Comments on: GR-20 Hexaphonic 19-ET Guitar Improvisation

By: charles lucy

charles lucy — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:17:53 +0000

[...] upstate … Lucy and Sarah are also preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy, where his …GR-20 Hexaphonic 19-ET Guitar Improvisation Chris VaisvilHi Charles, thanks for the listen and comment. I tried something like that back in 87 or 88 as well [...]

By: Nakesha Vandercook

Nakesha Vandercook — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:11:45 +0000

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By: I See The Void « Chris Vaisvil

I See The Void « Chris Vaisvil — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:15:39 +0000

[...] performance at the Oddmusic Convergence used the same tuning (19 ET), equipment and software as GR-20 Hexaphonic 19-ET Guitar Improvisation with the exception that Session Drummer 3 was added. I performed two pieces that night and this one [...]

By: admin

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:34:04 +0000

Hi Charles, thanks for the listen and comment. I tried something like that back in 87 or 88 as well – the GR-20 is much much better – the reason I play so slow is from the synthesizer patches – very long attacks for most of them. I believe I hit a few notes with shorter attacks on the low strings at a few points in the improvisation. Though youtube made the video slightly out of sync there is no latency worth mentioning.

By: Charles Lucy

Charles Lucy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:03:27 +0000

Fun!
I tried this back in the mid 80′s using a Shadow pitch tracker and running it into a Yamaha DX7 Mk II which was microtuned.

As I suspect you found, the latency was so slow that although it would trigger approximately the “right” microtunings, the playing techniques became very limited. Hence as you show, slow passages are more appropriate.