Mike Battaglia - "House of the Rising Sun" (Full Performance, 31-EDO, Lumatone Artist Series)

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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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@samblount2541 4 ай бұрын

That's the best I've ever seen anyone play a rainbow

@inku2015 4 ай бұрын

could you taste it?

@user-nu4nk8hz5w Ай бұрын

@@inku2015 like all the way

@odesseus 4 ай бұрын

I wish I could live for 1,000 years. There's so much to learn, and this is another I want to know!

@chipdipleraka7343 4 ай бұрын

That pretty much sums it up. Well said!

@hominidan Ай бұрын

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

@kras_mazov Жыл бұрын

I think this guy is a genius.

@lumatone Жыл бұрын

We do too!

@heuxheux Жыл бұрын

yes

@bystander85 9 ай бұрын

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.

@itamargilat4814 8 ай бұрын

This isn't microtonal lol sorry It's just harmonically sophisticated. Microtonality sounds like this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ftCThNyCvs6lZ5s.htmlsi=Aaq5y7m7y9xtQVi6

@CardSpencer 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@schmuel0193 4 ай бұрын

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.

@newagain9964 4 ай бұрын

@@schmuel0193yeah. I’m not impressed. Surely this wasn’t the best song to demonstrate the instrument.

@airhonda 4 ай бұрын

Sounds like shit but it’s colourful and different. Wow.

@GizzyDillespee Жыл бұрын

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.

@FishWhiskey Жыл бұрын

The lumatone was made for this guy. All of his performances are magic.

@89RASMUS 6 ай бұрын

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!

@felicaamiko 4 ай бұрын

the something about it is the instrument that's 200 buttons

@Lucky9_9 4 ай бұрын

@@felicaamiko I'm dead xD

@samkeen 4 ай бұрын

It’s probably because the vast majority of it wasn’t microtonal 😂

@o00nemesis00o 4 ай бұрын

He was just doing a bit of pitch bend, but with a button instead of a slider.

@michaelvarney. 4 ай бұрын

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.

@themicrotonalguitarist 3 ай бұрын

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.

@wezix 7 ай бұрын

This is the Instrument Superman brought with him from Krypton. He still rocks this up at the Fortress of Solitude....

@darktangent10 3 ай бұрын

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.

@pulykamell 8 ай бұрын

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.

@xXMangoXx_ 3 ай бұрын

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!

@vincentcornejo3759 3 ай бұрын

I don't know Oscar Peterson on piano does it for me.

@cd-zw2tt Ай бұрын

@@xXMangoXx_ idk if i agree with that

@xXMangoXx_ Ай бұрын

@@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...

@bertberw8653 9 күн бұрын

@@xXMangoXx_ Ergonomic

@johngodbey2365 4 ай бұрын

The Lumatone is like a rhodes piano on steroids. Even this tired old 4-chord song can have a diamond robe.

@Jacob_Junge 4 ай бұрын

it's not a 4-chord song.

@MiaMartel64 4 ай бұрын

@@Jacob_Junge yeah, 5 chords lol. close enough.

@Jacob_Junge 4 ай бұрын

@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.

@MiaMartel64 4 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Jacob_Junge 4 ай бұрын

.@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?

@aidandodge466 4 ай бұрын

Plays every note BUT the actual song yet still brings it back to life. True master

@kelseyjaffer 8 ай бұрын

how has this performance not gone absolutely viral?! this person is insanely brilliant

@andybaldman 4 ай бұрын

Ikr. This deserves millions of views.

@Edwing77 Жыл бұрын

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 🖖

@liberatumplox625 4 ай бұрын

Or Buck Rodgers.

@thedangersofoxygen135 4 ай бұрын

No bloody a b c or d

@stephenweigel Жыл бұрын

Amazing!!! The use of the 7th harmonic at 2:36 is very apropos

@lumatone Жыл бұрын

Very cool indeed.

@eelamite Жыл бұрын

he does it toward the end again!!!

@stavats Жыл бұрын

Just replied to you on FB and then found this comment :)))))

@FASTFASTmusic Жыл бұрын

If this doesn't sell a lot of Lumatone, I don't know what will!

@magicmulder 4 ай бұрын

I guess few people want to learn a totally different instrument, no matter how unique it sounds.

@cd-zw2tt 3 ай бұрын

his addition of that motif in between each line of the main verse was incredible

@camtaylormusic Жыл бұрын

Incredible. I think this is the best use of the instrument so far.

@Foxxey Жыл бұрын

one of my favourite songs performed on one of my favourite EDOs in JAZZ style nice

@fuge314 Жыл бұрын

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.

@lumatone Жыл бұрын

🍺🍻

@zoned7609 7 ай бұрын

@@lumatonesorry it's still prohibitively expensive for real people aka people who have to work to not starve

@a.p.5825 4 ай бұрын

@@zoned7609poor you

@Qwitsoender 4 ай бұрын

@@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.

