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My Fender Mustang + Marshall Amp + I dragged out the whammy bar - AKG D950 mic behind the amp and Zoom H2 in front - dropped the tracks into sonar and panned a bit. I also midi recorded the guitar and used the midi to drive upright bass, albino…
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Please see the blog page for the complete blow-by-blow description of this collaboration with drummer / composer Peter Thoegersen
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1361
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recorded on this day one year ago in geirs hut in porsgrunn norway.
met are: Geir (geir alfsen)Guitar
osckilo (tharek mokbul)guitar
flash harry (mike fife) bass guitar and homemade tambourine
oldrottenhead (jim higgins…
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After Brook drowned.
Ra Byn did everything but rhythm guitar.
He must have been about 12.
Open 9th tuning...
Well, you say that you're lonely
I see that you are
Tell me, where have you been
Life ain't no lay pen
Yeah, you call it a…
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Well tonight we have Mr. Waites in the cellar only for one song but oh what a song it was he sang it for us to celebrate our new single life and to express where our love for Desirea was .......in the Cold Cold Ground......... (They dropped the…
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The other Reg has put his lounge suit on for this one, he's desperate.........and some might say a fool....but is as bigger fool as Reg.............
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I recorded this back in 2009, and shelved it because I wasn't sure I'd done the song justice. Here it is, mistakes and all.
Written by Nick Drake.
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Family reunion - 1977, Lake Texoma. Old fogies and children all gone to bed. Me with my guitar down on the dock. Peggy sings.
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In 1984 George Sluizer, a Dutch director filmed RED DESERT PENITENTIARY in and around Sweetwater, Texas. This is the theme song of the lead character, Danny McMann. I played that role in the movie and wrote the music to the film.
Video at:https…
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My friend Frank Miller did a drum improvisation track at my request - and I then improvised lyrics, vocal, and guitar with a bit of touch up. This was the first track we did together since 1979.
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HE BALLAD OF THEDA NELL Capo 3 Am
Am G
On the shoulder of an eagle where the sparrow builds her nest
Dm Am
Texas town…
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I hijacked Norbert Oldani's excellent piano improvisation and add some guitar to it.
His original is here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5150711/PianoI911.mp3
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I salivated over this $3,500 guitar last night. I had the "expensive guitar room" at Guitar Center to myself so I played and recorded on my zoom H2. Yes, this is guitar p0rn...
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This is an improvisation I did live on ustream - but the audio quality was horrific - fortunately I had recorded everything in Sonar so I used Sony Vegas to make this into something listenable. Since the frame rate was messed up (you can see…
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This is my contribution to the Angie Fights Crime project titled "Sunny Sorta"...." It's 12 songs written by A.F.C. and performed by 12 different artists.
I chose Honky Tonk Prison because I knew it would rock and roll :)
So CRANK IT UP…
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Another one from last nights session down the cellar.........Well it was only a matter of time before Reg had enough of her, she reminded him too much of Desire......now he's gone.......it was goodbye.........
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I had a little time this evening to noodle about so i noodled with the Zep...i've Regged another one another classic i had to take down the cellar and Reg over ....i'm gonna revisit this so class it as a work in progress ....Hope you like it...i do
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Composed by Debussy, arranged by me for
bowed piano
2 hang drums
2 harps
timpani
snare drum
cymbals
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Smile on the inside 101025 ERA s/h
Intro:
When it comes, down to it, only love can hold the answer
When it comes, down to it, only peace can set you free
I like to, smile on the inside, now that, everything’s groovy
I like to, smile…
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Track 11 from These things happen by Tiggy Acworth 2010.
Rhapsody of Blues – Tiggy Acworth 1995
(new key in 2010)
Woooh, weeey, ooh ooo, a la la la la la
Ooh, weeey, ooh ooo, a la la la la…
Sitting here contemplating that which…
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Image from Katerina Art - click on image to view more work by this great graphics artist. If you follow the link you will see that she has dedicated this image to the victims of 9-11. Katerina of course owns all rights to her image and is not…
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Tom came down the cellar this morning so Reg Regged up one of his tunes....... Straight out of the Micro Br i'm still trying to figure it out but it's coming..............
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I bought a thing called an irig for the I pad and an app Amplitude ...i used the onboard mic on the ipad......the song is my version of take it easy baby it's been Regged.... I still have to work out how to mix it .........I did this while sitting…
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22 Memories of 911 is an improvisation in 22 notes per octave tuning on my AXiS49. The AXiS 49 seems to be especially suited to 22 notes per octave.
