Yooo, @EveCitrus I loved watching your videos! It's cool to see a comment of yours in the vast sea of the internet even though you've stopped uploading a long while back. I must concur, they have indeed mastered the thingamajiggy
@@Storemotor73 it's not really microtonal, it's enharmonic, it has, e.g, D#s and Ebs and C naturals and B#s, so all major thirds can be played in tune. It even has double sharps and flats.
I think it differentiate between things like Bb and A# which do have an actual difference but on instruments are the same note due to them being similar enough in frequency
@@unicornbro517they both refer to the same frequency in equal temperament, it's just the instrument is tuned to a different temperament Edit - wanted to add that Bb and A# are indeed different with right context. Bb functioning as the tonic in Bb major is not the same frequency as A# that is major 7th in B (natural) major (-12 cents according to google, do log math to get frequency) But notice how the conversation is still around the temperament, in this case just intonation. Would highly recommend doing some reading and asking your music teacher to clear up this misconception.
It seems to me that since I can somewhat predict what the next measure, phrase, etc. will be like in normal music, the inability to expect what's coming next is like how unexpectedness is part of the basis of why we enjoy comedy
@@cleve741 how to hear it properly ? Hearing like that first, i sort of try to put sounds into normal 1/2 tones, and if it fails, like in some places here with shifts, it just sounds false but then as he remains in the same scale it is normal again...
@@cicik57 I wouldn't stress too much about hearing it "properly". With style in particular you could think of it in terms of normal diatonic theory, but using microtonal shifts as sort of tonal accents.
Also I can't believe the hate this is getting - it's absolutely incredible! I used to compose microtonal pop but even with the background knowledge this blows my mind even more!
Perfect temperaments in jazz! This is my first exposure to it. This is so lovely. I hope you'll be inspired to try some more. I'd love to hear your interpretation (and arrangement!) of Coltrane's Giant Steps. Your choice of how to tune around the circle of related fifths would really add something interesting. And I don't know that there would be a "right answer"
Thie is not actually just Intonation if I understand it correctly. Just Intonation is the unconcious norm in a capella music because you have infinite freedom in intonation You should listen to a capella songs from Jacob Collier. There are many jazzy songs with perfect Intonation. Moon river from him really stands out
To anyone who knows the original recording with Flora Purin vocals and who knows the criticism regarding her tuning, this sounds as both an homage and a criticism on a whole new level. On my part I always enjoyed her singing and found this version no less than amusing.
Exactly what I came here to comment! I thought, is this a nod to Flora Purim’s intonation? 😂 but at the same time, that is one of the elements that make those records so nostalgic for me, and it is captured here in a completely different context. It was quite a nice brain massage!
i swear i have heard some brazillian songs in some weird tuning system from the 1980s that were very similar to this, maybe 31edo too, but now i cant remember the name
@@GlacierGalaxy i think i found the guy i was thinking of, but i dont think if i can call it microtonal i think its more like just entonation, its a man called José Augusto Mannis and i also recomment checking out Jônatas Manzolli.
I think it’s a microtonal harpsichord? I’m also not sure how the layout works though but I assume the bottom two rows are like a normal keyboard and then it increases pitch with each row?
@@redddubs since intruments like this are usually equally tempered, I’d assume it would go up by 8th steps where each note above the ones on your average piano are going up by 25 cents
@@redddubs Pretty sure the middle of the triple keys is approaching our modern 12-ET version while the ones above and below are in some sort of Just Intonation or Meantone. In either of those systems, C♯ is lower than D♭, D♯ is lower than E♭, etc. I also think that these keys all share a pair of strings and get "fretted" like a clavichord, so you can only choose one of the three at any given time.
There's 31 keys per octave, so I'm guessing this is tuned to 31 equal temperament. The bottom row should sound pretty close to what the white keys on a piano would sound, and there's either 2 or 4 intermediate notes in between. It gives way better thirds and slightly worse fourth and fifth than 12-ET (the standard tuning).
