Quarter-tone Piano Prelude #3

[vzsozs]

this should be film-music. i'm sure it would have lot more effect in movies such as thrilles or horror movies

[balisongvlah]

I wish I had a custom white organ with quarter tones and a pedal clavier (if possible, this one also with quarter tones).

[victoriangirl83]

Why does it sound out of tune?

[d809]

@victoriangirl83 Your ear probably isn't used to microtonal music, so it sounds out of tune to you.

[undathebridge]

this is really cool

[andrew12398]

Melodic chaos, I love it

[MrAlexGTV]

Nice, sounds out of tune, but in a controllable way!

[chamberlainforeman]

DOOM should have used this as it's soundtrack.

[foodiste]

The opening motif is particularly haunting, in my opinion. Good work sir!

[shautora]

Too quiet. Can't hear...

[exelpaperclip123]

0:46 - 0:56 Pretty catchy. :D

[Fusion2222]

your compositions are so awesome.. i listen to them often. At least, according to my opinion, they are a bit better than compositions of Ivan Wyschnegradsky

[BlikeNave]

Funny that my western brain tells me that this is out of tune, whereas someone with quarter tones in their musical naturally (eastern tunes) may be more accepting of these frequencies and harmonies.

[twooffour]

@BlikeNave

Well, there's the beat ;)

[Kasket1006]

If someone invented a quartertone guitar, could you perhaps write a piece for it? I'd be very intersted in joining a band that incorporates it ;)

[TheModCon]

@Kasket1006 There are quarter tone guitars, I know the band M.A.N aka Massive Audio Nerve have used them in their latest CD.

On the piece, amazing! Microtones fascinate me no end, and this is a great example! :)

[greece1992bill]

dude...that piece is fineeeee!!!!!! ;)

[vzsozs]

i really enjoyed this. thankyou.

[RobertSHilton]

I understand the two lower manuals, but what does that short top manual do? Great music by the way.

[Christallis]

Congrats. I usually hate contemporary and experimental music as i think it turns away from the original purpose of music and arts in general. Contemporary music usually needs to be analyzed and not really and only "listened". So i m still listening to tonal music (like classical and movie soundtracks). But your compositions are uncommon and really plaesant. My favourite is your Prelude #2, it's just brilliant. So as a composer too, i would like to say keep it up and sincere congratulations.

[TheKifrob]

Turn it up. Can't hear it.

[Fusion2222]

i love your works so much, after listening to some of your pieces i nearly stop to listen half tone piano music, at least i liked quarter tone music before, but mostly in arabian or indian classical music. I am also in love with Ivan Wyschnegradsky, what do you think about him?

[TheTubadude03]

I really enjoyed this piece, I think it is really accessible as far as microtonal music goes. Kudos to the composer!

[MrJohnpilchard]

yes. i would definitely buy a CD. very very cool

[Cgrrp]

if LSD made a noise this would be it

[cholocharile]

Very good music. I concur with the idea for you to issue a CD or something.

[Dooooooom8123]

How do you write quarter tine musically?

[cholocharile]

@Dooooooom8123 There's a special notation system for quarter tone music. If that's what you were wondering.

[52ofem]

I think this has too much- what would you call it? Rising quarter-tones? There are some great parts, but overall I think it could use less rising and falling in quarter tones.

[xxDaisuki]

me gusta!! suena genial.

[GrauenausderTiefe]

wow, i love this !

[yenproject]

the inventor of music microtonal is a mexican ¡¡ and he was the first made quarter of tone piano an thers instruments, JULIAN CARRILLO.

[gibbsies]

VERY interesting sound I'm going to have to get in on this

[dasmikey1964]

My favorite part starts around 1:24 and lasts nearly 30 seconds before we hear Satan's ring tone again...

[Hallowan21]

¬¬ Lo único que me recuerdan esas piezas es a los fantasmas o extraterrestres. No me parecen para nada bonitas, Si quieres hacer una película de terror adelante con esa música, pero en mi opinión no es música para disfrutarse.

[manuelergcruz]

First time I listened to this, I thought most notes are bending..very melodic piece indeed!!

[Gargantupimp]

Satans ring tone

[PhysicsFritz]

I agree, these are exceptional pieces of work.

I'm trying to write my own first Quarter Tone pieces and I was devasated when I heard yours haha! They a so well thought out yet emotional and musical works.

Grab a CD mate, these deserve a great recording, they a fanatastic works! You will be the name I recommend for people wanting Quarter Tone music now!