As for my memory – I remember being at work and someone had set up the TV in the conference…
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Back in December of 2009 I sequenced a number of tracks from Bill (http://alonetone.com/acid ) and didn't release this alternate mix. If you like ambient you may enjoy this. Creative content by Bill, production by me.
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I have loopitus. it's contagious so be careful.
I'm having fun with it. Like puking in the toilet and pretending I'm driving a school bus.
It's fun.......
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possibly a full version for "pronounced : jez-my-us"...really love this band and like this song. It's just very far from the original. An adaptation so to say.
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i think the title says it all.....the easy ones from the Beatles music book........More Regged up beatles but no Elvis he has gone off in a sulk he never did like them and he thinks were doing too much of them.......
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Well we got a rocker this afternoon with Elvis and the £16 guitar down in the cellar while the wife took the kids out to a friends.....hope you like it............i do.....
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL (Lyrics)
It’s an easy ride, yeah that i…
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This tune came about by total chance.
I recorded the Backing track during a spare half an hour one night this week ... Just a Noodle...
Met up with Aaron today by total chance and he was up for recording a vocal on it.
He Free-styled the…
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My first attempt (at least in several years) to write and produce an electronic song.
Perhaps it's a failure, in that I ended up mixing my guitar and bass in pretty loudly, but I'm really happy with it none-the-less.
It's catchy!
Please enjoy…
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Well, I switched the mic to high sensitivity instead of low. It actually sounds as it did when I played it. But looking at the waveform it resembles a sausage. I had to drop the volume 6 Db because it was *way* loud. Clipping tends to make…
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Something the Gritter wrote about the Beatle cover i did rang a bell that turned into an alarm and now it's a song Thanks Sandy The best Cowboys do have Chinese eyes that ain"t no lie.....oh and thank you Pete too.......for actually coming up with it
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Guess who came down the cellar last night Reg and Elvis got up and did this one for him...........
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I'm shipping my canon off so it can have a new career without me.
Its such a happy yet sad occasion to see your instrument leave the nest..... ;-[
so I had to spend just a little more time with it.
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Reg is feeling a bit uneasy about his new love......is she getting too close too quickly......only time will tell....should he stay and feel the love?............
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Another with Johnny this one with a whole lotta love thanks Johnny
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The video is the real show here - an excerpt from Xenharmonic Praxis Concert #2
This is Ruckus from the Quiet Zone in 7-limit Just Intonation composed by Ralph Lewis inspired by a trip we made to the Green Bank Radio Telelscope. The quiet zone…
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The opening track from the 2nd Xenharmonic Praxis Concert, Madonna, il poco dolce, written by Nicola Vicentino (1511-1572)in (31-tone extended meantone)
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Another from Reg and Elvis and the £16 guitar hope you enjoy......................
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Reg had a bit of tiff with the Mrs so he stormed down the cellar to release his anguish with Elvis and turned it into this little beauty .....now he feels a lot better and is making Mrs Reg a nice cup of tea to say sorry....because lets face it…
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I had a couple of hours to day to play around while the wife took the children into town for their new school shoes which signified the end of summer to me . So of course i went down the cellar and got Reg,Bob and the gang to help me write a song…
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A first for me a song done completely on the Boss Micro BR.............Elvis just loves this little thang.....i need some practice with the mastering and mixing .....i wont mention the guitar that's a given.....but i'm quite pleased....it's all…
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here's the lyrics:
Inside a casket, ... broken dreams
six feet under, it starts to leak
six feet over he gets a whiff
assembles the puzzle piece by piece
on salty water a thought is born
sailing regardless of a coming storm
the mast is broken…
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wrote and recorded this one earlier today. drums and keys on juno di and vocals, then geir took it to another level with his guitar additions.
well nothing isn't happening
just the silence burning bright
the shadow casts a resonance
of the echoes…
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Remember the fall of 2008?
it ain't over until the fat lady sings....
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A mashup of microtonally processed music created by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen called imp_08_1 with video and video sound tracks by Chris Vaisvil
Jukka-Pekka's original
http://heliumheal.wippiespace.com/mp3/imp_08_1.mp3
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This is a more jazzy version of "The Devil drives a Volvo". Got help from my brother on the drums on this recording.
