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
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
Well, I'm not Greek, but I think "Heptadecaphilia" means "to love 17".
Quite an impressive collection of "17 equal tones per octave" songs (20!).
If one wants to immerse themselves in an environment of tonality that is in stark contrast to the conventional "12 tones per octave" standard that has dominated human ears since the 17th century, this a great collection to explore.
It takes a bit of courage to give microtonal music a shot - at times it sounds blasphemous and dizzyingly disorientating to me. Stretching the definition of the established custom probably always feels like that.
The surprise is how quickly my ear adapts to it but it takes a bit of immersion for me to get to that point.
Strong work, Chris. I philia it.
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
Fisherman and the Siren by Lord Frederic Leighton
This is a blues collaboration between The TwoRegs (vocals / lyrics) and Norm Harris (percussion) and myself (17 note per octave electric guitar and fretless bass).
We hope you enjoy it…
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
I abuse Jeff Lynn's (ELO) wonderful song.
I sing it a minor 3rd lower then originally recorded by ELO since I wanted to use my 12-string guitar and it is a lot easier to play tuned down to reduce the tension a bit.
voice
12 string rhythm…
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…
Hello, I thought I'd upload a track from 1993's Strange Beauty today. It was reviewed by the WMR (Weekly Module Reviews) team (in 1996 I'm guessing.) These reviews were published on "uesnet" about music posts to the same system - Usenet is an…
I abuse Jeff Lynn's (ELO) wonderful song.
I sing it a minor 3rd lower then originally recorded by ELO since I wanted to use my 12-string guitar and it is a lot easier to play tuned down to reduce the tension a bit.
voice
12 string rhythm…
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…
hi Chris,, soundwise/music interesting,,, i sometimes feel like a tourist in your world of music,, not sure i get it all, but i do know that at some level it helps me to appreciate both my own way and the bigger picture of musical sounds in new ways,,, have a happy 4th R
I abuse Jeff Lynn's (ELO) wonderful song.
I sing it a minor 3rd lower then originally recorded by ELO since I wanted to use my 12-string guitar and it is a lot easier to play tuned down to reduce the tension a bit.
voice
12 string rhythm…
Year: 1993
Album:
Strange Beauty
Artist's description:
Ok.... this is a song made almost entirely of samples from The Beatles Rubber Soul album digitized by an 8-bit sound blaster from the line out of a portable CD player. It was composed…
I abuse Jeff Lynn's (ELO) wonderful song.
I sing it a minor 3rd lower then originally recorded by ELO since I wanted to use my 12-string guitar and it is a lot easier to play tuned down to reduce the tension a bit.
voice
12 string rhythm…
I abuse Jeff Lynn's (ELO) wonderful song.
I sing it a minor 3rd lower then originally recorded by ELO since I wanted to use my 12-string guitar and it is a lot easier to play tuned down to reduce the tension a bit.
voice
12 string rhythm…
5 string bass guitar solo.
Here is me and my 5 string bass, which I really, really like playing despite the pain in my pinky to make those stretches I hear in my mind. The name seems stupid - but way better than STE-018cn.
If you can add to…
something in semi-performance mode on a real piano recorded at the meb(medical education building) in October the fifteenth or ides of October 2012 at eleven fifty three before lunch, I was actually reacting to the people walking by and sorta…
Here's request Carry on my Wayward son by Kansas we had.... again Gene has outdone himself with some superb musicianship ......and i've again had the easy job with the vocals...thanks Gene
For the grandchildren, when I get some!
Moonbee started life as a doodle, then he was turned into a little story, then a song!
This is Part 1 of the series - I have no idea how many there will be in total!
Enjoy! xox
P.S. This is…
Well that didn't last long Reg felt something wrong so he's moving on to pastures new..........it got Reg feeling Jazzy......
Time to go (Lyrics)
Theres something in your smile that tells me its time for me to go
when i ask if everything is ok…
Maybe the last for 2012 Reg got the Acoustic out on this one and a touch of guitar fx for the vocal hope you enjoy.......Happy New Year....Although Reg is a miserable sod........
