vaisvil

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?

electric guitar with buzzing bridge ambientish

guitar

a short piece

solo finger picked electric guitar with effect.

I’m sorry Elvis

indeed it is far

Roli rise 49 performance

6 string bass solo

The gear

Bill plays my Futuresonus Parva long distance by the magic of midi.

a 4 part non-strict fugue for woodwinds

The heart of the matter

For Jacob - because

Ben Smith (piano), Paul Mimlitsch (processed bass clarinet), Paul Muller (strings), arranged by Chris Vaisvil

all tracks but for drums are made with the Moog Model 15 iPad app
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Music

a manipulated performance by Paul Mimlitsch

electronic or something like it

mandolin in a really big space.

a collage

off tracks age is an aeolian harp sample that was recomposed by using Melodyne 4’s adaptive Just Intonation and rhythm normalization functions and then the exported result was modified using Native Instrument’s Guitar Rig 5 and Cakewalk Sonar’s Breverb.

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Bill Newbold provided the midi performances

Halloween type stuff

rock ensemble

A friend is biking through Death Valley USA for a charity. Though disputed, Death Valley has recorded the highest temperature observed on Earth.
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a cover of wish you were here in 19 notes per octave

all rights to pink floyd

synthesis

Actually two pieces back to back - this time besides the better sound of the piezo pick up I also added significant reverb.

as it says

Processed electric guitar and timelapse video - at about 5 through 6 minutes you can see what happens when a thunderstorm comes through.

a mash of Newbold, G. Smith, Sundstrom, Ljungdahl, Mimlitsch, Hamilton, Bailey

Percussion

solo guitar

as it says

November, November

I do things to my Fender Bass VI

Performance by Bill Newbold, produced by Chris Vaisvil

apologies to ‘Til Tuesday

Rock ensemble

a sound-in mash of
Glenn Smith
Norbert Oldani
Bill Newbold
Shane W. Cadman
Benjamin Smith
Steve Layton
JC Combs
Jim Goodin
James Bailey

Well, its rock music. Odd rock music I guess.

Coffin text 1130 is a speech by the sun god Ra, who says:

Hail in peace! I repeat to you the good deeds which my own heart did for me from within the serpent-coil, in order to silence strife…
I made the four winds, that every man might breathe in his time…
I made the great inundation…read more

Bill Newbold provided a supernova performance midi which I ran through my Korg MS2000

To forget these things would be to lose all hope, all beauty, all that we hold dear

bass Shane Cadman
guitar Chris Vaisvil

a short piece played on an iPad app called Geoshred

Indian Blues Fusion in 17 edo uses my electric DIY tanpura guitar tuned to 17 edo, electric 17 edo guitar and Indian percussion.

Sorry for the distortion. But perhaps that adds character. Everything is a matter of perspective.

bells, gongs, and things processed

Linnstrument driven performance for Diva and Absynth 5 in 24 notes per octave, percussion and cymbals.

I went to the Brookfield Zoo with my cousin and nephew a while back. It was a place her and I had gone as children. As it turned out all of the animals in captivity made me sad. Very sad really. And this gorilla became a focus of those feelings as I wondered what he was thinking trapped in this…read more

drums, electric 12 string, electric six string, electric 5 string bass guitars.

Bill Newbold - provided midi file
Christiane Offenbar - vocal
Birgit Zartl - words
Chris - production

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A simple 3 part improvisation

Poem by Val Brooklyn Rogers
Piano composed and played by Benjamin Smith
Vocal by Chris Vaisvil

SPECTACLES OF PERCEPTIONS

Spectacles of exceptions.

Yes, exactly in fact.
I’m quite skeptical.
Even if there exist recollections, seems
As if it were a mirage you see in an oasis…read more

Two tracks of ambient fretless guitar