Vocals were recorded in a rented mini cooper south in spain :)
lyrics:
The Devil drives a Volvo
and wears a flannel shirt…
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details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1086
Norm, I finally used my china cymbals like... cymbals. :-)
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Another edit from the live megatrack...
http://soundcloud.com/breaking-light/hpt081411
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watched a lot of silly TV a week I had the flu .... the title of this song is inspired from an episode of "How I met your mother" ... the rest of the lyrics are a mashup of silly nonsence and deep philosofical poetry .... yeah right :)
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Love song about strife in relationships....the song needs more work; gotta redo the vocals....nevertheless, I hope you enjoy it. Here are the lyrics:
Beyond the horizon,
The sun burns bright…
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here's the lyrics:
I am looking forward to the day
that I can say
I have finally buildt my home
No more walls to tear down
no more roofs to build
no more pain(t) to vent out
no more drains ....
I want to sit down in the garden
with the lovely…
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Mr. Wildgeas added some drums, strings and sea sounds to my very raw loop piece. Thanks man!
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STEELY DANK DRUM IN THE SUN
AND THE TEMPERATURE IS GETTING HOTTER
GETTING HOTTER AND HOTTER...
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A classical guitar solo recorded via a Zoom H2 under the watchful eye of my cat Belle.
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here's the demented lyrics :)
Spinning the wrong way
Little Tim has left the room
left the lady with the broom
she looks like she has a tail
she most certainly ain’t frail
she has a pointed hat
and carries a black cat
Little Jim has left…
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I do have video of Jacob playing the udderbot with the band - but right now I'm still putting together my gear from storage and this was the best I could do with Windows Live movie maker on my laptop.
So for now - enjoy the sound of Jacob jamming…
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Other layers may or may not be in the works, but I thought I'd let everyone have a listen so far.
HERE WE ARE TODAY
How can it be so clear
In my mind
The first night you were here
Like going back in time
Sweet as summer wine
Your whisper…
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Is it paranoia or reality? .........only time will tell................there's f^*k all i can do about it..............or is there?
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Well Reg has picked the wrong women again...he really thought he'd got the right one this time in fact he had been bragging to his friends about how good his relationship was........How wrong can a man be?..................
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When nostalgia and regret collide, we get "Bright Lights Shine".....
Lyrics:
Drove six hours, landed in Pittsburgh
Cold and tired, by the Alleghany…
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Hard rock song about losing faith....
Lyrics:
I'M GOING DOWN
Sedate it with barbiturates
Inject it with a needle
Calm this stirring anger
That I always feel
Lord, where are you
You've mocked my every prayer
Everything around…
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Loop idea recorded during gig rehearsal. Room miked so you can hear me stomping on pedals.
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Dark dreams and long stretches of road separated us from our loved ones. We broke hearts and had our hearts handed to us in fragments. Win or lose it, in the soul, love is long.
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Written by Rog Hildreth.
Copyright 2010.
All instruments/production by Rog Hildreth.
Taken from "The Anxiety Bomb".
Video: Filmed in Manchester, 2010/11.
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What You Forgot is an electronics / percussion piece that uses Absynth and Dimension Pro in two different harmonic series tuning (5 limit and 7 limit). The percussion is provided by Kontakt. The piece was preformed on an AXiS 49 in one pass…
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Hello, I write this from my hospital bed. I went to the Xenharmonic Praxis Summer Camp and came down with a wicked case of the strep throat that started to move into my lungs. at that point I went into the hospital since I nearly died from pneumonia…
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An excerpt from 'Dark Out'.
Download 'Dark Out'.
An Electronic Musik release.
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Found this on my hard drive.
This was the backing for a vocal that never got sung.
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I'm redoing this one even though I just re did it. With more content and absolutely redoing the vocals. Didn't like how they turned out as much as I wanted them too.
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Another rough cut (just to get it together). The lyrics to this little song were written by my father quite some time ago. It's one of my favorite poems, and I hope I do it justice in song.
Pea Pod Magic
How do the pea pods blossom and…
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Taking a lie as truth, taking useless things as large and grand, I unwittingly contributed to the decrease of the common spirit. How to turn back? It seemed no way ...
But now, creating a works of art, no matter how naive they are, I see the…
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Just messin' around with some sound
Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi ambient project.
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12 string improvisation - title came from a person who said I didn't understand "deep blues". That is probably true which is why I got the blues ;-(
Feel free to use this in something if you'd like - just post a link in the comments here so I…
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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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new track for an upcoming xenharmonic/microtonal "pop" album
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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…
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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 Genesis wrote for Nintendo game systems?
wikipedia entry for the song is below.
http://tinyurl.com/23pla6
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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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This is a piece using 2 keyboards, an M-Audio 88es (vocal choir) and Alesis Q49 (brass choir) in 17 notes per octave. The objective was to use some functional xenharmonic chord progressions. I would be interested in knowing if you perceive the…
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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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Ab hai ujaala, ab hai savera
Ab inn hawaon, pe kar loon basera
Ab main zamaane ko humraaz kar loon
Ab aasmaano pe parwaaz kar loon
Iss pal mein, hai mujh ko jeena
Ab mujhko jeena.............
