Hard Rock
Year: 1987
Album:
Modern Clones
Artist's description:
A Fool's Paradise
They say, Hey Look!
The armies are receeding!
Times are changing
Can't you feel it in the air?
Its Just Fool's Paradise…
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Reg was having another conversation with Elvis and Elvis told Reg what his Mama told him...............
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kinda like one of those it's gotta be 100 percent kind of things, not 99 because there's a 50/50 chance of unknown.
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written on facebook originally, hence why it's my minds status
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This is a song I recorded for my wedding. The piano part was a simple progression that I learned from a "learn to play piano" type book. I liked the way it sounded, so I added some string sounds to fill it out.
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Named for my beautiful wife (whose middle name is Brooke), this was a simple piece I did with my brand new, hand carved, Native American flute
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Woodwinds and Harpsichord in John O'Sullivan's Blue JI tuning.
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Kept in the Cellar is a piece for piano, percussion, and processed street signs in 17 edo.
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This is a track from my retrospective album Heptadecaphilia.
Details, online play, PDF that has background on the music, images, and links to videos are to be found here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1007
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Bin chede hi , baje jhan jhana jhan
Dil mein 100 guitar
ude ude hosh khoya khoya dil
aur dikhte , ek ke char
peeke coffee nasha chadhe aur popcorn mare kick
aur stupid si in batoon mein ,baba dil doondhe logic
Don’t stop yourself, come on…
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I just stood back and listened to Amy, along with everyone else.
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I travel the synthesizer (two 5 minute tracks) and cymbal rooms at Guitar Center with my Zoom H2. Since I play in the same key more or less it works more or less. Thank you John Cage.
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Chris sent this track to me earlier today with the request that I add some percussion to it.
I had something different in mind.
After the first take I was afraid to return it to him, fearing that he would convert it to 23 edo or something…
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I generally take my Zoom H2 portable digital recorder with me on my trips to music stores to record myself playing equipment I can’t afford to buy. This is one of today’s recordings. June 24th 2011
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Calling
There ain't no future without a past
all of the promises that just won't last
I don't believe anymore
Just don't believe anymore
One became two in the sin of despair
beyond the moment where there was a care
I can't breath anymore
Just…
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Quiet
Quiet thoughts for quiet fights
Tumbled dry and folded rights
Wrapped up in a candied floss
Shrink-wrap now removed and lost
Curled, crunched into a ball
Out the window, into a wall
Bounce and twist and turn and spin
The truth is beaten…
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Berceuse (means cradle song - or lullaby) by Chopin Op. 57 midi recorded by Ron Lubetsky, M.D. in 1997. And indeed I can tell from the midi file this was a real performance. I ran it through pianoteq in Sonar X1. I hope you enjoy it.
http…
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The berimbau is a Brazilian instrument associated with Capoeira, which is a Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, sports, and music. It was created in Brazil mainly by descendants of African slaves with Brazilian native…
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The island of Cuba was a Spanish possession for almost 400 years (1511-1898). The land-owning elite held social and economic power, supported by slaves, both indigenous and of South American and African descent, until slavery was abolished…
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An improvisation with my wife's Seagull acoustic guitar with Dean Markley soundhole pick up and AKG microphone with mastering.
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Good friends, family, my adorable pet--you all bring a smile to my face!!!
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Everybody who said we'd never last have broken up and here we are, still together!!!
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The millionaires are doing just fine, thanks---but the rest of us are barely getting by!!!!
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I'll lose control but maybe find love instead....
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I dedicated this song to my old friend, Ed Begley, Jr. and to all those who are working to make this a cleaner and better place to live!!!
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Is my future just to be....your ancient history?
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Here's a great way to keep some peace at home!!!
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She was mysterious, gorgeous...and we fell in love immediately...but her parents were against us being together and sent her back to their country, leaving me to search for her forever.
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A couple looks back nostalgically on the magical moment when they first met.
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Your lips are inches away but I've been hurt too badly too recently--and the last thing I want right now is to fall in love!!!
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He overheard a couple breaking up--and it sounded a bit close to home for him...
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They broke up once before and he was miserable--and now that they're back together he wants to keep it that way!!!
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This is one song of mine I hope will some day be played at someone's wedding reception!!!
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I tried to catch some of the defiance, optimism and spirit of being young as told through the voice of someone who no longer is!!!
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Sometimes it's hard to imagine how to make it through a cold and lonely night.
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From the album LIFE IS HARSH IN THE LAND OF GHOSTS THEME PARK. Hand Of Glory is the name of a bar within the theme park...see this album's page on our website for full details [link in profile].
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Hello,
This morning I rendered a Mozart piano sonata. I can see from the midi file that this is a live performance captured from a midi keyboard into a computer. (A live performance doesn't always line up on the bar lines and other such "humanizations…
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Contemporary blues, a new vision of blues music!
