081 - Dave Fiuczynski

Check out our episode with iconoclastic guitar legend Dave Fiuczynski. He wields a double neck fretless guitar, and plays a bunch of cool microtonal riffage for us! We talked about two tracks from "Flam! Bam! Pan-Asian Microjam!" and two from "Mikrojazz." In "Flam," there are a variety of compositional methods used, and the vocabulary is almost entirely derived from motivic bird calls. The uirapuru call in particular has an extremely distinctive contour. Many of these works express a desire for exploring continuums and representing sophisticated Eastern articulations. We also discuss microtonal diminished scales, the joy of smashing genres together, blue notes and sliding, pitch inflection as a player signature, quarter tones as a teaching concept, and much more! The music from Flam! could be described as being from a 72edo framework. Dave Fiuczynski - Oiseaux JDillique (from "Flam!") Dave Fiuczynski - Dance of the Uirapuru A (from "Flam!") Dave Fiuczynski - Loon-Y Tunes (from "Flam!") various motivic examples Dave Fiuczynski - Dance of the Uirapuru A (from "Flam!") Dave Fiuczynski - Dance of the Uirapuru B (from "Flam!") with uirapuru scale Dave Fiuczynski - Dance of the Uirapuru C (from "Flam!") with gamelan scale and neutral thirds Dave Fiuczynski - Dance of the Uirapuru B (from "Flam!") Dave Fiuczynski - Flam (from "Flam!") pointing out northern nightingale motives Dave Fiuczynski - Loon-Y Tunes (from "Flam!") solo section Dave Fiuczynski - Flam (from "Flam!") uirapuru bass line Dave Fiuczynski - Loon-Y Tunes (from "Flam!") slidey call Dave Fiuczynski - Oiseaux JDillique (from "Flam!") Dave Fiuczynski - Flam (from "Flam!") Dave Fiuczynski - Flam (from "Flam!") Dave Fiuczynski - Flam, then Oisaeux (from "Flam!") pointing out northern nightingale motive at half speed Dave Fiuczynski - Oiseaux JDillique (from "Flam!") bird fight using hijaz flat 7 Olivier Messiaen - Oiseaux Exotiques (part that echoes Dave's work) Dave Fiuczynski - Oiseaux JDillique (from "Flam!") ethereal ring E-half flat major chord Dave Fiuczynski - Loon-Ly Solitaire (from "Flam!") Dave Fiuczynski - MiCroY Tyner (from "Mikrojazz") using "Fuze-ayni" mode instead of Husayni Dave Fiuczynski - MiCroY Tyner (from "Mikrojazz") piano in microtonal "B" key over F minor Miles Davis - So What (in B half-flat in 31-TET) Phillip Gerschlauer - Hangover (from "Mikrojazz") Phillip Gerschlauer - November (from "Mikrojazz") Mononeon - jungle juice & laffy taffy (microtonal) Outro: Phillip Gerschlauer - Umarmung (from "Mikrojazz") Check out some of Dave's amazing body of work: https://www.rarenoiserecords.com/artists/david-fiuczynski/ https://www.youtube.com/@davidfuzefiuczynski/videos https://www.patreon.com/DavidFiuczynski https://www.instagram.com/davidfiuczynski?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw== Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/nowandxen Follow http://nowandxen.libsyn.com https://twitter.com/now_xen https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/ Subscribe RSS: http://nowandxen.libsyn.com/rss iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/n… Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1mhnGsH… Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/nowxen Twitter: https://twitter.com/now_xen Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nowxen/  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmYNMpemAIq8DnK5HJ9gsA