Name: Stearns - 20etexample2 by danstearns
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Description: dan stearns - drums, 20-tone equal temperament electric guitar

dan stearns - drums, 20-tone equal temperament electric guitar

Stearns - 20etexample2

Sanctus from Mass in 22edo.
Recorded at Xenharmonic Praxis Summer Camp 2015.
This movement is in Porcupine Temperament. Apart from one accidental, all notes used for this are from Porcupine[7], a 7-note MOS scale that can function as the albitonic scale of Porcupine temperament. The chord progression of the first two repeated phrases pumps the Porcupine comma, 250/243, by root movements of 3/2, 6/5, 6/5, 3/2, 3/2, 9/5. The hosanna section features the harmonic 11th, readily available in Porcupine, in Major add harmonic 11 chords. 

Mass in 22edo - Sanctus

Neuf - U

Stand up, organize!  Dedicated to the memory of Prince. 

Enantiodromia

New Breed Reproduction

Zen Punk

Days Of Wine And Roses - Versión Z - Vex

tuning is 19-equal (if I remember correctly).

unfinished track from 2011 that I rediscovered today

Kaiho ('Saudade') for Carrillo Piano (upright piano with 97 keys, one octave divided into 96 equal steps). First performance at the Muziekgebouw aan t'IJ, Amsterdam, Feb 25, 2018. Ere Lievonen, pianist.
Uses mostly the scale of 18-21-5-13-18-3-5-13 steps in 96edo. The temperament system is known as Porcupine; fifths and minor thirds are tuned wide, and fourth is divided evenly into three steps.

Kaiho

This is a "contemporary" work for string trio performed in Smith Music Hall, University of Illinois, on August 9th, 1970 by: 
Bettye Krolick - violin
Howard Osborn - viola
Robert Swenson - cello

Terse Trio  for violin, viola and cello - Shirley Meyer Blankenship

An experimental piece I did in June 2013 with guitars in two different temperaments: 26edo and 20edo. I've always been fascinated with the free-flowing sound of wind chimes in the breeze and this was inspired by that among other things.

Zephyrous Variantes

8. Guthrie Govan - Waves (Cover By Bryan Stearns)

Self-taught guitarist, composer, microtonalist, improvisor, and video artist, Daniel Stearns grew up a nature mystic and devout Ivesian in his earthbound New England climes obsessed with nature, music, art, and the infinite extraterrestrial carapace of the heavens......Mister Stearns currently resides in Urbana, Illinois and prefers to view his music in a therapeutic/kinetic paradigm where the process is intrinsically tied to sustaining one's own presence in the ongoing work of life and living it as a true work-in-progress.

Stearns - 20etexample2

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