@amj.composer Жыл бұрын

Wow, this guy can play loomertone

@seamusmcmorrow4435 4 ай бұрын

A thousand times yes.

@daniel_tenner 7 ай бұрын

I gotta admit I can’t even tell that it’s not 12edo, it sounds so damn good.

@joybeamwi 4 ай бұрын

Crushin it man, I love the voicings and the development you put in to this cover!

@unamericano 8 ай бұрын

Saved to the playlist I reserve for singularly inspired and mood-setting performances. Probably one of my favorite covers of the song, too.

@benjamingeorg2027 4 ай бұрын

How wonderful. ❤

@Mr_B31 4 ай бұрын

This is absolutely phenomenal. I’m speechless!!! So beautiful

@BenGreen1980 Ай бұрын

This is one of the nicest 31-EDO pieces I've ever heard.

@CollegeHustler 4 ай бұрын

Awesome!

@sawssman965 5 ай бұрын

This is amazing. Hats off to the player and thr makers of this keyboard. Beautiful on all ends.

@alextatkin1026 4 ай бұрын

brought me to tears

@bradchervel5202 4 ай бұрын

I dont have words for this..

@PhilipRhoadesP Жыл бұрын

Amazing stuff!

@mikee9167 Ай бұрын

I keep coming back because this is beautifully composed/improvised, played, and well produced. I feel wonderment.

@WarrenPostma 5 ай бұрын

This is awesome.

@dashqe 4 ай бұрын

magical performance

@Kuhleb12 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful

@EnricoDellAquila Жыл бұрын

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...

@PeterJaquesMusic Жыл бұрын

beautiful

@davelikes2playguitar Жыл бұрын

Holy smokes man!! Way to make me cry! that was flipping beautiful!!! That major turn at about 3:34 broke me down 😭 incredible

@justicebeske5704 2 ай бұрын

wow, it's like the perfect jazz instrument

@rawan3521 10 ай бұрын

Awesome instrument 🌸

@pm9928 4 ай бұрын

Hey! One of the guys in Mos Isley Cantina was playing one of these.. !

@whitehuayra 4 ай бұрын

😂

@Artyom64824 2 ай бұрын

Yes more please, well done, with a slice of medium rare.

@prodeerpentium 4 ай бұрын

great cover . ♥♥

@datalek303 Жыл бұрын

Wow !!!

@BrianElliot Жыл бұрын

Insane 😮 😮 😮

@Microtonal_Cats Жыл бұрын

wow!

@lorenzobiondi5727 Жыл бұрын

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

@NikoDSchroeder Жыл бұрын

Who needs Jacob whats-his-face when you have MIKE BATTAGLIA!!!

@jonahbranch5625 Жыл бұрын

Wow I'd love to see Jacob Collier with one of these

@kell_0741 Жыл бұрын

@@NikoDSchroeder or better... BOTH!!!

@luphoria 9 ай бұрын

He has one, but he's never used it to my knowledge! There's a twitter post with it

@Alix777. 8 ай бұрын

Jacob who ?

@PepijndeVos 4 ай бұрын

what is this magic, instant subscribe

@ChannelMath 4 ай бұрын

listening to jazz after this feels like listening to classical after jazz

@FJness Жыл бұрын

Want one now that I see what’s possible, that was hauntingly cool

@zanderwohl 10 ай бұрын

I have no skill but I love the complex scales of the Lumatone. It would be cool to buy albums full of these tracks.

@cd-zw2tt 4 ай бұрын

the reason his performances sound so much better than anyone elses is because he uses xenharmony much more sparingly than anyone else.

@kmoney10101 4 ай бұрын

Could you explain? Does the original song have lots of xenharmonies or are you saying most musicians don’t play the harmonies he play

@andybaldman 4 ай бұрын

@@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.

@cd-zw2tt 3 ай бұрын

@@andybaldman thanks for putting into words exactly my thoughts

@cd-zw2tt 3 ай бұрын

@@andybaldman he also uses them in passing tones which makes more sense

@ONESOULBEAT Жыл бұрын

Unlike any other! Hit the tour MB!!!

@junglsmor Жыл бұрын

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

@lumatone Жыл бұрын

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!

@tonescape1 9 ай бұрын

Fucking brilliant

@mmo5366 5 ай бұрын

Ok- this is awesome and I’m finally convinced this instrument is more than an aural gimmick.

@SwirlyWhirlyXYZ 4 ай бұрын

Somewhere, somewhen, Sun Ra is cruising the galaxy playing one of these instruments in his music-powered spaceship

@eelamite Жыл бұрын

0:24 ahh whenever he plays that particular bluesy lick lol

@bloviatingbeluga8553 4 ай бұрын

I bet this guy would crush an accordion

@paulcollins6961 Ай бұрын

I need one have to ask the bank manager..THE WIFE..LOL

@TheClassyArchitect 3 ай бұрын

No country for old music right here.

