Come join us for a pleasant studio chat with Bryan Deister, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and jazz pianist extraordinaire. Recently he has been exploring microtonal covers on the Lumatone, with massive success on TikTok. He has also written many albums featuring microtonal music in various tuning systems, generally equal divisions, the most recent fully microtonal one being "In Your Hands." Our conversation covers many topics relating to context switching, genre, surveys, paucitonality, and unusual instruments. Technical points include discussion of Lumatone layouts and pseudo-octave tropes, the too-perfect ring of JI soiling holy counterpoint, adolescent hatred of microtonality, translating between different tunings (transfer), and Scriabin. Music [Intro] The Call [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister Apprehension [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister Go Away [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister Gasoline [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister (5-ED(5/4)) Uneven Halves [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister Lavender Town (Pokemon) - Bryan Deister Lumatone cover (13-TET) 32edo - Bryan Deister 33edo - Bryan Deister 34edo - Bryan Deister 35edo - Bryan Deister 36edo - Bryan Deister37edo - Bryan Deister 38edo - Bryan Deister 39edo - Bryan Deister 40edo - Bryan Deister 41edo - Bryan Deister 42edo - Bryan Deister Microtonal improvisation in 43edo - Bryan Deister Zinnia Riplet - Stephen Weigel (32-TET) Minimal Progress - John Moriarty (~32-TET) In the Dark [The Dying Savior] - Bryan Deister (24-TET, 23-TET, 22-TET, 21-TET, 20-TET, 19-TET, 18-TET) In Your Hands [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister (8-TET, 9-TET, 10-TET, 11-TET, 24-TET) Come [Spines of the Heart] - Bryan Deister (19-TET) Sunrise - HEHEHE I AM A SUPAHSTAR SAGA (19-TET) Fair [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister Liquid Smooth (Mitski) - Bryan Deister Lumatone cover (17-TET) True Love Waits (Radiohead) - collab Stephen, Levi McClain, Braelen Addison (31-TET) Shadow Play [Supernova] - Bryan Deister [Outro] The Window [In Your Hands] - Bryan Deister Check out Bryan's incredible music on Bandcamp! https://linktr.ee/bryandeister https://bryandeister.bandcamp.com/album/in-your-hands https://www.youtube.com/@BryanDeister https://www.tiktok.com/@bryandeister

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