Did you literally translated all the jazz vocabulary into 31-edo, and even extended jazz chords in 31-edo, and then mastered all 31 different keys? That sounds like a huge amount of work.
i wanna know why it all of a sudden stopped. this is what i needed. im fascinated. we need more jazz on this microtonal contraption that somehow makes jazz almost sound better
This is NUTS!!!! Go Georg. Astounding. Some of those modulations look so wild here with the usual meantone layout, congrats for getting your fingers and ears around all of this stuff. I'd be so keen for something similar but much longer. Always keen for more.
i see you have played in a trio! and it is quite wonderful. a trio with this specific microtonal ingenuinity though, that would be even lovelier to see
At first I just thought this was a piano with weird colored keys but now I realize it's one of the most difficult instruments in the world to play. The pitch sounds good
I like this song so so much!! Long time I didn’t listen to it!! What a perfomance!! Thanks!! Only in microtonal we can aprecia-te the intricacy of chick coreas genius.
Verily, doth my soul find itself enraptured by the harmonious strains of this track, wherein every note doth weave a tapestry of delight within the chambers of mine heart. Yea, the melody doth dance upon the air as if borne aloft by seraphic wings, and the rhythm doth stir the very essence of my being. Such is the power of this music, that it doth transport me to realms of blissful reverie, where naught but the beauty of sound reigns supreme. Ah, how fervently do I profess my adoration for this composition, for it hath ensnared my senses and ensorcelled my spirit with its enchanting melody. Verily, 'tis a treasure beyond compare, and I shall cherish it in the depths of my soul for all eternity.
this feels like a song you’d hear when you were 7 on an incredibly rare nintendo wii error screen in the middle of the night when you weren’t supposed to be up that would scare the crap out of you so you’d shut it off and never hear it again but it would linger in the back of your mind as a sort of haunting melody that you know but you just can’t remember where it was from until years later when it gets recommended to you on youtube and you suddenly remember or maybe it’s just a weird lil ditty idk
dude has mastered the thingimajig. mad respect
Mans is world class thingimajigist
Yooo, @EveCitrus I loved watching your videos! It's cool to see a comment of yours in the vast sea of the internet even though you've stopped uploading a long while back. I must concur, they have indeed mastered the thingamajiggy
Rolls off the tongue much better than 'Microtonal Harpsichord'
@@Storemotor73 it's not really microtonal, it's enharmonic, it has, e.g, D#s and Ebs and C naturals and B#s, so all major thirds can be played in tune. It even has double sharps and flats.
@@davidmdyer838Nerd!! Just kidding, very interesting.
Thank you youtubr. Drunk me loved this
BRO SAME
😂
You shouldn't drink at such a young age
@@BrimmFate Bruh. Lol. How do you know he's young? 😂
Wait .... i am not the only one ?? 😂
so microtonal jazz sounds good
edit: it's been two months yall, argue about something else please
Someone call King Gizzard
Tfw no microtonal piano ;_;
@@CrowCloudsYes there is
This is not jazz btw
@@dean_norris sounds jazzy to me though
I love how this sounds like an out of tune piano and a perfectly in tune piano at the same time
I think it differentiate between things like Bb and A# which do have an actual difference but on instruments are the same note due to them being similar enough in frequency
@@unicornbro517they both refer to the same frequency in equal temperament, it's just the instrument is tuned to a different temperament
Edit - wanted to add that Bb and A# are indeed different with right context. Bb functioning as the tonic in Bb major is not the same frequency as A# that is major 7th in B (natural) major (-12 cents according to google, do log math to get frequency) But notice how the conversation is still around the temperament, in this case just intonation. Would highly recommend doing some reading and asking your music teacher to clear up this misconception.
Mostly out though.
its a harpsichord.
i wonder how many hours of listening to microtonal music i would need before this sounds in tune to me and not just a spicy piano
joão sebastião bach 👍
Underrated comment lol
João sebastião bar*
I see what you did there
No. Bach used simplified harmony, called "wohltemperiert". This 31 tones are the opposite.
