1711 tracks by vaisvil

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Original Artist's description: A cover of George Harrison's All Things Must Past created to mark TiS' imminent passing. Yes my voice sucks - if you want to take a shot at singing it contact me. now Norm joins in - any more takers?
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In 2009 I ran an internet contest where contestants had to use one or more of the samples provided in their piece. Here I put together a number of the samples I provided into one piece.
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Hammer Dulcimer in Harmonic Series Tuning, processed into 7 streams. Field recording, processed. Details here http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=911
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Fulfilling a request by Acid The video is the whole point / show here. Please put into the comment section what you think the occupants of the car you see at 1:00 where thinking. Or alternately the kid on the bike at 1:20.
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a totally spontaneous improvisation Debbie and I made with the violin and hammer dulcimer tuned to harmonic series starting at G.
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One could use this to compare the changes I made to accommodate the change in tuning because this is the Centaur tuned piece but I changed the master tuning back to "standard" 12 equal.
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Well, I should give some background. Sometimes, for me, the difference in tunings are hard to discern - I don't have perfect or even good relative pitch discrimination. So I can get fooled. The Prelude for a Centaur tuned piano was actually composed…
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Can't Stop Myself by Chris (Vaisvil) and the Clones - Gothic Techno-industrial metal - ISDN stereo => from 1996 Can't Stop Myself the thoughts they in my head spinning around the thoughts they eat my head and rip me down they want me to do…
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This is a combination of field recording, slicing up a guitar performance into loops, using loops and effects that came with Sonar X1 in Sonar's matrix view with a bit of editing of the matrix performance.
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Full picture of the guitarron body - it sounded great - nicely deep. The guitarron is fretless with a very short neck which reminds me of a giant Oud - the wikipedia article will give you an idea of just how huge this thing really is…
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I plugged my Fender Mustang directly into the Zoom H2 and monitored with head phones while sitting on my bed and played around. This is a compressed version of one of the things I did. I've been pretty sick the past few days but I needed to…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Scarlatti Scalatti's K030 in 3 piece Jazz band format (bass, electric piano, drums) in 12 equal.
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This is a musical setting of Bruce Andrew’s poem “jjj” from his book “Moebius” thanks to PennSound archive. To create the music I hijacked Norm Harris’ Y Class Steam Locomotive Bell sample and his percussion piece Ilesa and added…
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JI guitar Fretless Bass Drums from Sonar This is replacing the "up way too late" version
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The audio uses all of the audio from that night I bowed the stop sign processed and not.
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I went out during cover of night (to avoid looking like a total crackpot) with a violin bow & Zoom H2 digital recorder and bowed various things in the neighborhood. This is the best - a beautifully resonant 4-way stop sign.
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The music in the video is the harmonic series from the lowest E on the piano, 41.2 Hz, and the 16 harmonics above it. No other pitch is allowed. I used Paul Stretch's filtering and compression to accomplish this BUT the piece was not stretched…
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