Announcing a special LA event: “Music From The Other Wakanda” explores a unique sonic palette using multiple microtonal tunings blended with 3 dimensional african rhythms to weave a wild journey that will culminate with the LA premiere of the 40 minute piece, “Classical Music From A Parallel Dimension” that had its world premiere in San Francisco last […]
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On Dec. 8, Erv Wilson took his leave from planet earth.
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Tagged as: Erv Wilson,Gary David | Posted in: Announcements, Epistemology
On September 14th Sonic Sky Records will release its first title: COME ALIVE. The 36 minute nine movement piece was composed in 5.1 Surround in 2001 for the El Paso MicroHoot. It is being released now as a surround DVD. Though COME ALIVE is not a visual product it can be played on any DVD […]
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I have finally just released my Solo Transtonal Pop Album entitled “Embrace It All.” Check out this album on iTunes: These songs are all created using a new musical paradigm called Transcendent Tonality. Think of it as a broad and inclusive mode of perception embracing all possible notes… “regular” notes as well as those that […]
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A journey through the sky with four flying philosophers via transcendent tonality (in this case using 31 tone equal temperament and just intonation),. Music downloadable on itunes, amazon, cdbaby etc.
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Music written by Stephen James Taylor within the paradigm of “Transcendent Tonality”, an emerging term that encompasses microtonality. In this case using a 17 tone per octave scale, unequal, derived from Ervin Wilson”s “Moments of Symmetry” tuning continuum. Underlying meter and rhythms follow same geometry of long and short steps as the consecutive scale intervals […]
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Tagged as: 17 tone unequal scale,33/8 time,beat,Erv Wilson,meter,microtonal,moments of symmetry,rhythm,Stephen James Taylor,transcendent tonality | Posted in: Music, Music Videos
“I Like It Here” is an easy stroll through 31 equal temperament using some spicy chord juxtapositions. The chromatic microtones in the guitar line clearly identify it as 31. Check out the song now available on iTunes.
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There has never been a recorded culture that did not make music. Harry Partch in Genesis Of A Music writes: Music, “good” or not “good,” has only two ingredients that might be called God-given: the capacity of a body to vibrate and produce sound and the mechanism of the human ear that registers it.” I […]
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Tagged as: 12 tone equal,Gary David,Harry Partch,source scales,Western Music | Posted in: Epistemology
Previously, I outlined some of the innate limits of human hearing. Rather than seeing such limits as a barrier, I see them as necessary to creativity. Human feeling needs freedom, but our perceptions and cognitions need limits. How well we learn within our limits defines our degrees of freedom. The old philosophical argument regarding “free […]
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Tagged as: 12 tone equal,epistemology,Erv Wilson,Gary David,limits | Posted in: Epistemology
A traditional Negro spiritual taken to a new dimension.
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Tagged as: 31 tone,microtonal,Stephen James Taylor,transcendent tonality | Posted in: Music, Music Videos
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