May 19, 2023
Come join us for a pleasant studio chat with Bryan Deister, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and jazz pianist extraordinaire. Recently he has been exploring microtonal covers on the Lumatone, with massive success on TikTok. He has also written many albums featuring microtonal music in various tuning systems, generally equal divisions, the most recent fully microtonal one being “In Your Hands.” Our conversation covers many topics relating to context switching, genre, surveys, paucitonality, and unusual instruments. Technical points include discussion of Lumatone layouts and pseudo-octave tropes, the too-perfect ring of JI soiling holy counterpoint, adolescent hatred of microtonality, translating between different tunings (transfer), and Scriabin.
Music
[Intro] The Call [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister
Apprehension [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister
Go Away [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister
Gasoline [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister (5-ED(5/4))
Uneven Halves [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister
Lavender Town (Pokemon) - Bryan Deister Lumatone cover (13-TET)
32edo - Bryan Deister
33edo - Bryan Deister
34edo - Bryan Deister
35edo - Bryan Deister
36edo - Bryan Deister
37edo - Bryan Deister
38edo - Bryan Deister
39edo - Bryan Deister
40edo - Bryan Deister
41edo - Bryan Deister
42edo - Bryan Deister
Microtonal improvisation in 43edo - Bryan Deister
Zinnia Riplet - Stephen Weigel (32-TET)
Minimal Progress - John Moriarty (~32-TET)
In the Dark [The Dying Savior] - Bryan Deister
(24-TET, 23-TET, 22-TET, 21-TET, 20-TET, 19-TET, 18-TET)
In Your Hands [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister (8-TET, 9-TET,
10-TET, 11-TET, 24-TET)
Come [Spines of the Heart] - Bryan Deister (19-TET)
Sunrise - HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA (19-TET)
Fair [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister
Liquid Smooth (Mitski) - Bryan Deister Lumatone cover
(17-TET)
True Love Waits (Radiohead) - collab Stephen, Levi McClain, Braelen
Addison (31-TET)
Shadow Play [Supernova] - Bryan Deister
[Outro] The Window [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister
Check out Bryan’s incredible music on Bandcamp!
https://linktr.ee/bryandeister
https://bryandeister.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-hands
https://www.youtube.com/@BryanDeister
https://www.tiktok.com/@bryandeister
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