I purchased a Simmons drum pad today - I'm not a real drummer - please be kind. It was on sale at Guitar Center $180 + extended warranty + sticks http://www.simmonsdrums.net/sdmp1/ The synth is my Fender Mustang + GR-20

A mashup of microtonally processed music created by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen called imp_08_1 with video and video sound tracks by Chris Vaisvil Jukka-Pekka's original http://heliumheal.wippiespace.com/mp3/imp_08_1.mp3

details http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1086 Norm, I finally used my china cymbals like... cymbals. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprotonic_helium Tuning: Harmonic six-star, group A, from Fokker 16/15 6/5 32/25 4/3 3/2 8/5 48/25 2/1 A string composition played on Fender Mustang driving a Roland GR-20 that was re-tuned on the fly

This piece is composed in a mode of 15 equal notes per octave with scale steps: 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 (formal name) Fifteen-tone Miller's Porcupine-7

And another one I didn't share from the same day. I must of been in a funk where it all sounded really bad. This improvisation concentrates more on melodic aspects of 22 edo though there are some harmonies.

Here is something I had laying around that I forgot I did. A 9 edo improvisation with my Roland GR-20 + Fender Mustang combination. This will probably sound pretty foreign and / or out of tune. To me it sounds oddly funky in places like at 0:22

A classical guitar solo recorded via a Zoom H2 under the watchful eye of my cat Belle.

I do have video of Jacob playing the udderbot with the band - but right now I'm still putting together my gear from storage and this was the best I could do with Windows Live movie maker on my laptop. So for now - enjoy the sound of Jacob jamming…

We forgot to mention that Reg visited Norm's place a little later and added some vocals. The video is a ride through the US state of Virginia. The Texas Tavern serves cheesy westerns (cheese, fried egg, burger, bun) in the downtown of Roanoke Va.

Norm and I in a room at his house. See the video for the reason for the name.

What You Forgot is an electronics / percussion piece that uses Absynth and Dimension Pro in two different harmonic series tuning (5 limit and 7 limit). The percussion is provided by Kontakt. The piece was preformed on an AXiS 49 in one pass…

Hello, I write this from my hospital bed. I went to the Xenharmonic Praxis Summer Camp and came down with a wicked case of the strep throat that started to move into my lungs. at that point I went into the hospital since I nearly died from pneumonia…

This is a composition that uses indeterminacy with respect to pitch (and instruments but since this is one recording that doesn't apply). However, all of the other musical elements are controlled. This performance occurred at the Praxis Xenharmonic…

some one on one time with an upright piano - nothing at all spectacular.

12 string improvisation - title came from a person who said I didn't understand "deep blues". That is probably true which is why I got the blues ;-( Feel free to use this in something if you'd like - just post a link in the comments here so I…

12 string improvisation - vaguely in an eastern Indian mode. Feel free to use this in something if you'd like - just post a link in the comments here so I can find it.

12 string improvisation - just a chord progression. Feel free to use this in something if you'd like - just post a link in the comments here so I can find it.

This is a study on using split keyboards and virtual instrument layering for live performance. More information is here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1050 if you are into that sort of thing. Also Lucian Freud has died today. I’m using one…

Recorded for ImprovFriday - yes I flub some notes badly and that G minor had no right being there!! - that's the danger of a live improvisation, at least at my skill level. The guitar is an Epiphone C70CE classical acoustic with piezo pickup…