Philip Glass' Koyaanisqatsi on Eigenharp Alpha

This music is part of my album "Eigenharp Sketches of 2011" which is free to download: http://gbevin.bandcamp.com/album/eigenharp-sketches-of-2011

You can also find it on SoundCloud:
http://soundcloud.com/gbevin/koyaanisqatsi

I've prepared a reinterpretation of Koyaanisqatsi for our San Francisco Eigenharp tour from May 5-10.

Koyaanisqatsi holds a special place in my heart, it's one of those musical pieces that never leaves you, it stays deep inside you with all its beauty and nakedness, forever. My father introduced me to it when I was a little kid, it's a real shame he passed away before I was able to play it for him myself. He would have loved it. Nonetheless, this is dedicated to him.

I think I managed to capture the essence of Koyaanisqatsi, let me know what you think of it.

For those interested in the technical parts:

Everything is played on the Eigenharp Alpha and recorded straight from the audio interface output without any mixing and just a little bit of mastering. I'm using the SonicCouture's Glass / Works instrument in a four-part multi-timbral setup in Native Instruments Kontakt. Each key individually controls pitch, velocity and the resonance of the convolution filter cut-off frequency (which creates a faint scraping-like sound).

The vocals are done through the DPA microphone that's clipped onto the breath pipe and plugged into the Eigenharp Alpha. It uses the built-in Eigenharp Alpha pre-amp and is routed through a series of Audio Unit effects in EigenD for pitch shifting, stereo spreading, EQ and compression. I'm monitoring directly from the headphone output of the Eigenharp Alpha with my Etymotic ER-4P earphones.

The single instrument cables carries all the information, data and audio, in both directions.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Eigenharp
• Eigenharp Alpha
• Philip
• Glass
• Koyaanisqatsi
• cover

[NieBedoCiGodou]

Extraordinary instrument + Awesome music + Great player = Masterpiece! ;)

[gbevin]

@NieBedoCiGodou Thanks, glad you like it! :-)

[Jakozimm]

This is absolutely amazing...Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass is so beautyful...I as you was introduced to Philip Glass by my father(who is sadly past away), who really inspired me to understand the beauty of Philip's at time not so easy accessible compostions and arrangments, with odd numbers etc. But once again, I must say that it was very beautyful.

[Haryamb02]

Damn... It's awesome.

[dscosche]

that's fuckin' dope.

[riseup20twelve]

Yes the word Awesome is in it right context here.. brilliant mate :)

[watsuoasis]

beautiful thank you....

[Brummbrummquietsch]

Awesome.

[AwesomeFaceofGermany]

NICE :D

[patrick88999]

great work

(scrubs) : )

[kriskarter1]

Koyaanisqatsi

[ChristianEvolution]

MOST EPIC SONG EVER

[randytosh]

thats cool music

[FrankUnderScoreVisa]

I love this.

[Wallistism]

This piece of music represents all the memories and decisions I've made, will make, and how important they are to me. Some are good some are not, this is considered my 'imbalance' or life in turmoil.

[gbevin]

@sennior80 I'd like to close this discussion here, the Eigenlabs forums are much better suited for this.

[sennior80]

@gbevin I'm not angry with you, sorry if it seemed to,but you cannot say that there are win users doing well with Eigend.I bought the Pico when Eigenlabs claimed to have a stable windows version, and this thing is becoming very frustrating month after month as a musician and as a customer I asked many windows users and all of them confirmed they didn't find a solution,I tried more pcs.. The bugs in a young software can happen but it's not possible to sell such a software with crashes problems.

[gbevin]

@sennior80 Only the Pico works on Windows, but since Windows support is quite new there are some incompatibilities with some systems. We're working through them as fast as we can and the guy on YouTube's problem is fixed. Alpha and Tau support is also around the corner. However, if you want to be refunding, you should contact customer support at Eigenlabs, I can't make such decisions.

[sennior80]

@gbevin I'm not sure of this. All the video on yt are by mac users. The only windows user I've found made the video to tell the world it doesn't work (v=j13y3Ntp0i4). In the Eigen forum there are no happy windows users. I'm very unhappy about have paid money for a toy in the beta test, announced as "stable". At the moment we are using the "testing" 1.3.22 (not even unstable, just "testing"!!!). I'm looking if there's a way to be refounded.

[mark2bit]

@gbevin Ah well thanks again!

[gbevin]

@mark2bit thanks! The film is actually named Koyaanisqatsi :-)

[mark2bit]

Wow! I remember hearing this in a film - which I can't remember the name of, and unfortunately never caught the name of the piece of music either.

Great performance and thanks!

[siddeffects]

Love the sound!!!

[POL242]

beautiful ! bravo !

one of my all-time favorite.

[gbevin]

@onboarddatasystems it's F Major