About Chris Vaisvil
Hello, I am a 12 tet and microtonal composer who works at the edge between acoustic and electronic instruments.
My art is about now and is a response to the inspiration I feel from the visual, musical, poetic, and literary art of 20th and 21st centuries as well as world events . The art of our period I think has so much to say about who we are, where we have been, and what we will, or will not be as a community – a world village – a people, a unity of souls divided by the gulf of physical being and monetary inequity but united in spirit, desires, hopes and dreams. My goal is to communicate with you and if what I do speaks to you then I as an artist have succeeded.
I have performed several times in Urbana IL at the Independent Media Center in association with Oddmusic Urbana and performed at the Xenharmonic Praxis 2011 held at the Gesundheit! Institute in West Virginia. My music has received radio play and I have had pieces selected for the 2010 Voxnovus / UnTwelve 60 by 60 (17ET Jazz), and 2011 Vox Novus 60×60 international mix (Free Sue). These pieces have been performed in Chicago, New York City, Boston and other cities internationally. (Vox Novus 60×60) Additionally my composition “Ediacaran Garden” for classical guitar has been selected and performed by Kenji Haba in New York City as part of the Vox Novus Composer’s Voice series.
I am involved in a number of microtonal internet gatherings such as Untwelve where I serve as a board member and help put together microtonal happenings. Also I am a member composer for Vox Novus. As part of my microtonal reach out host full albums of music by other artists and myself, provide Gene Ward Smith an example area for his tuning research, host a ton of examples by myself and others in a lot of different tunings. (My offer of web hosting for the music of fellow artists on a case by case basis. Please contact me if you have a need and can follow US copyright law.)
Unless otherwise noted my (Chris Vaisvil’s) music is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 
CC BY-NC-ND license.
I accept requests for composing scores and/or audio rendering of the scores on a commission basis under the company banner of Vaisvil Compositions, LLC. The music you commission will be composed to your specifications. This can be music for your film, text, poetry, or lyrics set to music and can be exclusively for your own performance as you desire. Contact me at chrisvaisvil @ gmail dot com to discuss the project you have in mind.
If you want to support my work in general you can donate in the amount that is appropriate for you by emailing me for my how to do so. All funds will be used to support the music and related work that I am donating to the public under the Creative Commons License. If you would like a physical memento of your donation I would be glad to provide a CD or DVD of my work.
In a hurry?
You can find my music suitable for mass downloading at:
micro.soonlabel.com sorted by tuning system.
and you can find more music in 12 edo and various odds and ends at http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/
I’ve been listening to your music and realizing how little I know about some things. You are way further into the machinery than I. Mostly I’m a folk singer, but I’m always trying to learn more about what is going on with music.
Thank you for commenting at Alonetone.
j mt
Hi!
I’m new to the alonetone.com website and didn’t know how to reply to your comments through that site–but I did want to send a reply to you right away.
I do most of my stuff on my Casio keyboard (Privia)–the rhythms and a lot of the sounds are from that–I also add guitar and harmonica but most of the time I just produce bare-bones backup for my songs, hoping that eventually someone else will want to re-do one of them more professionally.
I’m 61. The original lyric at the beginning of that one song was, “We were cool Valley kids in the 60′s…..” I just decided to change it to “the 80′s” in hopes that a slightly-younger singer might want to do it!!!
I had a Nashville band backup on a few songs: “I’ll Take Today”, “My Baby Left Me”, and “Sinking In Seattle”–which is why they have a more professional sound.
Your stuff is fabulous!!! And thanks so much for taking a moment to listen to some of my songs!
Best Wishes,
John Eimen
Seattle
I just want to thank you so much for Heptadecaphilia. It has its rough edges, but for mass and weight it is great. I can consider it as music far more readily than a LOT of microtonal “stuff”. What are the license terms of your work?
By the way, have you ever tried 40 or 50 lb test fishing line on your guitars? its cheaper than those cable ties…
Thank you for your contributions to life in spite of life (life with ART, that is).
Hi Sentens,
Thanks for the comments (and listens) to Heptadecaphillia. My work is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license.
I tried the fishing line idea but did not have a great deal of luck with getting the proper tension on the line. It is something that I intend to revisit in the future.
Also, thank you for your statement about contributing to life – that is a really big focus as to why I share what I do and encourage others to share as well. Music is such a great way to bridge the distance between people and connect to each other.
Respectfully,
Chris