Microtonal Music
by vaisvil
- 00. The Pond 5:00
- 01. Ethno 2 improvisation 1:27
- 02. In Search of Perfect Consonance 2:21
- 03. Dance of the Unicorn 1:08
- 04. The Dream of Aengus 2:53
- 05. Kandahar Poppies 1:00
- 06. I See The Void (oddmusic convergence) 9:58
- 07. Searching for the Unicorn 3:23
- 08. Socotra Island 1:40
- 09. re-uploaded And the Heavens Opened Up 3:03
- 10. Funky Downwind Smell 3:17
- 11. Talking to God 5:03
- 12. The Lumma Cryptic 6:03
- 13. Fat Bebe Micro (19ET) 3:15
- 14. 9 ET Sorog 2:51
- 15. 88 Norms 6:34
- 16. Kiev Decays to Dust 4:41
- 17. The Wrong Message 4:40
- 18. Valles Marineris (WIP) harmonic series wah version 6:01
- 19. My Crazy Aunt Sophie 5:24
- 20. 17 Selfless Notes 4:04
- 21. Graveyard 32:37
- 22. Endless Lack of Music 4:09
- 23. Excluded by Peers 2:54
- 24. Semimarvelous Blue Drawf 5:20
- 25. Margo's Duodene 2:49
- 26. Perseverance 3:24
- 27. Orwellian Cameras (video) 4:26
- 28. Free Sue 1:00
- 29. Willows 2:00
- 30. Centaur's Pasture 3:17
- 31. Sweeney's Agony (ver 2) 7:46
- 32. Sweeney's Agony (Remix by Johnny Pumphandle) 7:45
- 33. A Blue Christmas for Erv 3:44
- 34. Centaurs Breaking Wind on Congress 1:21
- 35. FTS Capture Experiment -Strange Diatonic and 12 edo 3:24
- 36. I Am 3:42
- 37. Klingon Opera Overture 6:05
- 38. 17 Noodles 5:00
- 39. Atonement to a Centaur 2:02
- 40. Harmonics 12 to 30 in 15 4:08
- 41. Seventeen Degrees of Freedom 6:07
- 42. 17 reasons I hate the blues 4:40
- 43. Only in Disneyland 2:55
- 44. Crossing the Yalu River (1950) 2:46
- 45. A Fish and a Grenade 3:44
- 46. Angels Missing Bill Sethares 2:56
- 47. Prelude in 18ET 3:55
- 48. The Madison Chessmatch 5:56
- 49. 17 Unsteady Hands 7:52
- 50. For Fish, Piano, Choir, Percussion, and Electronics 5:36
- 51. Erdogan's Veil of Democracy 4:06
- 52. Gadhafi's Betrayal (video version) 6:26
- 53. and pseudonym made the bullets 6:24
- 54. Jeffrey Dahmer Cooks at 11 edo 2:48
- 55. Seventeen Years in the Sixties 5:20
- 56. enigma 2:55
- 57. spectrographic cornfields recursively 3:45
- 58. Crushing Dissent 5:32
- 59. Mother Dropped 11 Nuts w/ Norm 4:12
- 60. Diogenes Looking for Tuning Theory 2:17
- 61. Flippertronics 18 edo 8:23
- 62. Devil in the Deep Blue Sea 5:02
- 63. Lucy Australopithecus 6:50
- 64. Phiture 5:00
- 65. Government 8:36
- 66. 17 Pink Tuxedos 9:54
- 67. 88 cent guitar 6:17
- 68. On the Shores of the Dead Sea 6:22
- 69. The World has Changed in 19 edo 3:04
- 70. DIY Canon in Harmonic Series Tuning 5:21
- 71. 19 ImprovFridays 8:25
- 72. Deep Blue Plays Chess 4:06
- 73. 19 Black Hawks for Osama 22:14
- 74. Hammer Dulcimer 4:39
- 75. In Cold Hell, In Thicket 10:56
- 76. Forgetting Even Her Beauty 4:33
- 77. Temporary JI Frets 7:51
- 78. You Can't Always Get What You Want 9:41
- 79. 16Es for ImprovFriday 22:16
- 80. Chuckie's Basement 11:31
- 81. jjj w/ Bruce and Norm 8:36
- 82. Prelude for Brass and Percussion 2:24
- 83. Prelude for Piano 2:34
- 84. The Trip 5:00
- 85. Stop Sign for Bill 3:10
- 86. The Revelation Of Pilsner 6:54
- 87. Signage Preludium 2:09
- 88. JI Harmonic Filter 1 Cent 3:44
- 89. The Road to Tripoli 6:25
- 90. 23 Chilled 3:22
- 91. For Two French Horns in 13 edo 3:15
- 92. Down to the Wire 4:50
- 93. Earth's Transit of the Summer Solstice 7:38
- 94. Mars News at 17et 3:10
- 95. Kept in the Cellar 6:48
- 96. A Bowl of Tibetan Bells 1:54
- 97. DIY 23 EDO guitar 5:12
- 98. The Last Flight of Atlantis 5:49
- 99. Stately Wood and Wind 2:02
- 100. For 2 Violas and Gongs 4:52
- 101. For Brass Ensemble and Choir 5:01
- 102. Walking, Again, the Mountian 2:17
- 103. 9 edo guitar (GR-20) improvisation 1:09
- 104. Flute and Glockenspiel in 22 edo (GR-20) 3:13
- 105. Gently Playing With Miller's Porcupine 2:24
- 106. Antiprotonic Helium 4:28
- 107. Muon Catalyzed Fusion 3:00
- 108. Waterfall 1:41
- 109. Irene Blue 3:39
- 110. Talkin Smack on Xenharmonic Alliance 3:11
- 111. Underground 6:51
- 112. Lightness 2:03
- 113. Mesonic Atom 2:50
- 114. The Fragile Teleportation of Jukka-Pekka 5:28
- 115. Irene Blue 3:39
- 116. Waterfall 1:41
- 117. Madonna, il poco dolce 2:50
- 118. Clouds of Angel Tears 4:00
- 119. Bohlen-Pierce Island 6:50
