This video shows an experiment using my Opal Chameleon sending MIDI data, through Disarray, to M and, from there, to Spectrasonics Omnisphere, through Logic Pro. Read More...

Cubana Al Cubana Pha

03 November 2011

This piece is a study in the use of different user interfaces. Read More...

AlphaTherem Waltz

07 October 2011

This lyrical piece is the second one featuring Carlos Alpha tuning system played with my Opal Chameleon. Read More...

Alpha Dulcimer

01 October 2011

This is my first piece composed using Carlos Alpha with my Chameleon Read More...

Austrian Fantasy

05 September 2011

This movie was filmed in and around Salzburg during a recent vacation me and my family spent in Austria. Read More...

23 Laments

02 August 2011

This is a follow-up to my previous piece Desert Winds Read More...

Desert Winds in 23EDO

23 July 2011

This is an improvisation I recorded in a single take playing an Omnisphere’s sound. Read More...

Spectra Trio

11 July 2011

These 3 pieces are studies I recorded while learning how to interact with the Spectrasonics trio of softsynths Read More...

Possible Worlds

10 July 2011

I am very pleased and honored to be part of this xenharmonic compilation released by Spectropol Records Read More...

UGDoLA

19 June 2011

This song is the Carlos Beta version of Un Giorno Dopo L’Altro (1966) by Luigi Tenco Read More...

Angela B.

01 June 2011

Angela is a song originally written by Italian songwriter Luigi Tenco in 1966. Read More...

tiBETAn Dreams

08 May 2011

A virtual ethnic piece played in Carlos Beta PIANO1 mode. Read More...

Beta Easter(n)

23 April 2011

This is the first video recording of myself playing in Carlos Beta. Read More...

Retuning Reason 5 with LMSO

14 April 2011

Reason is not a microtonal-friendly application so you have to force it into it and LMSO does it beautifully. Read More...

Tribalism #2

02 April 2011

This is a follow-up to Tribalism #1 because part of the material used this time had been recorded for the previous song and then split off. Read More...

Five years ago I got LMSO!

24 March 2011

I received the installation CD from X.J.Scott at the end of March 2006... Read More...

Tribalism #1

13 March 2011

Virtual tribal music for the XXI° century! Read More...

Over The Beta Rainbow

01 March 2011

“Over The Rainbow” after receiving a “Beta treatment” Read More...

Gammatar

06 February 2011

The definitive collection of my Carlos Gamma guitar songs! Read More...

Lonely Beta Woman

02 January 2011

A Carlos Beta version of “Lonely Woman” by Ornette Coleman Read More...

The Dawn Of Beta

01 January 2011

Creating a set-up to play Carlos Beta Read More...

Jingle Gamma Bells

20 December 2010

A Christmas classic tuned to Carlos Gamma Read More...

KYMI Exercise #1

14 November 2010

Knowing your music interface: exercise #1 Read More...

Invocation

07 November 2010

A video recording of a free improvisation Read More...

Autumnal Modulations

25 October 2010

extensive modulations with Carlos Gamma Read More...

Linus, Lucy and Halberstadt

06 October 2010

Two years after “Goodbye Halberstadt” and more than one after ”Will I ever bid farewell to Halberstadt?” I still play the piano, once in awhile! Read More...

Double Trouble

21 September 2010

As promised at the end of my previous article, I am posting a couple of video examples employing the note layouts presented there Read More...

Elba Gamma

01 September 2010

An audio-video recording inspired by my recent vacation on the Elba island Read More...

A review of “Musical Mathematics” by Cris Forster

22 August 2010

My review of a great book Read More...

Bicycles and Bowls

21 August 2010

This piece is a free improvisation featuring 3 Spectrasonics Omnisphere’s sounds Read More...

Bad Henkings

29 July 2010

A collaboration among Alister Flint, Chris Vaisvil and me. Read More...

Edonoists Of The World Unite!

17 July 2010

I think I coined the term EDONOI in July 2009 when I created the group “Equal Division of Non-Octave Intervals” at Xenharmonic Alliance Read More...

Conference of Flutes

15 July 2010

This piece is a demo of MOTU’s Ethno2 Read More...

Crack My Pitch Up

12 July 2010

I am very pleased and honored to be part of this microtonal compilation released by Split Notes Microtonal Netlabel Read More...

Gamma Breezin'

01 July 2010

The title says it all: I play Gamma “in a casual or lighthearted manner”. Read More...

The Solstice Song

20 June 2010

The premiere of this song was broadcasted June 19th, 2010 as part of the Summer Solstice 2010 Online Streaming Concert Read More...

The Summer Solstice Online Streaming Concert

09 June 2010

16 hours of live music streamed online: 23 artists from UK, USA, Italy, Netherlands, Croatia, China and Sweden Read More...

Gamma Raga

01 June 2010

MOTU Ethno2 violins, a Nord G2 drone sound and a few percussion loops for an Indian setting. Read More...

Talking Gamma In Your Sleep

11 May 2010

...a xenharmonic remake! Read More...

Hal Trumpetti

01 May 2010

a XenoRomantic song! Read More...

Delta Gamma Blues - Version 2

25 April 2010

This song was created as my entry to the “AEH Ethno2 microtonal demos competition” Read More...

Delta Gamma Blues...

13 April 2010

... or How to retune MOTU Ethno2 sounds without having to deal with Scala files! Read More...

