This Prelude in 18ET comes from a challenge on the microtonal tuning list to write something in the whole tone scale that didn’t sound like Debussy or Satie. This prelude has decidedly Debussian whole tone passages. All 3 whole tone scales…

I think I bit off more than I could actually chew this time and I apologize to Norm and Reg about that. This is a setting of verses from Contemporary English Bible Version of Daniel Chapter 6. I don’t think I orchestrated as much drama from…

Well, you are not going to often hear a 70′s metal piece from me. I have to plead affection for genre as it is what I grew up with in my garage band days. In this piece I put to use my stratocaster copy strung up with “Not Even Slinky…

Angels Missing Bill Sethares for simultaneous 12 equal guitar and faux voices in Sethares Neutral 10 tuning More pieces from the survey can be found here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=493 ! E:\Cakewalk\scales\sethares-neutral10.scl ! sethares…

a person is like a clock when the hands don’t move anymore and it doesn’t tick-tock anymore then you are dead but the clock is just broken Sonar X1 recording + mastering Norm Harris percussion track “Cabinets” See link for details…

Performed on Fender Mustang, Casio CZ-101 (keys, bass, percussion), vocal. Recorded via overdubbing on two cassette decks with 4 mono input radio shack mixer with radio shack 10 band graphic equalizer. Written in the years of Ronald Reagen's…

If you believe the conspiracy theories it ain't over yet. This is a piece from early 2009.

An improvisation with a bunch of keyboards, softsynths, effects and sonar x1

I electrified my psaltery and played it in various ways in an tuning adjusted by ear. Probably some JI of some type then. I played along with some modified drum loops and ran it through effects of course.

From Wikipedia’s article on the Korean War: UN aerial reconnaissance had difficulty sighting the Chinese PVA units in daytime, because their march and bivouac discipline minimized aerial detection. The PVA marched “dark-to-dark” (19:00…

As the title says I spent some time with my 17 et guitar. I purposefully tried doing non-12 sounding stuff with what I think is moderate success. I believe I will have to resort to some "dots" to get some new scales in 17 et down - there just…

Grenade_Fish_by_Fenrir06 from deviantART A musical setting in 17 notes per octave of CA Conrad’s reading of his poem “Say it With Green Paint for the Comfort and Healing of Their Wounds” posted on PennSound. Title and concept credit…

A collaboration between Norm Harris and myself from 2009. At this point I wish I had the percs up louder.

Only in Disneyland is a 17 note per octave guitar solo. This was recorded direct in a Alesis multimix 8 into Sonar X1 with Lexicon reverb and Sonitus multiband EQ / compression.

A live improvisation on 3 keyboards and a half dozen softsynths plus korg MS2000 in Sonar X1

On Growing Old by John Masefield - an excerpt read by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1940, the year of Scott's death. >Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying; My dog and I are old, too old for roving. Man, whose young passion sets the…

Genres: Urban/Hip-Hop: Rhythm and Blues Urban/Hip-Hop: Soul Album: Its About Soul Artist's description: a collaboration Contributors: thetworegs vocals Norm percussion and didgeridoo Chris guitars n stuff.

What? is an improvisation using excerpts of Timo Tuhkanen's Clarinet Improvisation and Kavin Allenson's accoutrements in Dimension Pro 1.5 - each using a harmonic series tuning plus "epic frame drums" sample loops in Kontakt played on a M Audio…

5 string Ibanez bass solo

2x 5 string bass, electric piano, vox I tried adding percussion via playing drums on my keyboard. It was way ugly. So... I think I'm done unless someone wishes to lend a hand.