19 note per equal guitar, loopstation, sonar X1, processing. Impressions Of Francois-Marie Arouet (De Voltaire) written and read by Ezra Pound III To Madame Lullin You’ll wonder that an old man of eighty Can go on writing you verses…

Picture and information here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=859 Line up: 2 tracks (right and left) of hammer dulcimer, fretless bass, and cameo appearances for both fretless guitar and electric psaltery.

Ambient video and audio improvisation with my 19 notes per octave guitar, loopstation, Marshall amplifier, Zoom H2 and post-processing. on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGO0R381HQs full quality video http://clones.soonlabel.com/public…

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for choir, percussion, piano, hang drum and prisoners.

This is in some boring typical genre. I just can't figure out which one. Perhaps Wiccan dances for epileptics? Not sure. In Cold Hell, in Thicket is a microtonal musical setting of Charles Olsen reading his poem in 1950 as provided by PennSound…

Year: 2011 Album: Voiced Thoughts Artist's description: A musical setting for an excerpt of The Book of Frank as written and recited by CA Conrad The piece uses a rock ensemble of guitar, two bass guitars, 2 pianos, 2 synthesizers…

if you are interested in windy dialog about the music go here: http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=838

This is an animated score video of Charles Griffes' impressionistic piano piece "Vale of Dreams". Technically, Sonar X1, Pianoteq, Sony Vegas. The full quality video is available here: http://tinyurl.com/4ycnfjg I've had this midi…

fun with loops - some I made - some I didn't - most I messed with - some may be recognized from my other work.

19 note per octave electric guitar, Marshall amp, zoom H2, some footage I shot today and Sony Vegas. Created for ImprovFriday Download the full quality video (191 MB) http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/video/19_improvfridays.wmv

a video of my performance complete with dancing ferrets. Full quality video http://micro.soonlabel.com/canon/canon_harmonics.wmv

not nearly as nice as the original http://alonetone.com/richardlaceves/tracks/piano-moment-7 nonetheless I'm hopelessly in love with the flatted 5th theme.

Minamisoma was a city in Japan that was destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami of 3/11/2011. The Angels of Minamisoma is a memorial piece for flute and vibraphone written in free tonality that is driven by melodic and harmonic tendencies that…

Pictured about is my new 19 note per octave guitar which was used extensively for this piece. For more production information http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=800 The text is from an interview with a Japanese woman after the 3/11/2011 earthquake…

This is a motet I wrote for theory class slowed down by a factor of 12 and sung by 4 different choirs. A contribution to the ImprovFriday drone fest. And I made a video too.

This is a video piece made for the ImprovFriday drone theme event which used my DIY 9 string canon, DIY electrified 8 string psaltery, viola bow, ebow, and fingers. The tuning in unknown – just something I did by ear. Pictures, streamable video…

download full quality video (157 MB) http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/Dead_Sea.wmv This is a guitar piece in classical style in 17 notes per octave using the 17 version of the phyrgian mode. In normal 12 equal tuning phyrgian mode starts on…

My composition Ediacaran Garden for classical guitar has been selected for performance by Kenji Haba in New York City June 26 2011 as part of the Fifteen Minutes of Fame with Kenji Haba Vox Novus series. A requirement was that the piece not…

This is the first time I picked up and tried to play a guitar that is in 88 cent equal temperament - the tuning does not contain an octave. Since this was the first time I made some mistakes. Nonetheless I think it sounds interesting.