Name: Zephyrous Variantes by guttergeodine
Duration: 8 min 1 s
Description: 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.

this is really nice Zach, yes, I can consider gloomy as "nice". some strange chords in there, like' light tearing

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16-tone Arpeggios using a 6-line staff - so a 222122221 diatonic scale, which is a minor cycle of fifths. 

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Scott McGill-Guitar, Dave Kloss Bass/Stick, Ritchie DeCarlo Drums. From our newest disc "FreakZoid Returns" 

02 All Up In This

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by Jurica Jelic
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a project by Marco Lucchi

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Jurica Jelic - 5 note miniature

A couple of improvisations on a guitar loaned to me by Kite Giedratis.  The guitar is fretted to 41 notes per double-octave, i.e. every other note of 41 notes per octave, using movable cable ties.  On these tracks I modified the fretting slightly by moving the 2nd fret down one step of 41edo and then put a capo behind it, effectively moving all the frets above it UP by one step of 41edo, so that the frets all give odd-numbered pitches from 41edo instead of even-numbered ones.  This gives frets for approximations to the ratios 21/20, 12/11, 9/8, 7/6, 6/5, 5/4, 9/7, 4/3, 11/8, and 10/7 relative to the open strings, which makes it possible to let the open strings ring out against pitches fretted low on the neck when the open strings are tuned to DADGAD or DGDGAD, my two favorite open tunings.  

Without the offset I introduced, the normal fretting on Kite's guitar would have the lowest frets approximating 28/27, 16/15, 10/9, 8/7, 32/27, 11/9, 81/64, 15/11, 7/5, and 16/11, which doesn't work well for the open tunings I like but is rather designed to have the open strings tuned in parallel 3rds (5/4 or 6/5), for an isomorphic layout that facilitates chords built by stacking 3rds.  I found that tuning somewhat challenging, being so unlike any open string tunings I've ever used before, and most of the intervals between non-adjacent open strings are rather discordant.  Other players, whose styles don't lean as heavily on open strings and drones the way I do, may find Kite's original design preferable to my modification.

But anyway, the two designs can coexist on the same fretboard by simply inserting an extra fret between the 1st and 2nd instead of moving the 2nd fret lower as I have done, and by varying the tuning of the open strings as you please.  It's a fantastic way to access the resources of 41edo on a guitar, without having an absurd number of very closely-spaced frets!

Modified Kite Guitar Take 1 - Clean

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

Ensemble Scala at MicroFest Amsterdam 2019: Ere Lievonen and Ivan Pavlov, Fokker (31-tone) organ; Stefan Gerritsen, 31-tone electric guitar; Raymond Honing, flute; Michel Marang, clarinet; Manuel Visser, viola; Mervyn Groot, drums and percussion.
The tuning system is 31 equal divisions of the octave. With the exception of the section that begins at 11'18", the music is written in the temperament whose scales are generated by the 11-step interval, 425.8¢, ie. ~9/7, 'Skwares', used as a 13-limit system with no intervals of 5.
Marche funèbre tricésimoprimale was commissioned by Ensemble Scala. It was written in 2017 and premiered in Amsterdam in 2018.
This performance was recorded live on the 1st of December, 2019, at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam

Zephyrous Variantes

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