@eelamite Жыл бұрын

u can't just set entire avenues on fire! arrest this man!!

@SuPeRNinJaRed 4 ай бұрын

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!!!

@Maelthorn1337 5 ай бұрын

The video is great but it's bizarre how bad the audio is.

@VynceMontgomery 5 ай бұрын

It would be great if you would say what layout is being used in the description of each video using a lumatone.

@starflash__ 4 ай бұрын

vivid

@Gunbudder 4 ай бұрын

ULTRA WIDE MASTER RACE

@Hector-bj3ls 15 күн бұрын

Looks like a sci-fi spaceship control panel.

@bibimycat1 3 ай бұрын

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!

@cimiv 5 ай бұрын

2:12 and 3:48 omg

@ptitgratteur 5 ай бұрын

0:27 Vulfpeck lick !

@grimmwerks 4 ай бұрын

How hard is it to unlearn keys and learn this layout?

@taylorgonzalez5669 4 ай бұрын

Hey Arnold, did you know there is a house in New Orleans?

@OctaneeX Жыл бұрын

A curious cat found something hidden in a weird place.

@OctagonalSquare 4 ай бұрын

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

@coffeejabberwocky 4 ай бұрын

Its like the button side of an accordion on Salvia, steroids, high voltage and acid all at once.. 😍

@armorhide406 4 ай бұрын

TIL about microtonal music. Didn't click for me, but I can't deny the skill on display here

4 ай бұрын

CARALHO !

@scottriddell7893 6 ай бұрын

3d chess .... or a piano with a y axis? I heard Black Hole Sun more than the rising. Very cool 😎

@mpfmax0 4 ай бұрын

What type of synthesis is this? Are those physical modeling strings or velocity layered samples or FM or what?

@Collective_Unconscious_ 4 ай бұрын

“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

@liberatumplox625 4 ай бұрын

I wonder if you can configure it to play in a just temperament, locked in a single key (obviously).

@bydeuce 4 ай бұрын

Imagine cleaning yo cookie crumbs out between all them keys.

@DjNikGnashers 4 ай бұрын

And along comes a 15 year old with a 16 pad sampler, samples this and turns it into something even better, inside a day.

@koftu 4 ай бұрын

I would LOVE to see Jordan Rudess mess around on this instrument...but Mike's improvisation here is great in its own right!

@lumatone 4 ай бұрын

Your wish is our command …. m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldFnepOQsKzDh5c.html

@consensusg9226 4 ай бұрын

He stayed on the standard piano keys the whole time. And it sounded like the audio was peaking.

@lumatone 4 ай бұрын

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? ✌️

@consensusg9226 4 ай бұрын

@@lumatone If this is microtonal, then so is every song where a guitarist bends a string once or twice. Stop being so sensitive. #12tet✌️

@lumatone 4 ай бұрын

@@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.

@JSON_bourne 5 ай бұрын

Wow my wallet just took a hit, cause ima need one of these

@mikulassedlak9256 4 ай бұрын

how non musicians see musicians

@saulodetarsox20a 5 ай бұрын

Parece una máquina de escribir dónde estan los sostenidos y bemoles

@avgytenjoyer91 4 ай бұрын

Is that the same key layout you see on those accordions with all the hexagonal buttons?

@ch1caum 3 ай бұрын

yes

@numbersabcdefg 4 ай бұрын

23 century blues

@gwonk8722 3 ай бұрын

trans keyboard trans keyboard

@niaschim 4 ай бұрын

Nia's tonal language public draft 1: Longpress pause shorter press = Thinking/agreement . Longpress pause shorter press lower long pause shorter press = Give me time to analyze my options. Short press pause short press | or | press pause higher pitch press = Eureka!!/This one. Press press press press ... (drum roll) = I'm looking for something I'm thinking of / where is it? . Press pause lower press = I wonder if there is an alternative . High pitched tremello = Joking |or| silly . Low pitched tremello = Angry |or| defensive . Ascending shepards tone = Unfulfilling labor. Descending shepard's tone = Self-hating self-talk |or| a sense of dreadful danger . Press press press lower tremello pause lower tremello lower lower tremello pause lower lower tremello higher press higher press = Life is good |or| discussing philosophy the person or people here would be pleasant and heartwarming . Low tremello low tremello low press = That failed so let's try again at some point if we want . ...etc... Middle press = Hi |and| start . Middle longer press pause higher press = How are you? |or| that's what I thought but how do you feel about it? . Middle long press pause lower press = That's what I think even though my impression feels to be an unpopular one. ...etc...

@msmith2961 4 ай бұрын

What is this sourcery?!

@not_estains 7 күн бұрын

i want one of these but they're so damn expensive and complicated to set up

@PatrickKniesler 4 ай бұрын

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.