I found one of these for $6 at Goodwill and used it with pianoteq to improvise Just a Moment

12 string guitar with processing.

apologies to Led Zeppelin - but I can't sing that high.

Apologies to Ian Anderson this is not an off the record version...

Details are here if you are curious.

details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1788

Japanese Ghost House Boat was my contribution to the ImprovFriday “For Japan” earthquake relief CD release with proceeds donated to the Red Cross. It is in 17 notes per octave. Since its been about a year I thought I could release it now as…

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

I was asked to come up with some gritty microtonal guitar. This is an out-take from that session. 17 Indulgences is a solo guitar piece in 17 edo featuring acoustic feedback, echo and a bluesy sort of point of view but does wander here and…

A rock song, in 17 notes per octave. Yes there is an echo of Buddy Holly... Lyrics, and chords and bass here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=2071

for improvfriday

for improvfriday

apologies to Ian

A Galaxy Teeming With Life is a composition made by manipulating a Hubble space telescope picture, manipulating a sample of Francesca from 8Dio and creating a new tuning that is 256 harmonics of every odd harmonic from 3 without reducing to an…

This is a classical finger picked blues / classical guitar solo hybrid with lexicon reverberation and freeze pedal. There is some sloppiness. The idea was to push myself in playing and what I was playing melodically and harmonically.

I ruin Jethro Tull's Witches' Promise

I attempt a song from Living in the Past by Jethro Tull.

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