@@zzausel "Erm, ackshually..." 🤓👆 (thanks for the precision tho)
I never understood the phrase "it tingles my brain" until now.
I listened to it 5 times in a row. I will keep listening to it
It seems to me that since I can somewhat predict what the next measure, phrase, etc. will be like in normal music, the inability to expect what's coming next is like how unexpectedness is part of the basis of why we enjoy comedy
getting that too. through my body too!
Microtonal music is pretty cool.
@@cleve741 how to hear it properly ? Hearing like that first, i sort of try to put sounds into normal 1/2 tones, and if it fails, like in some places here with shifts, it just sounds false but then as he remains in the same scale it is normal again...
@@cicik57 I wouldn't stress too much about hearing it "properly". With style in particular you could think of it in terms of normal diatonic theory, but using microtonal shifts as sort of tonal accents.
If anybody's wondering, this instrument is called a Clavemusicum omnitonum (don't thank me thank the description 😭)
thank you
@@n30n__ra1nHE SAID DONT THANK HIM HOW DARE YOU??
Thank you
Thank you
thank you
Finally something that sounds really fresh!
Also I can't believe the hate this is getting - it's absolutely incredible! I used to compose microtonal pop but even with the background knowledge this blows my mind even more!
Please do more!!!!!
Not something often said about the harpsichord, but it sure does sound fresh :)
It's not music. It's garbage. It's not fresh, it's just a nice looking fruit that's rotten to the core.
Perfect temperaments in jazz! This is my first exposure to it. This is so lovely. I hope you'll be inspired to try some more. I'd love to hear your interpretation (and arrangement!) of Coltrane's Giant Steps. Your choice of how to tune around the circle of related fifths would really add something interesting. And I don't know that there would be a "right answer"
this is almost more like bossa nova
Thie is not actually just Intonation if I understand it correctly. Just Intonation is the unconcious norm in a capella music because you have infinite freedom in intonation
You should listen to a capella songs from Jacob Collier. There are many jazzy songs with perfect Intonation. Moon river from him really stands out
@@loren8888 Bossa nova is jazz
@@keenban yes, but not all jazz is bossa nova.
@@loren8888 okay..? nobody said that.. you're just correcting / nitpicking for no reason lol
To anyone who knows the original recording with Flora Purin vocals and who knows the criticism regarding her tuning, this sounds as both an homage and a criticism on a whole new level. On my part I always enjoyed her singing and found this version no less than amusing.
I had no clue anyone could even dislike her singing
I don't care for her voice too much, but I actually didn't really think it was at least partially a tuning issue.
Damn she’s been one of my favorite singers for while I didn’t know people don’t like her as singer. Her butterfly dreams album is amazing
Exactly what I came here to comment! I thought, is this a nod to Flora Purim’s intonation? 😂 but at the same time, that is one of the elements that make those records so nostalgic for me, and it is captured here in a completely different context. It was quite a nice brain massage!
This sounds so Brazilian, I love it.
Exatamente
Exatamente
Exatamente (o percussionista do return to forever era Brasileiro)
Nah it's not brashit
i swear i have heard some brazillian songs in some weird tuning system from the 1980s that were very similar to this, maybe 31edo too, but now i cant remember the name
if you find it please let me know!😃
Eu quero pra mim é agora😭😭😭😭😭😭
You you re everything by C.corea
Maybe Aquarela do Brasil?
@@GlacierGalaxy i think i found the guy i was thinking of, but i dont think if i can call it microtonal i think its more like just entonation, its a man called José Augusto Mannis and i also recomment checking out Jônatas Manzolli.
First time I’ve heard something played on one of these that really sounds good. Thanks!
finally youtube algorithm showing something nice. Also if you hate to tune your guitar every time, imagine tuning this.
Finally, me harnessing youtube algorithm all these years were not in vain.
