On the Shores of the Dead Sea

This is a guitar piece in classical style in 17 notes per octave using the 17 version of the phyrigian mode. For the composition, I developed a framework last night and this morning and then in Jazz style improvised around the pre-determined framework.

Read the details, stream video, audio and leave comments here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=784

download mp3
http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/dead_sea.mp3

download full quality video (157 MB)
http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/Dead_Sea.wmv

On Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D39MVFhb0Ho

I hope this isn't a double post. My portal into Yahoo groups has abeen a bit weird of late.

This is a guitar piece in classical style in 17 notes per octave using the 17 version of the phyrigian mode. For the composition, I developed a framework last night and this morning and then in Jazz style improvised around the pre-determined framework.

Read the details, stream video, audio and leave comments here:
http://chrisvaisvil.com/?p=784

download mp3
http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/dead_sea.mp3

download full quality video (157 MB)
http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/Dead_Sea.wmv

On Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D39MVFhb0Ho

Really enjoyed this. I've been drawn to Phyrigian lately since the recorder
I randomly put holes in a few days ago wound up playing the first notes of
Phyrigian.

Thanks for the listen and comment Daniel - I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Pyrygian is one of my favorite modes. I like Locrian quite a bit too. In a
way Phrygian and Locrian are inverses of each other.

Chris

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Daniel Nielsen <nielsed@...> wrote:

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>
> Really enjoyed this. I've been drawn to Phyrigian lately since the recorder
> I randomly put holes in a few days ago wound up playing the first notes of
> Phyrigian.
>
>

Huh, in that line of thinking, I'm liking what happens when the 7th degree
of Phyrigian is raised a 1/2 step (in analogy to the harmonic minor scale) -
makes for a nice "V7-i" (if a bit dreary), where the "V7" is actually a Fr6
(the fifth normally being the start of Locrian). According to wikipedia this
is a mode of the Hungarian gypsy scale.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Chris Vaisvil <chrisvaisvil@...>wrote:

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>
> Thanks for the listen and comment Daniel - I'm glad you enjoyed it!
>
> Pyrygian is one of my favorite modes. I like Locrian quite a bit too. In a
> way Phrygian and Locrian are inverses of each other.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Daniel Nielsen <nielsed@...> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Really enjoyed this. I've been drawn to Phyrigian lately since the
>> recorder I randomly put holes in a few days ago wound up playing the first
>> notes of Phyrigian.
>>
>
>
>

I was playing around with some different scales a couple of nights this past
week, esp. HWWWHA2H, WHWHWHWH, and WHA2HWWH. I posted a very short segment
(the first thing I've put on youtube and it's dark :/):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wvuChdA1-M

nice playing and I enjoyed your scales.

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Daniel Nielsen <nielsed@...> wrote:

>
>
> I was playing around with some different scales a couple of nights this
> past week, esp. HWWWHA2H, WHWHWHWH, and WHA2HWWH. I posted a very short
> segment (the first thing I've put on youtube and it's dark :/):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wvuChdA1-M
>
>