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…

A piano solo in the JI version of Wilsonistic pivot on C tuning posted to the Just Intonation group by Margo Schulter 12/25/2010. The piece was improvised on a M-Audio 88es using Pianoteq 3.6 and recorded in Sonar 8.5 with some editing of the…

Gary Thompson from the Music by Computer yahoo list (aka Johnny Pumphandle) remixed me version 2 of Sweeny's Agony - and blew me away - by toning down the volume he brought out a lot more soul in my opinion. I love it - and I hope you do too. Chris

for ImprovFriday PES'd guitar improv - and softsynths ARP2600, Albino, Hellix, Absynth, Cameleon5000 in Sonar 8.5

Percussion = Norm Guitar = Rick Vox = Emily Bass = Chris We started with this http://alonetone.com/rickph/tracks/a-mile-with-sorrow-normrick which came from this http://alonetone.com/norm/tracks/a-mile-with-sorrow I hope you both…

HYSTERIA poem by: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. I was drawn in by short gasps…

As can happen when you listen to sometime a million times over your mind and ears start accepting things that later you wish you had not. This is a (much better imho) revision thanks to the urging of Gary from the music by computer list.

Vocal, fretless electric guitar, rhodes (Dimension Pro), tenor sax (Dimension Pro), and drums (Session 3 drummer). All but the drums are live performances. The words by T. S. Elliot used: (Orestes:) You don’t see them, you don…

Layla and Majnun is a classical Arabian love story. It is based on the real story of a young man called Qays ibn al-Mulawwah from the northern Arabian Peninsula,[6] in the Umayyad era during the 7th century. There were two Arabic versions…

Recomposition of the following ImprovFriday composers / pieces Peter Thörn Wheel be Norbert Oldani Piano Impro 1,2 3 Another Aulos Impro. Jeff Duke Scanners and Bells Kavin Allenson dragchain brain salad surgeon Slim and None…

this is an ambient version of the choir part for "Its a Noon Medicine"