Mike Battaglia - "House of the Rising Sun" (Full Performance, 31-EDO, Lumatone Artist Series)
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Mike Battaglia returns with another remarkable full performance in the 31-EDO tuning on Lumatone, this time it's a microtonal rendition of "House of the Rising Sun." Filmed live at South Street Sounds in Philadelphia, PA.
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That's the best I've ever seen anyone play a rainbow
could you taste it?
@@inku2015 like all the way
I want to like but won't break 420
@@inku2015
Can't taste colors, but you can hear them!
I wish I could live for 1,000 years. There's so much to learn, and this is another I want to know!
That pretty much sums it up. Well said!
Yess. People are constantly inventing new forms of arts and it absorbs new levels of meaning. Imagine what artistic project will look like with Neuralink and superintelligent AI, provided we keep it in control
Nah live 75 then we get to come back and start over
I think this guy is a genius.
We do too!
yes
I'm absolutely mind blown. This has got to be one of the best microtonal compositions I've ever heard. You have to be a real master of rhythm and harmony to not make microtonal music sound constantly dissonant.
This isn't microtonal lol sorry
It's just harmonically sophisticated.
Microtonality sounds like this:
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@@itamargilat4814
I agree this song isn't traditionally microtonal but they say this is tuned in 31-EDO which is when you divide the octave into 31 notes (as opposed to our usual 12 notes per octave, or 12-EDO) and while it seems we're getting mostly standard harmonies, there are some standout microtonal harmonies. 3:50 for example has a microtonal bass drone going on.
Yeah. I guess the piece sounds mostly "normal" because the white keys are like the white keys of a usual piano I believe and he uses mostly those.
@@schmuel0193yeah. I’m not impressed. Surely this wasn’t the best song to demonstrate the instrument.
Sounds like shit but it’s colourful and different. Wow.
The lumatone was made for this guy. All of his performances are magic.
The House of the Rising Sun is a more wholesome and light place, less groundhog day and murky desperate, in your version. You can never clean in between all the cracks, so after some decades, it just starts to take on a particular stale smell, and it's time to renovate. Some of the "so very major" verse endings kinda caught me off guard, because I was so accustomed to the depressing old tale as usual. This one's optimistic!
This whole artist series, on the Lumatone channel lately, has been great at showing what's possible with practice.
This was probably the first time I've actually enjoyed a microtonal performance. Didn't even notice it at first, but as it went on, there was "something" about it. Usually microtonal music just sounds like it's played on a poorly tuned instrument to me. This was kind of awesome and most definitely an eye opener. Thank you!
the something about it is the instrument that's 200 buttons
@@felicaamiko I'm dead xD
It’s probably because the vast majority of it wasn’t microtonal 😂
He was just doing a bit of pitch bend, but with a button instead of a slider.
Blues is inherently a microtonal genre. Most of what this dude played was 12TET with bits of microtonal thrown in… which is the same as done on, for instance, a guitar with microtonal bends, slides etc. I would say about 95% of this performance was not microtonal.
Mike was one of the first people behind thos keyboard when it was called the Terpstra after one of the original designers. I think Mike was an early funder. anyhow- this was brought into existence partly by him. You are witnessing one of the worlds greatest musicians here.
Why is this not on an album?
How in the heck does one learn to play this thing? I mean, this guy sounds like he has the muscle memory of playing it for twenty years.
Fun fact, Its acually simpler than a piano!! This one of course is a little spruced up with lights, but essentially a lumatone is a more ergonamic more sensical isomorphic piano, in other words, a piano with math to make it better!
I don't know Oscar Peterson on piano does it for me.
@@xXMangoXx_ idk if i agree with that
@@cd-zw2tt thats cool! everyone is entitled to opinions, however, have you ever actually used a lumatone? and more importantly, tried to learn it for more than 3 seconds? its hard to agree on something without any base knowledge of the topic...
@@xXMangoXx_ Ergonomic
This is the Instrument Superman brought with him from Krypton. He still rocks this up at the Fortress of Solitude....
The Lumatone is like a rhodes piano on steroids. Even this tired old 4-chord song can have a diamond robe.
it's not a 4-chord song.
@@Jacob_Junge yeah, 5 chords lol. close enough.
@rp64 A "4-chord song" is not just any song that uses four different chords in total. It usually refers to songs that repeat a four chord sequence over and over, like e.g. Radiohead's Creep, or the multitude of songs that use the I-V-vi-IV progression.
A "5-chord song" in this context would be one that repeats a five chord progression.
House Of The Rising Song doesn't do that. It goes like this:
i-III-IV-VI
i-III-V-V7
i-III-IV-VI
i-V-i-V
It also worth noting that the number of chords in a piece of music doesn't tell you anything about its complexity. Or beauty.
