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

Theme song for our band.

Sex Sells but I can't give it away.

Taking a vacation for myself.

Theme song for our band.

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.

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…

a little something xenharmonic and sort of groovy and dark. 7/3/2011