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Hiding April is a programmatic electronic piece that uses the hardware Korg MS2000 and Absynth 5 software synthesizers and orchestra percussion from Garritan Personal Orchestra. At about 4:10 I found an aircraft-ish sound on my Korg which then…
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Reg just doesn't want anyone to know what he did yesterday.........................
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reversion of my erin express song. has a bit of a Blues Me Wicked Number One feel to it :) cheers
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Ye Jo Nazar Aate Hai,Ye Vo To Hai Nahi,
Shi baaa..baaa Dekho Inhe Gaur Se ,Dikhenge Ye Aur Koi,
Zubaaa se o my my..... Kitne pyaare hai,
Dilo Me Yu To Know To Angaare Hai,
Sophistication Inki Swelling Hai,Hypocrisy Me Jite Ye Sare 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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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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My plans are to make this used Epiphone C70CE microtonal - but here it is in "normal" 12 equal tuning. Purchased from Guitar Center for $119.99
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written on facebook originally, hence why it's my minds status
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Tu ru ru..
Inn raahon par, hum kyun chale
Hum jo chale, tum kyun mile
Tum jo mile, woh raahein mili
Dil ne kaha, kya
Kya hai iss gali, kya hai uss gali
Tum udhar chale, main idhar chali, kyun
Kyun na main ruki, kyun na tum thame
Chalte gaye…
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It took a bit of doing and a lot of learning - I've built my first guitar
I have a video of all of the stills I took while making the guitar with some demonstration music.
The music has mistakes - but it is the first time I played it - I spent…
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Reg just had to watch her leave ......it was all his fault......he couldn't blame her.........
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a cover of the robyn hitchcock song vibrating, done for the singer/songwriter festival over at songcrafters.org
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Recorded around a fire while running from the law with my partner in crime.
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I felt inspired today, so I laid down a few tracks on my Micro BR recorder using my Yamaha Keyboard...
A bit of jazz for your relaxation pleasure.
LG
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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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I saw discussion of Bleu tuning on the yahoo tuning groups – all of which were tempered to a pure octave. Embolden by Andrew Heathwaite’s 88 cent guitar I decided to try the tuning without tempering to make the octave pure. So I made a scala…
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Sadly, an unfinished track I recorded about the time I ran out of money. Back when I was writing four or five tunes a day. Played guitars, mandolin, keyboards, and I'm guessing it's my original keyboard drum and bass parts that I did at home…
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry",[1] a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment…
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Year: 1993
Album:
Strange Beauty
Artist's description:
Ok.... this is a song made almost entirely of samples from The Beatles Rubber Soul album digitized by an 8-bit sound blaster from the line out of a portable CD player. It was composed…
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Not the most accessible tuning - 13 edo splits the octave into 13 instead of 12 parts. So everything is guaranteed to sound different. That could be the charm or the problem for you. This piece focuses more on melody than most of mine.
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Hello, I thought I'd upload a track from 1993's Strange Beauty today. It was reviewed by the WMR (Weekly Module Reviews) team (in 1996 I'm guessing.) These reviews were published on "uesnet" about music posts to the same system - Usenet is an…
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I just stood back and listened to Amy, along with everyone else.
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"A Whiff of an Epiphany"
A sharp burst of air
cuts through the fanfare
dries the idealized fantastic madness
and the layer of satirical political sadness
Release my hold on the dream
Melt the nightmare's frozen scream
The sum of it…
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Cosmic Personality
You and I set the night on fire
riding the lightning bullet-train high-wire
we have only one life
we have only one mind
that's not us
that's not our kind
Our love is the one great war to end all wars
The Big Bang's long-lost…
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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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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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They had a piano fight down the cellar last night Reg doesn't understand whats happening with all this violence i mean he's just a hippie at heart.....At least no-one got hurt......They just had fun this time!
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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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This is a composition that was realized by playing a Fender Mustang which has a divided pickup connected to a Roland GR-20 guitar to midi converter / synthesizer. The GR-20 generated piano and saxophone sounds (in two passes) which were re-tuned…
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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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these are the dronishness effects going thru my mind at times..
I have the midi files saved if you would like them? although some of this is performance midi records If I can say that? ;)
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The millionaires are doing just fine, thanks---but the rest of us are barely getting by!!!!
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