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James Ross - Quasicrystals

from Axe by Various Artists

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This piece is a sort of "sampler" of some of the things I've been playing--free-rhythm melodic improvisation/pure drone/pattern music, among others.

The tuning is something I call Pythag-Or-Equal, which is just a blend of Pythagorean pitches with some 12ET tones. The stringing of the guitar is unusual--instead of 4ths and 3rds between the strings, the open strings are mostly tuned in 2nds. So it has a kind of dreamy harp-like sound. The recordings were made live, using a Gibson SG Standard played through a Fender Blues Junior NOS amp. I used a Boss DD-20 delay pedal for the drones, some additional delay for echo, and some compression and reverb.

There are several non-Pythagorean tones in the opening section, but when the drone kicks in (about 3 min.), all the tones are pure Pythagorean except for one (a C#, which is about 4 cents flat.)

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from Axe, released April 17, 2012

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