[Sawa137]

I really like the part between 0:47 and 1:11, please compose more like that :)

[benlablondon]

Incredible eye-opener for me! I never realised such a thing existed... thanks youtube! (and Scott Crothers!)

[kratanuva725]

I think I can honestly say, that between Ives, Haba, and yourself, I enjoy your quarter tone compositions the most.

Who would you say influenced your works the most?

[DieselBodine]

@kratanuva725 ~ I'm truly honored by your opinion. I'd probably have to say Haba, since he left us with more pieces to hear, but Ives is one of my favorite overall composers!

[182tubby]

@DieselBodine Is thi the piano that Julian Carrillo use for his music? or is another one?

[missinformationage]

I WILL learn and perform these preludes...as soon as I get my hands on a quarter-tone piano...c'mon ebay...

[charlesreid1]

LOVE this!

[samuelmichaud]

I like how you sometimes escape the eerie sound that usually comes from the quarter tone + western style.

[liquidrunning]

Now if only I had a quarter tone piano to play around with. Hah!

[trombone71592]

This is my favorite of your preludes, although all of them are so interesting and I can't stop listening to them. You should try to make a quarter-tone prepared piano... if you add a little John Cage in there that would be so weird!

[AyanRafique]

It doesnt sound strange to me at all...... Whats wrong with me lol. Maybe i listen to too much Dream Theater

[DanceMyStyle]

quarter tones freak me :L it ain't natural for me...neither is it charp or flat. haha. ¬¬ (:

[anatrakya]

sounds beautiful...!!

[AndrewHaworthxx]

theres a guys whos tuned a piano where the lowest note is C and the highest is C# but i cant find a video...

[artlessartist]

The inventor of the quarter-tone piano? Could it be.... SAAAAAATAAAAAAAN??????

[tlatoanisco]

No, i think he was Julian Carrillo, a mexican composer that was nominated to the nobel in Physics.

[snape10154]

@artlessartist Actually i think you misplaced the N. . . because santa invented them :)

[LfunkeyA]

nice composition, sounds like dark ambient

[mfbfreak]

'normal' music certainly misses something...

I wonder if i can get used to the weirdness though.

[yuastnav]

That's what I thought, too. :)

I haven listened to some pieces over a year ago, and then nothing. I started relistening today and the more I listen to this music the easier it gets for me to listen and to like it.

But I am still very far from understanding it, though I am thinking about trying to record something on my guitar, tune it a quarter tone down and recording something else and overlaying it. Really wondering how that would sound or how far I would get.

[benjie616]

This is one of the most sinister pieces of music I've ever heard!!

[andykins118118]

quarter tone pianos could very well possibly be the most evil sounding musical instruments ever created

[FiatObscuritas]

@andykins118118 I don't think so, i think is the new searching of a new age of music in the future. Maybe some timetraveler can understand this.

[ALUxoxo]

this is beautiful. :)  thank you for sharing!

[XylenRoberts]

soundtracks for transdimensional beings dancing in abandoned parking lots and other strange dream imagery. beautiful stuff.

can you tell me where one might purchase a quarter-tone piano?

[MrNoelJMIS]

I want to see this thing in a concert! I bet it's fascinating to watch someone play it! :)

[musicool]

Los invito a la nueva web de microtonalismo: MICROTONALISMO punto COM

Tambien hay musica y videos de microtonalismo.

Saludos

[11jupitercowboy8]

This is great! I like the bluesy feel of parts of it.

[jpeanrkode]

Reminiscent of Ives, yet not at all imitating. I like this.

[aldebussy]

If I had a microtonal instrument, I would have asked for the score to learn your music!

[dvnstvn9]

Ugh!! Yuk!!! Sounds nasty, its just sounds like a the first piano ever made that has'nt been tuned since its creation.

[atb1248]

I've played a piano wich have not been tuned since 1750... This is magnificent in comparison.

[ponhand]

I'm blown away. .......

[scaleshort]

OR - just push bridge on yout guitar 3 cm to left. It will be microtonic scale. Logical.

[scaleshort]

I play fretless guitar and I make microtonal music. BUT - here are a lot more tones than 24. Beetwen two frets are adlist 5 microtones.

[dubiousgansta]

Uhhhh...I mean't to say; "U know what I'm talking about!"

I just got back from work. Mind is fried!

[dubiousgansta]

As I have stated before Scott, UR fearlessness in these compositions is quite refreshing, totally interesting, out of the normal acceptence of what we, as humans are use to hearing.

Damn though, I still would like to hear some of UR Banjo runs...U know what I'm taking about!