@@Jacob_Junge Yeah I get all of that I'm just not being a nerd about shit when a person clearly just means "this simple old song".
I actually rather like the song too but I wasn't offended by what they said about this very nice microtonal version.
Yes though, fewer chords is less complex than more chords. But like you said it also doesn't tell you anything about something's beauty necessarily.
.@rp64 I'm proud to be a nerd about music and language, and johngodbey2365 was clearly using "4-chord song" derogatorily. And wrongly.
_fewer chords is less complex than more chords_
Chord complexity is just one element. The opening 140 bars of Wagner's Ring cycle is built one a single chord, and while I wouldn't say I particularly like it, I also wouldn't call it lacking in complexity.
Also, are you counting E and E7 as one chord?
The rhythmic intricacies and complex harmonies, as well as the almost fugue like melodies...this is legit one of the most brilliant performances I've heard.
how has this performance not gone absolutely viral?! this person is insanely brilliant
Ikr. This deserves millions of views.
Apart from the good performance, loving the lumatone's retro sci-fi optics - this would've been an instrument worthy of being played on the original Enterprise 🖖
Or Buck Rodgers.
No bloody a b c or d
Plays every note BUT the actual song yet still brings it back to life. True master
Amazing!!! The use of the 7th harmonic at 2:36 is very apropos
Very cool indeed.
he does it toward the end again!!!
Just replied to you on FB and then found this comment :)))))
Me: I mean it's kind of expensive. I'll buy one if you can show me a kick ass performance for every dollar it's worth.
Lumitone: Hold my beer.
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@@lumatonesorry it's still prohibitively expensive for real people aka people who have to work to not starve
@@zoned7609poor you
@@zoned7609 A decent harp can easily cost $10k. Some things are just expensive, because they’re complicated and hard to make. Not everything can be cheap. And yes, this means not everyone can afford one. If you want one, save up.
Incredible. I think this is the best use of the instrument so far.
I find impressive the way his fingers search and find each and every one of what I can only describe as the half-tones of the board to end up making a set of sounds that posses an unmistakeable parentesque to the song its trying to imitate.
If this doesn't sell a lot of Lumatone, I don't know what will!
I guess few people want to learn a totally different instrument, no matter how unique it sounds.
one of my favourite songs performed on one of my favourite EDOs in JAZZ style nice
wow, it's like the perfect jazz instrument
his addition of that motif in between each line of the main verse was incredible
i read someone saying barely using their thumbs while playing this but i see him using his thumbs quite a bit. so i guess it probably doesn't feel THAT foreign from old black and white keys
Yes most players I've seen make good use of their thumbs. The folks we've talked to said that while a little adaptation from a piano is obviously necessary, it wasn't a reinvention of their fingering intuition as a piano player and in a lot of ways it's an elevation. Everything has strengths and weaknesses but the learning curve from a fingering standpoint -- while different for everyone -- is quite manageable and even kind of exciting!
Wow, this guy can play loomertone
Get a Lumatone to Jacob Collier so he pulls a performance like this in front of a million viewers, and the rest will be history
Who needs Jacob whats-his-face when you have MIKE BATTAGLIA!!!
Wow I'd love to see Jacob Collier with one of these
@@NikoDSchroeder or better... BOTH!!!
He has one, but he's never used it to my knowledge! There's a twitter post with it
Jacob who ?
A thousand times yes.
Astounding! I play guitar and I'm just recently facing the microtonal music world... This could be the right entry point to get in this world, but I'd try to get away as soon as possible from repertoire that has still the 12 EDO version so strong in our ears...
Hey! One of the guys in Mos Isley Cantina was playing one of these.. !
😂
I dont have words for this..
This is one of the nicest 31-EDO pieces I've ever heard.
listening to jazz after this feels like listening to classical after jazz
This is amazing. Hats off to the player and thr makers of this keyboard. Beautiful on all ends.
Holy smokes man!! Way to make me cry! that was flipping beautiful!!! That major turn at about 3:34 broke me down 😭 incredible
I keep coming back because this is beautifully composed/improvised, played, and well produced. I feel wonderment.
the reason his performances sound so much better than anyone elses is because he uses xenharmony much more sparingly than anyone else.
Could you explain? Does the original song have lots of xenharmonies or are you saying most musicians don’t play the harmonies he play
@@kmoney10101 They're saying his playing is mostly 'in tune', meaning he's mostly using the notes of the 31-tone scale that are the ones that are closest to the 12-tone scale. So your ear is able to follow along pretty easily. He does sprinkle in some of the 'xenharmonic' outside notes in places, however he does it subtly and not as often as other microtonal players. He uses them like adding a spices to food. You wouldn't like a meal if it was entirely made of spices. But having just the right amount added to something you already like can make it different in a good way.