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A friend and I, recorded this today. let me know what you think.
Its a Mayday Parade Cover.
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Dialogue taken from a 1959 documentary on rules and why children must obey them. The film was taken from the Prelinger archives at archive.org.
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Got my daughter to help us out on this one, too. She's very shy, but you can hear her a little in here. Apologies for the rambling intro! :)
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This very monumental thing happened in my life, and I had to write a song about it. This one is for Mike, Desmond, Claudia and the rest of my siblings I've yet to meet.
* updated audio 1-10-12
LYRICS:
The craziest thing just happened…
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dedicated to a pretty girl I know... :P
also note there is a meager attempt at video for this song!
Lyrics:
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smile for me, pretty girl
smile for me, please
i'd do anything you want
to get you to acknowledge me
but i breathe…
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One of my early collaborations with Norm.
Down by the riverside
Where all of the fish had died
I threw my faith right in
When I saw it, it was sinking
Oh don’t you go
Don’t you even dare
Don’t run away until you’ve heard…
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i think its evolutionary. let the listener decide.
the orignal title was 'idont want a relationship, i just want to make music with you'
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A favorite style of my wife... like Kris Kristofferson, in a way. Maybe more folk than Outlaw Country...? The song has great meaning for me.
Hope you like it!
Doug
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SIX OCLOCK SHADOWS
At six o'clock the windmill throws it's shadow on the grave
The cattle chew their cud and lowly low above the one we didn't save
The broken body buried there beneath the sod we carried there that day
And tho we hold each…
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The intro here is a fuzzed up guitar harmonic and a harmonica. I'd like to take that idea to another level.
Enjoy!
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Hammer Dulcimer in Harmonic Series Tuning, processed into 7 streams. Field recording, processed. Details here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=911
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From my RPM Challenge 2011 effort. Originally this wasn't an instrumental, but the time pressures of RPM changed that.
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I plugged my Fender Mustang directly into the Zoom H2 and monitored with head phones while sitting on my bed and played around. This is a compressed version of one of the things I did. I've been pretty sick the past few days but I needed to…
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This is a musical setting of Bruce Andrew’s poem “jjj†from his book “Moebius†thanks to PennSound archive.
To create the music I hijacked Norm Harris’ Y Class Steam Locomotive Bell sample and his percussion piece Ilesa and added…
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Flinch
I'm guilty
I took the bait again
And here I am again
Always with the same stupid grin
And I didn't go as planned
Few things do I've learned
From the top I pulled it
but I didn't see how far you'd go
didn't I see you flinch…
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The music in the video is the harmonic series from the lowest E on the piano, 41.2 Hz, and the 16 harmonics above it. No other pitch is allowed. I used Paul Stretch's filtering and compression to accomplish this BUT the piece was not stretched…
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A collection of four improvisations on 19 note per octave electric guitar.
Sucralose
Aspartame
Cyclamate
Saccharin
The title is a play on artificial sweeteners and a collection of songs being a suite.
Per wikipedia "In music, a suite…
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The story of how I did this is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=871
goodnight.
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19 note per equal guitar, loopstation, sonar X1, processing.
Impressions Of Francois-Marie Arouet (De Voltaire) written and read by Ezra Pound
III
To Madame Lullin
You’ll wonder that an old man of eighty
Can go on writing you verses…
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Picture and information here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=859
Line up:
2 tracks (right and left) of hammer dulcimer, fretless bass, and cameo appearances for both fretless guitar and electric psaltery.
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This is a song in two perspectives. It opens with a twinkling theme which moves throughout space. The first perspective is a man who is lost in a world of worry and has delusions of grandeur. He can't possibly get over the death of his father…
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Well last night none other that the headbanger Byron turned up at the cellar well him and Debussey got together and came up with little beauty............
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playing some guitar to my favorite e.e. cummings poem.
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An Italian pop ballad. Mimmo sent me the lyric years ago, and I had almost forgotten the music I wrote for it. :)
Still needs a real sax.
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Lyrics: Domenico Mercurio
Violin: Enrico Nichelatti…
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i did this one for the localfest at www.songcrafters.org. is a cover of the blue nile song over the hillside.
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Ferryman - Vocals (slightly re-imagined lyrics), bass, rhythm guitar
Dave Berry - guitar fills (r&l), lead solo, harmonica.
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written to calm myself after getting frustrated with my girlfriend, lyrics kinda work on different levels as well :
I am not a machine
god make make me a perfect machine
so I can please those from above
who forget about love
I am not a glove…
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SongCrafter's website is running a Psych-Fest, and well it has been too long since anyone has covered Napoleon XIV anyway, so why not? Why not, I ask?
You drove me outta my stinkin' mind, you mangy mutt!!!!
So, ...... well, have a listen
LG
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