I've enjoyed your work too - though mostly via Sound-In - Alonetone... I've found less and less time for AT as I've been getting more active in the microtonal community. However, Sound-In... I wait for every week :-)
Dawn awaits – SKEEN 121013
The beating, of her heart up next to mine,
So sweetly keeping time
Stirring, from her slumber through the night
Slowly opens….her eyes shine brighter than the mooonlight through the trees
Awake, my darling from…
this is just too good I have to give the machine's all the credits I did little more then guide them thru this landscapes in timeless experiential effects. I will have the big video that was cut up and layered here before effects soon to see…
yes this is part three of the disk i did...
this piece includes a hypnosis session doing a past life regression of me, bill newbold,.
just edits in the sounds.
This is a collab song with MTC. I almost hated adding anything to it cuz the first track he sent me was kickass vintage Jim. It totally changed flavors in the collab process, but still one of my favs
Didnt mean to have a political slant but had just got denied my large order soft drink in Manhattan.
All thats left are the small sodas with the "NY loves big cans" tee shirts
Comments on vaisvil's stuff
make sure that cellar doors locked we don't want it getting out .....excellent atmosphere.....
Remind me never to go in to your cellar. Very atmospheric - cine score me thinks?
Like the use of the brass vpices - and that bassline is nothing short of superheroesque!
Well, I'm not Greek, but I think "Heptadecaphilia" means "to love 17". Quite an impressive collection of "17 equal tones per octave" songs (20!). If one wants to immerse themselves in an environment of tonality that is in stark contrast to the conventional "12 tones per octave" standard that has dominated human ears since the 17th century, this a great collection to explore. It takes a bit of courage to give microtonal music a shot - at times it sounds blasphemous and dizzyingly disorientating to me. Stretching the definition of the established custom probably always feels like that. The surprise is how quickly my ear adapts to it but it takes a bit of immersion for me to get to that point. Strong work, Chris. I philia it.
tv.errific......
wow, that about says it all,,,, well done
Great beat mate dig it. Thanks for listening and commenting. Cheers.
wow.... just wow... and im only a minute in!
I don't fully understand the technical side but it makes for an interesting listen.
Divine Madness
One of my favorites man. Cool choice for a cover tune.
hi Chris,, soundwise/music interesting,,, i sometimes feel like a tourist in your world of music,, not sure i get it all, but i do know that at some level it helps me to appreciate both my own way and the bigger picture of musical sounds in new ways,,, have a happy 4th R
Nicely done.
Nice one mate great job.
Wild mix mate very cool.
Very very nice!!!
Agree with Norm - and this is a great song that's new to me. Lovely.
Oh man! Arranged like a Bond theme! Bold, bright and brilliant!
Raw blues - love this kind of thing. Am now going to analyse the crap out of your improvised lyrics! :D
Great sound!
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I really like this - nice structure and tones.
excellent!
I've never heard you play something like this before - very nice!
Superb all the way around!~ Speed Demon sounds like he's been touring with Kansas! Excellent vocals!
Lovely!
Very cool sounding! re: Closer to Mumbai => its the spices :-)
nicely done!!
you play guitar like Peter Townsend! I love the vocal effects.
This is really nice. I love the vocal harmonies and the slide too.
This is a beautiful medley!
I've enjoyed your work too - though mostly via Sound-In - Alonetone... I've found less and less time for AT as I've been getting more active in the microtonal community. However, Sound-In... I wait for every week :-)
This is fantastic!
Enjoyed that - good song writing and production to my ears
thanks Reg!!
this is... like being inside of a factory at night when the machines wake up and devise artifacts of their alien will.
I found this really interesting.
This series has a good flavor so far. More subtle than usual. The first piece reminded me of the magnetic field of Jupiter as picked up by Voyager.
cool!
love what you guys did here.
wow the a capella is just stunning!