A Cast of Billions with Norm Harris

A good friend and percussionist Norm Harris contributed percussion to this track – A Cast of Billions - so I ripped out all of the midi percussion and used Norm's percussion, added a track where I speak Evan's poem and did some remastering. Here is the result – best version yet IMHO. The track is in 17 equal

A Cast of Billions, poetry by Evan K. Harrington, Percussion by Norm Harris, Music in 17 equal by Chris Vaisvil

I made a conscious effort to try to sound different from 12 equal and compose music that was quite microtonal. In memory of Evan Harrington.
online play (of all 3 versions)
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=519

direct download
http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/if20110209-17-a-cast-of-billions-with-norm.mp3

A Cast of Billions

on the dispassionate shore
on the longitude of recursive naught
on a formal lacidity overlooking the deep end
of your swimming pool of thought
and wherewithal without, I am a native
of the repository of selfless abandon
and you a radiation of the contemplative
comb which filters the streaming random
fractured days of redundant indiscipline
cannot weight against the globes
stalwart artists can pencil in
orgasmic frenzies of the lobes
where camouflage rages gain
if we love it is from fear
but that is nature's game
returning from detouring years
applaud the cast of billions
for the splendid production
in all of its revisions
in all of its conduction
all of this amorphously to say
we've still not drained the pool
although it's often murky
and quite the abode of fools

EKH 4/14/92
Recorded in Sonar X1
17 note per octave electric guitar (2 tracks)
Washburn fretless bass
vocal
Norm's many percussion pieces.

and this a bump as well

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 5:44 PM, christopherv <chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:

>
>
> A good friend and percussionist Norm Harris contributed percussion to this
> track � A Cast of Billions - so I ripped out all of the midi percussion and
> used Norm's percussion, added a track where I speak Evan's poem and did some
> remastering. Here is the result � best version yet IMHO. The track is in 17
> equal
>
> A Cast of Billions, poetry by Evan K. Harrington, Percussion by Norm
> Harris, Music in 17 equal by Chris Vaisvil
>
> I made a conscious effort to try to sound different from 12 equal and
> compose music that was quite microtonal. In memory of Evan Harrington.
> online play (of all 3 versions)
> http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=519
>
> direct download
>
> http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/if20110209-17-a-cast-of-billions-with-norm.mp3
>
> A Cast of Billions
>
> on the dispassionate shore
> on the longitude of recursive naught
> on a formal lacidity overlooking the deep end
> of your swimming pool of thought
> and wherewithal without, I am a native
> of the repository of selfless abandon
> and you a radiation of the contemplative
> comb which filters the streaming random
> fractured days of redundant indiscipline
> cannot weight against the globes
> stalwart artists can pencil in
> orgasmic frenzies of the lobes
> where camouflage rages gain
> if we love it is from fear
> but that is nature's game
> returning from detouring years
> applaud the cast of billions
> for the splendid production
> in all of its revisions
> in all of its conduction
> all of this amorphously to say
> we've still not drained the pool
> although it's often murky
> and quite the abode of fools
>
> EKH 4/14/92
> Recorded in Sonar X1
> 17 note per octave electric guitar (2 tracks)
> Washburn fretless bass
> vocal
> Norm's many percussion pieces.
>
>
>

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This piece appeals to the hippy in me, and there is a lot of hippy in me. Love the exotic atmosphere and harmony, did you stay within one particular scale or is it freer than that? Is that a 17EDO vocoder?

So yeah good stuff, Mat Cooper