Name: Vesuvius (from Countenance sessions) by The Mercury Tree
Duration: 6 min 11 s
Description: This song from 2013 didn't quite make it onto the Countenance album, but it's a really cool track featuring Aaron Clark on lead vocals! We're releasing this to coincide with the Iowa presidential primaries.

No Love

This song from 2013 didn't quite make it onto the Countenance album, but it's a really cool track featuring Aaron Clark on lead vocals! We're releasing this to coincide with the Iowa presidential primaries.

Vesuvius (from Countenance sessions)

Original studio version of Alien Music, in 4 simultaneous meters, and 4 different tunings: 7-tone slendro, 5-tone pelog, 19TET and 12TET. I am playing the drumset live, with added synths in the studio from Emulator IV, by E-Mu, and composed in DP4. 2002.

Alien Music, in Polymicrotonal Polymeter

This song is composed, performed and edited by Patrick Araújo.

Self deprecation [single]

Self-deprecation

One of my tighter "proggier" efforts, with multiple time signatures, and includes some nifty, whirly textures and listen to that trademark Rickenbacker bass! Could serve as a back room edit from a lost Yes album with Chris Squire at the fore! Or something like that.

More of the same from this album on Bandcamp:
https://andagne.bandcamp.com/album/threshold

Leapfrog

Dusted off the Frippertronics reels again, adding a healthy dose of granular synthesis for the lead solo.

Single Pane Of Glass

This is a string duet, using the Mavila scale, created in response to the xenharmonic community’s ‘Tuning of the Month’ challenge of June 2017. Charlotte New Music Festival 2017 required its creation, to be played by the Beo String Quartet, as a vigorous speedwriting challenge. So, I picked sixth tones to write with because they are more xenharmonic than quartertones, but still overlap with 12-equal quite a lot. This piece is obsessed with a constant state of beginning, as the two voices constantly seem like they are entering against each other, as in the exposition of a fugue, or a canon. Dedicated to Lou Harrison’s life, the performance is a memorial of how he brought gamelan to the United States in an influential way, although not indicative of the gamelan style in any particular way. I also share interests with Lou Harrison, namely, non-Western music and a birthday, so pondering his legacy is very special for me specifically. Openings of each of Lou Harrison’s gamelan pieces are all quoted, as well as one of his piano sonatas. The instruments also play in the same key (D) as his American Gamelan, and only one note of the scale is inaccurate to what that ensemble played, namely, the minor third of Harrison’s ensemble is represented in this piece by a significantly flatter note, the septimal minor third (267 cents) of 9-equal. 

Huge thanks to Sandro Leal-Santiesteban (violin), and Ryan Ash (cello) of Beo String Quartet for playing this at CNMF 2017!

Gamelan, Origin, Creation (9 - EDO)

Superbeat - WIP

Trying out 12 EDT tuning (http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/12edt) on the Circuit.

Tritave Trial

Created in LMMS with ZynAddSubFX.  All percussion samples come from the free "99 Sounds" libraries -- especially the aptly named "Digital Malfunctions" and "Mangling Audio" collections.

Vesuvius (from Countenance sessions)

The Mercury Tree

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