Now and Xen podcasts - #21 featuring WB!

About a year ago, Stephan Weigel and friends, at the microtonal podcast "Now and Xen" interviewed me for their show.  I just discovered the podcast today on YouTube, and found that the interview with me actually was posted on-line almost a year ago!  I'd been so busy last year, I didn't notice.  Oops!  However, I found it today - they're now up to episode 44, and the cast list of who they've been interviewing is stellar.  I highly recommend the podcast - looks like there's more info up there than you can shake an enharmonic tetrachord at!

https://nowandxen.libsyn.com/

And here's the link to Episode 21, which features the interview with me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsgluVweghw

It's a longish interview (about 75 minutes), but if you want to find out some things about my composing methods and motivations, it's quite good.  You might enjoy it.  I did.

Once upon a midnight dreary.....

I'd never played with Henry Lowengard's wonderful AUMI app all that much, and one late night I felt it was time to learn about it.  It's wonderful.  I quickly set up 2 iPads (iPad 4 and iPad Pro) and my iPhone 6, all controlling electric piano sounds, microtonally tuned, in Thumbjam, then set them on my desk and played.  (The computer in the background is rendering a video for a class, having nothing to do with the project.)  I told Catherine to have a look, and she liked the lighting, and the movement of my hands, and made a 39 second video of my improvising.  We both liked the video so much that she put it on her Facebook page, and I put it on my Youtube site and one my website (www.warrenburt.com).   We both hope you like the video as well.