..I'd be blue. Google guitar,DL4 delay modeler, soft synths

A work in progress. Featuring Special Guest Robot.

From the album of the same name, 2004. Recorded on 4-track cassette. This album now has its own page at our website - see our profile for the link.

theres always another side to the story

just a few snippets of trouble....

Home made cannon in Just Intonation, cymbals struck by hand and bowed. (I don't own so many cymbals - I made a field recording while walking through the cymbal room at Sam Ash. A most exciting experience actually!) I did buy two cheap cymbals…

http://chrisvaisvil.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/box_harmonics.jpg I used Paul’s Extreme Stretch (PES) to take a hammer dulcimer + violin improvisation and divide it into seven streams based on just intonation relationships to A at 55 Hz…

Worshiping at an abandoned alter... Let my breaths be as long as her legs Let my breaths be as smooth as her back Let my breaths be as cool as her hips Let my heart be as still as her tongue Let my mind be as bright as her skin Let my…

Recorded the 1st guitar and bass and vox staurday. Today, I finished up with a lead guitar track... LG

I used about half of the tones produced in my stop sign video as samples looped in Kontakt and improvised on an 88 key controller in 17 equal notes per octave. Not something you'd listen to for enjoyment.

So I'm back at Caffe Lena on Thursday night gearing up for my two songs and a band called "Driftwood" takes the stage (banjo, acoustic guitar, fiddle) and blows everyone away. Kinda gets me thinking... And writing... "Driftwood" Coming down…

Hammer Dulcimer in Harmonic Series Tuning, processed into 7 streams. Field recording, processed. Details here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=911

Prog rock instromental with Marios Marcou on clarinet.

Fulfilling a request by Acid The video is the whole point / show here. Please put into the comment section what you think the occupants of the car you see at 1:00 where thinking. Or alternately the kid on the bike at 1:20.

a totally spontaneous improvisation Debbie and I made with the violin and hammer dulcimer tuned to harmonic series starting at G.

One could use this to compare the changes I made to accommodate the change in tuning because this is the Centaur tuned piece but I changed the master tuning back to "standard" 12 equal.

Well, I should give some background. Sometimes, for me, the difference in tunings are hard to discern - I don't have perfect or even good relative pitch discrimination. So I can get fooled. The Prelude for a Centaur tuned piano was actually composed…

Here is another one with vocals. I had completely forgotten about this and hearing it brought back the visceral thrill of making music with a group. Of course I have a ringing in my ears to remind me of those days. The only problem with this…

Together with a few guitaresque pieces (some are presented here, "Lettres 'D Amour" or "Mar Adentro" for example), this one was my "swan song" in already so distant 2009. ~Sign Of Hope~

there's a story to the story of the fuzzy years of my life. Unfinished song, just one progression looped really so far with words to the story. it's "always the top of the street somewhere" was a phrase we used to describe how no matter what…

The art of small talk; wordless.

This is a recording of Norm and me playing together a few months ago. I didnt have any percussion instruments so Norm was on a Roland electric trap set and I had a cello. I looped some of the stuff we did that night, and retrofitted the rest…

~timeless~ Rhythms of modern life, which comes from the environment and force us to follow, are often (let say, always) does not correspond to our inner rhythms. First, we do not have time to stop, think, or simply do nothing. Then when we…

ACTiVE Yodi first single beat by lightskincieted

Still smokin . . .

Bought a new bass guitar and wanted to try it out, so made this last night. Gotta say the bass parts were easy, the guitar took ages to get right though. Now my fingers are sore.

Acoustic improv. Top 3 pairs of strings tuned a 4th apart on 11 string guitar. And a touch of synth.

it's deafening to walk around to walk around with no sound it's calm before the storm they say but I still hear you cursing your style and you way and were waiting waiting waiting for the wayward song to begin waiting waiting for the wayward…

A cover of one of my favorite Manchester Orchestra songs.

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…

"The Speechless Full Moon Comes Out Now" (2011)

mostly, words, if you can believe that

JI guitar Fretless Bass Drums from Sonar This is replacing the "up way too late" version

The audio uses all of the audio from that night I bowed the stop sign processed and not.

I went out during cover of night (to avoid looking like a total crackpot) with a violin bow & Zoom H2 digital recorder and bowed various things in the neighborhood. This is the best - a beautifully resonant 4-way stop sign.

Finally one with Julia our vocalist. I believe she (or she and Chris) wrote the lyrics. This is a later incarnation of Julia with a somewhat different affectation than earlier Prozac. I think the melody and the words greatly enhance the depth…

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…

after a few listens and a good naan bread pizza I feel tripped out listening to this :-)

Jeff has passed over the rainbow bridge today as I held him. We went out back one last time for a few minutes until the sun came back out and it was too hot. He enjoyed that. The last thing he did was put his paw on my hand and left it there…

don't choke on your pride you're a cynic you're a liar you're a counterfeit a cheat i can see it you can feel it because you're buckling underneath your vanity there's an orphan there's an addict there's a cigarette a thief you are…

This man I knew too well This man I know is gone This man I see lying here This man who died in my arms I can't explain to you His dark voice It had a lot of power It held a lot of pain He made sure you heard He made sure you listened You feared…

You're so sweet... you're so ****ing sweet unused Passager track

The story of how I did this is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=871 goodnight.

A bit of Gritter a bit of glam.

Reg is willing to do anything to cure himself of his addiction to alcohol and when he hears that they are restarting the experiments with LSD to help cure alcoholism he has to find out more. Through internet research Reg finds out that the experiments…