vaisvil

A bit of anarchist blues

When buildings are no object

There can be no objections

Guitar and Bass

more guitars, less effects

two guitars with 3 effects shared between them

ambient guitar dedicated to fudgetusk, aural commentator extraordinaire.

ambient guitar

solo bouzouki in a pseudo raga format

Realized by guitar (finger picked and ebow) with pedal chain of ernie ball volume pedal to chase bliss warped vinyl ji fi to strymon el capistan to boss giga delay to boss space echo to tc electonic mimiq recorded in sonar.

This an ambient solo 19 note per octave guitar performance and video interpretation.

The effects chain used was a Wampler Ego compressor, Ernie Ball volume pedal, Electro-Harmonix pitch fork polyphonic pitch shifter with expression pedal, TC Electronic Mimiq, Chase Bliss audio warped vinyl…read more

Prophet 12, SQ-1, Sonar, plugin effects and instruments.

ambient guitar

ambient guitar

a beautiful sunrise (see video) and piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9m8icbJpoY

liner notes

ambient electric guitar

Octave Mandolin and vocal
Song by Haas & Cottor

A remix of the Zeppelin cover with an ear to ambiance.

Sorry guys…

A cover of a Tull song from the album Benefit
- vocal and octave mandolin

Octave Mandolin 1

Octave Mandolin 2

Stumble core all mandolin band
mandolin
octave mandolin
mandocello

The gate of eternity

mandocello

A layered audio cake in Carlos Alpha and 12 Equal and Heaven knows what else.

a piano improvisation

bass, guitar, vocals

sorry Ian

Octave Mandolin and voice

I found a used octave mandolin for really nice price. Enjoying my new instrument.

A short improvisation using an Alesis Q88, Pianoteq 6 and Sonar

processed 19 edo guitar

Cover of B.S. Snowblind from Vol 4 w/o the pesky vocals in 19 edo.

A memory of 2017

an acoustic arrangement of Bill Newbold’s composition “mindless events beyond time” for piano, brass ensemble and percussion.

Sampled hurdy gurdy via soniccouture

processed guitar

samples of rubber soul abused.

China
All the way to New York
I can feel the distance
getting close

You’re right next to me
But I need an airplane
I can feel the distance
as you breathe

Sometimes
I think you want me to touch you
But how can I
when you build the great wall around you
In your eyes I saw the…read more

Every baryon tells a story

A rendering of Bill Newbold’s midi performance

As an example, imagine that Alice and Bob are aboard spaceships moving inertially with a relative speed of 0.8c. At some point they pass right next to each other, and Alice defines the position and time of their passing to be at position x = 0…read more

Freestyle solo 19 edo guitar through a tube amp in 70’s-ish blues rock style

Sorry John….

Just short of 20 minutes ambient piece

Apologies to George

A short solo piece using a Q49 key keyboard which is fairly true to life for a real clavicord.

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The Chamber of 32 Doors
Genesis

The back story

At the top of the stairs he finds a chamber. It is almost a hemisphere with a great many doors all the way round its circumference. There is a large crowd, huddled in various groups. From the shouting, Rael learns that there are 32 doors…read more

by turning pianoteq to about the mid point in the worn scale I found a new joy in playing - much like on a a real acoustic piano.

ambient guitar

synthesis

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Guitar and Effects

A short electronic piece

Guitar and anime vocal

piano - vocal

and a poor vocal - acoustic cover at that

One of my favorite songs from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - which I pretty much destroy

12 string guitar, 6 string bass, lead and backing vocals

All the pumping’s nearly over for my sweet heart.
This is the one for me,
Time to meet the chef,
Oh boy! The running man is out of death…read more

6 string bass, 12 string electric x2, mandolin, vocals

Bill Newbold plays my Korg MS2000 and Parva

Synthesizer Solo using a split keyboard.

Synthesizers played by Bill Newbold via remote midi

Ambient synthesis

as it says

not very good, sorry.

12 string guitar

photo of Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive

12 string guitar

Over a month of hourly time lapse (night edited out) with 17 note per octave ambient guitar accompaniment. This is probably the longest project I’ve set out to do. I left my time lapse camera in the kitchen window filming the tree in my backyard this spring from 3/18 to 4/25. I’m fairly happy…read more

guitar duet

Piano Effects

Sound provided by 17 equal guitar using Moog MF ring, Boss DA-2 adaptive distortion, Boss MO-2 Adaptive Overtone pedals and software effects.

Ambient guitar

My 6 string bass

My 6 string bass

electric piano

Some unrealistic music

Vocal harmony

Ambient acoustic guitar using guitar rig 5 and the hammer jammer

as stated

I found a new 8 string Dean electric guitar for less than half price at the salvation army store… how could I walk away?