vaisvil

because tardigrades are cool and look a lot friendlier than Guild navigators

Tettigoniidae in Overtones is scored for two Audio Damage Quanta synthesizer, tamtam, two triangles, glockenspiel, snare drum, bass drum, two tamborines, plucked psaltery and french horn all in harmonic series tuning. The synthesizers are purposely suggestive of orchestral ensembles.

Stuff all thrown together.

On Growing Old by John Masefield
- an excerpt read by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1940, the year of Scott’s death.

Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying;
My dog and I are old, too old for roving.
Man, whose young passion sets…read more

Isolated track for Soundin.org

just a synth

A cover of Pink Floyd’s Welcome to the Machine in 17 notes per octave tuning

This needs Phantasm777 drums or Norm’s percussion, sadly neither are likely to happen.

sorry Sid

oh my God, its full of stars!

A beginning is a very delicate time

When you can’t see the sun

on a cloudy solstice day

artificial lights must provide

Apologies to Graham Nash

There I was at the immigration scene
Shining and feeling clean
Could it be a sin?
I got stopped by the immigration man
He says he doesn’t know if he can.
Let me in

Let me in, immigration man,
Can I cross the line and pray
I can stay another day
Let me…read more

music for when Antarctica is ice free

2 tracks of my Squier Bass VI

Recorded, spliced and diced, reassembled.

You Don’t Have to Say It is a 22 edo composition for rock band. Using my 22 edo electic guitar I used a Boss GP-10 to get the 12-string, a eletroharmonix pitch fork for the bass, and native instruments guitar rig for the lead guitar. The drums were played by me on my simmons SDMP 1 drum pad…read more

By using reverse engineering of the sound files fudgetusk uploaded I was able to render his synaptic pathways as he was creating said sound files into sound. So this is meta-fudgetusk.

ambient 6 string bass

ambience

It’s Hobbit tradition to give gifts to others on their birthdays. Here’s Tolkien on the subject: Receiving of gifts: this was an ancient ritual connected with kinship. It was in origin…read more

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.

! plum.scl
686/675 comma pump scale in 46et
12
!
130.43478
260.86957
391.30435
443.47826
521.73913
573.91304
704.34783
834.78261
965.21739
1069.56522
1095.65217
1200.00000

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