@@andybaldman thanks for putting into words exactly my thoughts
@@andybaldman he also uses them in passing tones which makes more sense
Saved to the playlist I reserve for singularly inspired and mood-setting performances. Probably one of my favorite covers of the song, too.
The video is great but it's bizarre how bad the audio is.
Yes more please, well done, with a slice of medium rare.
This is absolutely phenomenal. I’m speechless!!! So beautiful
magical performance
Beautiful
brought me to tears
I have no skill but I love the complex scales of the Lumatone. It would be cool to buy albums full of these tracks.
Crushin it man, I love the voicings and the development you put in to this cover!
Ok- this is awesome and I’m finally convinced this instrument is more than an aural gimmick.
How wonderful. ❤
Wow !!!
0:24 ahh whenever he plays that particular bluesy lick lol
I gotta admit I can’t even tell that it’s not 12edo, it sounds so damn good.
Unlike any other! Hit the tour MB!!!
Somewhere, somewhen, Sun Ra is cruising the galaxy playing one of these instruments in his music-powered spaceship
Its like the button side of an accordion on Salvia, steroids, high voltage and acid all at once.. 😍
Awesome!
beautiful
what is this magic, instant subscribe
great cover . ♥♥
Want one now that I see what’s possible, that was hauntingly cool
Insane 😮 😮 😮
This is awesome.
Hoje descobri aqui os microtonais e é mesmo muito estranho parece com ouvir música de uma caixa de som com defeito ou uma estação mal sintonizada de rádio!
Awesome instrument 🌸
wow!
No country for old music right here.
Amazing stuff!
I need one have to ask the bank manager..THE WIFE..LOL
Hey Arnold, did you know there is a house in New Orleans?
3d chess .... or a piano with a y axis? I heard Black Hole Sun more than the rising. Very cool 😎
How hard is it to unlearn keys and learn this layout?
trans keyboard trans keyboard
u can't just set entire avenues on fire! arrest this man!!
I wonder if you can configure it to play in a just temperament, locked in a single key (obviously).
Love it, but you absolutely can't hear it in a Hi-Fi environment, which makes me really sad. Does anyone know if he did versions with less crackle?
This one almost made my ears bleed. 😢
Probably intentionally running it through a fuzzbox
2:12 and 3:48 omg
As impressive as I find the skills, the soundscape is very monotonous without accompaniment or processing. Is the sound a file or an analog setting? It seemed mushy when too many notes were layered too quickly. I wanted to like this more than I feel I was able to.
I imagine this was likely an electric piano patch on some sort of physical modelling software synth. One that uses a bunch of math to model the physics of something like a Rhodes electric piano. The mushiness you're hearing is probably because the sound is being overdriven, causing harmonic distortion, and it also seems to be mimicking the tremolo or 'rotating' speaker effect of many classic speakers. Both of which are quite common for the blues, as the resulting complex harmonics and warbly sound give it a raw, passionate edge that you wouldn't have with a cleaner sound. Almost as if the passionate wail of the player is too much for the instrument to handle, causing it to break down. It's an acquired taste for sure, but one that is quite in line with the aesthetics of the genre.
And just to be clear, while this is likely being done digitally, both the overdrive and tremolo effects are very analog in origin, and used to be done using tube amps and analog speakers before they were ever re-created digitally. Which this sounds like a very faithful reproduction of, one which most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference from the real thing. (Other than all the microtonal notes, which AFAIK have never been done in an actual EP before.)
It would be great if you would say what layout is being used in the description of each video using a lumatone.
How did you get your starship control console to play music? Could you please do a tutorial video, I’ve been trying to figure it out but my hyperdrive key sequence won’t allow me to override due to a mastercommand lock?? (not sure if you programmed it while stationed or if you can fix it while in-flight?) Anyway I really wanna play Stairway to Heaven as a surprise for the crew before we reach Saturn! If you could let me know that would be totally supernova and thanks in advance for your help, fellow Starsonger!!!
This was amazing! Though, as a fan of the original, I really missed the hit that happens when the line “they CAAAALl the riiiising sun”. It just felt like it’s skipped altogether in this. But, it’s still incredible
Fucking brilliant
Looks like a sci-fi spaceship control panel.
Nia's tonal language public draft 1:
Longpress pause shorter press
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Thinking/agreement
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Longpress pause shorter press lower long pause shorter press
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Give me time to analyze my options.
Short press pause short press | or | press pause higher pitch press
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Eureka!!/This one.
Press press press press ... (drum roll)
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I'm looking for something I'm thinking of / where is it?
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Press pause lower press
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I wonder if there is an alternative
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High pitched tremello
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Joking |or| silly
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Low pitched tremello
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Angry |or| defensive
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Ascending shepards tone
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Unfulfilling labor.
