vaisvil

by 2

(therefore Frank Miller composed the drums and bass and I did the other noise.)

My friend Frank Miller did a drum improvisation track at my request - and I then improvised lyrics, vocal, and guitar with a bit of touch up. This was the first track we did together since 1979.

Posted under the name “2” - an internet band.

Genre:
Rock/Pop: Pop

Year: 2010

Album:
Strange Danger

Artist’s description:
Frank wrote the lyrics, sang, played bass and drums. Chris wrote the guitar and flute (sample) and mastered…read more

This is a song some 15 years in the making. The original 4-track cassette tape tracks laid down in 1997 - and this past year Frank added bass and drums. Its my fault on how there are still rough edges - that is the result of how…read more

Frank Miller (phantasm777) added excellent vocals and drums - I like it much better this way - hope you do too! (still 17 equal tuning)

Apocrypha is a progressive rock song in the sense of Rush more than ELP or Yes. I had come up with the guitar and via my GR-20 the strings - everything else you hear was performed by my long time collaborator Frank Miller (Phantasm777) - so that means drums, bass, keys, vocals, and lyrics are…read more

My good friend Phantasm777 does some live drumming on this.

Frank Miller and I again join forces. Frank composed and performed the drums and we collaborated on the production

chris vaisvil did all guitars (22 edo) and the basic idea, therefore, it is his song mostly!
I did the drums, bass, vox, lyrics and mix.

             just another monday © - words by frank miller

feel indifference spreading
i feel it everyday
feel it in the sunshine
more so in…read more

Frank Miller - words, vocals, keys, bass, drums
Chris Vaisvil - guitars

Once a Beautiful Planet

hark the dark and blackened skies
they were the culprits of their own demise
they couldn’t get along in this earth age
the extinction of man turns a history page

too many nuclear arms…read more

a manic ego trapped in a hall of mirrors is a composition that my collaborator Frank Miller (of “2”) built around my 20 edo guitar part. Frank wrote and performed the vocals, lyrics, drums, 12 edo bass and produced the composition.

a manic ego trapped in a hall of mirrors - lyrics - frank…read more

by “2”

                                        to take a life ? - lyrics by frank miller

tell me how can you murder
innocence killed in cold blood
family and friends greiving
how can you be such a thug

how can you stand this murder
how can you stand this mentality
to murder…read more

Classical guitar and vocal

Classical guitar and vocal

Classical guitar, chimes, vocal

at the very end you can hear my infant son Ben breathing.

Classical guitar and vocal

Classical guitar and vocal

Classical guitar and vocal

Classical guitar and vocal

Classical guitar and vocal

Mike Barry sings lead vocal, I’m classical guitar and backing vocals

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Mahatma Gandhi

Alternative with eastern influence

soft rock

Hard Rock

7/4 and awkward with some bite

Jazzish

long looper sort of affair Track 9

6 string bass tracks and drums

Not trying to be preachy - do your own thing by all means - the lyrics reflect what I think about with regard to social responsibility.

Snow and Wind play my electric aeolian harp

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Cannon at the octave on F

I spruced this up by playing it twice; once with a pentagon subtractive synth duo + kontakt percussion and then with alto sax + baritone sax + jazz trap set.

6/8 120 BPM

A 4 movement piece for piano loosely a sonata.

This is an improvisation around a few chords I found when experimenting with two simultaneous tunings on my Fender Mustang run through the GR-20 retuned to Arabic 17 note Pythagorean tuning and also as-is through my DoD FX-7

The…read more

In 2006 we visited a Japanese garden. In September of 2009 I wrote this piano piece in 17 ET and I hear a connection between the two. So I put together a video from pictures and video taken of our visit and married the two. Please visit the song page to see the video. I hope you enjoy.

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I was working on one of my ethno 2 demos and needed a break so I made an improvisation on a series of major 7ths using only the Ethno 2 package.

All of the pitched instruments use the included Werckmeister temperament tuning.

Year: 1996

Album:
Classical Clones

Artist’s description:
improvisation on my Casio CZ-101 in 20th century classical style.

There was no theoretical basis or anything with this.

It’s all just rock n roll to me ;-)

Inspiration:
the sound

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I am working on some demonstration pieces for Mark of the Unicorn’s Ethno 2 sample set. This is the first mostly completed piece.

Last Christmas my collaborator and fuzzy inspiration Charlie passed over the rainbow bridge - he was very old for a ferret 9 or 10 years old. He was adopted from a shelter and remained a touch-me-not independent ferret all his life…read more

I think this is final version of my 4th MOTU demo
- I will see what comments I get, if any.

