Works for multiple electric guitars by James Tenney, Dan Joseph,
Elliott Sharp, Marco Cappelli, Paula Matthusen and Lisa Coons.
Performed by Dan Joseph, Marco Cappelli, and Elliott Sharp with
DITHER:
Josh Lopes; James Moore; David Linaburg; and Taylor Levine.
Issue Project Room
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street, 3rd floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Telephone: 718-330-0313
Subway: F or the R to Fourth Avenue, or the R to Union Street.
As part of a month-long festival organized by
Darmstadt
“Classics of the Avant-Garde” Institute, Issue
Project Room presents “The Conference of the Guitars,”
an evening of contemporary music for multiple electric guitars.
Conceived and curated by composer Dan
Joseph, the program explores the growing repertoire
of multiple electric guitar compositions with works by a diverse
group of composers spanning three generations. Highlighted by
a rare performance of the late James
Tenney’s brilliant Septet for Six Electric Guitars
and Bass, the program will also include a new interpretation
of Elliott
Sharp’s modular open-form work SyndaKit,
the second New York performance of Joseph’s post-punk
inspired quintet Particle Accelerator, Marco
Cappelli’s conduction-based work Behind the Mirror,
and recent quartets by composers Paula
Matthusen and Lisa
Coons. Composer/performers Joseph, Cappelli and Sharp will
be joined in performance by the DITHER
electric guitar quartet comprised of Josh Lopes, James Moore,
David Linaburg and Taylor Levine.
Samples:
Particle Accelerator (1998) by Dan Joseph. Live 4/17/99,
CellSpace, SF. (high quality audio) Particle Accelerator
Septet for Six Electric Guitars and Bass (1981) by James
Tenney. Septet
Courtesy of Harvestworks/Tellus Media