solo guitar Minimal Microtonal Solo for Guitar on the 21st of Jan

I was thinking about the ice that's formed here on the ocean. How in foggy conditions it looks like it never ends. I'd like to go sit at the beach of my cottage with an omni mic and just stare into the fog and play this...

This is also a slight experimentation on both microtonal tunings (aesthetic) and in player's freedom. You'll note that my recording sounds a bit different to this (and was actually played on steel string guitar), but that's the point :D. I often feel that the player is not given enough free reign to interpret what they are playing - not enough free reign to bring themself to the stage. So this is a slight complaint to that I suppose.

All thoughts, feelings, colours, landscapes, gibberish, textur

es that come to mind please tell me.

Hi @PaavolaPyry!

It does sound improvisatory with all the sudden chord progession but I like it. Nice playing as well! To me it sounds like a Lute Baroque prelude in more modern chords. 

I am sure @PeterthePapercomPoser would like the piece as well as he wrote a lot of microtonal pieces, and @Thatguy v2.0 wrote many great guitar pieces. I hear some of the microtones but don't see them on the score, will you add them on the score? 

Thx for sharing!

Henry

23 minutes ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

I hear some of the microtones but don't see them on the score

I see them. They're the tiny little arrows attached to the accidentals (see image below).

7 minutes ago, Alex Weidmann said:

see them. They're the tiny little arrows attached to the accidentals (see image below

Oh I must have overlooked them! I am getting old now......

7 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Hi @PaavolaPyry!

It does sound improvisatory with all the sudden chord progession but I like it. Nice playing as well! To me it sounds like a Lute Baroque prelude in more modern chords. 

I am sure @PeterthePapercomPoser would like the piece as well as he wrote a lot of microtonal pieces, and @Thatguy v2.0 wrote many great guitar pieces. I hear some of the microtones but don't see them on the score, will you add them on the score? 

Thx for sharing!

Henry

 

Hi Henry! The microtones are only sort of marked in passing and occasionally on the score as I wrote the score for the player. The tuning of the guitar string is what gives the microtonality to the score, so in an effort to not overcomplicate the score I tried to show them as little as possible. As the subtitle says, the G-string is tuned 20 cents high and the B-string 10 cents low. I could also write an analysis score in which all the microtones are visible, but I felt like player-wise this solution felt more organic. But tell me if you disagree, I don't fully know if I made the right decision😅.

And indeed initially it was improvisatory but I sometimes do this thing where I first improvise and then try to repeat my improvisation 6-10 times. After a while I land at something, and this is where I landed yesterday :D.

Thanks for the kind words and the review ❤️