Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 9

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 9

The final installment in a series of improvisations using the tuning system from the first movement of Salt Tea.  The complete collection can be found here.

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 8

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 8

Part of a series of recorded improvisations featuring the tuning system used for the first movement of Salt Tea.

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 7

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 7

The latest installment in a series of improvisations featuring the tuning system from the first movement of Salt Tea.

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 6

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 6

Continuing with another installment of improvisations on the tuning system used in the first movement of Salt Tea.

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This has been a music rich weekend. Stay tuned while I get my thoughts together about the rich influx of live music around Baltimore this past weekend...

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 5

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 5

The fifth installment in a series of improvisations featuring the scale used in the first movement of Salt Tea. This particular improvisation is short, with the idea of focusing the ear on a small element of this harmonic pallet.

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 4

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 4

Continuing with a series of improvisations using the tuning system used in the first movement of Salt Tea. The scored first movement from that work sounds completely unlike these piano samples plus effects chain performances offered here. There's a lot of potential in this octave-less harmonic system.

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 3

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 3

The third installment on a continuing series of improvisations using the intonation scheme from the first movement of my Salt Tea project.

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 2

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 2

Here is the second installment of a set of improvisations using the Salt Tea scale from the first movement. These are tuned piano samples that are then fed through an effects chain.

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 1

Salt Tea Scale 1 - Improvisation 1

This a taste of something I've been working on lately. I have a composition called Salt Tea that uses a different tuning for each movement. While working on an alternate arrangement of the first movement, "Hot Snow," I tuned a set of Bösendorfer piano samples and started playing around with some effects. Have a listen.