MASSED ELECTRIC GUITARS: Andras Feketes massed-guitar performances combine multiple groups of electric guitars with cellos, percussion and voices, creating music of stunning power and subtlety. His dramatic staging literally surrounds the audience with walls of roaring guitars (e.g. heres the floorplan for Feketes Triangle Rhysing: Music for Massed Guitars, performed last summer in Durham with nearly 60 musicians tinyurl/lcw88rw). For his first DC massed-guitar event, Fekete has fortified his ensemble Boat Burning with nearly two dozen musicians from the local scene, including members of PAPERHAUS * TONE * GREENLAND * RA RA RASPUTIN * THE TEEN IDLES * IMPERIAL CHINA * DC IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE * NAGUAL * ALCIAN BLUE * LAUGHING MAN * GUT HEAD * LOW END STRING QUARTET * NAXALITE * THE ANTIQUES * THE CHARM OFFENSIVE * TRIANGLE RHYSING * DARK SEA DREAM * COLUMBIA STRING QUARTET and more. ...When Rhys Chatham, Glenn Branca or any other composer gathers several guitarists—from three to 1,000—in one space, the generally accepted term is massed guitar symphony. But that phrase puts the guitarists in an unnecessary and incorrect box of polity and high society; indeed, though Chatham and Branca make precisely composed and arranged music, the same impulse that drives a teenager to buy a cheap six-string and plug into a cheap Peavey amplifier isnt so far removed from the impulse behind letting dozens of guitarists do the same. Its catharsis by volume, victory by overtone, glory by sound. To wit, the idea first occurred to Chatham after he saw The Ramones play in New York in the late 70s. TRIANGLE RHYSING explores this idea... Get ready to feel the sound. —Grayson Currin, INDYWEEK * The massed-guitar ensemble: o Alex Tebeleff (PAPERHAUS) - paperhausmusic/ o Andras Fekete (BOAT BURNING, TRIANGLE RHYSING) o Andy Aylward (THE FLOATERS) o Antonio Acampora (GREENLAND, MIDDLE DISTANCE RUNNER, RAW POETIC) - Greenland.bandcamp o Brian Porter (IMPERIAL CHINA) - impchin o David Rabin (BOAT BURNING, COLUMBIA STRING QUARTET) - boatburning o Donovan Davidson (ODE TO DODA, MINDSWEEPER, ONE UP, ONE DOWN) odetododa.bandcamp/ o Eddie Rivers (PAPERHAUS, BIBLIOTEK) - paperhausmusic/ o Geordie Grindle (THE CHARM OFFENSIVE, TONE, PEG SIMONE, THE TEEN IDLES) - charmrockdc/ o Ian McColm (NAGUAL, I.G.M) - nagualuniverse/ o Jamie Green (GREENLAND) - greenland.bandcamp o John Kamman (AFRO JAZZ EXPLOSION, GRACE CHUNG/JOHN KAMMAN DUO, LEWINE/KAMMAN XTET) o Jonathan Matis (DC IMPROVISERS COLLECTIVE, LOW END STRING QUARTET) - improvarts.bandcamp/ o Kurt Nemes (BOAT BURNING, CLASSICAL MUSIC ALMANAC) - musicalalmanac.wordpress o Luke Stewart (OOO, LAUGHING MAN, MOM^2) - lukethings.wordpress o Mark Cooley (GUT HEAD) - flawedart.net/ o Mark Sherman (BOAT BURNING, THE ROAD) - boatburning o Norm Veenstra (TONE) - Tone-DC o Patrick Kigongo (RA RA RASPUTIN) - rararasputin/ o Phong Tran (HALO VALLEY) - soundcloud/boxwallastan o Rishi Chakrabarty (GREENLAND, REI ZOU) - greenland.bandcamp o Robin Diamond (TRIANGLE RHYSING, BOAT BURNING, GLOSS, THE PROBES) - youtube/watch?v=T7br3kv6o0k o Sam Chintha (NAXALITE, DARK SEA DREAM, ALCIAN BLUE, THE ANTIQUES) - soundcloud/naxalight
Posted on: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:16:21 +0000
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