- 120. 78 Minor Blackwood Crystals 3:40
- 121. The Dramatic Squirrel Overture 4:17
- 122. Frozen Time Occupies Wall Street 4:13
- 123. 10 Earwigs Invasive 5:55
- 124. A Sonnet for Albert Einstein 2:49
- 125. Fretless Chrome 1 12:02
- 126. A Greely Steals Halloween 3:53
- 127. Interstellar Wind 4:58
- 128. The Cry of Indium 4:23
- 129. Propane Blue JI Sequence 3:45
- 130. Cast the Demons From the Child 8:18
- 131. Its Unrelated 3:51
- 132. And Wait... Wait.... 2:27
- 133. Tuesday's Child in 24 edo 2:23
- 134. Three Imperfections 6:08
- 135. To Wonderland 5:04
- 136. Molly's Playground 1:57
- 137. Sympathy for a Friend 8:17
- 138. Mozart’s Sonata No. 11 in 11 EDT tuning 14:28
- 139. The 11th Corridor of Tritave 4:41
- 140. 11 Dimensional String Theory 8:58
- 141. Chicago Pile-1 7:49
- 142. Something in 19 5:38
- 143. Spectrally Speaking 13:11
- 144. Organ in 15 Porcupine 2:28
- 145. The Little Green Wheels 4:42
- 146. Temporary Frets Version 2 1:49
- 147. Hyperon 3:06
- 148. Muon Catalyzed Fusion 3:00
- 149. Diproton Helium 2:01
- 150. Onium 2:28
- 151. Neutronium 2:49
- 152. Mumesic Atom 3:23
- 153. Antiprotonic Helium 4:28
- 154. Mesonic Atom 2:50
- 155. Muonium 2:57
- 156. Positronium Hydride 3:07
- 157. Pionium 5:05
- 158. Quarkonium 3:02
- 159. Kaonic Hydrogen 3:17
- 160. Blues in 17 8:50
- 161. Blues in 17 8:50
- 162. Even My Song 3:51
- 163. 17 Indulgences 10:10
- 164. Even my Song - ver 2 4:03
- 165. Japanese Ghost House Boat 9:02
- 166. 11 Limit Piano 4:42
- 167. Prelude for Synthesizer in 13 Equal 1:50
- 168. Another Species of Man 4:40
- 169. The Broken Cathedral of Christchurch 6:17
- 170. Wouldn't You Know It 7:32
- 171. You can call it meantone 17 3:21
- 172. Mindaugas Rex Lithuaniae 3:53
- 173. 17 edo solo with ebow, whammy bar, and delay 4:41
- 174. Juliana's Harp 6:43
- 175. Smoke Filled Bar 3:09
- 176. Fantasy for Piano in 25 Note per Octave Tuning 1:25
- 177. 17 O'Clock Blues 7:16
- 178. The Way to Us 7:28
- 179. Rubric's Cube Lucy 2b3s tuning 2:02
- 180. The Capture and Release of the Fairy 3:35
- 181. The Wyf of Bath 5:23
- 182. Killing Yourself to Live (cover) in 16 edo 5:01
- 183. The 1st 2012 Presidential Debate, An American's Perspective 6:20
- 184. I Cannot 5:09
- 185. Dancing at the Foot of Mt. Sinai 3:55
- 186. Unidentified Shaking in New Jersey? 6:28
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Clouds of Angel Tears
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Image from Katerina Art - click on image to view more work by this great graphics artist. If you follow the link you will see that she has dedicated this image to the victims of 9-11. Katerina of course owns all rights to her image and is not covered under my Creative Commons License.
I didn’t intend this - I created this piece of music on my AXiS 49 as a demonstration and many people liked it. When I feel what the music evokes in me it is a sense of sadness but diffuse and delicate sadness. Thus I choose “Clouds of Angel Tears” as the title and searched google images on that title and found Katerina’s image. I hope she doesn’t mind I have associated the two.
Technically - the piece is in Johnny Reinhard’s 8th octave harmonic series tuning. The tuning is something that Johnny has been working on and was introduced to when I met him at the 2011 Xenharmonic Praxis in West Virginia. Because of the relationships between the notes “clouds” of harmonics and harmonies evolve. Since I only have a 98 key controller I was only able to use about 2/3rds of an octave in this piece.
Chris
More technical information. Below is an animated score video of the piece which demonstrates graphically how I approached the improvisation. The score used is called a “piano roll”. This is preferred over using a conventional staff in the animation because of the very large number of notes involved. The piece was performed on an AXiS 49 in selfless mode giving me access to 98 notes of the tuning, or roughly 2/3’s of an octave. The areas in the piano roll correspond 1:1 with areas of the AXiS 49 in selfless mode.
Guest
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Cuts like glass...heart pounding. sweet tune.