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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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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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watchdog
nervus rex, the dog king,
barking mad in the barking mud,
ex-watchdog turned home-brew technologist,
made the following observations:
ideology is a concave mirror;
there's no such thing as a clerical error;
only sidney poitier…
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A composition for 3 piece jazz band, tenor sax, fretless bass, and drums in 14 equal divisions of the octave and 5/4 time. This was realized using Garritan Jazz and Big Band sample set and Sonar X1.
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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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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…
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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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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.
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a totally spontaneous improvisation Debbie and I made with the violin and hammer dulcimer tuned to harmonic series starting at G.
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Jean Jaques Burnel is one of my bass heroes. This song is the second I recorded with the new Squier bass. I kept the other instruments secondary to show off the bass
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I wanted to see how much "music" I could get out of one chord and four notes. Sorry that it has a sort of cheesy 80s sound at times, but that's when I started playing guitar and it's hard to reprogram your brain. The chord is Bsus2 and the solo…
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Full picture of the guitarron body - it sounded great - nicely deep.
The guitarron is fretless with a very short neck which reminds me of a giant Oud - the wikipedia article will give you an idea of just how huge this thing really is…
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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…
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The time will come and our grand-grand-grandchildren will not know how open and easy we (at least some of us) were. How we was loved, grieve, fought-then-reconciled. ...and again, again.
~vintage synths do not tolerate midi/programming/planning…
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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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A track from the RPM Challenge 2011 album. "Foggy Bottom Stomp" is a straight forward rolling groove that goes well with a brisk walk around the neighborhood.
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playing some guitar to my favorite e.e. cummings poem.
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I like this Ezra Pound poem and wanted to put some music to it.
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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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Ambient video and audio improvisation with my 19 notes per octave guitar, loopstation, Marshall amplifier, Zoom H2 and post-processing.
on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGO0R381HQs
full quality video
http://clones.soonlabel.com/public…
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mixed today with the feeds fed into it the others.
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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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for choir, percussion, piano, hang drum and prisoners.
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a "rehearsal" outtake. Guitar/loops/ebow/iPod synth/cassette recorder.
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Year: 2011
Album:
Voiced Thoughts
Artist's description:
A musical setting for an excerpt of The Book of Frank as written and recited by CA Conrad
The piece uses a rock ensemble of guitar, two bass guitars, 2 pianos, 2 synthesizers…
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added some bass and added some drums took a guitar part out and had lots of fun all around this track.
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green means go
and green grows mean
green glows with a hint of yellow
when your a green kind of fellow
dreaming that your tall and lean
while your eating your pillow
while your bodys feeling like jello
before you wake up soft and mellow
gelatinous…
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Reg was out for a stroll in town and met Jed who was homeless sitting on the pavement with his hat out in front of him. Reg stopped to have a chat with him to see if he could help. Reg expected him to have a sad story but to his surprise he hadn…
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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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Mama
MAMA
My Mama taught me to make my bed.
My Mama taught me to iron my shirt.
My Mama taught me how to put a pillow in a pillow case, to wash and dry the dishese and that
orange doesn't go with red. She said, "That is busy."
(C…
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Reg was flying last night he was on a real high when he bumped into Debussy down in the cellar and they came up with this little beauty...................
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Departing - leave. Do not believe. And don't say words of farewell. All told. Love can't go back...
~Echoes~
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The Regs have decided to have another crack at this Reg classic we hope you will enjoy the new approach ..............
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Marian is my favorite fiddle player after Itzhak Perlman. She and I wrote this song about her feeling of her Dad's presence when she plays and people listen.
MARION'S SONG
A puff of smoke when her violin broke
A look that just said, "I…
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Song from mid ninties, for the Trawler tapes collection. I do plan to make a new version of this when I get around to it.
The YouTube vid is rudimentary
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This tiny, repetitive melody, was really a demo, but i liked so much... that i thought it was done.
I hope you like and/or enjoy.
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Trying to channel some of my favorite pre-Apocalypse music.SOME KIND OF LOVE - capo @ 2 play in Key of C
VERSE 1 - It’s so easy in the middle of the night to fall into SOME KIND OF LOVE.
A boy and a girl can forget the whole world when the…
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After Creation is an entry into the Vox Novus 15 Minutes of Fame competition for flute and marimba duet. Unfortunately the entry was not accepted for performance but undeterred I present to you a performance of the score rendered by Garritan…
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Too much whiskey can warp the thought in the mind and the desert is probably the best place for Reg when he feels like this........................
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It was in the garden of the house of help that Reg walked and tried to decipher his problems .................everything seemed to have a similar beat and it was causing him some confusion.....................
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I thought a microtonal piece almost completely in absynth would be a decent goal. So, I improvised bass, lead, chords, effects in 19 notes per octave against a sequence of drum loops run through effects. Then - just to see the difference I took…
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> First there was Spring Time. Then there was Summer.
> Then there was Autumn.
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> And then there was Winter. Her daddy mowed lawns
> She was a smart little doll
> River loved Winter. His dad was a singer
> But River…
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