This is a short, more or less middle eastern-ish piece using the Zurna tuning and Mark of the Unicorn Ethno 2 sample set in Sonar. I performed…read more

Artist’s description:
This is all in kontakt 4 and is scored for

hang drums
andean flute
choir
timpani
various percussion

Contributors:
a 17 edo version is here

http://notonlymusic.com/board/download/file.php?id=363

This is a piece that uses MOTU Ethno 2. All but percussion and voice were performed my Fender Mustang and midi recorded via Roland GR-20. The piece uses the Almak tuning included in Ethno 2. [Amlak recurrent sequence (x^2 = x + 1/3), as a matrix for Ethiopian scales]

Debbie’s voice over used…read more

This is a little piece dedicated to the lost world island of Socotra that grabs a lot of instrumentation from across Asia with little discrimination - the melodic instruments use Afshari with the exception of the Jaw harps…read more

There is a video for this below

Its all a bit cliche I know - but its what I wanted to do. All of the video footage was taken by me in an undisclosed location somewhere. This is a microtonal piano improvisation that uses Lucy tuning 0b6s meantone tuning http://www.lucytune.com/ and pianoteq…read more

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…read more

I had not touched my keyboard for a long time - couple months? So it was inspiring to play it again. I set it up in the living room of the new house and played pianoteq on my laptop using a Just Intonation tuning (below). Actually I had to improvise the piece twice since I screwed up saving from…read more

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…read more

(a setting of) The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allen Poe

LO! ‘t is a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years.
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre…read more

December 5, 2009

Album:
the pleasure is all mine

Artist’s description:
piano improvisation, edited.

Contributors:
The Chinese people.

something I wrote for piano a long while ago I’m dusting off and trying to give it new life.

Album:
the pleasure is all mine

Artist’s description:
piano improvisation focusing on various non-dominant sevenths

solo piano 22 edo

This is a solo piano improvisation that I performed last year (2009) but have tinkered off and on for a while as a work in progress. It really isn’t done yet but I thought I might let others hear…read more

Today I received my AXiS 49 midi controller from C-Thru Music. It is excellent and has a groovy “selfless” mode that gives one 98 individual notes – more than a standard piano. I couldn’t resist trying my hand at an improvisation…read more

This is a solo piano performance using an M-Audio 88es midi controller, Pianoteq, and a tuning I devised that is based on a harmonic series segment…read more

I extended my very short Halloween piece - doubled it in length - not too hard considering it still is only a minute long.

This is using the Garritan Personal Orchestra sample set.

2 organs, piano, flute, bassoon.

All of this is performed - Norm’s many percussion devices, Fender Mustang, and GR-20 driven by the guitar for the rest of the voices excepting a bit of a choir at the end.

This piece is part of a review of John O'Sullivan’s book The Mathematics of Music. You can read part one here.

http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=317

This is a solo piano piece performed on a M-Audio 88es driving pianoteq which was re-tuned to Gene Ward Smith’s 17 per octave equal beating dwarf(<17 27 40|). The piece was originally recorded in pianoteq using the standalone mode…read more

This is an improvisation on a theme I play all the time when I sit at the keys. Sort of a warm up I’ve been playing for a very long time. It is very simple and I may have used it here already…read more

song icon by Elaska

Free Sue is a work for spoken choir, bowed piano in 18 notes per octave, mallet piano in 18 notes per equal, strummed piano in 18 notes per octave, tabla ensemble, snare drum, frame drum ensemble…read more

details here if you want them http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=350

This is an orchestral piece composed in 13 note subset of 31 notes per octave called “Orwell”. The purpose of this piece was to study polyphonic voice leading in a microtonal context. It was realized via Sonar 8.5 and Garritan Personal Orchestra version 4.0 (aria) which accepts scala files…read more

I read about the Duodene in Doty’s book and wanted to try it. I took the opportunity of Margo’s scala formatted duodene on the nonoctave forum to toss it into fractal tune smithy and improvise with the tuning.

I hope you don’t find this too amateurish to listen to. I like the possibilities…read more

an improvisation.

this is an ambient version of the choir part for “Its a Noon Medicine”

jpeg is Centaur 2 by SnowSkadi

A while back Kraig Grady, the author of the JI tuning “Centaur” asked me to transpose my piece Centaur’s Pasture composed in his tuning to different “keys” in order to hear the different character each…read more

Layla and Majnun is a classical Arabian love story. It is based on the real story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mulawwah from the northern Arabian Peninsula,[6] in the…read more

This is part of a microtonal tuning survey. for those of a stout constitution all of the options follow:

These are playable online here:
http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=749&start=0

Here is the original harpsichord version for reference

http://micro.soonlabel.com/hobbit_scales…read more

The complete “how to” article and online play back is on my blog http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=404

Yesterday I was able to capture the Fractal Tune Smithy midi stream of an “on the fly” relay re-tuned performance…read more

I Am => a piano solo in John O'Sullivan’s Blue Temperament Tuning

Written with a good friend in mind who has gone to market.

This an improvisation in 17 notes per octave with layered software synthesizers. Specifically, various percussion ensembles, french horn, piano, and two synthesizers. At one point I forgot what…read more

Well, I finally got my hands on a 17 note per octave electric guitar thanks for Brad Smith, a local Luthier who did a lovely conversion of a Jay Turser strat copy I bought at the local Guitar Center for $65…read more

This is a serial improvisational piece (excepting some drum loops) in John O’Sullivan’s Blue JI tuning (which I rather like) – all of the instruments, African log drum, Nigerian log drum, Krin slit drum, Teponaxtli, Toere, Kaekeeke, Kalaau, Hyoushigi, Temple blocks, Agogo Block, Bassoon…read more

Calculated Electron Orbitals

I have been exploring Sonar X1 and one of the ideas on my list was to apply the apreggiator to a piece of music that was classical and used the harmonic series – just sounded like a good…read more

5 string Ibanez bass solo