[sonata1992]

The quarter tone sound is really totally fascinating. Great work on the compositions.

Where do you have your comment explaining how you did this? :P

[DieselBodine]

Hello, Alex. I haven't explained how I've personally been doing this. I may make a video in the future to explain, but for now I'm just letting the music speak for itself.

[sonata1992]

Hey scott. Ok, that's fine :)

They're certainly delicious enough to speak for themselves.

btw, I've finally got an original composition up on my channel for the first time in months ;)

[tandmark]

Interesting aesthetic you're using here, like Ives meets Gershwin. That's the kind of thing that might well win music lovers over to non-12 harmonics. So for goodness sake, man, issue a CD! Personally, I grew up listening to Iannis Xenakis (under whom I briefly studied), Ben Johnston, and Harry Partch, but those guys' work doesn't offer much of a bridge for the ears of the general public. Yours does. So, really, I'm serious, put out a CD.

[DieselBodine]

Hello, tandmark.  That's really cool that you studied under Xenakis. Thanks for your positive input! 8-)

[RedOnChrome]

i`m with tandmark on this, yours music bridge much more naturally from "normal music" to microtonal music. you cant just jump out on the deep end and expect everybody to follow suit, you need to slowly inch them along. keep making great and different music!

[JupiterIV]

@DieselBodine Who made that pianoforte for you?

[wfly81]

@tandmark

I agree. This would be VERY listenable and approachable for most people...something very difficult for quarter-tone music.

[Jazzguts]

Hi Scott,is there a guitar I can play quarter tones on? then I'll start composing some myself, probably the length of the neck will be so long that I'll have to have therapy in hand-stretching first,then they'll be as long as my body,LOL ,just joking man, you're into fascinating ground here,never a dull moment with Maestro Bodine<greets Vic.

[DieselBodine]

Hello Bro Vic. Took a little vacation from ''The Tube'' for a week. I think a Quarter-tone Guitar is a little hard to find to buy from a normal manufacturer, but people have them special made. There are some on the marker, though, if you look hard enough from luthiers. You can also have the extra frets added to one of your Guitars.

[AtheistCitizen]

fretless would allow you to pick the scale..qt , 1/3 tone..

[DieselBodine]

Hallo, Frank. More to come... as time permits. 8-)

[haterask]

What a great piece! It is so fresh and inspired. Almost like scratching an itch. I discovered your work through your duets with Victor. This is quite different, but still a blast to listen to. Tell me, do you build the piece from the ground up in quarter-tone, or rather in 12 tone and then embellish? I am also interested in how you develop harmony in quarter tone. Are there established harmonic relationships between all the notes?

[DieselBodine]

Hello, haterask. I created it from the ground up, adding the quarter-tones as part of the flow of the piece. There are some writings on the relationships that others have written, but I haven't had much luck in finding these writings in=print or for sale. I have read an essay by Charles Ives on the matter though.

[delbhoye]

Compelling but strangely disturbing ... like staggering barefoot through a darkened yard where an incontinent Great Dane lives. :oD

[DieselBodine]

Hello, Derek. Better keep your shoes on! LOL & 8-)

[AtheistCitizen]

Detwelvulate!

[DieselBodine]

Hello, AtheistCitizen. Not quite that ''microtonal,'' just exploring quarter-tones for now, but I may expand at some point in the future.

[AtheistCitizen]

understood, and I appreciate your effort. It's just that I'm always more interested in what categorically we can find palatable, or why a scale/harmony works with human minds.

[fendermac]

I watched your preludes in reverse order and now realise that the fat,triple decker piano is real and not an altered image.'mazing.

[DieselBodine]

Yes, Paul, those Quarter-tone Pianos are huge!

[fendermac]

Do you favour a detuned electric or the Monk adjacent semi-tones?Haha..don't answer that-I'm talking tosh as always.Curiously alluring.*****

[DieselBodine]

Paul... I think a retrograded quasi-string refurburator set on its ''0'' gravity setting will be my tonal retrification for the forseeable future. Toshin' ya' back, bro!

[BodineSpeaks]

Thank-you, CDmagz. I'll probably hold off for a little while before I continue with my ''Quarter-tone Piano Preludes.'' I don't want to isolate myself too much from the ''normal people.''

LOL & 8-)

[GlimpseAfterGlimpse]

well, i guess i'm not normal.

michael

[DieselBodine]

Hello, Michael. That's why we get along!

[CDmagz]

Superb job on this one ! Bravo !

Love, peace and happiness,

=xxx= The CDMagz-team

[DieselBodine]

Thanks, CDmagz.  8-)