This is a captured and then edited live performance using the Sonar Matrix view using various samples - some of which were paul stretched. I'm liking this - if only they had the possibility to change the pitch live it would be like sticking…

Heh, I couldn't believe I forgot to share this with my friends here. Well here is the story. I'm sure you'll only listen once and probably not all the way to the end. Year: 2008 Album: Singles Artist's description: Many years ago…

The answer to the question: What if Genesis wrote for Nintendo game systems? wikipedia entry for the song is below. http://tinyurl.com/23pla6

The answer to the question: What if The Eagles wrote for elevators?

This is a piece using 2 keyboards, an M-Audio 88es (vocal choir) and Alesis Q49 (brass choir) in 17 notes per octave. The objective was to use some functional xenharmonic chord progressions. I would be interested in knowing if you perceive the…

This is a piece performed on an Alesis Q49 using Kontakt 4′s viola and gongs samples as the sound source. The violas are retuned to 10 notes per octave. This piece is concentrates more on melodic aspects. This is my first piece in 10 edo…

5 string bass vocal A vocal B 2 baritone guitar rhodes piano session drummer 3 chinese cymbals played and sampled and processed in various ways.

Hiding April is a programmatic electronic piece that uses the hardware Korg MS2000 and Absynth 5 software synthesizers and orchestra percussion from Garritan Personal Orchestra. At about 4:10 I found an aircraft-ish sound on my Korg which then…

This is a solo classical guitar piece in 12 equal. The recording was produced by playing an Epiphone C70CE through a Marshall amplifier's clean channel with reverberation and recording with a Zoom H2. Minimal post - processing was done to the…

Genre: Rock/Pop: Hard Rock Year: 1987 Album: Modern Clones Artist's description: A Fool's Paradise They say, Hey Look! The armies are receeding! Times are changing Can't you feel it in the air? Its Just Fool's Paradise…

Genre: Other: Other Year: 1990 Album: Modern Clones Artist's description: Pulled from 4-track and mastered in Sonar and Cool Edit Contributors: Water Will Flow Everywhere Various mixtures of: Water will flow anywhere…

My plans are to make this used Epiphone C70CE microtonal - but here it is in "normal" 12 equal tuning. Purchased from Guitar Center for $119.99

It took a bit of doing and a lot of learning - I've built my first guitar I have a video of all of the stills I took while making the guitar with some demonstration music. The music has mistakes - but it is the first time I played it - I spent…

improvisation - in part to learn to ebow and strum at the same time.

I got to play this $3,000 8 string baritone Taylor today. Had I $3,000 at all it would have been mine! It has to be one of the best guitars I've ever played and an ingenious string combination.

Woodwinds and Harpsichord in John O'Sullivan's Blue JI tuning.

This is a piece using Garritan World Sample Set (Tibet singing bowls and Tibet bells) and pianoteq. It also uses a non-octave tuning that is an infinite stack of just major seconds (scala file below).

Kept in the Cellar is a piece for piano, percussion, and processed street signs in 17 edo.

This is a track from my retrospective album Heptadecaphilia. Details, online play, PDF that has background on the music, images, and links to videos are to be found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=1007

I saw discussion of Bleu tuning on the yahoo tuning groups – all of which were tempered to a pure octave. Embolden by Andrew Heathwaite’s 88 cent guitar I decided to try the tuning without tempering to make the octave pure. So I made a scala…