27 notes per octave pop music · Brendan Byrnes
Brendan Byrnes is a microtonal musician based in Los Angeles. He caught our attention by playing pop music with microtonal chords and melodies. Wild!
Learn more at: https://brendanbyrnes.bandcamp.com
00:00 Sneak Preview
00:23 “Alive”
05:20 Guitar overview
13:48 Microtonal etude
14:41 Composition techniques
21:00 “Sunspots” clip
22:05 More techniques
24:51 “Operator” clip
28:45 Musical background
37:26 “Out of the Sun”
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Originally posted by UCSnf2i8SB7Cy1cV0fICP-fA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69d3Demyevg
It is so amazing to read the positive feedback and comments from the community — I'm very grateful. And I can't thank Anthony and @makeweirdmusic enough for taking the time to shine a light on all of us weirdos. I've learned about a ton of cool stuff from this channel, so it's really an honor to have my music shared here. Thank you!
I think I actually stumbled onto a song that could fit in a weird list… Not jazzy, more dance/poppy… A cover of 1971's Ten Years After's "I'd Love to Change the World" by Jetta, remixed by Matstubs. Could be getting some hate from some people out there 😀
But regarding this video: I've seen videos and pictured of micro-tonal guitars before, but they used to have like, half-frets and quarter-frets all over the neck, this guitar just seems to have doubled up on the number of frets. Sounds very cool though.
For anyone interested in diving deeper into micro/xen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJYnYMKc6z4
???????????????? the music at the beginning! If you start playing guitar, simply put frets between those already there, it's like a cheat code, same bad music but now you are a great guitariste doing performances and explorations, none of the professionals will be disappointed!
I LIKE MY MUSIC MEDIUM RARE
Dope on top of dope
cool, to my ears and understanding, the micro tonality has an elememt of hyper realism.
This is absolutely amazing!!!! Wow! Another fantastic introduction Anthony!!
Really! They can’t see the problem with this idea?
"According to experts, the most difficult string quartet ever written is Ben Johnston's Quartet No. 7. It was composed in 1984 but went unperformed for decades." (The Kepler Quartet finally did it.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJkDH8o1-bs #4 the Amazing Grace one is more accessible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4MkJXXMBAw
I totally expected someone who could play 27 note per octave? . I’ll bet you can play his music (from this guitar 27 octave instrument) on 8 notes per octave. On normal guitar. Maybe its in parts I hear in his music that sounds like no key. No root. That would be free jazz improvisation?? = noise. Derick Bailey would be top list for Noise. The difference is Derick Bailey was studio musician during 50s and completely changed in late 50s underground freestyle jazz improvisation. Jazz shouldn’t even be in freestyle improvisation genera. Noise
He's great. I put out a compilation album called "Microtonal Freedom (A Compilation Benefit Album for Lyn Ulbricht)." Brendan is the album opener.
King Gizzard and the lizard wizard have been using microtonal guitars for years on their albums
I can feel my synapses training new neural pathways forging into every new verse…
I‘m not sure, but the vocal melodies seem to be complete diatonic? Only guitar acts microtonal? To my ears these are 2 different worlds. Interesting but that‘s it for me. It doesn‘t touch me.
Fantastic something new to discover.
nice start to something, but to predictable, on vocals and drums. to 80s
I’m the kind of person that will attempt correcting my guitar tuning in the middle of a song even in a live setting if there are sections there I can get away with it. I get strong involuntary ticks to tune up when I hear stuff like this. I’m too old, narrow minded, dumb or all three to be able to appreciate it.
I rarely hear decent microtonal modern music. Autechre being a big exception, most of the stuff i hear just sounds goofy. Im really quite impressed here, not to mention he's using complex chords too. I'd really like to learn a thing or two of his methods.
hearing this, i got shivers down my spine, sweat, expelling autotuned 5-3-1 chord changes.
i always was fascinated buy microtonal music …couldnt really listen for longer then 2-5 minutes. this is the first fun material. unbelievably! amazing. refreshingy
Why not just play a fretless lol
WOW WOW WOW!!! XXX This turns me ON
If I could make a request, I would like to interview Rami Olsen from the Hear Between The Lines channel. They have an album out using 31 EDO, 24, 53, and they are for educational purposes. Rami is a jazz musician and has studied a lot about it, just like Bredan. It would be incredible to watch that.
I've been following Brendan for some time now, and I really like how creative he is. His latest EP was my favorite by far. I feel like his sound is maturing more and more.
I've been studying the 31 EDO system with great perseverance, which has an interesting approach to the harmonic series as well. Long live the XEN music.
single string "chromatic" example sounded like sh¡t and I do not mean the scale… the actual stringneckguitar as a whole sounds like, well… sh¡t