Yes, as a matter of practicality one performs with volume greater than the actual Fender (headphones to the GR-20, amplification of the Roland GR-20 ) - although I have mixed the "normal" and "new" tunings together and in some cases that sounds nice and fairly unique.

So when you are playing this song on the Fender Mustang, you are hearing it in Sorog tuning, right? But the note that you are playing on the guitar is changed to another pitch by the Roland, so you must have the headset plugged into the Roland output, right?

Vaisvil's response to my question was enlightening: wild stuff! "well, no actually, it is the Roland GR-20 that gets re-tuned. Performing in many tunings with acoustic instruments is problematic and while I've seen a few attempts none of them I could afford. One could de-fret and re-fret a guitar but not only is it time consuming you then have either many guitars or a commitment to one tuning for a good space of time. So.. long story short - musical electronics are making microtonal music practical. Of course this is purely from a western perspective - other cultures have been performing microtonal music for millennial. Or, as a Turkish composer told me - the west is the real microtonal music because its the compromise compared to other cultures."

You actually tune the Fender Mustang to the Sorog tuning, right?

really very beautiful, and rich sounding, a lot of cool musical thoughts making a tapestry of sound,,, very nice,, the percussion underlying this is very interesting... i will be looking to see you guys on a movie track in the future well played

Whew! That's a dandy production right there. Some great changes and that piano is sterling.

I still love it.

Wow, this is...wow.

My goodness, this is tremendous. The sheer scale and talent has me floored. Fantastic!

A great listen - Perfect buildup and rush.

Ha! Epic Vaisvil ax work! I was too ignorant to realize that my headset metronome was getting picked up by the mic at the very end, at which time I was following Vaisvil's excellent suggestion of attempting some microphone/gong manipulation in which the mic was hand held, rotating it about an inch above the face of a simmering 32" gong. Wild stuff!

Quite a trip. Very Nice!

Awesome. Illegal Alien Autopsy

Cool composition - like the last 15 seconds especially.

Oooo, like it! w;-)

Is that live guitar or keys>? yet another good example of the cool variety of music you create, this almost sound like it could be a prelude to something bigger...

it's very good!

very nice as usual!

take me to your leader!!!! well done Chris,, i had a lot of fun listening to this

very nice,, i like the relaxed feeling of "just" playing,, i assume this was improv? it has that feeling of freshness of someone (with talent to be sure) just out having a good time.... again very nice R

I got an m-audio 88es - big brother - very good keyboard. This is a very nice piece - and the title theme is excellent~

excellent!! and I love the photo too!

that makes more sense...

yes, the bluesy part.

I saw autoharp and I had to listen. I really like this song. Very nice vibe to it.

enjoyed - like Kate Bush meets Tori Amos at Apex Twin's home studio.

well, Iceland is about half-way - I say we have an Alontone party in Reykjavík - perhaps we can get Bjork to join in!!

this is lovely - way way too short!!

excellent - never heard the original but I love what you've done here.

awesome!!

once again - simply beautiful!

beautiful!

Love the vocal split - excellent rock ballad

hi Kavin, Wondering Aloud is on my list!

Hi Kirk, typically it is easiest to start talking about notes as numbers in the tuning. So say for instance a a fifth would be from note 1 (or 0) to note 12 (11). This page may help http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/19edo

Norm, just how many chickens have you raised? ;-)

this is an awesome tune!

Wow NPR - how cool!! And the music is great!!

Hi Kavin, if your new tuning changed the length between the 5th and 6ths fret for instance then, no you could not accomplish this by changing the tuning of the open strings. On the other hand you can make a small trip into microtonality by retuning the open strings a quarter flat or sharp relative to each other.

very good - very very good!