This is an improv using mainly the pentatonic scale. The pentatonic scale falls in a tight block in the center of the layout making for some really fun runs and glissandi.
Ken Rushton (aka MusicScienceGuy), who wrote the Tweaker software, is a leader in making the playing of jammers possible: http://musicscienceguy.typepad.com/blog/
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Lyrics:
I happened to hear today you're happy...
how happy?
The "happy having him" happy,
or just at ease?
Are you walking on air?
Are you walking on his air?
What heroic deed have I to win?
From what heroic venture need I withdrawal?
Until you walk on air I breath?
How not to whine, instead to ask
on what you walk?
I will hear you and whatever happens
you have nothing to fear
Are you walking on my air?
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Tuning: TOP Hanson
Layout: Wicki-Hayden
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Thanks to Jacob Barton for the compositional direction/assistance!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyB5lUaWHmk
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Disclaimer: I'm not a visual artist!
But imagery is super important to my poetry and composition. Also, time lapses are way cool, ergo... this video!
For you music and tuning fiends, this is just in plain old Pythagorean tuning and was recorded in GarageBand using dynamictonality.com's 2032. I chose Pythagorean because the fifths make awesome power chords and the out of tune major and minor triads sound great (to me) with lots of fuzz and distortion.
Composed and rendered using tools from dynamictonality.com
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The background music is Gareth Hearne's Agnus Dei along with my organ accompaniment.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze6qRCH9My8
Rated PPP for "Please Pardon the Profanity"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4UwfiUlLSQ
An original composition performed on my jammer that continuously rotates through all of the diatonic modes with a never ending 2-5-2-5-2-5... chord progression. It is a GREAT exorcise for getting my fingers around playing every seventh chord as well as playing in every diatonic mode. Funny thing is, because this only uses the diatonic scale, this is the only song in existence that is actually EASIER to play on the piano than on the axis-49 remapped to a Wicki/Hayden Layout! Of course, try transposing it out of the C Major diatonic scale on the piano and that's another story...
This is an imitation Thummer ( http://thummer.com/easier.asp ) or "Jammer".
The layout is described here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicki-Hayden_note_layout
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyr9Mywnmys
An improvised piece using a dynamic tonality synthesizer the TransFormSynth (or TFS for short) which remaps your QWERTY keyboard to an isomorphic keyboard, remaps the pitches of each note depending on the tuning, and at the same time maps the partials of the samples to that tuning's corresponding timbres allowing for sensory consonance. It was my first recording in what's called the Magic Temperament, which creates scales by stacking major thirds on top of each other. It starts it 13-edo (thirteen equal divisions of the octave), and then when you hear that weird bending sound (called a "polyphonic tuning bend"), that's me bending the tuning back and forth from 13-edo to 19-edo, then finally passing 19-edo and ending at 3-edo. After that arpeggiated passage I do some more tuning bending and slide all the way down to 10-edo where I finish out the improvisation.
Curious about the diagram? Check out this document:
http://www.thummer.com/ThumTone/Tuning_Invariant_Layouts_Last_Draft.pdf
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfliriA9ELQ