will some one help me finish this one? do as you see fit a, f, d all the way...

Based on Norm Harris' Percussion Solo Moonbathing http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/moonbathing this piece uses bass pictured above after conversion to fretless and uses my fretless Fender Squire through the metallurgy 3 demo effect.

I have a story to tell. Debbie and I went to a Guitar Center across town looking for a cheap used bass for me to convert to fretless like I did my Squire Strat. Well.... I ran into a really nice used Ibanez 5 string bass - with a B below E…

My 17 et guitar, ebow, Sonar X1, and recorded audio into 5 different channels at the same time with different effects

Calculated Electron Orbitals I have been exploring Sonar X1 and one of the ideas on my list was to apply the apreggiator to a piece of music that was classical and used the harmonic series – just sounded like a good idea. Well, here is the…

This is a serial improvisational piece (excepting some drum loops) in John O’Sullivan’s Blue JI tuning (which I rather like) – all of the instruments, African log drum, Nigerian log drum, Krin slit drum, Teponaxtli, Toere, Kaekeeke, Kalaau…

Well, I finally got my hands on a 17 note per octave electric guitar thanks for Brad Smith, a local Luthier who did a lovely conversion of a Jay Turser strat copy I bought at the local Guitar Center for $65. The guitar is nicely very bright…

I'm surprised I forgot to post this collaboration with Norm and Char. Char performs the reading Norm performs the percussion Chris did choir, sax, bass, FXs Poem - Edgar Allen Poe Annabel Lee It was many and many a year ago…

A serial improvisation in 12 equal setting Vachel Lindsay's 1931 reading of his poem "The Mysterious Cat" to musical accompaniment. Vachel Lindsay is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are…

Artist's description: Music composed by Chris Vaisvil, Mike Barry, lyrics Chris Vaisvil. This was performed live and recorded on a reel to reel in a basement. Its over 20 minutes at 64kbps. Two electric guitars, keyboards, and drums. Our contribution…

This an improvisation in 17 notes per octave with layered software synthesizers. Specifically, various percussion ensembles, french horn, piano, and two synthesizers. At one point I forgot what in the world I was doing because I transposed the…

A setting of the poem “The Wind Sprang up at Four O’Clock” by T.S. Eliot. Sonar X1, bass, rhodes piano, drums, sax, and vocals.

I Am => a piano solo in John O'Sullivan's Blue Temperament Tuning Written with a good friend in mind who has gone to market.

Ok, on the make micro music list tune smiths are challenging composers to write coherent music with their worst tunings imaginable. This is my result for one of the challenges. This is an improvisational piece that uses a modified pianoteq…

They left me home alone with my Fender Mustang and Marshall Amp. My cat ran away - and one of my ferrets stared at me for a full 30 seconds in disbelief and then decide telepathy was not going to make me turn down the volume. It isn't good…

The complete "how to" article and online play back is on my blog http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=404 Yesterday I was able to capture the Fractal Tune Smithy midi stream of an "on the fly" relay re-tuned performance in Sonar 8.5 by use of LoopBe1…

This is part of a microtonal tuning survey. for those of a stout constitution all of the options follow: These are playable online here: http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=749&start=0 Here is the original harpsichord…

I used sonar 8.5 matrix view to turn my M-audio 88es into a sampler keyboard - assigning samples to almost every key. Most of the samples are field recordings from today and yesterday - most of the others are recordings I made of a drumset I…

A layered improvisation on a M-Audio 88es Korg MS2000 * 2 (duplicated the midi track and recorded the MS2k with two different voices serially) Pianoteq Absynth Reading of his poem "We're on the Brink of Utter Befuddlement, Yellow Hanky Style…