The sound is so clean though...
this has been stuck in my head since the video came out, i keep coming back to it, must've seen it at least a dozen times now. Wonderful!
still impossible to hum tho
wow! a cover of a song by the late chick corea with a clavemusicum omnitonum!
late to what
@@Reaterson late means dead lol
a full version would be awesome
I am so confused by the layout of the keys..!
Loved this-fascinating to watch, cool tune, well-played.
I think it’s a microtonal harpsichord? I’m also not sure how the layout works though but I assume the bottom two rows are like a normal keyboard and then it increases pitch with each row?
@@redddubs since intruments like this are usually equally tempered, I’d assume it would go up by 8th steps where each note above the ones on your average piano are going up by 25 cents
@@redddubs Pretty sure the middle of the triple keys is approaching our modern 12-ET version while the ones above and below are in some sort of Just Intonation or Meantone. In either of those systems, C♯ is lower than D♭, D♯ is lower than E♭, etc. I also think that these keys all share a pair of strings and get "fretted" like a clavichord, so you can only choose one of the three at any given time.
@@mal2ksc im complete ass at music theory, but that’s the same reason some people argue that e# and f aren’t the same right?
There's 31 keys per octave, so I'm guessing this is tuned to 31 equal temperament. The bottom row should sound pretty close to what the white keys on a piano would sound, and there's either 2 or 4 intermediate notes in between.
It gives way better thirds and slightly worse fourth and fifth than 12-ET (the standard tuning).
Microtonal Corea- very cool
Did you literally translated all the jazz vocabulary into 31-edo, and even extended jazz chords in 31-edo, and then mastered all 31 different keys? That sounds like a huge amount of work.
Because, that's what heroes do!
That pinky reach is next level
i wanna know why it all of a sudden stopped. this is what i needed. im fascinated. we need more jazz on this microtonal contraption that somehow makes jazz almost sound better
Truly wonderful stuff, keep them coming!!!
This itches my brain in an indescribable way, thank you
We need more people like this who can use microtonal temperaments without it sounding like a horror film!!!
my jaw was on the floor the whole time, I'd absolutely love to hear more arrangements like this
...im in love with someone who plays the piano. this makes me think of them.
Well this isn't a piano, but I'm glad you get to feel love listening to this song played on a microtonal harpsichord
@@soupisfornoobs4081 you are very kind AND informative.... reminds me of someone i love LOL
For someone who has never really been in microtonal music, this still sounds really nice 😊
This is NUTS!!!! Go Georg. Astounding.
Some of those modulations look so wild here with the usual meantone layout, congrats for getting your fingers and ears around all of this stuff.
I'd be so keen for something similar but much longer. Always keen for more.
what i would give to hear you play in a trio... amazing stuff on its own too, of course.
i see you have played in a trio! and it is quite wonderful. a trio with this specific microtonal ingenuinity though, that would be even lovelier to see
Beautiful and fun!
Me, as a piano tuner... Can't imagine how hard that would be to tune👁️👄👁️
Not so much, you're tuning perfect major thirds all around.
I feel like I just heard every song in existence at the same time
this is such a yummy instrument and i wish i could have one
I’m really loving the new era of microtones that’ll take over soon
would absolutely love to hear some Nancarrow piece with this, perhaps his Study No. 3c
I am mesmerized buy the music, the instrument, the microtones, and the hands. Those are ten independent sentient fingers moving about. 😲
At first I just thought this was a piano with weird colored keys but now I realize it's one of the most difficult instruments in the world to play. The pitch sounds good
Is this really harder than even the violin? By and large it should be comparable to the piano, just with a much higher skill ceiling.
Delightful musical journey. Gorgeous color grade.
Ends too soon. Wonderful video
This has awoken something in me.... Thank you so much for sharing this with the world!
Beautiful! the microtonal capabilities of that instrument is outstanding
This sounds like a soundtrack to a trippy medieval 2d game
Bro I have watched this so many times it sounds so good.
never heard samba/bossa nova on a harpsicord.. i love it!!! :0
Wow, I love this! Very creative. Great playing and keep up the good work.
