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Keith Rowe - Prepared Guitar

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Legendary innovator, UK 'tabletop' guitarist Keith Rowe has explored the guitar as a primary source of pure sound, extending it with an array of objects and bric-a-brac, for more than 30 years. Keith Rowe is probably best known for his groundbreaking work with AMM and the SCRATCH ORCHESTRA. "Twanging ruler-shaped objects set off a cartoon style jiggling tremolo, a block of foam causes mountainous scuffling booms...A one man sound lab and dub studio formed out of a corner hardware shop.."[The Wire June 1999]

Channel: Music
Uploaded: July 13, 2006 at 6:42 am
Author: evilpaul

Length: 09:35
Rating: 4.73
Views: 20411

Tags: experimental  guitar  Keith  music  noise  Rowe  subsonics  

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Kinshasa9200 (July 26, 2008 at 4:47 am)
*i mean the bands music not necessarily the album AMMMMusic
Kinshasa9200 (July 26, 2008 at 4:46 am)
i've been dying to hear AMM music. i couldn't find any clips on youtube under AMM so i tried the members names. do you have any ideas? thanks!
adamg709 (July 17, 2008 at 7:20 am)
Now whilst I like some of this stuff and the spirit behind it, I find comments like 'We decided to formally have a music that was totally improvised...it was quite formally set down' to be laughable. That is not freedom, you might as well be playing Mozart. And why is it that many of these 'out there' guitarists have their guitars strung conventionally? Some nice sounds though.
adamg709 (July 17, 2008 at 7:01 am)
I think this is from a channel 4 prog from the 80's called 'Six Faces of the Guitar' or something like that. The others who I can remember were John Gooding(I think) John Russell (stoned out of his head) Fred Frith (hilarious) and a stunning performance from Ron Geesin. I have it on a Betamax tape somewhere!
evanh91 (July 11, 2008 at 4:53 am)
if you want to know the direction music ought to go in its kind of like radiohead mixed with godspeed you! black emperor. no words.. words detract from the value of music, thats the problem with western music its all about hooks, riffs, repetition, recognition, and a message people can relate to. its really cheesy. the best music is music for the sake of music not for a message. Good music is about different voicings of chords, build ups, and a layered/textured feeling you can kind of sink into
minutegongcoughs (June 27, 2008 at 3:41 pm)
i posted a comment a year ago and am pleased this is still up on youtube. I heard from someone a while back that Syd Barrett was still talking of AMM and Keith Rowe long after he retired to Cambridge in the late 70's. Two chaps ahead of the possee.
Zisch2 (June 20, 2008 at 12:08 am)
Damn interesting! Is this an exerpt from a larger video? Anyway thanks for posting that great stuff
defdeezy (June 8, 2008 at 12:49 pm)
so i'm right, essentially.
joshjosh182 (June 8, 2008 at 12:21 pm)
So this thing is about prefering to be angry at the majority of people who like things that appeal to them? The words "Nobody cares and do you find it hard to socialize?" spring to mind.
joshjosh182 (June 8, 2008 at 12:12 pm)
I agree.

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