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Hi - thought I'd throw up an older piece today while I have time (doing work at the new house later). This is an improvisation with my Fender Mustang / Roland GR-20 combination retuned on the fly to 9 notes per octave "Sorog" tuning. I think…
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Movement To Contact said

Very cool.

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Hi - thought I'd throw up an older piece today while I have time (doing work at the new house later). This is an improvisation with my Fender Mustang / Roland GR-20 combination retuned on the fly to 9 notes per octave "Sorog" tuning. I think…
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Guest said

Delicate and serene. Beauty indeed.

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Hi - thought I'd throw up an older piece today while I have time (doing work at the new house later). This is an improvisation with my Fender Mustang / Roland GR-20 combination retuned on the fly to 9 notes per octave "Sorog" tuning. I think…
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Guest said

A masculine piece with an oriental flavour. Most interesting and different.

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Hi - thought I'd throw up an older piece today while I have time (doing work at the new house later). This is an improvisation with my Fender Mustang / Roland GR-20 combination retuned on the fly to 9 notes per octave "Sorog" tuning. I think…
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vaisvil said

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.

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Hi - thought I'd throw up an older piece today while I have time (doing work at the new house later). This is an improvisation with my Fender Mustang / Roland GR-20 combination retuned on the fly to 9 notes per octave "Sorog" tuning. I think…
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Norm said

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?

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Hi - thought I'd throw up an older piece today while I have time (doing work at the new house later). This is an improvisation with my Fender Mustang / Roland GR-20 combination retuned on the fly to 9 notes per octave "Sorog" tuning. I think…
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Norm said

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."

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Hi - thought I'd throw up an older piece today while I have time (doing work at the new house later). This is an improvisation with my Fender Mustang / Roland GR-20 combination retuned on the fly to 9 notes per octave "Sorog" tuning. I think…
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Norm said

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

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One of our early collaborations. From Norm: Percussion note: the pattern used in this song is "Djesse Muloumbo", 240bpm.
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richardlaceves said

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

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One of our early collaborations. From Norm: Percussion note: the pattern used in this song is "Djesse Muloumbo", 240bpm.
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Wildgeas Music said

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

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This is a microtonal Jazz-ish piece produced with some newly developed techniques. Norm Harris provides the excellent percussion. I probably could have made it easier on myself by not being so chromatic… but there it is. The piano, bass…
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Norm said

I still love it.

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One of our early collaborations. From Norm: Percussion note: the pattern used in this song is "Djesse Muloumbo", 240bpm.
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Guest said

Wow, this is...wow.

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One of our early collaborations. From Norm: Percussion note: the pattern used in this song is "Djesse Muloumbo", 240bpm.
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Guest said

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

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One of our early collaborations. From Norm: Percussion note: the pattern used in this song is "Djesse Muloumbo", 240bpm.
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launched said

A great listen - Perfect buildup and rush.

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One of our early collaborations. From Norm: Percussion note: the pattern used in this song is "Djesse Muloumbo", 240bpm.
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Norm said

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!

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One of our early collaborations. From Norm: Percussion note: the pattern used in this song is "Djesse Muloumbo", 240bpm.
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kirklynch said

Quite a trip. Very Nice!

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This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year. The original piano version can be had here http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528 or listen to it…
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Guest said

Awesome. Illegal Alien Autopsy

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This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year. The original piano version can be had here http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528 or listen to it…
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Guest said

Cool composition - like the last 15 seconds especially.

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This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year. The original piano version can be had here http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528 or listen to it…
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another cultural landslide said

Oooo, like it! w;-)

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This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year. The original piano version can be had here http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528 or listen to it…
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Reefwalker said

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...

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This is was originally for piano and is a fair assessment of my piano playing abilities in 1977 and was written in that year. The original piano version can be had here http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=528 or listen to it…
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Lalo Oceja said

it's very good!

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