Finally someone who's very good at a microtonal instrument, fair play that was awesome
I like this song so so much!! Long time I didn’t listen to it!! What a perfomance!! Thanks!! Only in microtonal we can aprecia-te the intricacy of chick coreas genius.
It's like Bach wearing a cap
I wish Chick could hear this. A gorgeous rendition few have even the tools to produce, never mind the skill, ear, and creativity.
And now I want the whole album on microtonal harpsichord...
good ol' michael tonal bringing us another banger
Beautiful piece! Reminds me of Kapustin.
This tickled my brain in the best way. More please
Sounds fantastic! Thanks for posting :)
They should make pianos like this
They absolutely should.
Verily, doth my soul find itself enraptured by the harmonious strains of this track, wherein every note doth weave a tapestry of delight within the chambers of mine heart. Yea, the melody doth dance upon the air as if borne aloft by seraphic wings, and the rhythm doth stir the very essence of my being. Such is the power of this music, that it doth transport me to realms of blissful reverie, where naught but the beauty of sound reigns supreme. Ah, how fervently do I profess my adoration for this composition, for it hath ensnared my senses and ensorcelled my spirit with its enchanting melody. Verily, 'tis a treasure beyond compare, and I shall cherish it in the depths of my soul for all eternity.
Absolutely amazing, clean jazz microtonal harpsichord
¡Qué belleza de pieza! Amo tus piezas microtonales. ❤❤ Espero sigas componiendo buena música con ese precioso instrumento. ❤❤
It sounds so good.... Amazing!!!
Sounds quite wonderful, going to put this on my walking playlist.
I dont dare want to imagine what the sheet music for this looks like
this is the craziest harpsichord ive even seen 🤯🤯
Literally living in the year 3000 with this shit
3000 BC
Beautiful harmony
The tone of this thing is just so lovely
This is awesome!!
amazing work!
This is taking over my life
Now that I've heard this I'll need to hear more micro-tonal music - great piece to spread the medium, didn't know it could sound so good.
GEORG YOU ABSOLUTE GOD 🔥🔥🔥
amazing job!!
also ps. listining to this drunk is crazy
this is the coolest thing ive ever heard
cant stop listening
Microtonal samba, a thing that I needed but I didn't knew it lol.
Please... make more.
I feel light as a feather after listening to this! 🪶
Well that is NOT what I expected that instrument to sound like. This is really neat!
incredible
bossa nova on a 31-edo harpsichord - now that's something i've never heard before, and i love it
This is one of my favorite songs! Thank you for this!
Dear God, I need this instrument 😢🙏🏾
I can't wrap my head around WHY did piano and keyboard made harpsichord obsolete. It's just... SO GOOD.
I think it's to do with volume.
this feels like a song you’d hear when you were 7 on an incredibly rare nintendo wii error screen in the middle of the night when you weren’t supposed to be up that would scare the crap out of you so you’d shut it off and never hear it again but it would linger in the back of your mind as a sort of haunting melody that you know but you just can’t remember where it was from until years later when it gets recommended to you on youtube and you suddenly remember
or maybe it’s just a weird lil ditty idk
you did a great job.
Ugh I love these types of instruments especially when they’re uses for other creative genres that aren’t just classical ❤❤
Would love to hear Superstition by Stevie Wonder
I cant tell if this sounds good or not, either way, its very skillfull!
It's bad
@@Shvetsario How?
Its alike vague images with sweet sea wind, thanks
This is terrific! Thanks!
finally, a microtonal song that isn't just a bunch of arpeggios in a row
amazing job, I loved it!
It's just 12 tet with a bunch of random notes
i feel sorry for people who think microtonal stuff sounds "out of tune" when to me its actually just perfection
I feel sorry for you being suck a dork
Can we talk about beautiful hands? ❣
Discovered a new instrument today. Great performance!
I would listen to a full recorded version of this on repeat, 1:19 too short
I think one of the reasons it works well is it sounds like a clavinet.
Can't get enough of this! 🔥
microtonal music will always be so natural and unnatural at the same time i love it