Japanese MicroJam Ensemble - Rokudan

Japanese MicroJam Ensemble
Hidemi Akaiwa - microtonal keyboards
Samuel Keri - fretless & fretted electric bass
Ransom McCafferty - drums
additional fretless guitar - David Fiuczynski
mixing and video editing Samual Keri
Hidemi Akaiwa and David Fiuczynski's MicroJam arrangement of the famous traditional Japanese koto composition "Rokudan No Shirabe" by Yatsuhashi, Kengyo (1614-1685)
microtonal modal analysis and pitches used:
in Gmin: 1 1/4sharp b2 2 b3 4 1/4sharp 4 1/4b5 5 b6 1/4sharp b6 overtone b7 b7
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[@Sevish]

I've been loving the Japanese MicroJam stuff so far. This one really breathes

[@davidfuzefiuczynski]

Sevish! - u da man!! means a LOT coming from you! therer's the concept of "Ma" in Japanese culture, a crude translation would be space, contemplation etc.... really trying to be true to that concept!! (and then there's a LOT of contrast with the Mahavishnu piece!! ;-)

[@subi7o]

Beautiful

[@igorszu]

So happy to discover your music David. Better late than never. Waiting to hear you + gamelan

[@davidfuzefiuczynski]

thank you so much for listening! you can hear micro gamelan jamz on "Dance of the Uirapuru" (Flam Blam Pan Asian MicroJam), on Maglonia (Georgian MicroJamz) at 4:15 ruclips.net/video/XJew2RfTdDg/видео.html and on LaMonte's Gamelan Jam (MikroJazz) hope u dig it!!

[@ericsvilpis1635]

Really cool solo, Fuze! V. lyrical and dynamic

[@davidfuzefiuczynski]

thank you so much, trying to stretch the envelope....more lyricism and more cathartic craziness...if possible ;-) thank you for listening!!

[@thomaspotschka5387]

Eberhard Weber would like it, I guess! Me too!

[@Mr.Meowgical]

Lovely.
Now, I see what you put in the description, but I'm still learning the theory with microtonal music and can't tell if that information can be used to know what EDO or tuning system was used here. May I ask for an explanation?

[@davidfuzefiuczynski]

thank you so much for listening!! I've listened to quite a few versions of Rokudan and my favorite one uses these microtones: (numbers are the steps in the scale) 1 1/4sharp b2 2 b3 4 1/4sharp 4 1/4b5 5 b6 1/4sharp b6 overtone b7 b7 ...... to my ears (this is my interpretation) it sounds like the final resting note or tonic is G, so it would be Gmin and for the most part the artist uses 1/4tones so this would be 24 notes per octave or 24ET, the note C is always bent down, so sometimes it is only 25cents flat, but i think this is more of a personal interpretation. hope this helps, thank you again for listening

[@Mr.Meowgical]

@@davidfuzefiuczynski Ohhh, you just gave me a "duh" moment, looking back at the "1/4" sharps and flats. Thank you for taking the time to respond, cleared everything up!