Dynamic modulation vs. static retuning techniques - part two

01 April 2010

Dynamic Modulation “enables you to instantly change the anchor settings of your scale, to move the note that the tonic note of the scale appears on to a new anchor key, and to transpose the anchor frequency of the scale accordingly so that things line up.” Read More...

Dynamic modulation vs. static retuning techniques - part one

24 March 2010

This is the first installment of a two-part article about “dynamic modulation vs. static retuning techniques” Read More...

MicroVocoder I

01 March 2010

Live microtonal vocoding performance! Read More...

The Singing Alchemist

14 February 2010

This is a song born from a couple of recent updates to my setup: Camel Audio Alchemy BigTone sound library and Spectral Vocoder, a Nord G2 patch by Swiss synthesist Tim Kleinert Read More...

East Of The Moon

19 January 2010

3 Controllers for 1 Note! Read More...

Breath of the Chameleon

12 January 2010

Chameleon + breath controller + VL70m + Carlos Gamma... Read More...

Chameleon and me - a short video

23 December 2009

First attempt at filming myself playing the Opal Chameleon... Read More...

Glorious 60

17 December 2009

My submission to the 2010 60x60 project. Read More...

Gamma Monk and The Semitones

10 December 2009

One night I had a dream of myself playing B*** M*** by T********* M*** on my Opal Chameleon... Read More...

Chameleons in the sun

01 December 2009

Another song inspired by my Chameleon! Read More...

Tetrachordal Gamma

24 November 2009

A new visual layout for the Opal Chameleon Read More...

Gamma Elegy

13 November 2009

A song featuring a new note layout for an isomorphic keyboard and Carlos Gamma tuning system Read More...

Chameleons in the dark

07 October 2009

First piece playing the Chameleon Read More...

Quasiton

26 September 2009

The ultimate example of post-jazz bebop-o-tronics! Read More...

An Irishman in Guangdong

23 September 2009

A Sino-Irish song, if ever there was one! Read More...

Bix in the sky with Gamma

13 September 2009

...My jazz background keeps haunting me... Read More...

MetaSynth5 experiments

30 August 2009

I recently upgraded to MetaSynth 5... Read More...

RibboMan And The Maniacs

26 July 2009

RibboMan and the Maniacs, a “ribbon extravaganza” Read More...

Soprano RibbonSax

13 July 2009

Soprano RibbonSax is another experiment using the Doepfer R2M ribbon controller. Read More...

R2M and CC#1

09 July 2009

How to create timbral variety with CC#1 using a R2M as note generator. Read More...

Studio Pictures

06 July 2009

Pictures of Seraph Sound Studios - July 2009 Read More...

Moonlight Gamma Serenade

01 July 2009

Moonlight Gamma Serenade is the third piece I compose using the same mode of Carlos Gamma after Adagio Gamma (see it for explanations about this tuning system and the related mode I use) and Gammalan... Read More...

Ribbon Flute

27 June 2009

...featuring a Doepfer R2M ribbon controller... Read More...

Today I received 2 CDs...

25 June 2009

...featuring my musical contributions Read More...

Will I ever bid farewell to Halberstadt?

20 June 2009

I don’t think so but I am going to start experimenting with alternative musical user interfaces, soon! Read More...

Tim's Flutes

11 June 2009

In Memory of Tim Conrardy Read More...

Two At Once

01 June 2009

A 12tET jazzy modal improvisation with a microtonal twist! Read More...

Gammalan

01 May 2009

Gammalan, as the title implies, is a composition based on Carlos Gamma tuning system (the same I used for Adagio Gamma) using a gamelan inspired virtual orchestra. Read More...

Adagio Gamma

19 April 2009

This piece is called Adagio Gamma because it is a slow piece using Carlos Gamma tuning system. Read More...

Underwater Dreaming

01 February 2009

Underwater Dreaming started out as an experiment while browsing the new sounds of Spectrasonics Omnisphere 1.0.3 update... Read More...

Neutral Steel

25 January 2009

Neutral Steel is a song for lap steel guitar and drums. It reminds me of the style of Ry Cooder or Bill Frisell but with a twist... Read More...

88 Jingle Bells

20 December 2008

I have arranged this version of Jingle Bells in 88cET just in time for the Holidays!
Happy Xenharmonic Season's Greetings! Read More...

Carlos Glass 1

11 December 2008

Carlos Glass 1 is a short example demonstrating DYNAMIC MODULATION. It means live modulation changes during performance transposing the anchor to the pitch and key of a note in the original scale. Read More...

88 Bulgarians

04 December 2008

An Omnisphere choir sound tuned to 88cET (equal division of the perfect fifth into 8 equal parts) for a pseudo-Bulgarian folk song Read More...

Goodbye Halberstadt

01 November 2008

The reason to present this collection of tunes is to show my skill as piano player and arranger in the environment of 12 tone equal tempered (12tET) tuning system using an "Halberstadt keyboard". Read More...

MoonSuite

01 October 2008

"Moonsuite" is an experiment using an "empirical" tuning I made up while studying LMSO's new tuning latch function Read More...

7EDO Dance

01 September 2008

7EDO Dance is a simple study of "7 steps Equal Division of the Octave" tuning system Read More...

Qablitum

01 August 2008

Qablitum is a piece inspired by listening to a lecture of February 1971 by Lou Harrison about "The Tuning of the Babylonian Harp". The piece features a violin and a harp using an ancient Mesopotamian scale Read More...

Alphadesert

01 July 2008

Alphadesert is again a piece featuring Carlos Alpha, a non-octave scale based on the division of a perfect fifth into 9 equal parts (each step 77.995 cents) Read More...