Descending shepard's tone
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Self-hating self-talk |or| a sense of dreadful danger
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Press press press lower tremello pause lower tremello lower lower tremello pause lower lower tremello higher press higher press
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Life is good |or| discussing philosophy the person or people here would be pleasant and heartwarming
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Low tremello low tremello low press
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That failed so let's try again at some point if we want
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...etc...
Middle press
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Hi |and| start
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Middle longer press pause higher press
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How are you? |or| that's what I thought but how do you feel about it?
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Middle long press pause lower press
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That's what I think even though my impression feels to be an unpopular one.
...etc...
TIL about microtonal music. Didn't click for me, but I can't deny the skill on display here
ULTRA WIDE MASTER RACE
CARALHO !
I would LOVE to see Jordan Rudess mess around on this instrument...but Mike's improvisation here is great in its own right!
Your wish is our command ….
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
0:27 Vulfpeck lick !
I bet this guy would crush an accordion
i want one of these but they're so damn expensive and complicated to set up
Imagine cleaning yo cookie crumbs out between all them keys.
Is that the same key layout you see on those accordions with all the hexagonal buttons?
yes
@@ch1caumActually no. Most accordions with the hexagonal buttons use a vertical layout called Wicki-Hayden, this is a horizontal layout called Bosenquet-Wilson. While you can switch between either and more on the Lumatone, the Bosenquet-Wilson layout shown here seems to be the more popular of the two on the Lumatone, likely due to its more horizontal form factor.
He stayed on the standard piano keys the whole time. And it sounded like the audio was peaking.
Look and listen closer. Some seriously subtle uses of microtonality that to our ears are some of the best reasons to want more notes than 12. Microtonality shouldn’t be about sounding the weirdest. It should be about sounding musical, whatever that means to the artist. There are no rules, there are no note quotas. This is about making something beautiful.
As for peaking, nothings perfect, maybe you’re just looking for things to criticize? ✌️
@@lumatone If this is microtonal, then so is every song where a guitarist bends a string once or twice. Stop being so sensitive.
#12tet✌️
@@consensusg9226 exactly. Guitar is microtonal. Violin is microtonal. Keyboards haven’t been, until now.
Also gotta stress, Lumatone isn’t just about microtonality! More Lumatone owners than ever purchase theirs because of how much magic its different playing modes bring to their non-microtonal, 12 tone work.
Even if you stick to just the naturals and sharps in 31edo, you have access to all sorts of microtonal intervals and chords. For example, the difference between F and G# is 7 steps in 31edo, a subminor 3rd. F-C-A-D# forms a full Harmonic 7th chord. You also get weirder intervals like a wolf fifth between A# and F, and an 'ultramajor' triad of F-A#-C. (Ultramajor third isn't that common of a term, but it's the term Zhea Erose uses in her video on Mothra[6], and I think it fits 12 steps in 31, which is both an augmented 3rd and a subfourth.)
This is as microtonal as a song on the guitar with some occasional bends. The instrument looks pretty, but the guy barely touched the keys outside the middle non-microtonal section. By that logic any music created using the violin would be microtonal.
Uh, what an odd criticism. I’d say of three best uses of microtonality. The game is not “see how many microtonal notes you can play” - it’s “make something beautiful.” Mike is a master at that. And you kind of nailed it. Guitar CAN be microtonal. Violin CAN be microtonal. Lumatone CAN be microtonal. There are no rules. Let’s keep it that way.
@@lumatone Hey, sorry if it sounded like a criticism towards the artist or the instrument. It was a criticism towards the comments that seem to suggest that the song was blatantly microtonal just because of the instrument. By no means a song would be better or worse by just being more or less complex.
@@zejalt8608 One of the great thing about Mike's playing is that he doesn't just hammer you right off the bat with microtonality for microtonality's sake, as some other players do. He blends it in subtly and tastefully, and usually only after he's established more of a traditional harmonic structure for your ear, which makes the points where he actually takes things 'out' a lot more enjoyable. If you listen to this whole piece, you can see where he does it. I think this piece is brilliant, I've had it on repeat for a week. He uses microtonality like a spice, to add flavor. If you had a meal that was nothing but spices, you wouldn't enjoy it much.
vivid
Interesting and I want to see more as well as hear. Only on a small screen could I watch the constant motion never stopping for a second. I want to see the keys not everything else. Oh, has video-MTV created a shattering of coherent seeing-focus and learning. McLuhan was right the medium is the message.
What type of synthesis is this? Are those physical modeling strings or velocity layered samples or FM or what?
And along comes a 15 year old with a 16 pad sampler, samples this and turns it into something even better, inside a day.
Huh, some of these notes are ones that blues singers deliberately reach for, and the instruments can't quite support it. But this one can.
Wow my wallet just took a hit, cause ima need one of these
I have only one brain and 10 fingers.
Is that enough to play this keyboard ???